a happily ever after

 “…Now is the time to seize the day Send out the call and join the fray. Wrongs will be righted. If we're united Let us seize the day. (Seize The Day/Newsies) I awoke, a gloomy Cape Cod April Morning, lots of sun yesterday, dark dreary clouds puffed and proud to split open causing spittle of rain, hard enough to splatter and spill, boring enough to last way too long as it falls. Please I said to myself, NO NEWS, not now, wake up COMPLAIN about the weather, at least, no matter how I might be opinionated, I cannot change THAT! “…Extra! Extra! Read all about it, historical news is being made.” (Gypsy/Sondheim). But listen to that part of my brain trying to nurture me in the morning, I DID NOT, feeling the urgency, the need, NO THE NECESSITY, to discover what happened while I slept, and what nightmare awaits as I am AWAKE!  

Police Search for Suspect in Brooklyn Subway Shooting Ten people were shot and wounded, and six others were treated for shrapnel injuries, smoke inhalation, and panic, FDNY officials said. (Wall Street Journal) … A CAMPAIGN OF TERROR AGAINST REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IS ALREADY FORGING A POST-ROE WORLD. (The Intercept) … The loss of Biden’s expansion of the child tax credit has meant an increase in child poverty by something like 41 percent. (MSNBC)… STDs are surging. The funding to fight them is not. The latest figures follow Congress’ decision last month to provide far less funding to sexual health clinics that provide free and subsidized testing. (Politico) Texas Wanted Me to Investigate Parents of Trans Kids. So I Quit. After Morgan Davis was ordered to investigate the parents of trans kids for “child abuse,” he quit: “I realized that I was doing more harm than good.” (VICE) If Putin isn’t stopped in Ukraine, the Baltics are likely next. (Washington Post) Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. (The Atlantic)

 

“…One more day before the storm. At the barricades of freedom. Shall I join my brothers there? Do I stay or do I dare?” (Les Misérables/Schonberg) … “Demons will charm you with a smile For a while But in time Nothing can harm you Not while I'm around.” (Sweeney Todd/Sondheim) “…Careful the wish you make, Wishes are children Careful the path you take, Wishes come true.” (Into The Woods/Sondheim). I ADORE MUSICALS. The curtain remains down as the cast and crew use all of their yesterdays, readying for the here and now, the Opening Night, and as they watch that magnificent CURTAIN RISE, their tomorrow AWAITS, AWAKENS, and AMAZES…For up to 2 HOURS, nothing but PURE IMAGINATION wanders in the hearts and souls of both audience and entertainer. The belligerent clouds, reluctantly faded, if you listened to the wind one might have observed a moan from the nasty bullies of gray and black. The news of the day is hours old, the news of tomorrow, still churns and almost boils… I want my life to be a MUSICAL because there are usually HAPPILY EVER AFTER ENDINGS or the promise that change for GOOD will take place!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carlson/Junior

 My original BLOG was to be a rant about one of the most spoiled of BRATS this nation has ever witnessed, Donnie Trump Junior. The discovery of his TWEETS attempting to cause CHAOS and a COUP, not only pissed me off, even more than just the sight of his ARROGANT, AND IGNORANT PUSS but while reading it, I thought, OF COURSE, HE TWEETED SEDITIOUS AND DANGEROUS attempts at TREASON… This crude, crud, thug, never EVER had to earn his way through life, and this wanna-be con artist, only learned to leech off of the lives of those around him, taking, stealing, with no remorse. I am not surprised learning about these TEXTS, but actually knowing the truth makes me angrier!... 

… “This is what we need to do please read it and please get it to everyone that needs to see it because I’m not sure we’re doing it,” Trump Jr reportedly wrote, adding: “It’s very simple … We have multiple paths[.] We control them all.” - According to CNN, in his texts to Meadows, Trump Jr laid out strategies the Trump team went on to pursue as they disseminated lies about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials. - Such tactics included lawsuits in swing states, the overwhelming majority of which were rejected, and “having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake ‘Trump electors’”. - CNN also said Trump Jr suggested that if such measures didn’t work, lawmakers in Congress could dismiss the electoral results and vote to keep Trump in office. (The Guardian)

 

BUT THEN, I read about ANOTHER pampered poisonous, peon, born into wealth and privilege, who had enough money to NOT give a shit about anyone or anything, but NEVER seemingly was nurtured to gain empathy, sympathy or love and respect; TUCKER (SWANSON FROZEN FOODS) CARLSON. This man is ALLOWED to shout FIRE as if he was in a movie theater, setting off sparks of BURN BABY BURN, and as the flames begin to approach mayhem, his bosses at FOX, the FAMILY MURDOCH, let Tucker walk away as if nothing at all happened.

