Below are rules from HARRIS County (TX) and Fort Bend County (TX) for dropping off mail-in ballots in person . They’re NOT what I expected.
ADDENDUM for Fort Bend at bottom: Aug. 20, 2020:
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HARRIS COUNTRY: See below the rules for hand delivering your voted ballot.
Hand Delivered, in-person by the Voter to the Early Voting Clerkâs office.
For the November 3, 2020 general election, the hand-delivery period has been extended.
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: âIn my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. Itâs the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.â~ Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/empathy.htm (For attribution, I found this information here. Thanks to edwinrutsch3.)
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: âIn my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. Itâs the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.â~ Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/empathy.htm (For attribution, I found this information here. Thanks to edwinrutsch3.)
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: âIn my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. Itâs the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.â~ Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/empathy.htm (For attribution, I found this information here. Thanks to edwinrutsch3.)
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: âIn my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. Itâs the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.â~ Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/empathy.htm (For attribution, I found this information here. Thanks to edwinrutsch3.)
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âThereâs a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend t become the People.â ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)
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âThereâs a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend t become the People.â ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: âIn my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. Itâs the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.â ~ Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/empathy.htm (For attribution, I found this information here. Thanks to edwinrutsch3.)
âThereâs a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend t become the People.â ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)
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The show scheduled for broadcast on 6/29 at 3 PM (CT) on Monday will likely be recorded sometime late Saturday.
I’d like some written opinions.
Tentatively, the topic is statues and monuments.
– Who erects them and why?
– Should they ever be taken down? When and why?
– What kind and how much societal consensus does/should it take to install/remove them?
– What are the long-term sociopolitical ramifications of removing statues/monuments?
– What kind of emotions — personal and societal — accompany the installation/removal of statues/monuments?
– Associated with installation/removal of statues/monuments, are there feelings of:
Iâm looking for written opinions. They can be scholarly, visceral, ambivalent, or anything else you want to express. They can be guided by my questions, or something entirely unexpected by me.
I still canât take live phone calls, but I want to hear from you on this topic.
Please email to Thinkwing@KPFT.org and/or post as a comment below this post.
Thanks,
Mike
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” ~ Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention Speech (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)
âThereâs a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend t become the People.â ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)
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Siberia’s prolonged period of unusually warm weather is an “alarming sign,” according to climate change scientists.
â Read on www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/europe/siberia-warming-climate-crisis-intl-hnk/
For anyone who sent money to the website listed as DemocraticNationalCommittee.org, that money did not go to the Democrats.
Nor did any money sent to RepublicanNationalCommittee.org go to the Republicans.
An ABC News investigation found the websites, which feature official-looking graphics and photographs of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, are run out of a single-family home in South Hadley, Massachusetts by Donald Peltier, 50, a fuel truck delivery man by day and an apparent internet sleight-of-hand artist by night.
For the rest of the article, go here:https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/gop-dem-donors-misled-alike-websites/story?id=17228155
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This week’s show was a rerun of the show from 6/1/2020. I’m re-posting that show below. Below that, I’m posting an unaired version of the show that was intended for today, 6/8/2020. That show will air on KPFT next week on it’s usual day and time.
6/1/2020:
6/8/2020:
Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday night from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
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![Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 14, 2015)](https://thinkwingradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mike-mayor-annise-parker-at-kpft2015-12-07-cropped.jpg?w=300)
Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” ~ Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention Speech (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)
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Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday night from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” ~ Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention Speech (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)
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[Famous Ukrainian comedian] Volodymyr Zelensky won by a landslide on the back of bold promises to reform the country and end the war of attrition in eastern Ukraine.
Neither of those has happened yet. But his first 12 months in the job have been eventful and, according to the latest polls, he remains remarkably popular. âĤ
Internationally, President Zelensky âĤ found himself at the centre of a scandal that led to the impeachment of âĤ Donald Trump. Then there was a furore that followed Iran’s shooting down of a Ukrainian plane.
At home he’s won praise for prisoner swaps that have brought home high-profile Ukrainians who were being held in Russian jails.
