Wednesday Reads: Grace and Helens
Posted: May 20, 2020 | Author: Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because, morning reads |9 CommentsMy Mama always loved these flaming azaleas…to see them in bloom makes me miss her.
Today, let’s look at a few memories and birthdays from this week.
First, this powerhouse of a woman… who turned 72 yesterday. (The same age that my Ma would have been this year.)
View this post on InstagramHAPPY BIRTHDAY #GRACEJONES! You are everything and then some and then some 🍰 .
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What an icon!
Another birthday? Of course…
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A couple of days ago, it was the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. So here are several items about that.
Read the description of this picture below:
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Same picture but better image…
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Geez…right?
On this next one, look at both pictures:
View this post on Instagram40 years ago today. Mt. St. Helens eruption as seen from Mt. Adam's. Incredible.
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Image of Mt. St. Helens present day:
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Now some odd tweets and stuff…
This sign is disgusting:
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I see a lot of people mad about these pictures. Let's capture the photos.
1. All White people
2. Equated Black people to dogs
3. This was not a mistake
4. Black people were 3/5th of a human being
5. The confidence in posture
6. They think Black people should be in cages in 2020 pic.twitter.com/ptKvB5exB1— 👑 Black Professor 👑 (@WonderKing82) May 19, 2020
This sign is the reason I made my Black 2nd grade students address each other as Prince & Princess. Classroom of 22 Black students, my duty was to ingrain this into their mindset to prepare them to deal with this type of ignorance from white people. They're royalty not animals. pic.twitter.com/T1WR0A4ea0
— 👑 Black Professor 👑 (@WonderKing82) May 19, 2020
The image this woman chose to illustrate her oppression is Anastácia, an enslaved African in 1700s Brazil. Her mistress ordered that iron spike torture device put to deform her face and squeeze her neck out of rage and jealousy that her husband wouldn't stop raping Anastácia. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/6FZTpuXi2O
— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) May 19, 2020
Be sure to read the rest of that thread…That is all I wanted to post about that.
Tell us again how trump love the military. “The Trump administration’s order ends deployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify for education and retirement benefits.” They risked their lives. Disgraceful
— American Veteran (@amvetsupport) May 19, 2020
What a man. Thank you, Dr. Mahoney. https://t.co/Wc6NJckmxa
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 19, 2020
Y’all may have seen this one:
Infection…Inaction…Deflection… #Distraction! 🎶
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— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) May 19, 2020
Tell me I am reading this wrong…
A company sitting on $2bn in cash,
Doing more business than ever,
Is asking employees to return some of the extra pay they received? https://t.co/lzGKxM3nIo— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) May 19, 2020
No, it’s not the onion…
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After images of a letter from @Kroger telling an employee to return an overpayment of emergency funds went viral, the grocery store chain backed off the policy, calling it an “error” that only affected a small number of workers:https://t.co/VujAuPK817
— TruthOrFiction.com (@erumors) May 19, 2020
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How about this genius. https://t.co/RPgCr0pewz
— Chris Barron (@thechrisbarron) May 19, 2020
Important: @SecPompeo would only give written answers to questions from State Department IG in his investigation into fast-tracking of Saudi arms sales. Shows Pompeo knew of probe and raises Q of whether it was linked to IG firing.@ewong and @SangerNYT:https://t.co/nM8YHETni0
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 20, 2020
Cyclone Amphan hits India and Bangladesh with winds over 100 mph as millions are evacuated. https://t.co/XzvbsxulTG
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 20, 2020
Since his impeachment acquittal by the Senate, President Trump has removed four inspectors general. Until congressional leaders respond with something stronger than finger-wagging, this abuse of presidential power won't stop. https://t.co/2NWwQvMnNq
— Boston Globe Opinion (@GlobeOpinion) May 20, 2020
And ending it all with a message from the one and only, Samuel L Jackson:
View this post on Instagram🗣A reminder 🗣 RG @samuelljackson
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Stay the fuck home…and be the fuck safe.
If you have a chance, listen to this band out of Austin:
Here is their channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDsZrz6ihdlxUDeUei4g6w
I think they should have won the Grammy for new artists.
I had to fix those links.
This:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/20/jane-roe-abortion-arwa-mahdawi
“Ah yes, I remember reading that in the Bible: thou shalt pay others to cravenly lie.”
They are such hypocrites.
More people might vote. Stop them!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-threatens-funding-for-michigan-nevada-over-absentee-mail-in-voting-plans/2020/05/20/2f86d078-9aa2-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html
Interesting group of items you have there. I was going to college in Washington during the eruption. That morning was a beautiful sunny day, one of those days that only occurs in late spring and summer in that area. I woke up early to go to the swap meet and a little later the sky darkened, but I didn’t think much about it. I was working myself through school as a bartender and was the morning opener on that Saturday. My first customers were full of what ended up being ash- they were geologists who just tore away from the mountain. They asked me to turn the tv on and then used our pay phone to make multiple calls. The next eruption was exactly a week later- I drove down to visit friends and family in Cali, but they closed 5 as I came close to the mountain and I ended up taking hwy 1 all the way down. During the second eruption, the ashfall blew to the west (the first was to the east) and it was raining. This made an impenetrable ooze on the windshield. My old bug had no sprayers, so I prayed for a truck to come by and splash water on me everytime my visibility was impaired. It worked. My dog refused to get out and go potty in the mire- it freaked him out. The weather was lousy that whole summer.
Its a horrible poster of Anastaćia, but I think it might be a doctored meme. I wondered about the out of focus fingers on the first one. The second has exactly the same paper wrinkles as the first.