Washington Post Story: Coca-Cola, Home Depot come out in opposition to Georgia voting restrictions
Demonstrators protest legislation that aims to restrict early voting hours, remove drop boxes and require use of a government-issued ID when voting by mail outside of the Georgia Capitol on March 8. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
“Civil liberties groups are ratcheting up pressure on major corporations based in Georgia — including Coca-Cola, Aflac, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot and UPS — to oppose a Republican-led effort to make it harder to vote in the Peach State,” according to the Washington Post.
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JUST SAYING:
BOYCOTTING JIM CROW STATES
Political activists need to emphasize that these Jim Crow voter suppression laws are nothing more than attempts to bury, with legalese, candy-coated white supremacy. Minorities should start patronizing corporations that recognize this and boycotting those who continue to fund a political party trying to take away any American’s right to vote. Interestingly, these Jim Crow laws set up a labyrinth of obstacles and confusion to get to the polls and cast ballots. All this is being done under the guise of fixing a problem that does not exist — voter fraud. It is insulting to the intelligence of millions of Americans who don’t subscribe to fear or bigotry stirred up by the GOP. It is an affront to those who served this country and many who died, especially minorities, so everyone can have a voice in our democracy. Americans need to support businesses like Coca-Cola and Home Depot. Minorities pack a powerful economic punch as consumers. Companies that continue to do business with the racist Republican Party, its leaders, and enablers will lose billions of dollars. States where GOP leaders and enablers pass these laws, will lose conventions, tourism, and jobs. Boycotts are powerful tools and work.
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.” — Desmond Tutu
Washington Post Editorial Opinion: If Virginia is going to legalize weed, it should do it right
A police officer walks in front of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond in February 2019. (Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post)“….Legislation has proved to be a heavier lift than many lawmakers or the governor were expecting. Much of Mr. Northam’s blueprint was ignored. Then Democrats in the state House and Senate, wrestling with a bill nearly 300 pages long, spent weeks wrangling over the timing and details during a 30-day legislative session.” — Editorial Opinion
They should legalize pot across the U.S. if for any other reason to make hip-cool-guy-dude, Bill Maher, STFU.
I agree with what most of HBO Maher says but his repeated cool-dude, wow-them, hipster celebration of, I smoke weed, gets old.
Mexico is legalizing marijuana, and here is my prediction, tourism is going to skyrocket in that country.
U.S. college kids are going to drive some cartels out of business.
The U.S. should legalize marijuana. Use some of the DEA and other law enforcement funds to pay down on the debt. Also tax marijuana to help decrease the deficit.
The drug has medicinal and even some social value.
But it also comes with a warning from the U.S. Surgeon General:
“Marijuana has changed over time. The marijuana available today is much stronger than in previous versions.”
Meaning, mom and dad’s pot isn’t the same as today’s weed.
Here are some of the warning about using the drug when your brain is still developing, youngsters, according to the Surgeon General:
-Changes in the areas of the brain involved in attention, memory, decision-making, and motivation.
-Deficits in attention and memory have been detected in marijuana-using teens even after a month of abstinence.
-Impaired learning in adolescents.
-Chronic use is linked to declines in IQ, school performance that jeopardizes professional and social achievements, and life satisfaction.
-Increased rates of school absence and drop-out, as well as suicide attempts.
I understand alcohol is worse in many respects. People should know that there are risks involved in drinking alcohol or smoking weed.
I agree with Maher that during COVID-19 the medical experts have not emphasized how important diet and exercise are in maintaining a strong immune system and good health in general.
Not a word from Dr. Faci and other medical experts about the need to keep weight under control and the importance of exercising.
Why?
I believe the “facts and truth and science” PC crowd would scream that this is fat shaming. We shouldn’t fat shame people, just let them keep grazing out of control and sometimes, watching their health deteriorate.
This is a fact. There are too many fat people in America, according to the CDC’s “Facts about Obesity.”
From 1999–2000 through 2017–2018, the prevalence of obesity increased from 30.5% to 42.4%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.
If you need proof, go to any buffet line in Vegas. Watch people load up on food as though they were loading up for Charmin at the grocery store at the beginning of the pandemic.
No, not every victim of this deadly virus was overweight and in poor health or both.
There should be classes in elementary and high school about nutrition and exercise. Also after they legalize pot, people, especially young people, should be told about what marijuana does to the brain.
Some facts about the brain, according to Northwestern University:
It’s a myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. You actually use all of it. (Yes, even when you are sleeping.) Neurologists confirm that your brain is always active.
