
Monthly Archives: August 2024
End O’ The Week ‘Toon Break! | Filosofa’s Word
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential bid, at least in swing states – Los Angeles Times (Me: Weirdness +)
Kennedy’s views on some issues — particularly vaccines — were extreme. A particularly problematic example: When he compared Biden’s vaccine policies to the Holocaust. He suggested that Jews, including Anne Frank, had more freedom under the Nazis than Americans living with COVID-19 mandates.
That drew rebukes from many Jewish groups and even a complaint from his wife, actor Cheryl Hines, who called the Frank reference “reprehensible and insensitive.” Kennedy apologized.
Though born into what some viewed as an American political “Camelot,” Kennedy struggled as a young man, particularly with his 14-year addiction to heroin. The candidate sought to use that ordeal to his advantage, saying that his 40 years in recovery made him uniquely qualified to bring new solutions to the nation’s addiction crisis.
But other aspects of his past, including his past relationships with women, became fodder for new criticism.
That included the regurgitation of a 2013 New York Post story, after the tabloid somehow acquired a journal that RFK Jr. allegedly kept in 2001. It included a log of 37 women that he had sex with when he was married to Mary Richardson Kennedy, the Post and other outlets reported.
(Kennedy’s wife had killed herself in the year prior to publication of the story, but she had reportedly found the journal at some point.)…
Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential bid, at least in swing states – Los Angeles Times

How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa – Mother Jones
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
— Read on www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
Covid tests: U.S. will offer free at-home kits starting late September
Americans will soon be able to use COVIDtests.gov to request four free tests, Biden administration officials said.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/covid-tests-us-will-offer-free-at-home-kits-starting-late-september.html
Bad News!

So I have bad news!
Bad News!
♫ Build Me Up Buttercup ♫ (Redux)

I think it’s time for a fun song, one that gets the toes a-tappin’ … what do you think? It’s been over three years since I last played this one, and…
♫ Build Me Up Buttercup ♫ (Redux)
FOWC with Fandango: Demand

Those birds cand get quite demanding when they are hungry. Although I remember this pigeon very well. I must have been quite young, perhaps 8 or 9 …
FOWC with Fandango: Demand
अंधा प्रेम / Blind Love

किसी ने सही कहा है, प्रेम अंधा होता है, और वह भी जन्म से, क्योंकि हमारी माताएं प्रेम करने लगती हैं हमसे हमारे जन्म से पहले से ही, बिना देखे …
अंधा प्रेम / Blind Love
FOTD 23rd August 2024: Cosmea

I just love these flowers. Just throw down a few seeds and they grow, although these were in the neighbour’s garden. FOTD 23rd August 2024: Cosmea
FOTD 23rd August 2024: Cosmea
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