Destabilize America
It was a glorious October afternoon. A great time to listen to podcasts, and edit pictures from The Library of Congress. Matt Lewis Interviews Glenn Greenwald About the Reordering was the entertainment. Things went well, until there were 100 mind blowing seconds.
Matt “the the thing that made it really like egregious to me wasn’t really the hacking of hillary email but like it seems like you mentioned the facebook thing that russia was involved in like stoking racial animus in america uh with these like sock puck uh sock puppet accounts um and and sort of you know really digging up just horrible you know hatred and bitterness and internal dispute here that’s that’s bigger than well arguably bigger than an election right”
Glenn “yeah i mean governments want to weaken their adversaries you know i mean there are all kinds of internal political and cultural divisions in china and iran and russia and venezuela and cuba in many other countries that the united states deliberately stokes and and tries to stimulate to destabilize those countries to make them weaker to make countries to make them weaker to make their internal conflict stronger you know i’m a little i’m really hesitant about the idea that america’s racial conflicts are the work of ex you know external forces or foreign governments i think the russians certainly … see this existing conflict these racial tensions that never have been resolved in american history and play on them as a kind of source of vulnerability to the united states but … i wish russia didn’t do that i’d prefer that the united states not be destabilized”
A lot was going on in the 2016 election. Out of respect for my mental health, I tuned a lot of it out. This was the first I heard of Russian facebook bots, trying to make America’s race problem worse. If you want to poison American society, what better way than fanning the flames of race hate?
Why didn’t the Democrats condemn the Rooskies? This was foreign interference in our election. Maybe it is because THE DEMOCRATS DID THE SAME THING.
There are a lot of negative things to say about Donald J. Trump. Unfortunately, the Democrats, and their media enablers, chose to focus on Mr. Trumps racial attitudes. Democrats knew that the turning on the racial juice would make people hate Mr. Trump far more effectively than the boring economic issues. Soon it metastasized. “If you vote for Trump, you are a RACIST.” Half of America thought the other half was RACIST, and deserved hatred. Nobody seemed to care about how American life was being poisoned. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
2020 Homicide Statistics
The FBI 2020 crime statistics have been issued. The report has a challenging format; this source will be used for today’s post. This blog published reports on homicide numbers for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Statista is the source of murder statistics. These numbers are broken down by race, gender, ethnicity, and other factors. (Hispanic or Latino … hereafter known as Hispanic … is considered an ethnicity, rather than a race. Hispanic people are included in White/Black/Other, according to their race.) In 2020, there were 17,754 homicides. The gender breakdown is Male 14,146 (79.6%), Female 3,573 (20%), and Unknown 35 (0.2%). I don’t know how gender non-conforming people are counted.
Quick Facts, from the U.S. Census Bureau, is the source of population numbers. (This link only works in full screen.) On April 1, 2020 there were 331.4m people in the United States. White people were 252.9m (76.3%), and Black people were 44.4m (13.4%). Hispanic people were 61.3m (18.5%).
17,754 homicides breaks down into White 7,029, Black 9,913, Other/Unknown 812. Hispanic, counted separately, had 2,847 homicides. Divide the number of homicides, by the population, and you get homicides per million (hpm). Overall, this is 53.5 hpm. For White people, 27.8 hpm. For Black people, 223.8 hpm. For Hispanic people, 46.4 hpm.
50.8% of the population is Female, according to the census bureau. We will use this 50.8/49.2 breakdown in this next section, even though there are indications that the percentage of Females is higher for Black people. The Male/Female ratio for homicides is, for White people, Male 5,123 (72.8%) and Female 1,904 (37.1%). For Black people, Male 8,469 (85.4%), and Female 1,440 (14.5%). For Hispanics, Male 2,377 (83.4%)), and Female 470 (16.5%). On a per capita basis, Males had 86.7 hpm, and Females had 21.2 hpm. White Males had 41.2 hpm hpm, with White Females 14.8 hpm. Black Males had 383.2 hpm, with Black Females 64.0 hpm. Hispanic Males had 79.0 hpm, with Hispanic Females 15.1 hpm.
