One After the Other After the Other

 

Nesting dolls of rights being stripped away by right-wing ideologues, three of whom lied to the Senate about their position on Roe v. Wade in order to win confirmation: the largest represents today's overturning of Roe v. Wade; the next one could be Griswold v. Connecticut, which considered the right to use contraception; next, Obergefell v. Hodges, which says that same sex couples have a right to be legally married; then Lawrence v. Texas, which said that people have a right to privacy when it comes to how they have sex with each other. The next might be Loving v. Virginia, which gave interracial couples the right to marry, but Clarence Thomas is married to a white woman, Ginni Thomas, who had a very large role to play in the pathetic but dangerous attempt to overturn the lawful election of President Joe Biden, so he'll probably want to leave that one alone. 

That leaves our tiniest lady, whose face says it all: OMG, what is next?

P.S. On Monday, the regularly scheduled posts of flowers and birds will resume...

A Hope for Peace

 

For Ukraine...

Yes Indeed

 

Werd.

Exhale

 

I really do try to keep "politics" out of this blog--for the 7 or so of you who read it, LOL--but today was just too momentous not to remark upon. Today was important and special for so many reasons: it was historic (Madam Vice-President, hurrah!), sincere, meaningful, and just...freeing. It felt as if we could all finally exhale. 

So so much damage has been done, and Joe and Kamala have a steep path ahead of them, but still: we can breathe again. Here's to making "politics" boring again--it will be nice to think that those in our government are just there, working, going about their business and doing their jobs and trying to improve the lot of ALL Americans. 

"With liberty and justice for all." 

"This land is my land, this land is your land." 

"...

We will rebuild, reconcile and recover

and every known nook of our nation and

every corner called our country,

our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,

battered and beautiful

When day comes we step out of the shade,

aflame and unafraid

The new dawn blooms as we free it

For there is always light,

if only we're brave enough to see it

If only we're brave enough to be it."

--Amanda Gorman

United States Youth Poet Laureate

P.S. PLEASE go watch the video of this amazing young woman reading her poem. 

Sign o' the Times

 

I bet there's a smile under that mask! (There is one under mine...)

And Again

 

Another glorious end to the day. 

(Still saddened, appalled, and angry--but that gavel at 3:45 a.m. last night did improve my mood.)

A Bad Day

 And so the sun sets (a beautiful one, BTW) on one of the worst days in modern U.S. history. I am appalled, saddened, and ANGRY. 

OMG

Today in faces. I experienced all of these. Somebody PLEASE make it stop!!!

 

Uh Huh

This is how I feel every morning when I check the news...how much more stupid and horrible can it get? IDIOTGATE!!!!!

Bozo Driving

 Oh, there is a metaphor here...