Month: October 2023

THE STORY OF ZIGGY

THE STORY OF ZIGGY

For those that do not know, Jerry / Rawgod and Jill started a blog for and about furry members of the family, pets in common terms.  I have fell in love with the stories, both the births, the deaths, and the stories in between as people talk about what their non-human family members brought to them.   All my life, dogs and cats have been the balm to sooth the hurts happening to me.  One of my greatest fears is losing my eyesight.   I read a book called “Follow My Leader” as a child, and it was about a young boy blinded who learned to deal with his sudden blindness and to work with his new companion, a seeing eye dog.  The post and video at the link above is wonderful.  Please go, read and watch, and support our furry non-human family members.   Hugs.  Scottie

Florida Is Not A Red State – Rep. Maxwell Frost

AP News: Packed Gaza hospitals warn that thousands could die as supplies run low and ground offensive looms

NBC NEWS: How a Texas mom’s crusade against a teacher and a library book devastated her transgender teen

How a Texas mom’s crusade against a teacher and a library book devastated her transgender teen
A mother said an educator “infected” her teenager with lies about gender. “I lost my son,” she told the school board. Her child tells a different story.

Read in NBC News: https://apple.news/A0G7Xd9UQSaGkSfXFG0wRfg

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

The UN Urges Israel To Stop As They Verge On A Ground Invasion Of Gaza

Israel-Gaza: Some People Have Lost Their Minds

The Rational National points out in his normal reasonable way that holding the view that there is a difference in the worth of a Palestinian child and an Israeli child makes no sense.  He also points out many incidents of Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian people, reporters, and children over the last year that received no news coverage.  The video is done without sensationalism, which I appreciate.  Hugs.

Breaking down the latest from the conflict, including what’s making me go crazy, a good clip from MSNBC, and where major Israeli media is correctly putting the blame.

The race to mine the bottom of the ocean

There are metallic deposits scattered throughout our ocean floors — among hydrothermal vents, under the crust of seamounts, and scattered along sea plains in the form of rocks. As it happens, in our search for climate solutions, these metals have become more critical than ever to help us transition away from fossil fuels. We need them for everything like electric car batteries, copper wiring for electrification and wind turbines. Our land-based deposits have met our needs so far, but it’s unclear whether they will continue to, or whether we’ll want to keep destroying the environment to do so.

This video explains the history and the debate over mining metals in the deep sea and why one Canadian company, The Metals Company, is leading the rush there. There are huge environmental implications for digging up seafloor ecosystems as well as ethical ones: Metal-rich zones like the Clarion-Clipperton Zone lie in international waters that technically belong to everyone. A United Nations body located in Kingston, Jamaica, the International Seabed Authority, is faced with an urgent dilemma over how to regulate mining, whether the environmental harm is worth the benefits to solving our climate crisis, and how to fairly share the profits from this shared resource.

Eddie Izzard “Encore on Computers” Sketch From Glorious

Eddie Izzard’s Tale Of Wisdom | LIVE AT THE APOLLO

Long ago we used to be wise, we used to be good, we used to not want to do silly things such as stick our d**k into a toaster, we just smoked pipes and had a good time, isn’t that right Eddie Izzard and Gandalf

Harvard Students Doxxed Following Anti-Israel Statements

WTF !!!!   This is wealthy Jewish supporters doxing young adult students just for exercising free thought!   It is entirely an attempt to stop any expression of support for anything but the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip.   Texas requires teachers to sign a pledge to Israel.  It is not being done by Jewish people, it is being done by evangelical Christians to get to their end time.    Hugs.