I hope the lessons learned will not be forgotten.

Who started the exploitation? Local retailers. Family businesses exploiting their neighbors. Why were they torched in Watts? Having lived there, I cheered when I learned about it. Even went to visit the old neighborhood in 1975 to see that the store fronts were still boarded up. When we moved to Florida in 1977, it was the same story in the slum neighborhoods. Local grocers were charging outrageous prices for marginal goods. Today, the “convenience” stores accessible to poor people (forty percent of our school children exist below the poverty line) charge four times as much for pasta noodles than they cost in the chain store markets. Impoverished populations are not created overnight. The vulture capitalists are just cleaning up after the cannibals.

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The people in the White House are both enablers and destroyers. They are not protecting Trump from his mistakes. For shame.
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Idealism morphed into wishful thinking and that morphed into advertising.
It is a pattern that differs little from wise men during the Middle Ages counting how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Human brains have a tendency to get full of themselves and ignore reality. In the 21st Century the abstraction is called “the economy,” which has little to do with reality. About as much as that pin.

Why everyone should be wearing a mask in publc according to an ethicist.
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9)Try to avoid getting the common flu as this already weakens your system and try to avoid eating and drinking any cold things.
10) If you feel any discomfort in your throat or a sore throat coming on, attack it immediately by gargling with warm salt, vinegar or lemon water. The virus enters the system through the throat but will sit in the throat for 3-4 days before it passes into your lungs. Drink warm water to flush it into your stomach.
In addition …
Experts suggest doing this simple verification every morning: Breathe in deeply and hold your breath for 10 seconds. If this can be done without coughing, without difficulty, this shows that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, indicating the absence of infection. It is recommended to do this control every morning to help detect infection.

For some time, I have been trying to promote the idea that if Democrats want to communicate with our audio-dependent friends, we have talk to them. Which is probably why an ad for a new radio “station” showed up in my Facebook Feed. It is a very pretty ad for “Up2Me” and is completely empty of information. That is, it does not even hint where the station is to be found, nor what it is about.
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Primitives are primates whose predatory instincts predominate. They survive in the genome because social support allows them to thrive. In a sense, we keep them as pets to lavish with care. We give; they take. It’s mutually beneficial, until it gets out of hand.

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