The Washington Post reports 1,021 people shot-and-killed by police in 2020. The breakdown: White 459, Black 244, Hispanic 171. (Using these numbers for comparison may be tricky. The FBI groups Hispanics into White/Black/Other as appropriate, while WAPO considers Hispanics to be a separate racial category.) If you divide the WAPO number by the total number of victims, you get a killed-by-police percentage. For the overall population, this is 5.7% (1021/17,754). For White people, this is 6.5% (459/7,029). For Black people, this is 2.4% (244/9,913). For Hispanics, this is 6.0% (171/2,377).
The 2020 homicide numbers show a big increase over 2019. The graphic below shows some of these numbers. For more information, go to the 2019 post.
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@chamblee54 Replying to @hendrixroadie I think that it boils down to everyone has an individual approach to gender. Racial attitudes are similar. When I was a young man, non-binary was not seen as an option. I finally saw myself as a man, with a healthy dose of woman thrown in. “We’re all God’s children.” ~ @chamblee54 .@kittypurrzog I was scrolling through an episode to find segment about .@FredTJoseph you were commenting on .@jessesingal … you said that black people don’t wear cargo shorts #ArmaudArbery wore cargo shorts when he went jogging for the last time ~ @FredTJoseph So @annamerlan decided to write about my recent experience with Airbnb for @VICE She didn’t interview me, get my perspective, or lived experience as a Black person. She decided only speaking to the white guy was fine. Let’s talk about how racism shows up in journalism.(THREAD) ~ I have written 3 posts about ivermectin As is always the case with my blog, if you don’t like the text, you can look at the pictures. IVM may be the big scandal of COVID. I compare it to marijuana. After 420 was declared a dangerous drug with no medical benefits, little research was done into those benefits. The government issued the results before they did the research. I had a facebook conversation about the Maddow post. I wound up being unfriended. The last thing he said was “I trust the FDA, and I don’t care how they treat things in India and Africa. ~ one two three ~ An Old Farmer’s Advice is commodity wisdom for the ages. Pictures are from the Georgia State University Library. ~ Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines ~ Viral Video of White Woman Allegedly Telling Black Couple To ‘Stay in Your Hood’ Was Recorded by a Known Fabulist ~ “i think he has beliefs sincerely held beliefs but then once he stakes out that ground he will backward engineer all sorts of random arguments that are not intellectually honest to hold that position that’s his real position” ~ i like to make the coffee, my brother does not like the way i make coffee, i don’t like the way my brother makes coffee, pour water in the glass thingie, up to the ten mark, careful not to spill any water on my feet, put the paper filter in the basket, my bored fingers getting no jollies, take down the can, take the lid off, hold the can over the basket, so nothing will spill on the counter, my fingers will still be bored if i have to clean up, but my arms and thighs, will be exasperated by my clumsy hands, when you put the coffee can up, it is important to remember to turn the machine on, any one of these steps has been forgotten at one time or another, finally, when the legal drugs have finished manufactoring themselves, i take a cup off the shelf, pour an appropriate amount of coffee in the cup, and take the rag and clean up the wasted drugs on the countertop, take the cup, and splash around the drugs until they are not so hot, as to burn the inside of my mouth, which will take my fingers mind off morning boredom, while holding onto the cup in, any situation, the warm drugs flow past the gag reflex mechanism, if the years of enthusiastic fellatio has not driven a stake through the gag reflex ~ pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.” ~ selah
Michael Donald
PG was looking at facebook, minding his own business. Then he saw something he could not unsee.(TRIGGER WARNING) The NSFW image showed a dead black man hanging in a tree. You can see his face. The caption: “Fox News commentator and Trump sycophant Tucker Carlson said yesterday that “white supremacy is a hoax.” I wonder if this poor man would agree? (I apologize if the image offends but sometimes right-wing idiots have to have reality stare them in the face.)”
The gut level reaction was that of being violated. What gives a facebook “friend” the right to shove a gruesome image in the viewers face? A lot more than “right-wing idiots” will see this picture. We understand that a Fox-boi said something you don’t like. That does not give you the right to disturb the community peace of mind.
There are plenty of arguments you can make. You can post your two-wrongs-make-a-right all day long. No doubt _______ did something terrible last week. That does not give you the right to post an obscene picture on facebook. UPDATE: The image has been *hidden* by facebook.
