Monthly Archives: August 2020
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When she filed the suit against the National Rifle Association, New York Attorney General Letitia James was quite clear that, regardless what anyone might claim, the suit she filed dealt with allegations of rampant misuse of funds by senior leadership of the non-profit.
A.G. James accused four executives, including CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, of using donations for NRA charities for exorbitant personal purposes and the NRA’s funds as a “personal piggy bank”, diverting millions of dollars away from its charitable mission for personal use instead, like trips to the Bahamas, private jet travel, expensive meals, and luxury hunting safaris in Africa.
The NRA claims the accusations are “baseless” and violate its free speech rights.
This conveniently attempts to distract people’s attention away from the executives’ taking money people donated in good faith for causes they believe in, but the money went to executive perks.
It is not what they said politically, but the money they took illegally and their betraying the people who trusted them to be truthful and act accordingly, and who had assumed they had
Now the NRA just has to get the people whose money they stole to defend the four executives against nonexistent charges.
The NRA was originally founded to teach gun safety and marksmanship, but has morphed into one that seems to promote profits for gun manufactures often by pushing panicky people into buying even more guns, and ensuring they can by lobbying to block legislation aimed at remedying the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
The angrier their speeches, the scarier a world they describe, the more they warn of the non-existent threat that “those people” are either coming to take their guns or are ready to attack like some apocalyptic end times movie, the more gun manufactures make from arms sales, the greater the NRA coffers’ content becomes, and the more fun money is available for trips to the Bahamas, private jet travel, expensive meals, and luxury hunting safaris in Africa.
Because adult
The other day, jumping in and out of my car to get some errands done, I had to keep on removing and replacing my face mask as I see no need to wear it in the car when I am alone, but see the importance of wearing it when in public. As I entered the last store on my list, seeing everyone wearing one, I realized, as did another customer who discretely tapped her own mask as she looked at me, I had forgotten my mask, so I ran back to the car to get it.
Not bragging, but I think that was an adult response to a discovered error.
Of course I have had experiences where the same scenario involving other people ended in a rather loud discussion of rights, America, God, and the Second Amendment.
Although I live in Massachusetts, assumed by many to have a 100% woke citizenry, there are still pockets of conservatism that subtly tend toward the cartoonish behavior we see at far right gatherings that proclaim the country belongs to the superior race as they stand heavily armed facing unarmed spectators or passers-by who are, obviously, the lesser, but with most in better physical shape. In my area where during the post World War II years people moved from the two major, but dying, manufacturing cities to the suburbs without, of course, realizing that because of Red-Lining, “Those” people had to remain not because they could not afford to move, but weren’t allowed to, I am sure that a chill went through many spines when Trump had implied that Frederick Douglass was not only alive, but on the move again, especially since he had lived in one of the two cities these people only knew anything about from far right media.
So I was more disappointed that I had to encounter a local anti-masker than surprised that there had to be one around somewhere, when entering a store one day recently the unmasked customer in front of me was reminded he needed to be wearing a mask, there was a big sign on the door he had just opened, and, although he may have left without yelling, as he passed by those of us waiting to get around him so we could get in he freely expressed his opposition to this assault on his patriotism while not wearing a mask to each of us wearing masks.
Unlike the many videos we have seen, or times we have witnessed, adults protesting masks and refusing to wear them for God, Guns, and Country, children will understand and comply with the new school requirement of wearing masks, and will never forgetfully, having removed it just for a minute, run off without it because something all sparkly caught their attention.
While adults gather at house parties, bars, pools, beaches, vacation resorts, in tight quarters where touching is unavoidable and masks do not exist, children will, of course, avoid touching each other, getting too close in groups, sharing things like soda, food, and, in the lower grades, gum, running around at recess with sweat, spit, touching, coughing, and sneezing in a somewhat controlled chaotic situation where masks can be easily removed accidentally or on purpose.
While adults at the aforementioned venues shared drinks either straight from the glass or bottle, or through a shared straw, we know that children won’t share chewed on pencils and other objects generally slobbered on.
