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upaloopa's JournalOur training person did not know what the T in LGBT stands for. In an email that went to everyone
working for the county she wrote (names and places are x'ed out to protect the innocent)
LGBT Q&A: xxxx xxxxxx, from xxxxx xxxxx, xxxxx xxxxxx, is generously offering to engage in a dialogue with the audience to discuss the nuances of working with population who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transvestite. The learning objectives of this training will be to enlarge cultural awareness while working with this population as well as acquire practical knowledge about the same.
Date: 10/23/14 9AM-12PM
The correction apology email:
The attached has a description of the upcoming trainings with a new narrative of Mr. xxxx xxxxx LGBT presentation.
This email is a formal apology for my mistake, my blunder really, in the previous description of the presentation.
It shows how much I need to be trained, someone told me today. I agree.
Again, my sincere apologies for my botch of words in how the original description went out and my gratitude for those who came forward and alerted our team of my mistake. Particular thanks to Mr. xxxx for his extreme courtesy towards me. I intend to live up to it.
Shows we still have a lot of work to do.
It is 102 degrees here on the Central Coast of CA
Our local beach, Surf, is closed do to shark sightings.
Strange October for us
I got this email about the 2nd Amendment from a Home Owner Association perspective. I am on a HOA
board of directors.
I am not going to attend this webinar but I find it disturbing that we have to cater to gunners rather than just restrict the presence of guns in our common areas.
http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=1573342397&message_id=5835942&user_id=cainst&group_id=1169565&jobid=21911788
snip:
The Second Amendment right to bear arms has become a subject of hot debate in recent months. Two attorneys discuss the issues involved in a community association's commitment to residents' safety and the presence of legal firearms in the community.
Topics
What liability does the association have to owners with respect to restricting, or failing to restrict, carrying guns in common areas?
What are the Second Amendment protections regarding an individual’s right to bear arms in a community association?
How can associations protect residents against disgruntled owners who may commit violent acts with firearms?
WOW weekend at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo
There is this undeveloped beach near Avila CA on the Central Coast. It is known as Pirates Cove. Just recently the Coastal Commission stopped San Luis Obispo county's attempt to "develop" the beach. We like it the way nature made it and are happy it will stay that way for a while yet.
It is also a clothing optional beach because there is no law in the area prohibiting nudity there. The cops leave it alone.
So that makes it the perfect place for college kids to bring their beer and weed and party.
This weekend was WOW weekend and upper class students brought hundreds of incoming freshmen to the breach to show them were to go to party down.
It was also beach clean up weekend and some students helped in the clean up.
I couldn't help but wonder if getting drunk and stoned on the beach has anything to do with the students prospects for after college. I think at least some if not a lot of them will be up to their ears in debt, unemployed and living with mom and dad in a few years. Party!
Mark Thompson's show says a video shows Michael Brown
paying for the cigars and that neither the owner or an employee called 911. A customer called 911 at the store. This is on facebook but I don't know how to post it here.
The video is on facebook and it shows Michael Brown at the check out.
Mark Thompson is on Sirius his show is Make It Plain
I am am being educated nightly watching the events in Ferguson.
Watching what is going on in Ferguson is teaching me that I was not aware of the lives of the people who live there.
Last night it looked to me like the cops out numbered the protesters. They surely out gunned them.
I think I am beginning to understand the frustration. The attempts to blame the victims all the time rather than listen too them is striking.
I know if I faced what they face, the low median income, the joblessness, the lack of representation, the police harassment, the lack of hope or a vision for a better future I would feel the same.
Michael Brown's killing gives us all a chance to learn what it is like to be a resident there and to work to effect change or we can go on about our lives and blame the victims and after this story is past history just forget the people there.
To those of us old enough to have been there
the scenes from Ferguson are exactly like those from the sixties. What strikes me is those cops are a generation or two removed from the cops beating heads in the sixties. Since racism and hatred are taught there must be a handing down of racism from the sixties to the cops of today.
That is proof enough that racism has never died in this country. It has gone somewhat underground in the past but like a smoldering flame it is burning bright again. I think hatred of Obama has brought it out into the open again.
Racism will only end when we stop teaching the next generation to hate.
I believe the 1% are responsible for the
militarization and brutality of local police forces.
They see that income inequality, climate change caused food and water shortages and disease will push humanity to the breaking point.
Rather than solve the problems and share the wealth, they want to use force to keep humanity at bay.
The police are not pawns of the 1% but they are increasingly living in fear real or imagined and they respond with lethal force.
I believe we are on the path to chaos and anarchy with the police not knowing which way to attack . They intend to survive which means they turn on the citizens.
So for two days someone is telling the
world I believe in fairy dust but finally says I am a good person yet I still believe in fairy dust.
I reply I don't think they are a good person but my reply is subject to our impartial jury system and is hidden.
Then the person says for the record they did not alert on me. I can't thank them because the rule states that I can't reply in a thread were I have a hidden post.
So if the poster is reading this I take it back. You are a good person too.
To the jury, I don't hold a grudge you are only following orders.
Man isn't it fun to play junior high again?
In about 1 hour NASA will launch OCO-2 to measure man made greenhouse gases. I am sitting here
waiting to watch the launch from my back yard. Launch is at 2:56 AM Pacific time.
After a lengthy hiatus, the workhorse Delta II rocket that first launched a quarter of a century ago and placed numerous renowned NASA science missions into Earth orbit and interplanetary space, as well as lofting dozens of commercial and DOD missions, is about to soar again this week on July 1 with NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) sniffer to study atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).
OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas and the principal human-produced driver of climate change.
The 999 pound (454 kilogram) observatory is equipped with one science instrument consisting of three high-resolution, near-infrared spectrometers fed by a common telescope. It will collect global measurements of atmospheric CO2 to provide scientists with a better idea of how CO2 impacts climate change.
OCO-2's Delta II Rocket, First Stage At Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the mobile service tower rolls away from the launch stand supporting the first stage of the Delta II rocket for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission. Three solid rocket motors (white) have been attached to the first stage. The photo was taken during operations to mate the rocket's first and second stages. Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin
http://www.universetoday.com/112869/nasa-set-to-launch-oco-2-observatory-on-july-1-sniffer-of-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gas/
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