White Supremacy® is an expression that grows by leaps and bounds. It used to mean the kkk, and other hard-core racists. Now, it means whatever you want it to mean. The definition of WS has expanded to the point where the term is meaningless. It is tough to say what, if anything, Tarlson Cucker meant. We would be better off using the phrase White Supremacy® a lot less frequently.
When you are collateral damage on facebook, you have a few options. You can unfriend the perp, and say rude things about them behind their back. This has always seemed petty and childish. Another thing you can do is research the picture. PG did a google images search of the picture. It turns out to be a powerful story. Is it proper to appropriate this image to shame Tarlson Cucker? As if he would know it happened, or care.
Michael Donald is the man hanging in the tree. Here is the story of how he got there. “That week, a jury had been struggling to reach a verdict in the case of a black man accused of murdering a white policeman. The killing had occurred in Birmingham, but the trial had been moved to Mobile. To (Bennie) Hays — the second-highest Klan official in Alabama — and his fellow members of Unit 900 of the United Klans, the presence of blacks on the jury meant that a guilty man would go free. … Hays had said that Wednesday, ”If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man.””
“On Friday night, after the jurors announced they couldn’t reach a verdict, the Klansmen got together in a house Bennie Hays owned on Herndon Avenue. According to later testimony from James (Tiger) Knowles, then 17 years old, Tiger produced a borrowed pistol. Henry Francis Hays, Bennie’s 26-year-old son, took out a rope. Then the two got in Henry’s car and went hunting for a black man.”
“Michael Donald was alone, walking home, when Knowles and Hays spotted him. They pulled over, asked him for directions to a nightclub, then pointed the gun at him and ordered him to get in. They drove to the next county. When they stopped, Michael begged them not to kill him, then tried to escape. Henry Hays and Knowles chased him, caught him, hit him with a tree limb more than a hundred times, and, when he was no longer moving, wrapped the rope around his neck. Henry Hays shoved his boot in Michael’s face and pulled on the rope. For good measure, they cut his throat. … Henry Hays and Knowles returned to the party at Bennie Hays’s house, where they showed off their handiwork, and, looping the rope over a camphor tree, raised Michael’s body just high enough so it would swing.” For a while, it looked like the case would go unsolved.
Some people kept looking. “After hearing a lot of lies and following many unproductive leads, (Thomas H.) Figures and (James) Bodman uncovered one key fact: On the night of the murder, Tiger Knowles had returned to Bennie Hays’s house with blood on his shirt. With this new evidence, the Justice Department convened an investigative grand jury in Mobile. Incredibly, the Klansmen called to testify did not bring lawyers with them. In short order, one witness told the grand jury that young Henry Hays had admitted everything to him. This got back to Tiger Knowles, who began to worry that Henry Hays would confess — and, by trading testimony against Knowles for a reduced sentence, leave him bearing the greater burden of guilt.”
“In June of 1983, Knowles confessed to F.B.I. agent Bodman. After pleading guilty to violating Michael Donald’s civil rights, he was placed in the Federal witness protection program — a fairly standard accommodation for Klan informers — and sentenced to life in prison. In December, when Henry Hays was tried for capital murder, Knowles appeared as a prosecution witness.”
Henry Hays was found guilty. “Hays was executed in Alabama electric chair Yellow Mama after Governor Fob James refused to commute his sentence. He was the first white person executed for murder of a black in Alabama since 1913.” Mr. Hays died June 6, 1997.
“Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, in assistance of SPLC, sued United Klans of America in a civil suit. An all White jury found the Klan responsible for the lynching of Michael Donald and ordered it to pay 7 million dollars. This resulted in the Klan having to hand over all its assets including its national headquarters in Tuscaloosa.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
Dick Nixon TV Critic
The text below is a conversation between Mr. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman. The tape was made May 13, 1971. This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
NIXON: … CBS … glorifying homosexuality.
EHRLICHMAN: A panel show?
H. R. HALDEMAN: No, it’s a regular show. It’s on every week. It’s usually just done in the guy’s home. It’s usually just that guy, who’s a hard hat.
NIXON: That’s right; he’s a hard hat.
EHRLICHMAN: He always looks like a slob.
NIXON: Looks like Jackie Gleason.
