1 million killed in the USA by the 2nd amendment

Since 1980 1 million people have been killed by guns in America.  Every one of those killers was using his 2nd amendment rights to the fullest extent of the law, to have and to hold.  The 2nd amendment profited every gun dealer.  1 million died for the 2nd amendment's sins.  20 million injured but just wouldn't die for your sins.

1 million failures of the NRA to protect, 1 million failures of the militia to defend.  Both are utter failures, a hoax, and forever will be.

Happiness is a warm gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
When I hold you in my arms (Oo-oo oh yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (Oo-oo oh yeah)
I know no one can do me no harm (Oo-oo oh yeah)
Because happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Well, don't you know happiness is a warm gun, mama? (Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)
Beatles

GM gets it.

Last week in San Francisco General Motors signed the "Climate Declaration".  The first automaker to do so, there are about 30 large companies signed up so far.  The declaration calls on policymakers to move quickly on climate change by promoting clean energy, efficiency, and limiting carbon emissions.  GM executives say they have reduced waste in all operations, energy use, and added solar panels to many of their roofs, and much more is to come.  It's making them more competitive.  Everything going to the land fill was money down the drain.

junk science, all you can eat

Carbon emissions are changing the thermodynamics and chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans.  Not one scientific body in the world believes otherwise.  None.   To believe science is wrong on this is insane, when tens of thousands from different fields and universities, from different countries demonstrate it's true.  To believe this divergent group could mislead, conduct faulty work on a massive scale, and hide for years their confederacy in a hoax, it is beyond any possibility, it defies logic, probability, and reason.

if your brain had a mind of it's own

If only we could cut all the forests and catch all the edible fish, and sell it, think of all the money we could put in the bank for future generations.

Believe in global warming as a republican? Feel all alone?

Actually you can be my friend, on selective subjects at least.  I have been working this week with a red neck racist republican land owner feeding him drip by drip info on wind energy, wind speed maps of his area, etc.  He owns land a few miles from a wind farm, and it never sunk in this hippie idea might make him money someday if they expand the farm in his direction.  So, as I explain things....he is inching towards being riled up that some in the legislature keep working to restrict wind development in the state, and as I sold to him, restrict ways he can make money.  I predict I will have him writing letters soon, he is not bashful and knows a butt load of politicians.   Never talked about clean air, or polar bears, instead we talked about why should a farmer be told by some dickhead in Topeka coal companies can make money off electricity, but he can't.

Republicans can be brought in from the cold, on some issues, sometimes, maybe, with luck, if your careful.  They poll believing in global warming at 51%, jumped up from 33% 2 yr ago.  The pollsters concluded Repubs are seeing through the years of non-stop bullshit adds by dirty energy just as they did decades ago on tobacco.  The earths global temperature (not your damn towns today, but the whole globe) is increasing, in the last 15 years 13 have been the hottest ever recorded.  Carbon emissions are changing the thermodynamics and chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, it's not disputed, no scientific body in the world disputes this.

GOP just another brick in the wall

I saw some information about various ethnic groups voting.  Turns out Arizona and Georgia (under current trends of which party we vote for) will turn blue in a very few years, Texas by mid the 30's.  If the democrats can get latinos to vote in these states at the same high rate as they do in California then Texas could be in play in only a few years, really soon.  Gerrymandering is going to be more and more difficult for the GOP.  (And before you jump to conclusions, these numbers are on the growth of legally eligible voters, so don't veer off on the illegals or voter fraud bullshit, this is citizens coming of age and voting.)

Another interesting thing, white people vary on how many vote democrat region to region.  Blacks, hispanics, asians, almost no variation from state to state city to city, they know who the racists are and rarely vote for that elephant in the room.

The things the GOP are doing now with immigration, health care, attack on civil rights, gun control (minorities are for gun control by hugh margin, they been taking the hit), jobs and the constant racist remarks by politicians is ensuring they cannot pull enough hispanics over to prevent their own near term decline.  I think they may be able to win a couple more elections with the backlash of rich and redneck and religious whites, but the end is near, 10 years, some of these old white senators won't live to see it, and their passing will speed it.  I hate what they are doing, but I also see it as a rock on the gas pedal, brick wall ahead, yank it Fox, yank it out of park, lets see it go.

350 hours of tin ear work

Just returned from a visit with the son and his wife in Memphis.  I returned with the job to store the daughter-in-laws  350+ CD's.    Most are classical, a few jazz.  They are moving east and expect the new big city abode will be the size of a sardine can, so they are downsizing, and transferred hundreds of CD's to MP4.  The catch, or the joke assignment given, I have to catalog, listen to, and comment on every single CD.
I love classical music, so this is going to be fun.  I have about 16 months to do it, and I doubt I will do all of them in that time.

Dmitri Shostakovich, at age 11 the Russian revolutions began, he spent his whole life as a composer trying to find ways to compose what he wanted under the choke of the USSR's secret police and art sensor which sent many an intellectual to the gulags.  I have a great story about Dmitri and a mistress, I will relay it one day when I encounter his work, for those with an erotic appetite.  The picture during his mid 20's looks like me at mid 20's, later ones not.

I love to set at the end of the day in the dark or soft light and listen to a few minutes of music before bed.  Very relaxing.