How popular is Zelensky? 35% trust Zelensky; 37% don’t, 39.3% would vote for him now, 34% still back his party. Source: ratinggroup.ua
This is how democracy dies. Republicans kill it with ever-increasing boldness.
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“Georgia Republicans cancel election for state Supreme Court, meaning governor can appoint a Republican”
By Ian Millhiser |VOX.COM | May 19, 2020, 8:30am EDT
The state of Georgia was supposed to hold an election Tuesday to fill a seat on the state Supreme Court. Justice Keith Blackwell, a Republican whose six-year term expires on the last day of this year, did not plan to run for reelection. The election, between former Democratic Rep. John Barrow and former Republican state lawmaker Beth Beskin, would determine who would fill Blackwellâs seat.
But then something weird happened: Georgiaâs Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and the stateâs Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, canceled Tuesdayâs election. Instead, Kemp will appoint Blackwellâs successor, and that successor will serve for at least two years â ensuring the seat will remain in Republican hands.
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Even in a public health emergency, governments still have the duty to protect our rights. Yet since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, we have witnessed countless attempts by state and local agencies to infringe upon Texansâ civil liberties.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the ACLU of Texas has been monitoring government responses to the health crisis closely, and we have acted quickly to protect civil rights and civil liberties while also upholding evidence-based guidance from public health experts. Specifically, we have aggressively acted on behalf of people whose rights and health are at heightened risk, including protections for voters, people in the criminal legal system, and those seeking access to critical abortion care.
Read more about the actions we are taking during this unprecedented time:
Reducing mass incarceration in Texas jails and prisons
This rumor that flu shots will generate a Covid-19 test positive response is FALSE! Itâs a lie being spread by Buttar, who is an antivaxxer. (Link at end.)
If you are confused about what sources to trust, youâre not alone. I get this question on my radio show all the time.
1- Donât trust FACEBOOK posts unless you can verify them.
2- Same for Twitter or other social media.
3- Donât trust media reports that are outliers from the majority of media. Again, verify for yourself when in doubt. Itâs not hard. It took me less than five minutes to check the âfluâ lie at Snopes.com
As a rule, I like BBC.com, NBCNews.com (you donât even have to check MSNBC, though I trust their reporting), CBSNews.com, ABCNews.com is okay, even Al-Jazeera America is a good news source overall.
When I catch news sources in lies or disinformation more than once, I stop following them. I canât waste my time sorting their lies and distortions from facts.
I follow the saying, âYouâre entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.â
Interpretation is personal, facts are objective.
Be picky about where and from whom you get your facts.
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” ~ Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention Speech (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)
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What to Know
Ending a sentence with a preposition such as “with,” “of,” and “to,” is permissible in the English language. There are theories that the false rule originates with the early usage guides of Joshua Poole and John Dryden, who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong. Nonetheless, the idea that it is a rule is still held by many.
When one looks back over the glorious and bloodstained history of grammar and usage wars, it quickly becomes apparent that many of the things which got our ancestors in a swivet no longer bother us very much. George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, was so upset that people were using you (instead of thou) to address a single person that in 1660 he wrote an entire book about it. “Is he not a Novice,” Fox wrote, “and Unmannerly, and an Ideot, and a Fool, that speaks You to one, which is not to be spoken to a singular, but to many?” The rest of us have pretty much moved on.
And then there are some prohibitions which have a curiously tenacious ability to stick around (such as not beginning a sentence with and), in defiance of common sense, grammar experts, and the way that actual people use the English language. Perhaps the most notable example of such is the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition (also known as preposition stranding, or sentence-terminal prepositions, for those of you who would like to impress/alienate your friends).
Where did this rule come from?
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Joseph Malozzi has a blog that discusses projects in which he is involved, and other miscellaneous life-related things.
About 2 screens down in this post (after discussing his “It’s the #DarkMatter Greatest Episode Tournament!”), he mentions some interesting observations about response to the Covid-19 virus, and provides links to his sources.
You might want to check it out.
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