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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Times . . .

. . . they are a-changing. . .

(https://www.npr.org/2018/03/05/590920670/from-fraud-to-individual-right-where-does-the-supreme-court-stand-on-guns)

". . . Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative, said the idea that there was an individual right to bear arms was "a fraud." If he were writing the Bill of Rights now, he said in 1991, "There wouldn't be any such thing as the Second Amendment." . . . He declared on PBS that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.". . . But that all changed with some scholarly work and cases brought by gun rights advocates. . . In 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the court said there is an individual constitutional right to have a handgun in one's home for self-protection. Two years later, in a second case, the court made clear that its decision applied to the states as well as the federal government. . ."

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Sources . . .

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/easter-sunday-trump-threatens-end-daca-stop-nafta-n861826)

". . . Trump loosed a series of hard-line immigration statements on Sunday. . . (declaring) there would be "NO MORE DACA DEAL," . . . (he) added that "Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job," blaming Democrats. He also claimed, without providing context, that "'Caravans' coming.". . . "Fox and Friends" aired a segment earlier Sunday with right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren that claimed onscreen: "CARAVAN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HEADED TO U.S. . . "They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!" he tweeted. . . (a Democratic spokesman said) "When an agreement to protect the Dreamers is reached, it will be despite this president rather than with his leadership.". . ."

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Roses . . .

. . . and garlic. . .

Never before had a vision beheld
Such rare exquisiteness
To my sheltered existence
The color of liquid sustaining all life

While a far-removed prospect
Opposed in all ways
Fills the cracks and the fissures
Of the concrete and flesh

And both remain etched
In my own very presence
Two different in aspect
Through vision and scent

But lovely
As equals

Roses & Garlic
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Righteously . . .

. . . a tune inspired by Jay's Ring in the Rightness . . .

Righteously
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

My Head . . .

. . . or more specifically, the contents therein, provide me with a wealth of entertainment. Musing on the past, present, life, death, the world, the country . . . it's endless. Today, for some reason, the past took front and center, and monopolized the activities of the grey matter for a portion of the early morning hours. The past and my place in it and the person I was in that place back then would pretty much sum it up. I was timid, unsure. So many personalities come to mind; personalities that I envied for your sheer joy, their fearlessness, their humor and their confidence. Then I wonder, where are they now? What are they like now? Are they still joyful, fearless, funny and confident?

GOOGLE? . . .

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Friday, March 30, 2018

High . . .

Road? . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-cozies-saudi-arabia-s-crown-prince-congress-must-push-ncna858471)

". . . In his speech to Arab leaders in May 2017, he said: “We are not here to tell other people how to live,” a statement consistent with his silence on Saudi Arabia’s draconian male guardianship system, and its detention of human rights activists and other critics of the government. Trump also made no mention of the thousands of civilians killed or wounded in the Saudi-led campaign. . . The U.S. should push MBS further — make clear that he won’t be seen as a reformer unless he abolishes the male guardianship, under which every Saudi woman has a male “guardian” who has the authority to make a wide range of critical decisions on her behalf, and releases all men and women still imprisoned for peaceful activism, including those jailed for pushing for women’s equal treatment. . . Trump’s silence on human rights represents a failure to capitalize on the leverage the U.S. has with Saudi Arabia. . . Trump’s silence on human rights represents a failure to capitalize on the leverage the U.S. has with Saudi Arabia.. . ."

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Reward . . .

(from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That. . . . by Michael Lewis)
". . . Statistics wasn't just boring numbers; it contained ideas that allowed you to glimpse deep truths about human life. "Because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean," Danny later wrote, "it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.". . . "

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