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MayReasonRule's Journal

December 6, 2024

No One Should Take Any Pleasure From The Death Of An Insurance Executive...

It's not our job to judge whether a person deserves to live or die.

That's what algorithms designed to maximize profits for shareholders are for.

November 28, 2024

Coppery-headed Emerald Hummingbird - La Paz Waterfall Gardens Nature Park - Alajuela Province

The photographer is a physician here in Shreveport, LA.

This is his flickr stream...

November 25, 2024

There Is A Speech I Want You To Read

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/opinion/election-frederick-douglass.html

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Strange things have happened of late and are still happening. Some of these tend to dim the luster of the American name and chill the hopes once entertained for the cause of American liberty. He is a wiser man than I am who can tell how low the moral sentiment of this republic may yet fall. When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline and the wheel of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other may stop.

But could I be heard by this great nation, I would call to mind the sublime and glorious truths with which, at its birth, it saluted a listening world. Its voice then was as the trumpet of an archangel, summoning hoary forms of oppression and time-honored tyranny, to judgment. Crowned heads heard it and shrieked. Toiling millions heard it and clapped their hands for joy. It announced the advent of a nation, based upon human brotherhood and the self-evident truths of liberty and equality. Its mission was the redemption of the world from the bondage of ages.

Apply these sublime and glorious truths to the situation now before you. Put away your race prejudice. Banish the idea that one class must rule over another. Recognize the fact that the rights of the humblest citizen are as worthy of protection as are those of the highest, and your problem will be solved; and, whatever may be in store for it in the future, whether prosperity or adversity, whether it shall have foes without or foes within, whether there shall be peace or war, based upon the eternal principles of truth, justice and humanity and with no class having any cause of complaint or grievance, your Republic will stand and flourish forever.

Frederick Douglass

November 24, 2024

"That Should Be Obvious." Vivek Ramaswamy

November 22, 2024

House Passes Chilling "Nonprofit Killer" Bill With 15 Democrats Voting "Yes"

“A sixth grader would know this is unconstitutional,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin.

https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-chilling-nonprofit-killer-bill-with-15-democrats-voting-yes/

The House easily passed a bill that would give Donald Trump and future presidents a bludgeon to target and silence dissenting nonprofits on Thursday, in what opponents warned is a step toward allowing the executive branch to wield unchecked, authoritarian power.

H.R. 9495, nicknamed the “nonprofit killer” by critics, passed 219 to 184 with 15 Democrats voting “yes.” The legislation, which civil liberties groups have said could deliver a huge blow to the rights to free speech and dissent across the U.S., now goes to the Senate for consideration.