Yesterday was quiet, but I got a late start, so didn’t do a whole lot. Which is fine. I did assemble the next two weeks meds (a day late.)
Cartoon –
Short Takes
The Conversation – What the public doesn’t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws
Quote – [A Wisconsin] bill … includes a ban against teaching that “[o]ne race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.” …. Now imagine a 10th grade social studies class begins a unit on corporate America. The teacher opens with basic facts about Fortune 500 CEOs…. In effect, this story suggests that white men are inherently superior – the precise message that Wisconsin’s bill prohibits.
Click through for the complete case. This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Dunning and Kruger would be facepalming.
The New Yorker – A Son Sends Josephine Baker to the Panthéon
Quote – The panthéonisation was a go, making Baker the sixth woman, and the first woman of color, to be so recognized. Born in St. Louis in 1906, she is also the first American-born person (she became a French citizen in 1937) to be honored alongside the likes of Voltaire and Hugo.
Click through. I thought I had a fair idea of what Baker did for humanity … but I vastly overestimated ny knowledge. She certainly deseerves this honor. If you are paywalled, I’ll be happy to send a pdf.
Crooks and Liars – BOGO: Koch Industries Buys An AZ Senate Candidate’s…Company
Quote – Republican Jim Lamon was the founder and owner of DEPCOM Power, a solar power company headquartered in Arizona. Lamon’s company was acquired by a division of Koch Industries, just in time to give Lamon a huge cash infusion with which to challenge Mark Kelly, who is running for re-election in 2022.
Click through for details. I believe this is called “plausible deniability” – which is seldom, and in this case not, plausible.
Food for Thought –
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Cartoon: “To avoid the bachelor tax, the solution was simple, just get married. Italy’s bachelor tax was repealed in 1943.” *taxfitness.com.au
NYer: A remarkable and phenomenal woman, an activist and entertainer. Ms. Baker deserves this tribute. She is one for the ages…
FFT: Gawd, so spot on!
*I’m on my way out the door. Personally, I enjoy the quiet and laid back schedule(s), each day.
This just in: “Abortion is health care. We should be trusting women to make their own health care decisions. The constitution says the same thing.” ~ Beto O’Rourke ~
2. “Zero House Republicans voted to cap insulin costs at $35 a month.” ~ The Democrats ~
3. “Remembering Matthew Shepard on what would have been his 45th birthday. He will never be forgotten and we will never stop fighting for LGBTQ+ equality in his memory.” ~ George Takei ~
4. “When a person is killed on a movie set in an ACCIDENTAL shooting, the Republicans are very VOCAL on this. But when the guns are used willfully, on their partners or strangers or in school shootings- CRICKETS!!!! Can someone just for once grow a spine?!? Talking to you, @GOP !!! ~ Martina Navratilova ~
5. “Just as the federal government invested in providing electricity to every American 100 years ago, Democrats are investing in broadband infrastructure through the Bipartisan Infrastructure package, ensuring every American has access to high-speed affordable internet.” ~ Speaker Nancy Pelosi ~
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TJI #1 – Probably not after June, 2022.
TJI #2 – Big Pharma owns the GQP – or at least pays their rent.
TJI #4 – I didn’t know Martina Navratilova was a big gun control advocate … sweet!
I didn’t know either, Nameless, re: Ms. Martina Navratilova, had to check that.
Amen, and yes, she’s the real deal.
TJI #1 – Of course it’s healthcare. But Republicans don’t think 3Dprinters need healthcare.
TJI #2 – Or for diabetics, since they must be “losers.”
TJI #3 – I hope one day he will be universally remembered, and specifically remembered as a trahgic loss, even a martyr. But this is the 21st century and there are still people who believe the earth is flat. So I’m not holding my breath.
TJI #4 – But it isn’t about intent or lack thereof. It’s only about who pulled the trigger, If you are a Republican.
TJI #5 – It really is a public utility and should be treated as such.
What the public doesn’t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws
I know we’re supposed to turn lemons into lemonade, but this article is way too Pollyannaish for my tastes. And I think it does a disservice in preparing us for the most recent “Trumped” up culture war issue (CRT) the GQP has latched onto, and will use in 2022 & 2024.
CRT (which actually isn’t taught, per se) isn’t about making student feel bad about being an American or being white. It’s about teaching the fact that social structures that emerged in our past continue today and help sustain racial oppression.
CRT acknowledges our nation’s past in order to help in remedy the failings of our present. It acknowledges that beside the good and light so abundant in our country, there was (and still is now) evil and darkness.
To think that the anti-CRT laws the GQP are passing are actually PRO-CRT is pretty much a bunch of bunk.
BOGO: Koch Industries Buys An AZ Senate Candidate’s…Company
This is the financial corollary to what the GQP now does so brazenly: “Say the quiet part out loud.”
They no longer even try to hide their dirty money games.
UPDATE:
Actually nothing going on. But Monday afternoon and evening is non-stop “NCIS: Los Angeles” – my favorite drama show on TV. (But remember, I don’t have cable TV – just internet. So I’m sure there are better shows, but I love it!)
So I’m taking the morning for some light computer work at the library before NCIS starts.
But I need to start working on earning my CMEs, so back to the salt mine tomorrow.
I don’t think the CRT article is a prediction, but a blueprint for a slough of court cases. (And a recognition of how stupid the GOP are.)
Comment from Mitch –
‘Toon: What the hey was he thinking?Conversation: Can’t open, but Wisconsin? Of all places!
NYer: I recall seeing her featured in a museum we visited a good while ago. France, Paris, particularly, is where many Black American
jazz musicians spent years. Wonderful! Too bad about French bigotry.
C&L: Hope the bastard looses!
FFT: I have no doubt. The Koch Boys have sooo damaged our democracy!
Mitch
Cartoon: Why in the world would someone create this type of tax? Like Pat mentioned, the easiest way to avoid it, is to get married.
The Conversation: Wish they’d give up on trying to stop these teachings. They’re a part of history.
TNY: Truly, well deserved honor. Glad she was finally recognized for all they she did.
C&L: They’ll try anything to win. Hopefully like Mitch, I too hope they lose.
Food for Thought: Shameful but oh so true.
Happy to hear your days have been nice and quiet. Hope they continue like that too.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
I think he bought into the centuries (maybe millennia) old myth that bachelors are irresponsible, whuile married men are stable (I also suspect that, if there even is a correlation, the causation doesn’t run the way Musso thought it did.) And he may also have been inspired by wanting to make sure the “bloodlines” didn’trun out. But – he was a Fascist. Who knows what makes them tick.
Sorry, but my satellite connection is starting to display the same problems as before: it works for a while, then breaks the connection (-> no VOIP, no internet). The periods it works become shorter and those when it doesn’t longer and longer. I’ve been on the phone again for half a day to get the techie back to look into it, sometime in the next two weeks. Make that definitely next week, as he told me he was already fully booked this week. It’s also going to rain/storm again, so he can’t get on the roof. Arrrggg…
How terribly frustrating! No need to apologize to us though. We need to be thanking you for the heads up, so we won’t worry.