HALDEMAN: He has this hippie son-in-law, and usually the general trend is to downgrade him and upgrade the son-in-law–make the square hard hat out to be bad. But a few weeks ago, they had one in which the guy, the son-in-law, wrote a letter to you, President Nixon, to raise hell about something. And the guy said, “You will not write that letter from my home!” Then said, “I’m going to write President Nixon,” took off all those sloppy clothes, shaved, and went to his desk and got ready to write his letter to President Nixon. And apparently it was a good episode.
EHRLICHMAN: What’s it called?
NIXON: “Archie’s Guys.” Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter. The son-in-law apparently goes both ways. This guy. He’s obviously queer–wears an ascot–but not offensively so. Very clever. Uses nice language. Shows pictures of his parents. And so Arch goes down to the bar. Sees his best friend, who used to play professional football. Virile, strong, this and that. Then the fairy comes into the bar. I don’t mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don’t think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.
EHRLICHMAN: But he never had the influence television had.
NIXON: You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. Neither in a public way. You know what happened to the popes? They were layin’ the nuns; that’s been goin’ on for years, centuries. But the Catholic Church went to hell three or four centuries ago. It was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. That’s what’s happened to Britain. It happened earlier to France. Let’s look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root ’em out. They don’t let ’em around at all. I don’t know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They’re trying to destroy us. I know Moynihan will disagree with this, and Mitchell will. But, goddamn, we have to stand up to this.
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality.
NIXON: Huh?
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality. And with its use on television, it has such leverage.
NIXON: You know what’s happened [in northern California]?
EHRLICHMAN: San Francisco has just gone clear over.
NIXON: But it’s not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time–it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco. … Decorators. They got to do something. But we don’t have to glorify it. You know one of the reasons fashions have made women look so terrible is because the designers hate women. Designers taking it out on the women. Now they’re trying to get some more sexy things coming on again.
EHRLICHMAN: Hot pants.
NIXON: Jesus Christ.
An Old Farmer’s Advice
Many of you have heard “An Old Farmer’s Advice”. This is a repost. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
“Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight. Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads. Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. You cannot unsay a cruel word. Every path has a few puddles. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. The best sermons are lived, not preached. Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway. Don’t judge folks by their relatives. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time. Don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’. The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’. Always drink upstream from the herd. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment. Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in. If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to G-d!”
No one knows who the old farmer is, or what he grew. Some say he really worked in an office writing ads for Massey Ferguson. Some say he had a bull farm, and believed in the product. In this age of industrial strength commodity wisdom, the first reaction of some is to look to google. In this case, you can go to a forum at Snopes. No one claims to be the grandson of the old farmer.
“My father in law is an old farmer. He’s given me some advice. It was more like: Don’t try to fix a broken porchlight in a rainstorm. corollary: Disconnect power to the sprinkler system before fiddling with the wiring. If you wear longer socks, the chiggers won’t bite you. Cool Whip makes everything taste better. Do whatever your mother in law says.”
quote: “A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.” ~ “Yeah, but you try getting a bumble bee to plow your fields. With the tiny little plows attached to their wings, it could take days.”
quote: “Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly…” ~ “And above all else, verb adverbly … There’s my problem, I’ve been living deeply, loving simply and speaking generously.”
quote: “Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.” ~ “I’m not sure of the lesson here…you should leave a bunch of tree stumps in your farm fields? But then you lose valuable real estate, the crops have to compete with the tree roots, and combine harvesting is significantly more dangerous. Maybe, if you take just a little time to remove the stump properly, it pays dividends and saves you time and energy in the long run. … But life is a lot cooler, and more productive if you go down to the general store, buy a few blasting caps, and blow that mother to kingdom come.”
“The sentiments aren’t too bad, but they missed “Now get orf moy laaand!” from the end…”
quote: “Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.” ~ “Oh, so I shouldn’t worry about not being able outrun a bumble bee on my John Deere tractor? Thanks.”
quote: Always drink upstream from the herd. ~ “But, unless your at the absolute source of the river, there’s always another herd further upstream.”
quote: The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’. ~ “I knew it. I knew that SOB had a camera in there. I’m going to the police.”
Armistead Maupin At DBF
When PG heard that Armistead Maupin was coming to the Dick Hater Book Festival, not going was out of the question. There were rumors of a film showing/Q&A on saturday, and PG scoured the DBF website, looking for information. When the film showing was finally put on the website, tickets were no longer available. This is a repost.
