Duppers
Duppers's JournalAmen!
Hubby* just said our Dem party must grow more vaginas - more Katie Porters, more Kamala Harrises, more Amy Klobuchars, more Rebekah Jones, more Justice Ginsburgs, etc.
We cannot be afraid to do the right thing. Our country is already divided & we must stop trying to accommodate these criminals.
* So proud of him.
Maggie's Song
Chris Stapleton Maggie's Song
When I thought I couldn't cry any more, I just came across this sweet song!
We've learned just last night that our baby, our dear 5yr old yellow Lab, only has a few months left to live. An internist/critical care vet diagnosed her with a serious right ventricle valve problem.
She's such a sensitive & tremendously sweet girl who'll run to my side if I sigh or clear my throat a certain way - she'll know that something might be wrong. Now I must keep from sobbing so as not to stress her when she comes home. She's in the hospital for a few days.
"Run Maggie run..."
UPDATE:
Our precious Missy is gone.
She was the BEST BABY & we wouldn't have traded the world for these past 5 yrs with her. She put that moon up there for us!
Folks, dogs are Love & if ppl have souls, so do they!
My thanks & appreciation for all your sentiments and posts.
30 yrs of 'against measurement'
Thirty years of ‘against measurement’ – Physics World
Despite its many successes, physicists are still struggling to nail down a coherent interpretation of quantum mechanics, as it best represents “reality”. Jim Baggott explores the arguments first put forth by John Bell three decades ago, and looks at theoretical and experimental evidence accumulated since
“Surely, after 62 years, we should have an exact formulation of some serious part of quantum mechanics?” wrote the eminent Northern Irish physicist John Bell in the opening salvo of his Physics World article, “Against ‘measurement’?”. Published in August 1990 just two months before his untimely death at the age of 62, Bell’s article outlined his concerns. As he further explained, “By ‘exact’ I do not of course mean ‘exactly true’. I mean only that the theory should be fully formulated in mathematical terms, with nothing left to the discretion of the theoretical physicist…until workable approximations are needed in applications.”
Although Bell spent the majority of his career as a theoretical particle physicist and worked on accelerator design at the CERN lab in Geneva, today he is best known for his contributions to deep, foundational questions that probe the meaning of quantum mechanics. Nearly a century after it was first formulated, there is still no consensus among physicists on how the theory should be interpreted. “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics,” Richard Feynman famously declared – a rather extraordinary admission for a foundational theory that underpins much of our understanding of modern physics.
https://physicsworld.com/a/thirty-years-of-against-measurement/
What if there's just a missing key?
Warning: This may be difficult to watch...
It was difficult for me.
What do these evangelicals preachers get from tRump? Payola under the table?
"The Evangelical Election Meltdown"
X-posted in Religion & Atheist forums.
How long can you watch this insanity?
Sena's post needs to be printed in papers across the country.
My story, from 37yrs ago...
After obvious problems appeared, multiple ultrasounds were done in my 2nd & 3rd trimester. The last set were done by specialists at the hospital. It was a horrible experience to have a group of technicians pointing and whispering around the monitor and have them to refuse to tell you WTF was going on. But I knew enough, enough to know that my baby had tremendous problem(s). I knew my belly was half the size it should have been, but I did not know WHAT exactly the problem was.
Sadly, I was quite passed the point in my pregnancy where I could have gotten a legal abortion...or one w/o a broad of review making a protracted decision about it. (This was 1983.) During my office appointments, my OB hemmed, hawed, and would not address the problem. With his silence, he did indeed lie to me.
I learned, some time after Amy died, that he had almost lost his license to practice at a local Catholic hospital after he discreetly "terminated" a late-term pregnancy because the baby had some terminal problem.
In my case, he chose to protect himself rather than to deal with another difficult pregnancy ---rather than give the mother the facts and a choice. I should have changed docs and learned the facts. I would have petitioned for an abortion rather than let my baby painfully fight for hours trying to live. (Amy died from lack of oxygen because her lungs could not function properly due to the diaphragmatic hernia. She did not survive the attempt to correct the all too extensive hernia, which had allowed to her intestines to grow into her lung cavity. The extent of her hernia had been detected on those many ultrasounds!! She was almost found to have polycystic kidneys.)
As dastardly as it might sound to some, late term abortion would have been the most humane thing to do. But I was so traumatized and so unsure of how to proceed. For weeks --for the remaining time of that third trimester I cried myself to sleep because I knew enough to know how bad it was going to be. Sadly my husband was not supportive because he escaped into denial.
The only person who would truthfully address the problem (& the only person who would comfort me) was the pediatrician I went to see 6 weeks before delivery. She had a copy of my OB’s chart. She held my hand and confirmed that my baby had major problems. She then told me that she’d be there for me and do every thing that she could for my baby – for Amy and that we, together, would get through what was coming. I loved her for confirming the truth of what I knew. The only person in my world to have done so.
Many yrs later I found that same OB doc w/a group of nurse groupies having dinner at the same restaurant we were at. (My son, who was delivered yrs later by another OB, was with me at the time.) I did not want to create a scene, but I wanted this asshole doc to know what a horrible person I considered him to be. So, I wrote a note on a napkin, "DO NOT EVER again NOT tell a woman that her baby has major problems." I stood there while he read it. I said "I'll never forget what you did to me." His face turned white and he got up & left. True story.
This was such an emotionally painful part of my past but I had to add my story.
It's not what you eat, it's WHO you eat.
That's empathy, compassion...and not looking away.
Very good post, Beringia.
How do we make our food choices? Would you eat your dog...or cat? They slaughter them for food in Asia.
How do you determine which animal deserves slaughtering?
I'm failing my own test - hubby has a strong negative influence & he wants occasional red meat. And I have meat eating critters to fed. (This last week vets told me my big Lab's blood wk revealed she's low on protein!)
So, this is difficult, but I'm at least trying & choosing to say NO to many traditional animals, like lambs, veal, etc. Good thing I love shrimp - yes they have senses but are very low on the cognitive pyramid.
More self-congratulatory: I scooped up a big spider today & put him out instead of crushing him.
I try, I truly do. I need some help in the menu dept.
You have read this...
Still, multiple aides said, Biden is generally not inclined to see his Justice Department investigate Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959
😅
"Heal"? They should be stomped to the degree of their crimes.
However, an analogy to the post-Civil War South could be made. It was in this climate that the Ku Klux Klan was born and the "Redeemers" sought to reestablish the "Old South."
So, these s.o.b.'s won't quit? And we have to coddle their wounded egos to "just get along"?
They broke Laws!
And...this...
Did you read?
Still, multiple aides said, Biden is generally not inclined to see his Justice Department investigate Trump.
Bingo! TY! "Follow the $"
Folks don't realize what first led to this.
First appeal to their prejudices, then you've got their minds to follow whatever bullshit you want to feed them.
Rachel Maddow's book Blowout explains that gaining & keeping control of oil and the Fossil Fuel industry in general is the motivation for controlling the message and minds - an easy job given America's gullible population. They already believe things without evidence.
"Rachel Maddow pinpoints the root of all evils: The fossil fuel industry"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-root-of-all-evils-the-fossil-fuel-industry-says-rachel-maddow/2019/10/03/14273cd6-de1a-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html?outputType=amp
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