A lot of rainbows?
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Stating the glaringly obvious, of course: masks. Even outdoors in fresh air.
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Richmond
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White men need not apply.
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It stated that Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks in the summer but did not provide specific details about his treatment or condition.
According to the document, Card also reported hearing voices and had threatened to carry out a shooting at the Saco National Guard Base.
“Treatment” apparently didn’t work, in spite of Maine being one of the top spenders for mental “health”:
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The statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia in the U.S., erected in 1917, listed in 1997 in the National Register of Historic Places, and removed in July 2021, was melted down at an “undisclosed foundry” on 2023-10-21. The Charlottesville Daily Progress reports in “Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee melted”:
Three large photos of the statue being melted at an undisclosed foundry were placed next to the bronze ingot at Thursday’s press conference. Douglas would not say what foundry ultimately melted Lee down. A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by The Daily Progress earlier this year discovered the statue was being stored at a foundry in Nashville, Tennessee. When that foundry was contacted, workers denied it was there.
History dies in secret. The Washington Post, whose motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness”, published an article on 2023-10-26 from “SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH” originally titled “Inside the secretive melting of Civil War Robert E. Lee Confederate monument” and now retitled “Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace” liberated from their Paywall of Darkness courtesy of Archive.is. The article discusses the melting of the statue in the undisclosed foundry, illustrated by pictures and videos, the latter of which did not survive liberation.
“Well, they can’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again,” said Andrea Douglas, the museum’s executive director, as she watched pieces of oxidized metal descend into the furnace. “There will be no tape for that.”
“No cannons,” added Jalane Schmidt, a University of Virginia religious-studies professor standing beside her.
Swords Into Plowshares, a project led by the two women, will turn bronze ingots made from molten Lee into a new piece of public artwork to be displayed in Charlottesville. They made arrangements for Lee to be melted down while they started collecting ideas from city residents for that new sculpture.
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After the museum received the statue from the city but before it reached the foundry, Lee was cut down into nine pieces — although museum leaders declined to say where or when. The general’s head was removed from his body and his horse, Traveller, but it needed to be broken down further to fit into the small furnace here.
With a flash of bluish white light and orange sparks, a trio of foundry workers carved seven long gashes into Lee’s severed head.
“It’s a better sculpture right now than it’s ever been,” one of the metal-casters said. “We’re taking away what it meant for some people and transforming it.”
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Finding a foundry to take on a project like this one was hardly an easy task. Plenty of people said no. But the owner of this foundry, a Black man, said he didn’t feel like he had a choice.
“The risk is being targeted by people of hate, having my business damaged, having threats to family and friends,” he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety. Yet, “when you are approached with such an honor, especially to destroy hate, you have to do it.”
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“This metal has a lot of bad juju stuck in it,” the foundry owner said, studying the lumpy bronze. “It’s cursed.”
The savages dance around the embers of what they have destroyed.
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A lot of hearing aids now have bluetooth.
Accidental pairing?
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Maybe 40+ years ago I made my first visit to Gettysburg. Initially, I was puzzled as to why there were many memorials to soldiers who died in the cause of the Confederacy. After some thought, I realized the importance - for domestic tranquility in ensuing years - of recognizing the forbearers of my own countrymen who died on both sides, fighting for governing principles in which they believed. Of course, the South was wrong to the extent it wanted to preserve slavery. When it came to the power of the federal government, however, many today might see things differently.
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Manna told employees what to do simply by talking to them. Employees each put on a headset when they punched in. Manna had a voice synthesizer, and with its synthesized voice Manna told everyone exactly what to do through their headsets. Constantly. Manna micro-managed minimum wage employees to create perfect performance.
Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a pivotal moment in human history.
from Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 | MarshallBrain.com
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That’s a very interesting read, Thanks! I’m up to chapter 6, so perhaps I haven’t gotten to the soylent green chapter yet, or the hidden horror of equality through robotics
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Gold in various currencies:
China
Japan
India
Argentina
Here is gold priced in Bitcoin, courtesy of xe.com:
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If you didn’t know better, you might think a war is coming…
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Where’s Rich Little when you need him:
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The Midwesterner reports “Pro-Hamas protesters beat Black Hebrew Israelites with Palestinian flags — in Chicago”.
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In Chicago, I’d be more likely to suspect they were Gangster Disciples or other FOLKS-affiliated gang members than real Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Who is “Dr. Thema”?
“Dr.” in screen name
Pronouns in biography
President of American Psychological Association
Supports murderous savages
“benefit society & improve lives”
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