On the morning of the talk, PG fussed over which shirt to wear, settling on a purple t-shirt with no adornment. Next, PG called his friend “P” to make arrangements to meet at the First Baptist Church, site of Mr. Maupin’s appearance. The ring tone for PG calls on “P”‘s phone is “Tutti Frutti.” “P” had agreed to let a friend do laundry at his house, and had to jiggle the schedule a bit. “P” wore a tie dyed t-shirt, with a chest hair display hole below the collar. This all blends in nicely with the lavender shirt, pink suspenders, and Levis that Mr. Maupin wore.
The talk started at 1:15. PG arrived at 12:30, and snagged a prime parking spot. The talk was in the sanctuary, and PG found seats in the fifth row pew. The church house setting gave Mr. Maupin pause. He said something about using profanity, and the pastor said “Its all good.” Mr. Maupin then told the story of getting lubricated on maitais, and coming out to his neighbor. She said “big fucking deal.”
When PG arrived at the church, Mr. Maupin was standing in front of the auditorium. PG went down and shook his hand. “My blog is Chamblee54, and I am writing about this, so I am going to watch what you say.” Mr. Maupin looked sideways, as if to say “who does this guy think he is.” Later, while discussing gender transition, Mr. Maupin paused for a second, and said he manted to say this properly. He was watching what he said.
The talk was a delight, as everyone knew it would be. The *southern-ness* of his parents, moving to San Francisco, the Tales of the City series, and Rock Hudson all were discussed. The pbs lady who hosted the event said that Mr. Maupin was like the Forrest Gump of our generation. This went over about as well as PG telling Mr. Maupin to watch what he said.
At some point, the racial values of 1950s North Carolina came up again. It occurred to PG that this was a very white audience. He looked in the rows ahead of him, and to the side, and did not see any POC. When the talk ended, PG was one of the first to stand up, and did a quick survey of the rest of the room. There may have been POC at this event, but PG did not see them. For painfully woke Decatur, this is an interesting development. You can welcome people all you want, but if nobody shows up, then nobody shows up.
PG spoke to Mr. Maupin one more time. While discussing the techno-gentrification of San Francisco, Mr. Maupin said that “Decatur is starting to look pretty good.” He then said that maybe you say Deck-a-tur. After the show was over, PG approached the stage, and told Mr. Maupin that the correct pronunciation was Dick Hater…. the town had been renamed Dick Hater in honor of the lesbian population. Mr. Maupin laughed, and acted like he had never heard that. A man with a DBF badge told PG “You’re making that up.”
Chamblee54 has featured Mr. Maupin one, two, three, four, five, six, seven times. Pictures, for the text to go between, are from The Library of Congress.
Slavery And The Star Spangled Banner
There is a terrific Backstory episode about the War of 1812. (Here is another one.) This is a conflict that is not much thought about, even during its bicentennial. It was not a good war for people of color. Native tribes fought with the British in Michigan, and were soundly defeated. After this war, the attitude of the white man towards the natives got worse.
Perhaps the most famous product of the War of 1812 is The Star Spangled Banner, a.k.a. the national anthem. There are a few legends about writing this song that skeptical bloggers like to shoot down. At the 43 minute mark of the backstory episode, another aspect of TSSB is discussed.
It seems as though slaves were escaping their owners, and fighting with the British. Washington lawyer Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, and thought that the slaves would be better off with their owners. This is the sentiment behind the third verse of TSSB.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The image of F.S. Key has been cleaned up over the years. This biography omits the third verse of TSSB, and does not mention his slaves. Wikipedia tells a different story. “President Jackson nominated Key for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1833.”
“In 1836, Key prosecuted New York doctor Reuben Crandall, brother of controversial Connecticut school teacher Prudence Crandall, for “seditious libel” for possessing a trunk full of anti-slavery publications in his Georgetown residence. In a trial that attracted nationwide attention, Key charged that Crandall’s actions had the effect of instigating enslaved people to rebel. Crandall’s attorneys acknowledged he opposed slavery but denied any intent or actions to encourage rebellion. In his final address to the jury, Key said “Are you willing gentleman to abandon your country, to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist, according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the negro? Or gentleman, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?” Crandall was acquitted.”
The Huffington Post has a story about F.S. Key, ‘Land of the Free?’ Francis Scott Key, Composer of National Anthem, Was Defender of Slavery.
