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Please Sign the NAACP Petition for Peace and for Justice

DONE!!!

My comment: “A nation of laws can’t survive regionally supported vigilantism – which in this case proves Florida officially legalizes stalking, racial targeting, and excuses those who kill when making unsubstantiated claims of “self defense”. Please do your part to help move us towards providing equal justice for all of us.”

» Posted By cyrano1 On July 17, 2013 @ 8:42 am

Gutless Shame in the American House of Lords

Murph: Thanks for saying what so many of us feel. And I would add my own feeling of complete powerlessness and utter sadness at that cowardice. How many of us got frantic emails telling us to contact our legislators in the end hours? And there was nothing we could do since so many of our own legislators are in the solid blue (sane) column? We were just left to watch the remaining shreds of that NRA bought-off watered down mess circle the drain and make its way into the sewer.

Not enough sense of community or obligation towards voting for the interests of constituents when considering the now enshrined (no thanks to Harry) 60 vote requirement.

» Posted By cyrano1 On April 18, 2013 @ 12:06 pm

Las Hermanas Mirabal – Las Mariposas

Sue in CA: Thanks for your fascinating article! The DR is so interesting, filled with a history and culture even crazier, more brutal, than ours on the US mainland.

Pulitzer prize winner Junot Diaz (a native of the DR) is one of my very favorite authors, and his powerful 2007 book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is one of my all time favorites and it’s stuck with me years later. It’s an absolute must-read.

He’s an activist on immigration reform and his most recent interview took place a few days ago with Colbert.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/424718/march-25-2013/junot-diaz

» Posted By cyrano1 On April 1, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

Weekend Music Thread – See You In the Movies

Death and Transfiguration – from “Hancock” by John Powell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHPUwgP7aY

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 23, 2013 @ 7:34 pm

and “Girl With a Pearl Earring” also by Desplat:

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 23, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

That’s one of my favorite Soundtracks and Alexandre Desplat is a great composer isn’t he? He also did “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. This is the first track in the album:

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 23, 2013 @ 7:11 pm

The Gun Debate: A Perspective

I hope “something” happens this time. I’m old, have been active on this issue for decades, and want to see a break-through before I die.

I agree with you completely about taking to the streets. It worked for us in getting civil rights legislation/getting out of Vietnam. Just hope enough of us care about gun violence here to do it again.

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 3, 2013 @ 9:17 am

Kalima: Great article! It’s always great being able to view ourselves from the lens of those who don’t live here, and we have easy access to international gun violence statistics which support the reality that lots of guns lying around result in the deaths of lots of people.

The jingoistic attitude of so many of us here is so frustrating! And input from those who live safer lives in other countries (meddling outsiders) is met with such outrage and hostility.

As you know, the NRA used incredible speed in reacting to Piers Morgan’s comparison of the UK and the US in gun violence rates, immediately creating a firestorm of anger from the NRA which resulted in their posting a petition on the White House “We the People” website. Purpose: Deport him! It garnered over 100,000 signatures before Obama finally responded – sadly having to respond to “stupid” simply for the purpose of shutting it down.

Our first amendment??? Reasoned arguments??? Absolutely not!!

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 2, 2013 @ 9:18 am

So true! But watching a few minutes of Fox “News” or eavesdropping on the flaming comments in their gun-rights blogs reminds us that their crowd mentality permits them free rein in collectively buying into their own dim-witted self-delusional “interpretations” in what our founding fathers intended – and fired up enough to threaten to take us all out when (not if) there’s a “showdown”. These people are nuts!

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 5:58 pm

“out reason” is a piece of cake when trying to talk to those who have “reason”. Not so sure about some of those GOP/NRA bought off legislators though. Some of them are firmly lodged in the loony category themselves, yes?

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 5:48 pm

Yep! We get everything in increments. It takes patience and persistence. 🙂

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

Well put! And those same idiots who are out there shrieking at their legislators about protecting their “freedoms” under the umbrella of the NRA and Ruger. We need to outshout, out reason, and outlast them.

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 5:42 pm

So sad, but so true. I’m so sorry! I suspect all of us have known people who have resorted to suicide by gun, (I know of several) but to have a close family member lost that way must be devastating!

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 5:37 pm

To my knowledge, the last real mass effort to enact sensible regulations to reduce the level of gun violence in this country was during the summer of 2000. I joined with so many others in the “Million Mom March”. Without support from the media, we failed to keep the momentum going.

Since that time, taking the average of 30,000 deaths due to gun violence per year, another 360,000 people have died due to gun related deaths. As you say, “Unknown. Faceless. Statistics.”

