Showing posts with label states. Show all posts
Showing posts with label states. Show all posts

Eight of the Top Ten States with the Highest Murder Rates are Republican states... The GOP Crazy Gun Laws Cause Death!

Look at our state of California vs. states controlled by Republican governors. Take Texas and Florida as random examples. 
California, lower murder rates per capita than Texas and Florida. 
California, lower violent crime and property crime rate per capita than Texas and Florida. 
California, almost two-times lower gun death rate than Texas and Florida.
As Democrats, we watch these culture wars take shape on the right and we’re constantly on the defense, regardless of the facts.

It’s time to take it to the Republicans on this issue.
Because it is the laws and policies in states led by Republican governors that contribute to higher per capita violent crime and murder rates than states led by their Democratic counterparts.

Thank you,
Gavin Newsom
GOP Equals FAIL - Murder Rate Higher in Red States than Blue States

President Biden's Accomplishments So Far...
  1. Signed the Inflation Reduction Act 

  2. Improved health care for veterans 

  3. Signed the CHIPS and Science Act

  4. Took historic action to address the gun violence epidemic 

  5. Restored American leadership on the world stage

  6. Ended America’s longest war 

  7. Took action to address gender-based violence 

  8. Passed the American Rescue Plan 

  9. Biggest year of job growth in American history

  10. Took action to combat COVID-19

  11. Passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  12. Took action to combat the climate crisis and reduce emissions

  13. Expanded health care to millions of Americans

  14. Nominated and confirmed historic judicial nominees 

  15. Took big steps toward a future made in America

  16. Pardoned Marijuana Prisoners

Red State Murder Problem. They Have a 40% Higher Rate Than Blue States


The Red State Murder Problem... 

  • The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions.
  • In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
  •  8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.


Republican CAUGHT LYING AGAIN! Herschel Walker is a Classic TrumpNik® Totally ANTI-CHOICE Until It's HIS Girlfriend That Wants an Abortion... Then He'll GLADLY PAY for It!

I'm Looking Forward to the TrumpNiks® CIVIL WAR... The USA Will Win and We Will Arrest About 10,000 Traitors for Treason... Wonderful! We Have Already Locked UP 910 Insurrectionists for Failing to Overthrow the USA on January 6th... and More Arrests are Coming! 

#ArrestTrump - Contact the DOJ and Tell 'em to Enforce The Law! #LockHimUP - Here's the Link to Email the Department of Justice.

They Won't Outlaw Crime 
Unless You Tell 'em:
"DO YOUR JOB!"

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On FaceBorg SE Said: 
Are we becoming the movie Wall-E? I've never seen it, but I understand it depicts a future in which people have become obese and helpless as robots cater to their every whim. I feel like this is happening already. If someone never wants to leave their house, they no longer have to because we can now have everything delivered. It used to be that if you needed something or wanted something, you had to put in a certain amount of physical effort to go and get it. Even if what you wanted was food, it used to be that the only food you could get delivered was pizza. Now you can get EVERYTHING delivered. Combine this with the fact that many people now work from home, and we've already got a huge number of people who simply never leave the house. Maybe they don't even leave their bed. I understand that this is great for people who are disabled, but I'm not talking about disabled people. I'm talking about people who are perfectly capable of getting up and expending the minimal amount of energy required to go and get something rather than having that thing come to them. I know I've ranted on and on about how I'd rather go get stuff than have it delivered because I don't like to pay extra for unnecessary things, so I don't want to pay extra for delivery charges or fees when I'm perfectly capable of going and getting the thing myself and saving myself from having to pay those unneccesary extra fees. But it's not just about the money. I don't like just sitting around all the time. I like having a reason to go expend a little bit of energy here and there, even if it's just to go to the store or to go pick up food. I don't want to live a life where I just lay around and have everything done for me. If I can do it myself, why wouldn't I? If I don't get out of the house at least once a day, I feel like I'm going crazy. And when it comes to shopping, I like going and finding the thing I want to buy. I know it's all available online, but there is a certain satisfaction in finding it in the wild. Those of you who are around my age or older, you remember how much fun it used to be to shop for records...and if you were looking for a rare record, how thrilling it was to finally find it. That thrill is lost now that you can just click a mouse and have whatever you want delivered to your door. It's satisfying to put in a bit of effort to get something, plus it forces you to have to get up off your bed and actually move around, and that's something that benefits all of us. Movies are another thing that used to require a slight output of energy. If you wanted to see a movie, you had to physically go to a theater to see it. But now, most movies are available to stream at home, so it's another reason you don't have to expend even a modicum of energy.
There's a reason why people were thinner in past decades. The less energy we have to expend in our daily life, the larger we become.