And, unlike the unmasked adults, many claiming an assault on various rights, religion, guns, and God, children will willingly put on a mask and will not remove it, and no teacher will have to face a situation where a student, or group of students, refuses to wear a mask, expressing themselves with a great degree of angry drama, perhaps parroting why a mask should not be mandatory that they heard at home or read on the internet.
But, let’s just cram kids in crowded areas, have the teachers deal with it, and, depending when all this ends, if the plan teachers had no say in succeeds, those who designed it will soak in the praise; if it fails, we can blame the teachers who let us down.
For any kids lost, thoughts and prayers.
IKR?
Trump told people in his Ohio audience this week that if Joe Biden wins, he is
“going to do things that nobody ever, would ever think even possible because he’s following the radical left agenda. Take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything. Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against energy. Our kind of energy. I don’t think he’s going to do too well in Ohio. If he did, we’d have a big story. He’s not going to do well.”
consoler in chief
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another covid cure
Years ago, looking for a part time job to supplement my teacher salary, I took job at a nearby Sears to demonstrate microwave ovens during the build up to Christmas. Microwave ovens were still rather new then and still the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, but Sears had just changed its design from the timing knob to the push button panel, and decided that year they would corner the microwave oven market.
I really knew nothing about microwave ovens, so I was sent to Microwave College where those of us hired for the gig in all the area stores learned the secrets of microwave ovens, the history, the length, width, and duration of a microwave (4 inches, about as many seconds, the width of a pencil), and how to cook various items. They discouraged popcorn for in-store demonstrations because you can do so much more than pop corn and the company wanted people to see that, and, of course, buy the most expensive oven that did the most stuff yet would still end up using it mostly to reheat food and make popcorn.
After training I found that most of the people walking by or stopping to have a look at my microwave oven demonstrations were old enough to remember the strategically placed popcorn counter near certain Sears store entrances that set a cozy subliminal atmosphere that made the customers feel welcomed and comfortable enough to make buying easier. So breaking the strongly suggested no pop corn almost rule, I would pop some corn, and as the customers, attracted by the aroma, found their way to where I was, I would hand out free popcorn to the crowd so long as they watched a demonstration with more serious food like meat and that squash I forgot to poke fork holes in so it exploded in the oven, giving me the opening to explain some precautions.
Although my department manager wasn’t initially happy with my popcorn lure, especially since anytime the store started to smell like popcorn, people would leave the commission sales departments to smell me out without any assurance they would return to them to spend money so salespeople got the commission, and because of that no popcorn thing, he changed his tune when close to Christmas he was given an award from the corporate for having the highest percentage of increased microwave oven sales in the Northeast region to date.
Along with cooking, there were other aspects of the microwave oven that I would present to the customers, and the one that got the best reactions was its ability to kill germs.
Because the microwaves cause water molecules in an object to vibrate, heat is produced through molecular friction, a process that, upon reaching a certain temperature, kills some germs, but not all.
Standard home microwaves can kill some types of viruses and bacteria within from sixty seconds to five minutes. In Microwave College, we were told to run leftovers in sealed containers in the oven for about eleven seconds before freezing or refrigerating for a longer shelf life.
So, even as microwave ovens are effective in killing some germs, and this means mainly bacteria that have been found to develop an immunity over time, it does not mean they are effective in all cases.
And as far as purifying small living objects by placing them inside:
That squash I mentioned was the type that had pronounced ridges. Like anything with a skin, like hot dogs and fried eggs, or a fleshy rind, like a squash, its skin should have been pierced with a fork to let built up steam out. My error became obvious when this ridged squash took on the look of a football, giving the customers and myself time to take cover. Thankfully, the oven door design prevented it from flying open.
And who doesn’t recall that poor French poodle allegedly blown up in a microwave oven after a simple bath. That story circulated so virally, that that poor dog blew up more times than Gilligan’s Bob Denver has passed away on Facebook.
Someday Trump might discover this bit of information, and the administration’s most successful approach to COVID 19, will become even more successfuller.