The “spectaculars” have again re-awakened us, and we’re again looking at our own entire shameful history as a gun-violent nation – and instead of the momentum dying, most of us now see the wind at our backs.

Main Street Media is finally, to a greater extent, doing its job by entering the debate and reporting developments instead of following the usual corporate decisions to bury it and sidetrack us with other “issues”. Even Fox keeps it alive by daily “informing” its audience that the whole gun control effort is a socialist plot hatched by the scary black guy who somehow got control of the oval office.

Our real battle will be in the Senate. Since public opinion in our entire country is now almost 100% in favor of reforms (universal background checks, finding the means to stop illegal sales/transfers, and keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable), those who live in the RED states need to get off their butts and demand reform. We can’t do it without a unified front and sustained pressure from everyone who cares.

We’ve recently watched the “Million Mom March” people merge with the “Brady Campaign” which is merging with the Mark Kelly/Gabby Giffords “Americans for Responsible Solutions” which merges with “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”, etc … Good signs for the unified front we will need to achieve federal level legislation.

Our long overdue civil rights legislation was brought about by our finally joining together behind Martin Luther King in a massive sustained movement. As a result we ended up with federal level civil rights/voting rights legislation which has continued to be built upon and made stronger.

» Posted By cyrano1 On February 1, 2013 @ 1:52 pm

REVIEW: Predictable and Repetitive, Has American Politics Jumped the Shark?

(And prevent them from doing re-runs.)

» Posted By cyrano1 On January 15, 2013 @ 5:00 pm

Thanks for fixing up my mess 🙂 Your idea for the tail is perfect!!

» Posted By cyrano1 On January 15, 2013 @ 4:57 pm

I haven’t been around here much lately, but wanted to post a “topical” graphic which seems to fit into your heading. If anyone has ideas to improve it (it’s pretty cluttered), feel free to advise. 🙂

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Boehner-in-platinum-small.jpg[/img]

» Posted By cyrano1 On January 15, 2013 @ 2:38 pm

EXCLUSIVE: New Video Clip From Romney Fundraiser!

Kalima: Thanks for the Tomasky link! His closing statement nailed it!

“When Romney is licking his wounds on Nov. 7, that party and movement will fire all its arrows at him. He’ll deserve a lot of them. But they will have buried him with the ignorance and rage they demanded he adopt. His chief crime will have been his weakness in failing to confront them.”

Romney’s DONE!! (isn’t he?)

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 18, 2012 @ 8:09 am

PlanetPOV’s Rogue’s Gallery #1 – Parody Artwork of Romney & Friends

Thanks AdLib for doing this! It’s really been a fun project, and thanks for including me in it. 🙂

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 11:56 pm

Wow!! Thanks! I downloaded it! It demands some careful attention to gather up all of the detail in it. 🙂 My son-in-law who’s a science buff and progressive dem (we all are) will go nuts over it!

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 11:48 pm

Oh my gosh! I just saw your periodic table and came unglued! Absolutely brilliant! I’ve downloaded it so I can spend some more time with it. There’s so much fabulous detail in it! Thanks so much!!

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 11:44 pm

AdLib: I can’t get KQuark’s graphic to open larger. Can you fix it?

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 11:19 pm

Totally agree they should for the sake of accuracy. Yet we all know the Fox/GOP way to project an image is by labeling everything the polar opposite of its reality – which makes me think of the Colbert Show’s brilliant over the top opening graphics using a soaring, screeching eagle to parody Fox. Absolutely spot on and hysterically funny!

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 10:59 pm

And while we’re busy getting Orly back to her “homeland”, let’s hold Rush to his promise he’d move to Costa Rica if the health care act passed. We just keep letting people off the hook, don’t we?

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 10:25 pm

Yay! Pre-programmed for consumer convenience!! What could possibly go wrong?!!

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 10:18 pm

Xactly 🙂

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 9:37 pm

Hah! That marriage between Apple and Target was obviously a shotgun wedding! As soon as the discount i-phones packaged under the Target brand have run their course, she’ll send him packing! 🙂

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 9:26 pm

Super! That shrew is actually a male shrew isn’t it?

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 9:08 pm

choicelady! Thanks for cluing us in about being able to expand the size of the birth certificate! How brilliantly funny, AdLib! Any skepticism one might have about the authenticity of photographed documents posted as proof on the web have been utterly demolished. You’ve finally delivered us irrefutable proof of Orly’s origins!

Next: Have we really solved the mystery of the Shroud of Turin?

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 8:58 pm

AdLib: Your “RoMunsters” are hysterical! And the rest of them made my day! I have another one I think will fit in here:

[img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FoxNewsLemmings.jpg[/img]

» Posted By cyrano1 On September 16, 2012 @ 5:30 pm