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February 4, 2019

Did anyone mention

That this would require US land to be redesignated as Mexico's property?

Does Mexico have a say so in the matter?

Clearly the effect this has had, on the individuals actually on the land, hasn't been considered. Their objections are being reported and ignored.

If it can be done here, are any of us safe, if the president should decide to build other vanity projects elsewhere? In my backyard, perhaps? Or yours?

I'm beyond livid about all of this. In fact, it makes me physically ill.

The effect on our food supply by the additional loss of the beautiful and necessary pollinators, that will die due to habitat loss, should have us all worried.

What makes us think that the power grab stops here?

February 4, 2019

Marking the calendar.

A hearing is scheduled for February 21 to determine whether the government will be required to reunite the children who were released before the June court order.
February 2, 2019

The word that keeps coming into my mind is hubris.

He's just too confident. The same confidence that got him through med school, that gave him the confidence to run for office, that same confidence that allowed him to believe that the rules of privilege would excuse his racist behavior, hubris, held his hand and walked him across a bridge too far.

If he had recognized his racist behavior in med school as wrong, maybe he would have issued a preemptive apology for unacceptable immature, racist, past behavior before running for office, but he didn't.

He crossed the line into hubris and didn't see the error or a need for apology.

I know everything about him I need to know.

It's a shame that he never seems to have had the self awareness to recognize that hubris was his enemy. He brought himself down like a player in a tragic drama by his own design.

He failed us and he failed himself. Perhaps without hubris and with better friends he may have had a chance to change his ways and right his racist wrongs.

But now it's too late.

February 2, 2019

All of Bill and Melissa and their multiple narratives deserve the

Same treatment. The fact that they believe they can run roughshod over people and their cultural, personal and societal ways and beliefs, from American to Africa, just because they have money is criminal.

They have endorsed a birth control method that is toxic, doesn't work and harms women and families for years, Essure. If it were not for a grassroots effort by women in the USA and other participant countries worldwide, which has for years championed the push to have it removed from the market, many women would still be getting implanted with this horrible device.

The Gates Foundation has continued to financially support the implantation of African women with the full knowledge of the dangers associated with Essure. It is not clear, though the FDA will be pulling the device, thanks to the persistent efforts of women suffering irreparable damage by the device, if the Gates Foundation plans to stop paying for the implants in Africa.

Money can't buy morals.

https://essureproblems.webs.com/home

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About littlemissmartypants

I read voraciously and fast with high comprehension. I love to learn and share. But I will never, ever post anything in LBN again because someone always seems to find fault with my posts. I've had too many locked for stupid reasons to ever take LBN seriously ever again. I now just trash it. Which is a shame since there are individuals who are regular posters there that I love. I just send all not truly LBN and LBN dupes to the Trash from now on. No need to even bother any hosts with those anymore. Using Ignore and Trash are proving to be much easier and better options for me than trying to engage and attempt to make LBN a better place. I'm also getting tired of this place looking like the Trump Underground. Trashing every iteration of the surname and all of the clever nicknames people have created make it virtually impossible not to see posts about the psychopath that is the Republican party's preferred presidential candidate. Oh, well. GOTV!
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