and I Responded:
I have Care Givers that do All Tasks... They Shop for food, cook, serve and do the dishes. They Take out the trash, do laundry, and remind me to take my pills... We have Gardeners to Take care of the Outside of the House... Moving the lawn, trimming the rose bushes... I have a Guy that Invests my Money... another guy that pays my bills and a third guy that files my taxes... This lifestyle leaves me with ZERO Tasks... But I do get exercise by walking around the neighborhood... It's a Great Life... Totally Wall E...

Great Book: How to Change Your Mind: by Michael Pollan... What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence... and MY Personal Opinion about His Speech at a Bioneers Conference... He had a TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN MOST OF US HAD...

"A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences" - Official Review by the Publisher

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225

https://bioneers.org/michael-pollan-psychedelics-and-how-to-change-your-mind/

While listening to Psychedelic Researcher Michael Pollan talk at a Bioneers Conference, I Came to the Realization that I had NO IDEA AT ALL about what he was talking about... He recently studied using LSD and Psilocibin to relieve anxiety in People that were Facing Death. [Terminal Cancer Patients] He interviewed people and Took a couple of Trips Himself before writing his book... He took a large dose of Magic Mushrooms and listened to gentle music on headphones while wearing covers over his eyes... He had a "Guide" that took care of him... She helped him find the bathroom and changed the records on the record player but DID NOT do any of that Timothy Leary Style Talking, Guiding the Tripper thru the Tibetan Book of the Dead... or ANY Yadda-Yadda instructions... She was there to keep the Tripper Calm in case of Panic Attacks...  


And Then My Mind Sprouted Postcard for sale.
classic "Space Art" documenting a Vision Quest
He spoke of EGO DEATH... Where there was an experience of "Himself" dissolving and turning into a fountain of "Post It" Notes... and then HE dissolved into a Liquid and Flowed Over an Imaginary Landscape... His technique reminded me of the work of Dr. John Lilly and his Isolation Tank. The basis for the Movie "Altered States" with William Hurt and Blair Brown. In Lilly's Tank the Tripper Got inside a box that was half filled with warm salty water. No Sights - Completely Dark... No Sounds - Completely Silent... and No Gravity - Your Body was Floating in water that was heated to a temperature that was almost impossible to feel... OK, That's Completely Different... 

Then Michael spoke of Two Paths to Distributing The Psychedelic Experience to the World. One Way was Timothy Leary's Plan... to have as many people as possible take LSD using a Guide and Leary's Guidebook... The other Path was Aldous Huxley's Plan... to Turn On The Elite... To share LSD with Scientists, Artists, Business Leaders, Politicians, Religious Leaders, Writers, Poets, Musicians, TV Talking Heads and Let THOSE PEOPLE rebuild Society using the knowledge they had gained from their Psychedelic Experiences...

