Peppermint Twist (Edna W.)

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Trying to be the change I wish to see in the world.

"It's better to show up than to give up." - Bernie Sanders

#PetParent #Jewish #gardener #writer #environmentalist #ClimateChangeActivist #AntiNuke #ProSolar #Working99%er #Blue #Democrat #Berniecrat #Berner #BernieSanders #EqualRights #Pluralism #CulturalAnthropology & #Sociology #BA #RaysFan Heroes: #MLK #AlGore #Gandhi #RachelMaddow TV shows I love are: #Seinfeld #LOST I believe in: #Shalom #TikkunOlam

Finally.

It ain't over 'til the rule of law sings. And oh, what a beautiful, awesome voice it has.

#RuleOfLaw #AVeryHealthyDayForAmerica #DemocracyIsYouAndYouAndYouAsBernieFamouslySaid

It's a very good day for America

I wish the pundits would stop saying that this is a sad and/or sorrowful day for the country, as I think it is the exact opposite.  As I've ...

BREAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is still hope for America: repeat: there IS still hope for our dear country, the United States of America! DONALD J. TRUMP HAS BEEN INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES! This is a beautiful day for the rule of law. No citizen in America is either beneath, or above, the law. THAT is one of the main things, if not THE main thing, that truly makes America great.

#finally #RuleOfLaw #ItAintOverTilTheRuleOfLawSings

In a world where there are two names for a plant, and one of them is "Frangipani", why would you ever not choose to say that?

Question of the Day:

Why is the Republican Party so scared of voters? They want to make it so much harder to vote, yet so easy to buy and tote a weapon of war.

Our founders never intended this.

I'm eating breakfast ahead of work, and they just showed photos on the news of some of those who were gunned down in the school in Nashville...

Wait a minute, let me see if I understand this correctly: the Right wingers want to ban the innocuous new song "Rainbowland", as apparently song lyrics about love, respect and tolerance are dangerous, yet they refuse to enact a federal ban on assault weapons of war in civilian hands, capable of mowing down hundreds of people within seconds?

I made up a new word, "stupidism", and wrote a little bitty blog entry about it:

https://peppermintponderings.blogspot.com/2023/02/stupidism-new-word-i-just-made-up.html

Stupidism: a new word I just made up.

I've made up a new word:  stupidism.  You know how there are truisms?  Well, says I, there are thus also stupidisms:  sayings that are, not ...

I've concluded that this is my absolute favorite musical performance on the entire internet and in this entire world or any other world! Prepare to DANCE:

#KCandTheSunshineBand #70s #Disco #Funk #AwesomePerformance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjnuUDoyn54&lc=Ugz9FV_xSp4BByCTFbZ4AaABAg.9MAtI4IZ3089kExdQhNu8B

KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight (Live)

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Short little blog piece I wrote this morning, in honor of #MLKDay:
https://peppermintponderings.blogspot.com/2023/01/help-bend-arc.html
Help Bend the Arc

In my favorite speech ever, one of my few, true heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said of the more just, equitable America he envisioned, ...