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Harvest & neighborhood festivals

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Two Bastards Sitting in Governor’s Mansions

Filosofa's Word

Governors Abbot (Texas) and DeSantis (Florida) are playing a game of Russian roulette with the lives of people – families with children. And why? Because there are 52 days left until the mid-term elections and they are both up for re-election. Because both are Republican incumbents who don’t have a whole heck of a lot going for them right now and who are up against strong Democratic opponents. So, they respond by playing a deadly game with the lives of people who trusted in the goodness of this nation enough to come here in hopes of a better life for their children. Dan Rather and I are in complete agreement on this …


A Shameful Stunt

Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner

16 September 2022

A bus carrying migrants who crossed the border from Mexico into Texas arrives in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It is easy to…

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(1) Illinois Governor EXPOSES the Truth about Ron Desantis’s Human Trafficking STUNT – YouTube

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker slammed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his human trafficking stunt, and revealed how DeSantis neglected to coordinate with the state in any way before dropping off busloads of migrants. MeidasTouch contributor Troy describes the kidnapping scheme in detail,

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Administers the Oath of Allegiance and Delivers Congratulatory Remarks at Ellis Island Ceremony in Celebration of Constitution Week and Citizenship Day | OPA | Department of Justice

…each of you has now made a commitment not only to this nation and your fellow Americans, but to the generations of Americans who will come after you.

In that commitment, you have given your posterity – and the posterity of all of us – a precious gift.

I know how valuable that gift is because it is the same one my grandparents gave my family and me.

I come from a family of immigrants who fled religious persecution early in the 20th Century and sought refuge here in the United States. Some of my family entered right here, at Ellis Island.

My grandmother was one of five children born in what is now Belarus. Three made it to the United States, including my grandmother who came through the Port of Baltimore.

Two did not make it. Those two were killed in the Holocaust.

If not for America, there is little doubt that the same would have happened to my grandmother.

But this country took her in. And under the protection of our laws, she was able to live without fear of persecution.

I am also married to the daughter of an immigrant who came through the Port of New York in 1938.

Shortly after Hitler’s army entered Austria that year, my wife’s mother escaped to the United States. Under the protection of our laws, she too, was able to live without fear of persecution.

That protection is what distinguishes America from so many other countries. The protection of law – the Rule of Law – is the foundation of our system of government.

Source: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Administers the Oath of Allegiance and Delivers Congratulatory Remarks at Ellis Island Ceremony in Celebration of Constitution Week and Citizenship Day | OPA | Department of Justice

More Bricks in the Wall?

Idiomas RalFer

Pink FloydThe Wall

THOUGH IT INno way endangers themeisterwerkmusical status ofDark Side of the Moon(still on the charts nearly seven years after its release),Pink Floyd’s twelfth album,The Wall, is the most startling rhetorical achievement in the group’s singular, thirteen-year career. Stretching his talents over four sides, Floyd bassist Roger Waters, who wrote all the words and a majority of the music here, projects a dark, multilayered vision of post-World War II Western (and especially British) society so unremittingly dismal and acidulous that it makes contemporary gloom-mongers such as Randy Newman or, say, Nico seem like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

The Wall is a stunning synthesis of Waters’ by now familiar thematic obsessions: the brutal misanthropy of Pink Floyd’s last LP, AnimalsDark Side of the Moon‘s sour, middle-aged tristesse; the surprisingly shrewd perception that the music…

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #87

Content Catnip

Do you want to see pigeons at a tiny rave? do you want to learn how algae can stop palm oil deforestation? walk past a sulky dog? find the heart of Trinidad- Tobago in a jewellry case? learn about the secret to a long life? You can do all of those things in edition #87 of Interesting Things…so get cosy!

Funky throw-back 80’s house music from Peggy Gou

I can hear a bit of early New Order and Madonna in the sound of this funky song. I also like the unexpected addition of a tropical bird sample in there, I can’t get enough of this!

I am sure that pigeons would enjoy the sound of Peggy Gou, and if they could…they would play it on tiny turntables and speakers

By Buitengebieden the indefatiguable vanguard of cute animals on Twitter.

Originally tweeted by Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) on July 29, 2022

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