Cygnia

Got my 1st shot today (Pfizer).  Hubby got his 1st yesterday (Moderna).

Sign at Texas restaurant threatens a $50 fee 'If I have to explain why masks are mandatory'

Rare, medium, well done, whatever. Eat your steak the way you want. I'm not here to tell you how to live your life.
 
(But if you put ketchup on it, you're a heathen.)

I’ve just lost all respect for you.

A Rescue Plan for Black America (Ep. 453) - Freakonomics ...
freakonomics.com/podcast/frbc-charles-blow Welcome to the latest installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, in which we interview an author and hear excerpts from the book. Today’s author is Charles M. Blow, an op-ed columnist at The New York Times. BLOW: Hello, hello, hello. And his new book is a manifesto.
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freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/charles-blow New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues that white supremacy in America will never fully recede, and that it’s time for Black people to do something radical about it. In The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, he urges a “reverse migration” to the South to consolidate political power and create a region where it’s safe to be Black.
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One of these should work. Freakonomics interviews NY Times columnist Charles Blow about his new book, which suggests a radical plan for Black Americans to counter the grip of institutionalized white supremacy. In brief: Reverse the "Great Migration" of the 1920s-30s, which saw lots of Black people leave the South in hopes the North would be better. It wasn't, and isn't. But if enough Black people move to the states that already have relatively high proportions of Black citizens, they can become the voting majority in those states and take over the state governments. This is important because, he argues, much of the machinery of Black suppression operates at the state level: voter suppression, mass incarceration, etc. City governments can't do much, since state governments can block anything they try. Blow thinks it might be possible to seize as many as 7 state governments -- providing leverage at the national level, for further change.
 
I don't know if this is possible -- and Blow admits it's a generational project. But it has the advantage of not resting on the goodness of white Americans. It is raw power politics, not spiritual enlightenment.
 
Dean Shomshak

Got my 1st shot today (Pfizer).  Hubby got his 1st yesterday (Moderna).

You are a naughty girl.
 
But some players like naughty.

Got my 1st shot today (Pfizer).  Hubby got his 1st yesterday (Moderna).

Got my 1st shot today (Pfizer).  Hubby got his 1st yesterday (Moderna).

More House GOP Voted Against Giving Capitol Police Congressional Medal Than to Impeach Trump

I am currently raising a glass in his honor. Since his actions got the wine industry to take California seriously, it's the least I can do.