North Carolina Republicans want to hide the truth from voters; so, they’re trying to rewrite the rules to make it easier to do so.
“Legislative Republicans who work in secret are looking for new ways to shut the public out. Not content to fix the game, they’re rewriting the rules to favor deception and secrecy over public input and transparency,” spokeswoman for Democratic Governor Roy Cooper.
image: Tim Moore (R), Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
Rotten behavior, like rot in an apple’s core, spreads outward, devouring every piece of innocence, positive creativity, and kindness in its path.From “Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways Of Harmony For Many Moons”. Jamie Sams. Jamie is half American Indian, half French; with ancestors from the Southern Mohawk, & Seneca, Cherokee & Choctaw Nations.
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
1172 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police In The Past Year.
Black Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans. Data Here:
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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‘The problem with the American church today is no one wants to kill its pastors anymore. No one wants to arrest its pastors anymore. And there’s a lot of truth to that.’ Steve Deace, BlazeTV host. ‘nough said.
“It’s a very detailed indictment, and it is very, very damning. This idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous…He’s not a victim here. He was totally wrong. I do think that if even half of it is true, then he’s toast.” Bill Barr, former US Attorney General in the Trump Administration.
“[F]rankly I don’t think you have enough people involved in being tough. No one gets in a fight in school anymore. I think that’s a problem.” Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan in recent podcast interview. OK, Gym, we all know what you are – talk your shit.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
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Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
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Think About It
Otis Redding from his lovers album The Immortal Otis Redding.
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Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
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Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
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Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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RIP Frankie Beverly
Frankie Beverly, singer and MAZE founder has died, age 77. One of the great soul singers, Beverly lived his life with a love for the music and the fans. Read more (a great read) about Frankie here:
