As those of us who are
vaccinated emerge tentatively from pandemic lockdown, it feels rather awkward at
first to walk outside without a mask or even to smile at a passing stranger on
the sidewalk. Not surprisingly, US average
life expectancy has fallen
during the last year.
Because I searched for wheelchairs on line, I’m now being bombarded
with wheelchair ads. My sister who refuses to connect with the internet has so much
greater personal privacy!
My younger daughter, who
visited recently from Hawaii, told me about a freak accident in their Tesla,
which she and her husband had bought after an accident in their previous car. A
Tesla avoids head-on collisions, but, in this case, an errant driver plowed his
car right into the passenger side of their Tesla, so no way to dodge that.
Belated Father’s Day greetings!
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I still miss my Dad and sent
a card to my son, the only father in my life right now.
On Father’s Day, before a
round of golf with Sen. Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump emitted this terse holiday greeting, “Happy Father's Day to all, including the Radical Left,
RINOs, and other Losers of the world.” So, who’s the sore loser?
While I was listening to FM radio
last Sat. evening, the station suddenly switched over to Trump’s Ohio rally where he was in full
campaign mode, boasting, “We won the election twice,” and predicting “giant
Republican majorities next year.” MyPillow
lackey Mike Lindell and others were in prominent attendance. The Trump hardcore
may be getting smaller, but it’s still fervent. Many expect Trump to return
as president in August. Melania has opted out these days, not going with Trump in
New Jersey this summer. Apparently, she never agreed to keep on publicly supporting
him once he was out of office.
Mail delivery has been noticeably unreliable ever since Trump’s DeJoy took over as Postmaster General. My daughter in Florida received a Mother’s Day card from me, but one mailed at the same time to my granddaughter living a few doors away never arrived. Then, just now, an urgent Priority Mail item mailed at 9 am Monday morning didn’t arrive until Friday afternoon, past the time when it was needed. Things like this didn’t happen as often before DeJoy. Can his term be cut short?
While Hungary, African nations, and Muslim majority countries may stigmatize or punish gay orientation and unions, the latter will still exist within their borders. However, the question is, to what extent? That’s complicated. Nature and nurture both play a part. When my late brother was working as an architect in Saudi Arabia, he was surprised to receive sexual overtures from Saudi men who may have been either gay or merely prevented from coupling with women.
Strongly anti-gay social attitudes do discourage folks experiencing same-sex attractions from open expression, as previously was and still is true in our own society. Likewise, a more permissive culture may not only allow, but perhaps even encourage, same-sex unions. For any given individual, expression of sexual orientation depends on both an inner drive and the surrounding social environment, as with the personal expression of almost any emotion or feeling. Members of religious cloisters have shown that immersion with likeminded fellows can result in the suppression of many common human emotions and behaviors.
Back in the day, well-bred young American women did not engage in sex before marriage, but times have changed. It’s a truism that sexual and emotional expression depends not only on an individual’s inner drive and feelings but also on the social environment, so that less permissive cultures can and do suppress emotions and behaviors readily expressed elsewhere. In that respect, more repressive cultures may prove somewhat successful not only in suppressing certain outward behaviors, but also in actually suppressing some individuals’ subjective feelings. So, it’s entirely rational from their perspective for Hungary’s leadership and that of some other nations to try to suppress “gay rights,” efforts which may actually not be entirely unsuccessful, at least for now. And the interplay of individual feelings/aspirations within particular social and community environments helps explain the sharp political and social divisions within our own country.
Right now, South Africa, which allows polygamy (one man with several wives), is debating whether to extend that to polyandry (one woman with several husbands). An 84-year-old Nigerian man with 86 wives advises against having so many.
The South African woman claiming to have given birth to 10 babies was found to have lied and was taken against her will to a psychiatric hospital.
Reuters -Rudy
Giuliani's law license in New York state was suspended on Thursday, as a
state appeals court found he had lied in arguing that the 2020 presidential
election was stolen from his client, former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Giuliani, 77, a former U.S. Attorney in
Manhattan and New York City mayor, was sanctioned for making unsubstantiated
claims in court, testimony before lawmakers, press conferences and other media
appearances about electoral fraud.
The five-justice Appellate Division in
Manhattan found "uncontroverted" evidence that Giuliani made
"demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the
public" in trying to overturn the election, which Democrat Joe Biden
won. The court said Giuliani made numerous false statements about the
voting in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, including that hundreds of
thousands of absentee ballots or votes, including from dead people, had been
improperly counted. [It’s about time!]
NBC News, Almost no one in the Western hemisphere's poorest country has
been vaccinated for Covid [Haiti]
NY Times, Hundreds More Unmarked
Graves Found at Former Residential School in Canada An Indigenous group said the remains of as many as 751
people, mainly children, had been found in unmarked graves on the site of a
former boarding school in Saskatchewan.
BBC
News, Mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in
Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The children were
students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that
closed in 1978. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57291530
AP, US to
review Native American boarding schools’ dark history The federal government
will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and
work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting
consequences” of policies that over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of
children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb
Haaland announced Tuesday. [There were more than 350 government-funded
Indian Boarding schools across the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Haaland is a member of New
Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo tribe.]
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Amed has certainly become tarnished.
Miami Herald, More Cuban migrants land in the Florida Keys, but they likely won’t stay for long
Tue, June 22, 2021
Nicaragua’s most prominent journalist has fled the country for a
second time after police raided his house during a widening crackdown on opposition figures by the country’s Sandinista rulers. Carlos Fernando Chamorro,
the editor of the Confidencial website and a member of one of the
country’s most influential political families, said on Tuesday he had left the
Central American country to “safeguard his freedom”.
Nineteen people, including Chamorro’s sister and four other potential
candidates in November’s presidential elections have been arrested in what the
US state department has called a “campaign of terror”, as President Daniel
Ortega systematically clears the field of potential challengers. Many of the
detainees have been held under sweeping legislation granting the government the
power to classify citizens as “traitors to the homeland”.
Majority
say abortions should only be permitted during first trimester: Poll, Washington Examiner
[In fact, that’s when the majority of abortions in the US actually occur. Only a majority of Democrats in the survey supported first-trimester abortions, while a majority of Republicans opposed all abortions. A majority of both parties opposed 3rd trimester abortions. Public opinion on abortion has not changed perceptively since Roe, while it has moved relatively quickly on gay rights, gay marriage, and premarital sex. I believe that’s because 2 “rights” are involved in abortion, not just that of the pregnant woman but also of the unborn.]
Again, someone out there knows I
speak Spanish. It’s spooky.
Atención
especializada, como debe de ser
Nos especializamos en tratar enfermedades. Y
somos reconocidos por detectar los problemas antes de que sean graves, y por
descubrir maneras nuevas y mejores de tratarlos, si se agravan.
