T’would seem that I have a lot on my mind lately … so much that it has caused my mind to do that bouncing thing it sometimes does, so today I share just a few of the things that are bouncing around in the empty spaces inside my head.

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Why is the murder of a nursing student, Laken Riley, more “horrible” than the murder of school children.  Riley was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant, and that supposedly makes it a far greater crime than the murders of the children in Uvalde?  And … one, just one murder seems to matter more than how many murders every single day?  Why are Republicans turning Riley into a martyr for the cause of stopping immigration.  How ‘bout we turn the murder of 20+ at Uvalde into martyrs for the cause of gun control?

Before Ohio’s strict photo voter ID law was enacted in 2023, the rejection rate of provisional ballots due to ID issues was between 5%-8%. After the law took effect, the rejection rate increased to more than 28%, according to a report from All Voting is Local.

If I were running for an elected office, I like to think that I would campaign based on what qualifies me for that office, and what I would do to make things better for the people I would be representing.  Today, though, campaigns seem to focus only on smearing and denigrating the opposition…

 

Source: When Da Mind Bounces … | Filosofa’s Word