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Monday, February 28, 2022
Putin is Responsible for Murder
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Good Leaders Required
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Ukraine Invasion, Danger & Authoritarianism
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Answer Annoying Calls
Friday, February 18, 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Monday, February 14, 2022
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Super Bowl LVI Recap
Super Bowl Halftime Show
More often than not, the halftime show is not worth watching. Frequently, it is musicians who don't play instruments, sometimes they don't actually sing, but they jump around a lot in silly costumes with a lot of lights flashing off and on.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Why the Complacency Over Gun Violence?
If you look at a city like Minneapolis objectively, there are shootings daily. People are shot and shot to death at an alarming rate. That means law enforcement is reacting to these violent crimes daily. If you research the statistics, when it's not being obscured by the media, most of the victims are black lives. Most of the arrested shooters are as well. When you think of the hundreds of cases handled by the police, and the relatively few mistakes, it begins to show that the number of people killed by police, is a small number in comparison to the number being killed by gun violence every single day. Yet, the media, and certain groups have skillfully turned our attention to the few tragic deaths of individuals at the hands of police; and deflected the reality of daily killings by criminals, to back page news to be ignored because it doesn't bring the masses out to demonstrate their rage. In fact, if a child or innocent person is killed, few people mourn. It's only when out of hundreds of shootings and hundreds of encounters that someone being arrested suffers an unfortunate death or injury from police, that anyone notices. The bigger problem, is the criminals, who are killing people every single day. And the more frequently police are called on to react to this violence, the more statistical chance that the cops might harm someone in the process. Somehow, that has been forgotten. The sheer numbers of shootings should be enough to make people upset, yet they save the outrage for the handful of deadly police encounters. This kind of backward thinking has allowed criminals to be treated like victims, and victims to be ignored. And it is all reinforced by the amount of time and repetition selected, highly charged stories are given by the media outlets.
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
Focus on the Causes of Gun Violence
It was a while ago, but when I grew up in Richfield, and bought my first house in Minneapolis (both have had shootings already this month), there wasn't continuous shootings like there is now. So ask yourself, what has changed? If we focus on the cause of the dysfunction rather than reacting to the results, perhaps real solutions are possible. Because so far, protesting the police hasn't stopped the gun violence.
Monday, February 07, 2022
Sunday, February 06, 2022
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Masks or Not?
United States Politics at it's Best!
United States Politics at it's Best!
UnAssociated Press
February 2, 2022
A new presidential candidate has emerged into U.S. politics today! Punxsutawney Phil is well liked and respected. He is the also the only Woodchuck in American politics. If this, new, higher class of candidate emerges into U.S. politics, who knows what good things might happen?!