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Just pointed to a beautiful sunset over the water on our back porch. My wife looks and says "What are you pointing at? There's nothing out there..." I love Mary Hilton and her ability to observer ALL OF GODS CREATION. ~ Originally posted to Facebook on June 6th, 2011 @ 8:50pm The “On This Day” feature of Facebook is always pulling up interesting memories for me. Sometimes they are fun. Other times they are cause for reflection, showing me ways of thinking or language that I no longer agree with. They are often markers of the evolution of my…

Noor Salman was found not guilty of aiding her husband in the Pulse Nightclub massacre. This was at one time the worst slaughter in US history, seeing 49 killed by a single person. She was arrested and charged. It became questionable as to why she was arrested. Then, after a mother was separated from her child for EIGHTEEN MONTHS while being forced to live in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, we have found out that there was never any reason to have arrested her. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript#toc-amendment-vi The prosecutor needs to be impeached. The staff working the case for the public fired. The fact that they…

Our nations youth have much work to do to clean up the shit they are inheriting. But if ever there was a generation prepared for the task… West Virginia’s teachers are on strike. All of them. But that was fixed because of 6th grade students Gideon Titus-Glover. Gideon laid the smack down on the whole situation by listening, thinking and responding based on the states’s Governors own beliefs.. Quoting CNN: The governor said he had changed his position on giving a raise this size after he had a conversation Monday with a sixth-grader named Gideon Titus-Glover. Justice said Gideon was…

Philip Mudd joined the CIA in 1985. Philip Mudd worked in counter terrorism for the CIA. Philip Mudd has interrogated half-exploded extremists. Philip Mudd is a badass dude that works the frontlines protecting our country from harm. Philip Mudd went to work for the FBI in 2005. Philip Mudd spent his life in law enforcement. Philip Mudd was on the news today. Philip Mudd doesn't understand why we can't talk about legislation. Philip Mudd is crying today. Philip Mudd is crying today. Philip Mudd is crying today.

This summer saw record shattering wildfires. Record shattering hurricanes. Rainfall that killed dozens in flash floods. Parching drought that is literally changing the landscape. This winter has already shown record shattering snowfall crippling many major transit routes and airports. Some cities have just had more snow in a 48 hour period than they used to have in a month. Too bad this Al Gore didn't give us the truth about what global warming would do over ten years ago. Whats that you say? He did? This was all in his book, movie and lectures? Damn. Should have listened to what…

Let me tell you a story. May it be that this is legend and true, or legend and parable, do not let fall from your mind the honest core of meaning herein. At the college of Oxford, they take great pride in the long legacy their hollowed halls contain. The school proper was not founded in a traditional sense, but teachings are known to have started in the 11th century of the common era. The most recognizable part of this institution though has a gloriously long name. The Warden and Scholars of St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford, founded…

“This story cannot end well for you my friend.” He smirked as his words left the thinest lips ever stuck on a skeleton. He held out his hand, one long boney finger extended to amplify the veracity of his words. “No man is meant to hear the notes played from this instrument. Pride won me this fiddle. But it’s sound is a curse. Death flows from it’s strings, the bow laying waste with it’s tune. It will kill those around you and haunt your every thought. And it won’t let you go.” He tried to pull himself up from his…

“We can’t have the inmates running the prison.” These words came from the mouth of Bob McNair, a very wealthy and very white owner of the Houston Texans football team. I have increasingly thought of professional sports as being not much different than slave ownership. These young men, often black, are bought and paid for by a very wealthy few. When I hear words like Bob’s, I hear words that strike me as more appropriate to an era I wish was truly gone. And I will mince no words about it. These are young men that spend their entire lives…

The earth rotates at about 1000 miles per hour, and we orbit our star at approximately 66,000 miles per hour. But then our star is also moving. Among the local collection of stars that we are in, our star is moving at about 43,000 miles per hour. It is moving relative to our local arm of the Milky Way, heading roughly towards the direction of Vega. But our star and the arm of the galaxy we are in also rotates around the middle of our galaxy. Sort of like a pinwheel. Our star is orbiting the galaxy center at something…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/ Powerful data. I have heard from a number of people that mass shootings isn’t a real problem. It’s amplified by the media but incredibly rare. 131 mass shooting (5 or more victims) since August of 1966. That is 2.5 events per year. But the average over 51 years hides the fact that these events are increasing in frequency. We saw a 300% increase in the number of mass shooting since 2011. How does this compare? The US is about 4.4% of the worlds population. The US experiences 31% of the known mass shootings. Digging in gun violence data…