The human brain weighs 3 pounds. (That’s about as much as a half-gallon of milk.) However, size does not always imply intelligence. Men tend to have larger brains than women.
Washington Post Opinion: Campus speech rules are hurting students. They deserve recompense — even if it’s just $1.
The Supreme Court building in Washington in November 2020. (Hannah Mckay/Reuters)
“Until Chike Uzuegbunam sued Georgia Gwinnett College, this public institution had performed the public service of instituting a speech code so restrictive that it exposed the entire idea of such codes to wholesome ridicule. When the college pivoted 180 degrees, embracing free speech, Uzuegbunam did not drop his suit,” Mr. Will wrote.
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IN THE LAND OF THE EASILY OFFENDED
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
The Supreme Court’s 8-to-1 decision blows the hinges off the Georgia’s Gwinnett College’s politically correct, campus straight jacket that forbids free speech, including proselytizing, unless a person is standing on a square, the size of a postage stamp on its 260-acre campus. Then, the campus-fine-print kicks in: “only if you reserve a spot and your speech does not disturb anyone’s ‘comfort.’ WTF. Mr. Uzuegbunam’s lawsuit and the nation’s highest court’s 8-1 decision packed a powerful punch, underscoring the fact that we live a freedom-loving country not in The Land of the Easily Offended where “comfort” zones are created to shelter sensitive ears and sensibilities. The easily butt-hurt, in other words. This First Amendment win is also needed at a time Americans are calling for transparency and accountability in government. The ruling forces the extreme left-wing, educated university fools who make up these ridiculous rules to come to terms that they live in a nation where free speech in America knows very limited restrictions. Limits that are about the size of the patch of ground where Mr. Uzuegbunam was forced to stand to preach about the teaching of a meek and mild-mannered man who lived more than 2,000 years ago. The icing on this First Amendment cake, if that the plaintiff, Mr. Uzuegbunam was only asking for $1 as damages.
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Iowa Journalist Who Was Arrested at Protest Is Found Not Guilty
In a rare case, Andrea Sahouri, a Des Moines Register reporter, was prosecuted after covering a protest against racism and police violence in May.
Andrea Sahouri being arrested on May 31 while covering a Black Lives Matter protest for The Des Moines Register.Credit…Andrea Sahouri
JUST SAYING:
By Raul Hernandez
Andrea Sahouri, a Des Moines Register reporter, was prosecuted after covering a protest against racism and police violence in May. She should sue the city. They violated her First Amendment right. But she shouldn’t take her boyfriend to work while she is covering a protest. That is unprofessional for a reporter to do so, and it complicates things.
Working as a reporter with the Ventura County Star, I recall going to cover a homicide that had taken place that morning. A dead body lay in an alley in Oxnard, California.
The Oxnard PD had the entrances to the block-long alley blocked off with yellow, crime-scene tape. The photographer Hyde couldn’t get really good shots of the detectives around the covered body. He needed something closer.
I told Hyde, who was posted at the end of the alley with his camera, to wait there.
I talked to a renter of the house right in front of the alley portion where the detectives and the body were located.
The renter only spoke Spanish.
I got his permission to go into his yard after some reassurances that he would not get in trouble.
Hyde and I went quietly into the yard. We would hear some of the detectives talking. I told Hyde that I’d open the wooden door leading to the alley, and as soon as he could do so to start shooting photos. I slowly opened the door, and Hyde fired away.
A detective yelled, “Hey!”
Two cops came over and said that we were “f*cking up” their crime scene.
I protested, “We got permission from the owner of the property to be here. I don’t see any yellow plastic here.”
“Well, this whole f**king block is now a crime scene,” the detective said. “Leave, now.”
We left, and Hyde ended up getting some good shots. But the best shot Hyde got was when we were at the end of the alley. He had a long lens.
As we watched, a middle-aged lady opened her door leading to the alley. She had a garbage bag. She went to a nearby Dumpster, lifted the lid to throw the trash inside the container.
In the background, a detective stood nearby examining the remains.
Hyde and I couldn’t believe our eyes. “Take it, take it, take it,” I told Hyde.
It turned out that it was a prison-gang hit. The victim was stabbed multiple times.
This photo was the best crime-scene photo I ever saw. Hyde was a fantastic newspaper photographer also.
It turned out that it was a prison-gang hit.
The whole incident (embellished and using fictional characters) became part of the crime novel I wrote, “Stepping on the Devil’s Tail.”
The Oxnard PD had the entrances to the block-long alley blocked off with yellow, crime-scene tape. The photographer Hyde couldn’t get really good shots of the detectives around the covered body. He needed something closer.