John Oliver: Torture

John gives us another reason to vote for Bernie, or Hilary, but caution, you may not want to look at Hummus for a good long while to come:


6.16.2015 Good News:

Senator Udall Statement on Senate’s Vote to Prohibit Torture
Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan 78-21 vote to reaffirm the ban on waterboarding and other inhumane interrogation techniques. The amendment now moves forward as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
“Torture is a stain on our nation’s all too recent history. As the comprehensive investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed, the CIA’s post-9/11 'enhanced interrogation' techniques were not just brutal and inhumane — but also ineffective. This amendment reaffirms the torture ban and ensures that we never again compromise our core values and resort to such methods. Americans should never torture in the name of security, no matter who is in the White House.”

My Colorful 'hood


Rail Runner train departing for Albuquerque
viewed through Currents Installation in back of El Museo Cultural


Our Annual Currents Modern Media Arts Installation
will have it's grand opening at El Museo Cultural.



Feverish preparations were in progress
more volunteers would be welcome.


Judging by the amount of folks milling about,
Currents 2015 opening night must have been a big success.




Currents 2014


Tashi 1.25.2000 - 6.4.2015


Tashi was born up on the Ortiz mountains 
and roamed it freely for most of his life.
Today we may have had our last walk together along the Santa Fe river.
Tashi looks like a wolf, may be a hybrid
and is the dog of what used to be my best friend and is now my boss.


Tashi moves so smooth and strong and really determined,
but he suffers from tumors.
Tomorrow it will be his time to move over that supposed rainbow bridge.
Sad, so very sad.


I love those eyes that can barely see anything anymore.
Tashi had a most excellent life
that held a lot of love,
companionship,
freedom,
being bit by a mountain lion,
and adjusting to life in the city with surprising ease.


Tashi will be missed and never forgotten.




FIFA - John Oliver

Relief, John will not have to ingest what goes for food at Mac Donalds 
to wash that down with "disgusting" Budweiser,
since Seppli, the "Swiss Demon" stepped down after all.


John's take on FIFA in June of 2014:


Nobody says it better then John Oliver.

Still there are very pissed of Swiss
that will have their say too:
FIFA - MAFIA - GANG HEI!

No Shortage



No shortage of old cars


and new (looking) bikes


especially Harleys
in Santa Fe.




This turquoise
Harley
my Neighbor's
won
2 prices
in 2013!









Cowgirl
our local Santa Fe hang out
is always a good place to spot shiny, spick and span polished bikes.


My personal preference, if ever I dared to ride a real bike
might likely be this kind of funky Harley.


Love the saddlebag.


Bernie Sanders - The Man


Bernie Sanders announced, barely, that he did decide to run for the US presidential elections and within days I was down at our county clerk's office to affiliate myself back with the Democrats, so I too can have a vote in the upcoming primaries. Not fair that third party voters pay for primaries with their taxes, but are given no ballots! I want to vote for Bernie. Shocking since I am a woman not far from Hilary Clinton's age, yet I have not a moment of hesitation as to whom I would vote for. Yes, the idea of a woman in power, a woman for US President, would surely break one hell of a glass ceiling. But Bernie is my man, he speaks and he acts and he votes in ways that make my heart glad.


I feel relief that finally one lawmaker gets it (except on the Israel/Palestine conflict, I must admit.) So here is Bernie talking to Alan with more to come, no doubt, because here we have another man worth listening to and worth spreading his outrage, which really should be our outrage that we all ought to feel and express, if we are not asleep, but pay attention.


I am certain we can come up with a 12th step and then some.

Chicken Fucker Law Makers


Chicken Fucker Law Makers
allow big corporations to drive farmers below poverty line!

Next month 51 law makers will have another chance to vote 
for a farmer's simple right to speak out without fear of retaliation.
Let us, the people, hold those Chicken Fucker Law Makers accountable!

I have become an unabashed fan of John Oliver's brand of comedy.
I will continue to post videos of his shows
because we all need to hear and to share
the devastating, outrageous, ridiculous facts
he presents us with, made palatable only
with his unfailing sense of quirky humor.

Hillary

No doubt in my mind that there is nobody with more experience, with more expertise and with more capabilities to fit the job description of president for the current two-party system of the United States. Yet this choice stinks and does not offer us the choice of a progressive agenda so badly needed.


via Google Image

Hillary represents the 1%. She has not driven a car by herself in more then 20 years. She is on the boards of Walmart and Monsanto from whom she accepts exorbitant speaking fees. The Clinton campaign aims to raise $2.5 billion, obscene! Yet we live in a Koch-dominated area. Hawkish, I assume is Hillary's attempt to prove her manliness, her capability of staying strong on national security where she has advocated for war time and again.

"So, while I understand that Hillary Clinton isn't everyone's cup of tea, I can promise you this much - she's a hell of a lot better then any Republican alternative. So to all of you liberals who loathe her and feel that voting for her would be "selling out," do you really want a Republican president potentially replacing four Supreme Court Justices?" Allen Clifton, forwardprogressives.com

I agree with Clifton, it is too late in the game for a third party candidate to come in and make an entry and have an impact. Elizabeth Warren is not running and Bernie Sanders is not electable. Both should be left best to serve in their roles as senators.

The lesser of two evils is a term I object to on grounds that it reinforces religious symbolism I do not adhere to and do not approve of and wish we would no longer use. It is not just a figure of speech, but an outdated and inappropriate expression that reinforces christian fairytales of heaven and hell - and evil. There is a world that separates Hillary from her Republican nominees, even though both parties are under corporate, for profit control and dominance. It will be the greatest task for the American people to liberate themselves from the current corporate strong hold. One presidential election will not be enough.

Lots I do not know about this woman. "During her second year in law school, Hillary Clinton volunteered at Yale's Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development, as well as New Haven Hospital, where she took on class of child abuse and the city Legal Services, providing free legal service to the poor. Upon graduation from law school, she served as a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts." - npr.org

"Well as someone close to me once said, "I'm probably the most famous person you don't really know," Clinton told NBC in 2007


via Google Image

Now is the time for women to speak out loud and clear about what we value, what we envision, what we support and what we will not stand for! This is no time for silence, for standing on the side lines, for disengagement. This could be the time for women especially to be heard and to make an impact. Woman could and should demand from the Democratic party to grow some balls and change from the party of meek to the party of the people, the party that knows how to take bold steps. Let's demand from us and from Hillary to be bold and reach for those big ideas that will serve the people rather then the profits of big corporations!

Ladybugs - Likely Copulating


Focused on pretty blossoms, I missed the sex!
Camera captures it all, even the less then lady-like activities.