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Atticus's JournalAsk a Trumpie/Tea Bagger/RWNJ what a liberal is and you're likely to hear a sterotypical
caricature that does not fit any liberal you know. They have created a "strawman" even real liberals would find disgusting and they have a long list of bumper-sticker talking points to insult us.
In my childhood, my family attended a mainline Protestant church. Sunday school class and "youth church" were a part of nearly every Sunday. Our minister openly opposed the Viet Nam war and made it clear that racism was "shameful". Mom and Dad were vocal Democrats. Mom was civil servant and Dad was a union member and precinct Committeeman. I grew up a liberal protestant.
Years later, in another town, I walked out of a church of that same denomination after years of attendance and have never returned. I began to understand that I was no longer truly welcome in those pews when I started hearing all of the anti-Clinton nonsense in the pre-service chatter around us. A couple of times when I or Mrs. A mentioned that we were Democrats, people remarked that they were shocked because we "seemed like good people".
Then, in quick succession, two events occurred which "broke the camel's back". First, a woman ( who I later learned packed a pistol ) posted an announcement in the church bulletin urging all "good Christian parents" to be sure their kids were present at a "Rally Round the Flag" anti-abortion event at their school before classes started. Then, when the son of a church member and his male fiance appeared in church to announce their engagement, the whole family was embarrassed by the reactions of several of the "good Christians" present.
We left---for good.
We were "good people" until we "admitted" to being LIBERAL Democrats. Now, we are "libtard snowflakes" and "communists".
Does NATO have a "red line"? Do we? Should we? If we do, should we announce it?
Short of the use of conventional nukes, i.e., not "tactical" nukes, or a serious attack on a "major" NATO country, I am not sure we would respond militarily.
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I'm not sure?
Putin: "Of course I am willing to compromise! Just give me everything I want and
admit this carnage was all Ukraine's fault!"
It's not surprising that Justice Thomas has picked up an "infection".
He's been wiping his ass with our Constitution since he swore to uphold it and any document that's been around for 235 years is bound to have picked up a few germs.
I cannot speak for others but it seems to me that, just as young children are uninhibited and
don't worry too much about saying something foolish, this old person feels a similar kind of freedom. It is not that I don't have my pride or don't want to be appreciated, it's just that I seem to have "outgrown" the need for approval of what I think and feel.
Then too, like a child, I think I am more concerned about who is nice than who is rich or famous. Whether a person is kind and generous and tolerant is important to me. Their skin color, their age and who they love are not.
Children are born understanding the importance of love and then become distracted by fluff and nonsense like status and the approval of people they don't know. Now, living in my ninth decade, I have learned to ignore the fluff and nonsense and I again understand the importance of love.
How much better would our world be if fewer leaders were "childish" and more were "childlike"?
OMG! What the Republicans are saying about Judge Jackson is TRUE!
Yes! This woman actually did the job we paid her to do: defend people accused of crimes-
It is easy to see why they oppose her!
"For the fifth straight year, the American Cattlemen's Association proudly presents its
coveted 'Male Bovine Feces' award---informally, 'the Plop'--- to Donald John Trump, who used to be somebody". So said I. M. Kiddenyu, Chairman of the Association's U. R . SHITTENMEE Committee.
President Zelensky's attitude toward Russia reminds me of something a neighbor
and schoolmate said to a bully before the bully got his butt kicked: "I may be the first to bleed but I'll be the last to walk away!"
RIP, Donny.
Does anyone have solid info on the supposed "hypersonic" missile with which Russia says
they destroyed an underground Ukrainian ammo warehouse in western Ukraine?
Today I read that the US had confirmed this first-ever use of the weapons in combat and then later read that it had been shown to be a Russian hoax and that satellite photos showed that the Russian video was shot in EASTERN Ukraine last week.
What's true?
As I walked out to our mulch bin by the garden this morning with our daily contribution of
coffee grounds, peelings and eggshells, a brisk northwest wind sliced into my freshly-shaved face. It wasn't really terribly cold---low to mid thirties---but walking straight into the 15 mile per hour wind made the "feels like" temperature down around 20 degrees. My first impulse was to walk faster so I could get back inside my warm home as quickly as possible. And then---I reconsidered and slowed down.
The wind was cold but the air was clean and I sucked it in and tasted spring. There, in the pines, a brilliant red cardinal was defying the chill and singing his heart out trying to persuade a drab female that "he's the one". Over there, purple crocuses had pushed through the leaf litter and over by the drive our forsythia was just beginning to show yellow.
The day will come when I would give much to once again make this chilly walk, taste this cold clean air and marvel at the birds and blossoms that are mine today for the bargain price of just an extra minute or so. If I am lucky, memory will allow me to reclaim it.
Carpe diem, y'all.
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