 

Tucker Carlson in a Friday segment of his primetime Fox News show said teachers who discuss gender identity with young students should be "thrashed" by parents, repeating calls for violence he has made previously…"I don't understand where the men are. Like where are the dads? You know, some teacher's pushing sex values on your third grader why don't you go in and thrash the teacher?" Carlson said. "Like this is an agent of the government pushing someone else's values on your kid about sex, like where's the pushback?" (Business Insider)

 

So, NOW, FOX Viewers, are being told that their masculinity or the masculinity of the husbands, sons, and fathers of FOX viewers is being tested, if VIOLENCE is not used to stop a teacher from educating his or her students! Agents of governments, says (I AM A SON OF A WEALTHY FAMILY, so my shit don’t stink) and all government, unless it is run by AUTHORITARIANISTS, like PUTIN or TRUMP are evil!

 

Donnie Jr/Carlson, both inciting VIOLENCE/INJUSTICE/HARM/and ATTACKS on the foundations of decency and DEMOCRACY, are out and about, and neither SO FAR, has had to pay any consequence!

 

 

Child Suicide

 The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide (The New Yorker) … Utah’s GOP Gov. Vetoes Anti-Trans Bill, Cites Trans Youth Suicides (The Advocate) …Suicide rates for NJ's Black teens point to treatment disparities. (NJ Spotlight News) … Schools battle youth mental health crisis (CBS News) … New study identifies gaps in emergency care for youth in crisis. (Medical Express) … Texas Order on Trans Health Care Could Exacerbate Youth Suicide Crisis. (The 74) … Texas continues to remove LGBTQ suicide prevention resources from state websites. (NBC News) … More High Schoolers Felt Hopeless Or Suicidal During Pandemic As Mental Health Crisis Intensified, CDC Finds. (Forbes)… Teenage boy shares emotional plea after another youth suicide: 'You deserve to be on this earth' (Honey). 

Let all of us, who once were CHILDREN, are Parents, Grand Parents, Aunts, Uncles, KNOW or have KNOWN CHILDREN, begin to focus on the FRAILTY of life which has always been FRAIL, but more recently has become so infected as to even make FRAILTY seem a better choice in living. Let all of you, who INSIST that once the Zygote and or Fetus, breathe in their first breath outside of the womb, that the quality of THOSE lives should be treated JUST as HOLY as you seem to think while the Zygote and Fetus are in the womb.

 

YUP, Child Suicide…Perceived Good Kids, Purported Bad Kids…White Kids/Black Kids/Brown Kids/Indigenous Population Kids/Asian Kids…Religious Kids, Non-Religious Kids…Loved Kids…Unloved Kids…Heterosexual kids, Homosexual Kids, God Fearing Kids, Agnostic Kids…How In The World could any KID, not be affected by the adult AFFINITY of Loving Guns, Loathing Science, Embracing Conspiracy Theories…How can KIDS not have any ADVERSE reactions to scenes of Immigrant Children in Cages, Bodies of Syrian Children washed up on the shore, Active Gunman Alerts, and the continuous Denial by too many ADULTS, insisting that even though guns kill, Gun Rights have more right than Children’s lives. Parents pretending that somehow denying Racism/Homosexuality/Transexual/Bigotry/Medicine/Facts and History is a healthy way for KIDS to understand that the world around them, ONLY IF THE WROLD AROUND THEM, looks, acts, and smells like THEM. CHILD SUICIDE, have we finally succumbed to embracing the lowest demented denominators of HUMAN’S BEING!

What I Worry

 A really wonderful kind of April day in North Truro. A Goldilocks kind of day, with the weather neither too hot nor too cold, enough blue in the sky to highlight the meandering white puffy skies; and somehow a coordinated effort between the wind and the sun, permitting a breezy few moments while the sun still shone brightly! The four bird-feeders we have hanging in our backyard, almost make for a picture-perfect Audubon reflective moment, and our various rafters of wild Turkeys parading in feeding shifts almost seem like I am Old Mac Donald, and the farm is located in my backyard. (I heard the humming sound of the garden tools in the garage calling out “Let’s Do Some Outdoor Work,” but let that bit of conversation remain in the garage located in the front of our house. 

Ahh, as Alfred E. Neuman of MAD Magazine fame often stated, “what me worry,” came to mind but since I was raised to believe that in fact worry ahead of time, provides less stress, afterward, when the real worry hits the fan, no matter the beauty of the day, all around us, to not WORRY, seems to just a collective bit of denial!

 

Once upon a time The Tobacco Cartel of America, told us not to worry about smoking and cancer, we didn’t and until we did, while approximately 6 million people died a year. The Oil Cartel, folks like Mobile-Exxon, hid the truth about climate change and global warming, and our government leaders who were RICHLY paid by these Oil Cartels, emphasized the DON’T part of the worry. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Wisconsin—still have unenforced pre-Roe abortion bans in their laws. More than 440 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states in the 2021 legislative sessions, and 19 states have enacted 33 laws that will make it harder for Americans to vote. (Once upon a time we were certain Roe V. Wade, and The Voting Rights Act were what made our Democracy important) Oh yeah, remember even now when we are mask free, can spend closer than 6 ft, with friends and family, that while we do not worry, to this date 937,000 have died. WHAT ME WORRY because I fear if I do not, my rights my freedoms, my health, and the lives of my friends and family, may too soon diminish!

human and or kind

 Higher food prices from Ukraine war will push up to 47 million people into acute hunger, UN says. (The Globe and Mail) …So, let me understand this…NO…I will never understand this, because THIS, is pure MAN-MADE CAPITALISTIC BULL SHIT, produced and procured simply one basic theory called GREED. Price increases based on so-called SUPPLY AND DEMAND, are inventions by the wealthy, for the richest, to keep anyone WHO IS NOT THEM, in poverty and in jeopardy! 

