Brainstormy
Brainstormy's JournalContinuing the theme of I fucking hate Chuck Todd . . .
Sunday he said that Democrats are becoming too liberal.
"NBC host Chuck Todd suggested on Sunday that Democrats are abandoning their base by supporting "far left" policies like Medicare for All, which 70 percent of Americans support."
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/06/chuck-todd-suggests-dem-candidates-are-too
Carter says Trump didn't really win
I don't believe it either. Never did. Never will.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90371216/jimmy-carter-says-trump-didnt-really-win-the-2016-election?partner=feedburner
I fucking HATE Chuck Todd
His entire show has been curating Biden bashers and AOC bashers. He does nothing but stir muck pots.
In the spirit of Gay Pride Month,
I'd like to say how proud I am of our gay and lesbian family members and how SUPER proud I am to be part of a family that embraces them.
What god looks like
Interesting study on what American Christians think God looks like. I'm shocked at the notion of rainbow-colored flip flops. Everyone knows God wears Birkenstocks!
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59qqp5/this-is-what-god-looks-like-according-to-american-christians-study?utm-source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR0puQ0L0WwGDHhitRyiY3CM34CrMX2QAhdOs-o74_3ufSzd2frCYIpIy-I
Any book collectors out there?
Yesterday was Walt Whitman's 200th birthday and not coincidentally I suppose I sold on eBay last night a Deathbed Edition of Leaves of Grass that I had forgotten I'd even listed. Today I want it back and am in deep mourning. I know I'd already read it more than once. I know I hadn't touched it in years. But it want to HAVE it, you see, and go through this every time I sell a book I had originally bought for an "investment." Possibly all collectors of any kind are a little sick? But I know I'd never feel this badly if my Kindle died.
My Abortion Story
While on my first real job after high school in Memphis, Tennessee, I was asked to do a favor for my supervisor, a woman in her early thirties who had become a mentor and friend. The favor she asked was that I accompany her to get an abortion. She had become pregnant by her own boss, the married Vice President of the company. This woman, Ill call her Martha, was going through a divorce at the time and was terrified of losing custody of her two young children. I believe this was 1970. Abortions were legal in some states but not anywhere in the Mississippi Delta.
On a Friday after work I accompanied Martha across the Tennessee state line into rural Mississippi. I have no idea where we actually were, but I recall our driving down a long unpaved road, deep in woods, to a small frame house. We were met by a bent old lady (straight out of Disney casting for witches) who immediately asked for money and then told Martha to take off her underwear and get up on the table. It was white. Enamel. Dents and rust around the edges. I was told to wait in a back room. In perhaps half an hour I was called. Martha was a little ashen, but standing, dressed, ready to go. She got into the back seat of her car. (I remember it as a Cadillac; it probably wasnt.) I began to drive us back to Memphis.
Before wed been too long on the road Martha became very irritable, complaining about my driving, even swearingsomething Id never heard her do. By the time wed arrived back at her house, this had become moaning and sobbing. Somehow, I got her into the house, into a nightgown, and into her own bed. She wanted coffee. I went to make it. When I returned I found her white as a ghost and almost the entire bed soaked in blood.
I called an ambulance, even while she cried and begged me not to, and Martha was taken to the hospital. She was there slightly under a week and recovered with the exception that she was rendered permanently sterile by whatever that old witch had done to her. About two weeks after she returned to work she was dismissed by the company. Her husband, of course, learned the details of her hospitalization. She lost custody of her kids. I lost touch with Martha.
After all this time I sometimes have dreams about this incident. You cant tell me that overturning Roe wont take us back to this. For the sake of our daughters, our granddaughters, all the Marthas we might know, we CANT let that happen
10 Years Of Trump's Tax Information Released By New York Times
Source: Huffington Post
President Donald Trumps tax filings from 1985 to 1994 show that he had accumulated more than a billion dollars in business losses over the course of the decade, according to newly revealed tax information obtained Tuesday by The New York Times.
In the 10-year stretch, Trump racked up nearly $1.2 billion in core business losses, according to the Times analysis of the presidents federal income tax information from those years. The loss paints what the Times called a bleak picture of Trumps businesses, which he has always touted as successful.
The news comes as the president continues to feud with House Democrats over the release of his federal tax returns from 2013 to 2018.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee working to get Trumps tax returns, said in response to the Times report that the presidents entire tenure is built upon the most colossal fraud in American political history.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tax-returns-nyt_n_5cd2105be4b0a7dffcce31f0
First Earth Day
My first letter to the editor was written 49 years ago this week after the first Earth Day. It was to dispute a Memphis Commercial Appeal opinion writer who had written that there would never be another Earth Day because it wasn't a big deal and essentially no one cared. It's worth remembering this for me for two reasons. 1. Despite the fact that we Boomers are blamed for every evil on the planet, we were the first generation to warn about climate change. And 2. Even though we still don't care enough, I was right and he was a dick.
Dems DUMP FOX
My money says Trump will not participate in any debates. He'll say the media won't treat him fairly. This seems to shore up his position. Don't know whether or not this is a good move by the DNC, but I wouldn't be watching any of the debates, democratic or final, on Faux anyway.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dnc-fox-news-2020-debates_n_5c800f9ee4b0e62f69e939ad
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