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♫ Let’s Stay Together ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

A day or two ago, one of you mentioned Al Green and so I asked around and … … look folks, it’s our friend Al Green!  What you got for us tonight Al?  Ah yeah … that’s great … Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. He was referred to on the […]

♫ Let’s Stay Together ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

SIG Sauer’s MCX-SPEAR Can Turbocharge Mass Shooters

The gun company that made the AR-15-style rifle used to kill 49 people at an Orlando nightclub in 2016 and another four at an Indiana mall this month is now gearing up to mass-produce an even more lethal weapon of war for the civilian market.

SIG Sauer’s new MCX-SPEAR fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those from an AR-15. That means double the horrifying force that mangled the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and left one youngster essentially decapitated.

“This is a weapon that could defeat any body armor, any planned body armor that we know of in the future,” then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the Army Times in 2019. “This is a weapon that can go out at ranges that are unknown today.”

Source: SIG Sauer’s MCX-SPEAR Can Turbocharge Mass Shooters

3 associations en lutte contre l’hécatombe des espèces disparues — Journalisme : actu, culture, faits de société..

Barbara Crane Navarro

Près d’un million d’espèces dans le monde sont en voie d’extinction selon l’ONU. Triste record planétaire. C’est tout un écosystème qui est fragilisé. En Europe, 80 % des insectes volants sont morts en trois décennies. 90 % des grands poissons se sont éteints en 50 ans. L’ occasion de mettre en lumière la lutte de[…]

3 associations en lutte contre l’hécatombe des espèces disparues — Journalisme : actu, culture, faits de société..

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Texas officials cheer end of abortion rights but trail on postpartum care | The Texas Tribune

Source: Texas officials cheer end of abortion rights but trail on postpartum care | The Texas Tribune

3 Common Attitude Interview Questions with Sample Answers

MiddleMe

As part of every interview, there will always be a set of questions to assess the interviewee’s attitudes. No matter what industry you are in, the questions will be similar, and if you do your research in advance, you can prepare your answers beforehand and stand out during the interview.

Below are 3 common attitude interview questions you may encounter and sample responses you can apply.

1. Tell Me About Yourself

Interviewers use this question to learn more about you that your resume can’t tell them. Speaking about yourself gives them an idea of what you are like as a person and see if you have the right mindset and capacity to handle the task before you. When answering the question, it would be best if you considered mentioning a key professional achievement or skill related to the job.

Sample Answer
“All my life, I knew I wanted to work…

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A Forgotten Native American

Aging Capriciously

I think it is fair to say that Ti-bish-ko-gi-jik or Father Philip B. Gordon of the Ojibwe tribe in Northern Wisconsin was not forgotten since he was never really remembered.  I have lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1965 and I never heard of the first North American Catholic priest who was also a Native American.  A friend of mine told me about the attached article which is a compilation of stories and a short biography of Reverend Gordon written by Paula Delfeld in 1977.  I am always amazed by the lack of history for Black Americans but it is probably true that Native Americans are equally forgotten in our American educational system.  Call me naïve but I always thought history was supposed to be unbiased and objective and inclusive.  I am still waking up to the fact that it never was.  The following link includes some interesting pictures and…

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Until the fat lady sings*

NANMYKEL.COM

When the great backlash occurs, who will be left standing?  Doesn’t history tell us that extremes in population sentiments swing back and forth?  Enough usually becomes enough.  Surely common sense will settle over our land soon?  Wishful hoping?  I’ll vote. What else do you suggest?

I liked this from the post of a Dr. who’s a vietnam vet.  Lost his blog, link, tho…

“We can reduce the lethality of guns by limiting clip capacities and by eliminating rifles that were designed for military purposes and not hunting.  Why anyone would need a rifle with more than a three round capacity is beyond me.  Rifles should be for hunting or target shooting and nothing else.  Any game that you are hunting will be gone long before you can chamber and fire your third round.  A .223 caliber was first designed for the military in Vietnam.  I had to qualify on an…

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Friend Felix Speaks Again

NANMYKEL.COM

4th of JULY:  GOOD GRIEF!

If you like pretty poems, please look away,

for here I lament decay, dying and death.

I’m not bemoaning my dying contemporaries,

who lately fall like old-growth trees in a forest.

Nor do I pre-grieve my own impending death.

My concern is for the fate of our democracy,

as it is doing a dangerous dance with doom.

Our precious political freedoms are eroding.

Our fractured center seems not to be holding.

Our democracy could be in its death throes.

Female bodily autonomy has been outlawed,

voting rights have been wantonly suppressed,

there is massive support for Trump’s Big Lie.

The Supreme Court defies the majority’s will.

Throughout our land gun fetishism flourishes.

Louder liars shout down the voices of veracity.

Violence grows, the environment degrades.

This Independence Day is a day of gloom.

Sadly I fly our tattered flag upside down.

Today I can’t sing…

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Thoughts About Legal Precedents

bluejayblog

The national concern over the present “activist” U.S. Supreme Court has escaped few citizens this summer. The rulings on women’s rights, gun regulation, and more, has many people worried. We are rightly concerned about our basic rights to go about our lives in a peaceable manner and fulfill our civic responsibilities. After the Court’s precedents are established, they will hold great power over Americans.

The current consequences for Americans is that new precedents can and will overturn well-established precedents on privacy, safe environment, separation of church and state, marriage equality, equal opportunity, and voting rights. The overturning of the well-established precedents negatively affects millions of people.

A great deal of legal weight is placed upon a precedent even if it does not support legalistic theory as strongly as we have been told. The first, original precedent logically would not have been based on precedent. Logically thinking, there must have been…

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