The child tax credit was a lifeline. Now some families are falling back into poverty. (npr)…So if I read this article, I presume that somehow if the baby is born, be it from rape, incest, or sexual abuse, or even by women who believe that their God wanted this to happen, once that child exits the womb into the real world; THAT CHILD is no longer of concern to the same people who call Reproductive Planning a sin. Once again, people decide a fate of a life not based on the quality of life they MAY OR MAY NOT, acquire, but BASED on what they think are some beliefs of a GOD, they pretend to understand!

 

Everyone is acting so weird! The most obvious recent weirdness was when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars. But if you look closely, people have been behaving badly on smaller stages for months now. Last week, a man was arrested after he punched a gate agent at the Atlanta airport. (The Atlantic) …Once upon a time, throughout the history of humankind, a bit of sanity, fair play, justice, and respect surfaced in the atmosphere, almost as a calming effect persuading HUMANS to actually accept their role as the most INTELLIGENT SPECIES on Earth. But too much like that SILENT FART, which suddenly and silently sneaks upon the hairs inside your nose, the calm and peace are smothered by the ODOROUS smell of something bad. Maybe weird behavior has been around since humankind decided that KINDNESS does not make one HUMAN, but as I see it…ONCE TRUMP AND HIS NARCISSIST, NEUROTIC, MALICIOUS, and MALIGNANT behavior were accepted as some kind of standard, WEIRD BEHAVIOR actually had TRUMPED any semblance of normalcy and decency.

I AM WOKE

 I AM WOKE…I AM AWAKE…I AM WOKEN…and for all you Trump-MAGA-Neo Nazi-The South Never Lost-FOX Fascists-Oath Keeping Proud Boys-REPUBLICAN AUTHORITARIAN Wanna Be Insurrectionists if I am WOKE, then let me be clear YOU ARE DEAD! 

I am so tired of the GOP and their Allies of HATE, trying to define me, my life, my empathy, my intelligence, my justice, my belief in freedoms and liberties, my belief in science, medicine, history, and facts in a most pejorative manner, as if LIES, BIGOTRY, BIAS, HOMOPHOBIA, MYSONGNY, XENOPHOBIA, ANTI-SEMITISM are the truth! I am soooooo tired, of reacting when the Right-Wing HYPOCRITES pretend somehow they are Culture Saviors, when in fact they actually are CULTURE WAR MONGERS!

 

I care, I AM WOKE, I am human, I AM WOKE, I believe in the dignity of life, I AM WOKE, Facts Matter, I AM WOKE, Love is Love, I AM WOKE, Equality and Justice for All, I AM WOKE, I am brave enough to accept people who are not like me, I AM WOKE…if you, HOWEVER, accept the idea that FEAR, LOATHING, DISCRIMINATION, INSECURITY, are the way forward, then as I see it YOU ARE  DEAD, unable to understand that life does NOT revolve around you. Your HATE flows through your corpse instead of blood, it still smothers you as you inhale the stench of stupid. Let all of us who want RIGHT from WRONG to matter stop reacting, let us OWN being WOKE, and let us remind those who are NOT WOKE, that the logical identification for them is telling them they must be DEAD!

It might not matter

 It might not matter, in a real-world, but in this world…Sarah Palin "insulted" Joe Biden picked Black woman for Supreme Court (Newsweek). In a real-world, the sham and shameless demonstration of stupid of a politician so disingenuous as to quit halfway through her elected term would likely be seen as an omen, instead, this fool is a front runner… 

It should not even be a topic by which a civilized citizen living in a civilized nation, should concern themselves, understanding that there IS a limit to stupid, BUT this is 2022 and AMERIKA, and the VIRUS of politicians remaining in office and being DUMB AS SHIT, and most likely being reelected is way too real to IGNORE…Ketanji Brown Jackson’s refusal to be dragged into the GOP’s culture war du jour—during her confirmation hearing, Jackson declined to provide a definition of a woman for anti-trans Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn—Greene told the Georgia Republican Assembly, “I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman. We came from Adam’s rib. God created us with his hands. We may be the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, but we are our partner’s, our husband’s, wife.” (Vanity Fair) In a world in which INTELLIGENCE is celebrated, one might laugh this, YET ANOTHER WTF, comment from Greene, but she was serious and is a serious contender to remain a Congress Person!..

 

Palin and Greene, are just two examples of REPUBLICANS whose popularity remains high, because BOTH strongly RANT RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/even MISOGNISTIC messages to a BASE of VOTERS (so-called AMERIKAN, voters) resonating in the RHYTHM of their HATRED for anyone, not them!