January Sky on Martin's Birthday
"I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be,
and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…
This is the inter-related structure of reality."
~Martin Luther King Jr.
Howard will understand when I say that everyone should watch Live Stream: The Legacy of Dr. King [Click] with Cornel West, Killer Mike, Bernie Sanders and Nina Turner. Oh, Lord, how long has it been? Since I heard the like? Half a century, it's been. Words cannot express the joy I feel at the fact it still endures.
ReplyDelete--Alan
Thank you for the link, Alan!!!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, listener. And here is one debate post-mortem that seems more sensible than some:
ReplyDeleteDem insiders: Sanders failed to dent Clinton
Republican members of the POLITICO Caucus saw a different debate — they viewed the Vermont senator as the runaway winner. [Click]
-Alan
BTW, here (courtesy of Wikipedia) is the really fine political action that I had previously known Nina Turner for, although there is much more to her. I sure wouldn't mind having her as my representative in any legislative body!
ReplyDelete======
In March of 2012, Turner introduced a bill to regulate men's reproductive health. Under her proposed S.B. 307, before getting a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs, a man would have to get a notarized affidavit signed by a recent sexual partner affirming his impotency, consult with a sex therapist, and receive a cardiac stress test. She stated that the proposed statute would be parallel to recent legislation written by male legislators restricting women's reproductive health, and that she was equally concerned about men’s reproductive health.
“Even the FDA recommends that doctors make sure that assessments are taken that target the nature of the symptoms, whether it’s physical or psychological,” Turner said. “I certainly want to stand up for men’s health and take this seriously and legislate it the same way mostly men say they want to legislate a woman’s womb.”
=============
--Alan
P.S.: We continue to get light rain, with more in the offing. On the way to work Saturday I saw land being prepared for planting (evidently some sort of vegetables) that has been fallowed for a couple of years.
9º, cold, bright, windy. Wooooooooooh!!!
ReplyDeleteSame as the current temperature in Fairbanks (clear, 7mph wind)
Delete--Alan
Brrrrr, puddle!
DeleteYeah, it's 8.6F here right now, on the way down to 2F. But as it's still above zero I'm not sure it counts. I'm going to have to research how cold it needs to get and for how long to deter the migration of poisonous critters.
At least we don't have any danger of scorpions!
DeleteWell! So much for my sense of peace for living through the sub zeros of Vermont each Winter! Guess what! In addition to the Southern Black Widow Spider and the Western Black Widow Spider, turns out there's a Northern Black Widow Spider too, which lives as far north as Ontario, Canada, and it's venom is as dangerous as the Southern variety's! Argh!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.cornell.edu/nysipm/2015/06/11/black-widow-spiders-not-just-a-southern-thang/
Antarctica is starting to sound good. LOL!
Deletehttp://gardenofeaden.blogspot.com/2012/10/where-do-you-find-black-widow-spiders.html
4° wind chill -8°
ReplyDeleteI was always happy just believing that 10's and 20's for weeks would keep down flies/ticks/fleas, lol! Never considered spiders at all.
Thanks, puddle. At least there's something left to get rid of this way. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, so that's the kind of poisonous critters you had in mind! I figured Republicans would just put on a coat and hat--snappy weather wouldn't stop them. Black widows are rarely any problem for humans--indeed, they get rid of many insects humans dislike for one reason or another. I note in that gardenofeaden article you quote (I had to cut and paste it) that they point out no one in their greenhouses has ever suffered a black widow spider bite, despite their presence. Antivenom is available and effective Out here people get hysterical about brown recluse spiders, which don't even occur here (except as occasional single migrants from the midwest and in fevered imaginations). Do you have rattlesnakes in your neck of the woods? We have enough in the Sierra Nevada foothills that hospitals stock the antivenin. Without the antivenin, a rattlesnake bite can be a very serious matter--almost as bad as a Republican. (But not a Republican of the old species--be it New Englander or Californian. Damned shame they are extinct.)
ReplyDelete--Alan