What Michael FAILED TO MENTION was what Actually Happened in the Late Sixties and Beyond... Millions of Doses were Sold at Rock Concerts and People Danced to Loud Live Music. For Example: Woodstock... Ken Kesey's Acid Tests... Magically, The Grateful Dead had LSD Salesmen that Followed the Band Around and Sold Drugs in the Parking Lot... Without the Band Knowing Anything At All About it! Supposedly... Some People who did not even LIKE the band would visit the Parking Lot Scene in order to "Score" some LSD that they could take home and sell to their friends... and... The Makers of "Orange Sunshine" gave away thousands of Doses at an outdoor concert where they hired an AIRPLANE to fly over the crowd and throw "Happy Birthday" Cards Out the Window... Each Card had an LSD Pill attached to it... The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was the Organization that made the Orange Sunshine. They were Laguna Beach Surfers that Started Smuggling Hashish inside of Surfboards from Mexico into the USA... Most LSD Trips were UNGUIDED and Most Happened at LOUD ROCK CONCERTS...  Of Course, a person could buy LSD and then Take it home to Trip in a wide variety of Locations... Like Camping in Big Sur or the Sierra Nevada... or Skiing at Tahoe... or at Home with Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend... or Inter-Tubing down a Creek... or Visiting an Art Gallery... or Riding a Roller Coaster at Disney World... or attending an Anti-War Protest March at The White House in Washington DC... 

So, I never took a Guided Trip and Never Had an Ego Death BUT... On the Nights I Dropped Acid at 8 PM... About Dawn I experienced "Enlightenment" or Something... I feel that Psychedelics are... What? A Tool? Like a Telephone that I can Call God on... Or Just An Amazing Amusement Park Ride? Now that I'm 65 Years Old, I find that Remembering Events in my life is not as Accurate or  Complete as it was a Decade ago... I just wrote my Autobiography and Published it on this Blog and... I Find that the Events I Did While High on Psychedelics are MORE EASILY REMEMBERED IN DETAIL while the rest of my life has faded and is kinda blurry... 

One Common Effect is that Everything Seems Significant... Meaning Drips from Every Leaf of Every Tree... Lyrics Seem to Be Speaking DIRECTLY To Me... as if... The Poet Saw Into My Soul... Have You Ever Read Haiku on Acid? POW, the Meaning just Hits Me in a Wave of AH HA! That Eureka!, I Have Found It! Moment... 

Whatever... 

I Have Noticed a Few Trends... People that have had the Psychedelic Experience are Nice People... In General they are Kind and Relaxed. Rarely do they CHOOSE Careers in Middle Management. In Business there are always  "Corporate-Corporate-Assholes" that LOVE Supervising People... Totally Drunk on Power... and Obsessed with Making Other People OBEY... Acid Heads tend to avoid "Power Trips"... Often selecting Craft type employment where they can do excellent work on their own projects... Carpenters, Computer Programmers, Seamstresses, Bakers, Farmers etc, etc, etc... 

We also tent to be interested in Playing Music, Doing ART and Writing Poetry/Lyrics... 

My Last Trip was in the Late 1990s at an anti-war protest march at the White House in Washington DC. George H W Bush the Father was President and The USA was Defending Kuwait from an Attack by Iraq... We Marched over near the Lincoln Memorial... The Parade Permit was set to Expire at 2 O'Clock... At that time, everyone that was standing in the street was arrested and everyone standing on the sidewalk was free to do whatever we wanted... SO, hundreds of people intentionally selected to be arrested... All of us were faced with a DECISION... Go to Jail to Make a Statement or NOT... There were Police Everywhere, dressed in Nazi Boots and Riot Helmets... I voluntarily Chose to NOT Get Arrested... and Wandered Away... I did get interviewed by TV News and the Next Day my Neighbor said she saw me "Making a Jackass of Myself" on the Evening News... I told her that if She Felt I was Making a Jackass of myself, I Must Have been doing Something Right... 


Ezekiel's Wheel - A Bible Story of a Close Encounter with an Alien Spaceship... drawn by gvan42 using winplot and paint dot net Gregory Vanderlaan
Ezekiel's Wheel - A Bible Story of a
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