On Haiti and domestic terrorism present and past
The Friday Flashpoints!
Nobody asked me but....
***The gut wrenching pictures from Haiti 🇭🇹 continue to haunt me, and my fervent prayers remain with the Haitian people and all rescue workers striving mightily to ease the suffering.
I remind once more that my home African Methodist Episcopal Denomination is soliciting funds to help Haiti so please, contribute what you can by clicking on the following link.
***Another day, and another domestic terrorist in the news for wanting to violently revolt against the Biden administration. This time it is Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, of North Carolina. Roseberry is my age and looking at his photos, it is clear that he very likely got his lunch money and Star Wars action figures taken each day in school while doing nothing about it, but now wants to play tough and get back at all of "the Libs" (liberals), "The Blacks," and others that he blames for his miserable existence.
While the misanthropic Mr. Roseberry surrendered to authorities after a five hour standoff, do know that he was too dim-witted and inept to even make a bomb, as authorities only found materials that could have become a bomb 😠. Even worse is the fact that once again, another domestic terrorist has the “complexion for protection” and is taken into custody alive, while those of a darker hue get killed while unarmed just for being darker…
***What's worse than a domestic terrorist? Otherwise intelligent politicians who coddle and provide cover for the dastardly acts of domestic terrorists. Yes, I mean you, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala), the election conspiracy theorist and staunch "Big Lie" purveyor who upon learning of Floyd Roseberry's botched so-called attack, tweeted "Although this terrorist’s motivation is not yet publicly known...generally speaking, I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial Socialism and its threat to liberty, freedom and the very fabric of American society. The way to stop Socialism’s march is for patriotic Americans to fight back in the 2022 and 2024 election.”
Sigh…
One would think that Brooks would spend his time trying to secure more hospital beds and ventilators in his home state of Alabama, the state that has zero ICU beds for unvaccinated Coronavirus sufferers. But nope, poking the anarchy bear helps to fill his own campaign coffers—and places him among the top of the list of not so bright Republicans who may seek to run for President in 2024 should Donald Trump choose not to run for a second term.
***Earlier today, I read a very interesting article on Yahoo! that chronicles a group of North Texas doctors who considered refusing ICU beds for unvaccinated Covid patients. While I know that such may run contrary to the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take as they begin their careers, I also know that many of my medical professional friends are sick and tired of the hypocrites among us who "don't trust the science" when it comes to the vaccine, but trust the science a whole lot when they are choking on their own phlegm due to the Coronavirus—while praying that medical professionals deliver a miracle.
I posted a Hobbservation Poll question earlier today on my Facebook page and thus far, there is a robust debate ensuing, with some fully agreeing that bed spaces should be limited, with others disagreeing vehemently.
A few responses:
Feel free to leave your own opinion on whether the unvaccinated should be left to fend for themselves away from hospitals.
***I have railed for weeks against Florida Gov. Ron Desantis's push to place profit over the health of his people, and the recently released second quarter figures prove in real time that the wanna-be president is far more interested in lucre than quality of living for his constituents.
In the second quarter (April-June), Florida saw 30.6 million domestic visitors, which is an uptick of 216% from last year. Beaming with pride, Desantis remarked that "Florida continues to serve as an example for the country that when you reject lockdowns and unnecessary mandates, your economy will thrive." Conversely, Desantis governs a state in which Coronavirus cases have risen by 38% just over the last 14 days, while coronavirus-related deaths increased 102% to 138 over the same period, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 41,138.
Indeed, old Ron is surely earning his derisive nickname of "Death-Santis"—and seems not the least bit fazed by the moniker.
***Australia, a nation that has had no qualms with locking down "Down Under" to quell the Coronavirus, has also developed facilities where Coronavirus sufferers can be quarantined. The three camps, each capable of hosting up to 2,000 people, are being built near Brisbane and Melbourne—with Sydney and Perth considering their own centers.
Judging from the refusal of many Americans to even wear a mask to go inside of a building, I seriously doubt that this idea would take off here in the United States. But I admit that a similar thought crossed my mind this week when I realized that the number of people in my hometown who refuse to mask their kids up for public school are few, which made me ponder how effective it could be to designate one elementary, one middle, and one high school as "mask free zones" so that all students, teachers, and administrators who are unvaccinated and cavalier about the pandemic can go and be among their Covid spreading kindred…
In Memoriam
***15 years ago, Bryan Pata, a gifted defensive lineman for the University of Miami Hurricanes, was killed execution style at his apartment complex; his murder remained unsolved for years but yesterday, his former teammate Rashaun Jones, a defensive back who had also once dated Pata's then girlfriend, was arrested for the crime. It is reported that the two had engaged in fisticuffs over the young lady weeks earlier, with the much larger Pata whipping Jones in the scrap.
Jones, #38 in the above photo, is shown here kneeling with teammates as they honored Pata through prayer after he was killed. Jones surrendered in Lake City, Florida yesterday and is being transported to Miami-Dade to face First Degree Murder charges...
***I had never heard of Army Private Felix Hall until today, when I read a NY Times article that details how the Montgomery, Alabama native was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1941—and lynched in nearby woods.
This month, U.S. Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga) helped unveil a plaque that was erected in his home district that commemorates the lynching death of Hall, who was 19-years old at the time of his murder.
Rep. Bishop, a Morehouse Man (and Kappa), noted that last year's social justice protests after the police killing of George Floyd led to a renewed awareness of this unsolved lynching murder from eight decades ago in his home district. After digging into the sparse facts, ones complicated by an FBI that dismissed the death as the "work of communists," Bishop worked with Army officials to ensure that Hall's life is forever remembered at the Base.
Lest we forget!
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I wish we actually had real viable progressive socialist policies, which Mo could uselessly criticize, but under which his constituents would flourish...and then they could put him out to pasture.