“Buying and selling humans remained a respectable business in Washington City. The slave holding elite of the south had a majority in the Congress and a partner in President Andrew Jackson…
To reassert the rule of law, Key set out to crack down on the anti-slavery men and their “incendiary publications.” Informants had reported to the grand jury about an abolitionist doctor from New York who was living in Georgetown. Key charged Rueben Crandall with bringing a trunk full of anti-slavery publications into the city.
In the spring of 1836, Key’s prosecution of Rueben Crandall was a national news story. In response, the American Antislavery Society circulated a broadsheet denouncing Washington as “The Slave Market of America.” The abolitionists needled Key for the hypocrisy of using his patriotic fame to defend tyranny in the capital: “Land of the Free… Home of the Oppressed.”
Key shrugged off his critics. In front of courtroom crowded with Congressmen and correspondents Key waxed eloquent and indignant at the message of the abolitionists. “They declare that every law which sanctions slavery is null and void… ” Key told the jury. “That we have no more rights over our slaves than they have over us. Does not this bring the constitution and the laws under which we live into contempt? Is it not a plain invitation to resist them?”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The Star Spangled Banner was written September 14, 1814. It is controversial today. This is a repost.
Democracy Falls Apart
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Georgia Is How American Democracy Falls Apart
here is the picture from @HuffPost It is backwards
Walter Bosley on Ambrose Bierce – Part 1 of 2 May 12, 2018
Equitable Research Requires Questioning the Status Quo
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John Lennon Rolling Stone Full Interview (1970) by Jann Wenner
William C. Campbell – Nobel Lecture: Ivermectin: A reflection on simplicity
How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
Welcome to the virtual open call for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The evolution of the chief diversity officer It is the newest senior leadership function …
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Joy Reid dismisses focus on Gabby Petito case as ‘missing White woman syndrome’
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Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence reanimation of pseudoscience of physiognomy …
Bullied Exchange Student Stands Up Against Teacher Asking To Exploit Her Country
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“I was the only straight guy in the modeling house which we were staying in”
India’s Ivermectin Blackout – Part III: The Lesson of Kerala
Uttar Pradesh says early use of Ivermectin helped to keep positivity, deaths low
Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136
“encompass this and do that shut up just are you bit i get so heated”
Would you take a Facebook break? Why civil rights groups want you to log out
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Prophylactic role of ivermectin in SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers
Dartmouth Professor Finds That Iconic Oswald Photo Was Not Faked
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Insane article says right-wing comedy is ‘no joke,’ spreads fear about Gutfeld, Babylon …
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Federal Govt Whistleblower Goes Public with Secret Recordings: ‘Government Doesn’t Want to Show the [COVID] Vaccine is Full of Sh*t’; ‘Shove’ Adverse Effect Reporting ‘Under the Mat’ ~ Data from 19 countries that participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), from 1995 until 2015, were compared with thirty-five (Non-APOC), countries that were not included. Information was obtained from WHO database. Generalized Poisson regression models were used to obtain estimates of the effect of APOC status on cumulative SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality rates. … Conclusions: The incidence in mortality rates and number of cases is significantly lower among the APOC countries compared to non-APOC countries. That a mass public health preventive campaign against COVID-19 may have taken place, inadvertently, in some African countries with massive community ivermectin use is an attractive hypothesis. Additional studies are needed to confirm it ~ Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it? ~ Facebook says that a photograph of Dolley Madison violates community standards. ~ I had an appointment scheduled by Amana, the manufacturer. The appointment was for September 22. ~ On September 20, I called Flamingo to give them a second phone number. I was going to be out September 22, but would have someone at home to greet the repairman. ~ I was told that the initial appointment had been cancelled. The next available appointment was on September 29. Reasons given for this cancellation ranged from “by mistake,” “need to order parts,” and a couple more that made no sense at all. I would need to call Amana. ~ I was also told that the repair was not under warranty. The dryer was purchased 01/09/2021, and was under warranty in September 2021. Flamingo told me the date of purchase was 03/2020. ~ I called Amana. The phone menu at Amana is unpleasant to deal with, and there is usually a long hold time, with constant messages while you are waiting. I finally got through to someone. I told them the correct date of purchase. They said they would call Flamingo. After waiting for a few minutes, Amana came back on the line. The service call was now set for September 22. ~ Amana also said that the dryer was manufactured in November, 2020. Nobody seems to know how I could purchase a model in March, when it had been manufactured in November. ~ On September 21, I had several calls with both Amana and Flamingo. The purchase date had not been updated, but Amana had given special permission to cover the service call. I was told to find the receipt, and show that to the repairman. ~ September 22, the repairman came, and fixed the machine. On September 23, I used the machine, and, while it did not dry as well as before, it did not make the noise that prompted the repair call. ~ “On August 15, Kerala accounted for 18,582 of India’s 32,937 new cases and 102 of India’s 417 new deaths. By contrast, the Ivermectin-using state of Delhi, with nearly the same population size, recorded only 53 new cases and ZERO deaths. In comparison, Uttar Pradesh, with almost eight times as many inhabitants, had only 30 new cases and ONE death. … “Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country to introduce large-scale prophylactic and therapeutic use of Ivermectin. … Uttar Pradesh has a policy of treating ALL the contacts of an infected patient prophylactically with Ivermectin. In other words, in Uttar Pradesh, everyone in the house gets Ivermectin treatment even if only one is infected. Ivermectin is known to reduce mortality in infected and dramatically lowers the viral load, thereby helping reduce the spread of the virus to others. … Uttar Pradesh beats all other states (except Bihar) with the lowest COVID deaths and infections because of early and preventative Ivermectin use IN ALL FAMILY CONTACTS. This is despite Uttar Pradesh having only a 4.9% vaccination rate, one of the five lowest of all states in India. On the other hand, Kerala ranks in the top five most vaccinated states. Kerala has vaccinated 70% citizens 45 years and older, and almost 56% of its population has had at least one shot. … While Ivermectin lowers the viral load and inhibits transmission, the same cannot be said for vaccination. … Many people believe that breakthrough infections in the vaccinated are a rare occurrence. However, the truth of the matter is the opposite. Breakthrough infections can occur with even GREATER FREQUENCY in the vaccinated. For example, in the recent Massachusetts outbreak, the CDC reported that out of 469 cases, fully 74% occurred in the vaccinated.” ~ if you’re sending people to protect this country’s shores those are heroes if you’re sending people to go do something that they otherwise probably don’t need to do but they’re there for political reasons or anything else you want to put in that’s not defense related well then you’ve made victims of our heroes ~ @chamblee54 Replying to @kittypurrzog how do you think “exterminationist, eliminationist homophobes, and transphobes” feel about being compared to @jessesingal? ~ Document 10: Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood, “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII,” George Washington Law Review 34, no. 2 (December 1965): 232-56. ~ Here is another story from the “bucket list.”My first computer had a monitor, that was as deep as it was wide or tall. The speakers clipped onto the side of the monitor. They were shaped like Tom Brady footballs, so they could not be put of the table. That monitor became obsolete. The speakers had a sweet sound, however. An ac adapter was found at Radio Shack. This is going to confuse young readers. I tied cardboard tubes to a utility shelf. Slots in the side of the tubes provided a docking port for the speakers. Next, the shelf became obsolete. I needed to put the speakers on a table. I found a utility shelf support, and cut it in half. I got two GSEMH buckets, and filled them with pebbles. The buckets now hold up the shelf supports, which hold up the cardboard tubes, which hold up the speakers. ~ there is a bible verse much loved by xtians John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ” I found my way when I began to question this quote. Jeeziepoo probably never said it. If he did, this is probably a horrible translation. If those two options are satisfied, this tells me that J-boi had a tremendous ego, and probably is not to be taken seriously. The xtian response … to talk about life after death … does not shine light on this dillema. as for a light to show me where the hazards lie on my path … i am on my own. this is how i find my way … by doubitng the lies they tell you in church ~ Abraham Gutman Fire אברהם גוטמן @abgutman The wildest part of all of this: the *IDF* sometimes implicitly admits to the atrocities it is committing (and yes, killing civilians is an atrocity) when American sycophants of Israel deny them. ~ “they had made this change by adding hydrogen so they thought not surprisingly that they would like to call this stuff not abermectin but hyvermectin because it’s been hydrogen had been added but it was pointed out to them and that in some language hyver means testicle and so that’s how hyvermectin became ivermectin” ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
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