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…..I have a favor to ask Duluth voters. When you go to the polls just vote for one of the two school board candidates for whom you could cast a vote, Harry Welty. I assure you whoever else is elected, they will be fine board members. This blog, my long history with ISD 709, and my fierce courage as a truth teller in this age of Donald Trump’s undoing education, democracy, truth and the party of Lincoln all argue for your casting one vote for me. Your children will thank you.
I emailed myself ideas to include in what likely will be my only post today. I will write it after lunch and then I will draw up an advertisement for the Duluth Reader. This morning I asked Claudia to walk around the block with me. I need to test myself for the day I can go out on my own and ask neighbors to let me put a sign in their yards. In years past I could put up 20 a day. 10 days 200. I made it around the block with a month left to heal and campaign. It will take six weeks to come close to healing.
I spent half an hour this morning editing my last post. I thought careful reflection was called for because I used a crude sexual term in the story I told. Using a euphemism would have been an insult. Once again I did not mention names although for many people in Duluth it will not be difficult to guess who I was referring to.
After lunch je parlera des fourmis noir et rouge. I will talk about black and red ants and the one in three Americans who think guns may be needed to solve the America Donald Trump has created.
And speaking of deadly weapons, ignorance is one of them. Donald Trump dismisses global warming as a hoax. Of course the man who just won the 2024 election with less than half of the people who voted claims it was license to undo all the things that America did last century to make America great. And he has created a political party like none Abe Lincoln knew made up of spineless people who act like bobble heads agreeing with all the things they wince at in private conversations when he is out of earshot – like Global Warming.
On Monday my Arizona Cousin was in town and I squired her and her love around town. Except for our lunch in Va Bene I stayed in the car and told them where to walk to. At Enger tower I told her to follow the rocks to a path that would take her to the peace bell, go on to the tower and then return to pick me up resting on a bench overlooking our beautiful city. I pointed to the beach when we were at the end of Park Point and the Rose Garden too. Our weather was twenty degrees above the regular temperature. I just took this photo of our potted geraniums that are about to send up new blooms. Meanwhile the baked earth is preparing to send more desperate people in search of cool climes.
Two things were accomplished by Trump’s not agreeing to the Climate Pact with Iran. Naziyahu found an excuse to avoid jail by killing 60,000 Gazans and miring Israel in a mess that Trump suggests can be accomplished by selling it to billionaires as the next Rivera. Secondly, my geraniums are blooming a month beyond their natural state. But nevermind, people have been reading in the NY Times for a couple years how Duluth is a refuge from Climate change and our population has grown by a couple thousand people for the first time in my 51 years in Duluth.
Of course Trump is gutting all the unimportant federal agencies that accumulate data to give us a sense of where we are heading. That includes NOAH which contradicts Trump’s claims that our weather is betraying us. Universities who hire historians to tell us where our nation has come from. All the Scientists who test drugs and medicines. All the Business analysts who can give us a heads up the Trump’s administration is making America a second class nation. The Dept of Education that is tasked with keeping our education system on target. Civil Right aspects of the Justice Department that have helped keep racists like Trump from doing more damage than they have historically done.
So here is an irresistible meme I read today in French on one of the sites I visit. I found it in English just now:
I have watched red and black ants contest territory many times in my back yard and patio. Usually the Red are running off with black ant pupa to turn them into slaves. The image is pretty clearly an AI image and not a photo so I can’t be sure if anyone has ever successfully placed both species of ants inside a bottle. Here is the French description of what happens…….apparently nothing.
“Si vous rassemblez 100 fourmis noires et 100 fourmis rouges et que vous les mettez dans un bocal en verre, il ne se passera rien, mais si vous prenez le bocal, que vous le secouez violemment et que vous le laissez sur la table, les fourmis commenceront à s’entretuer…
Le rouge croit que le noir est l’ennemi tandis que le noir croit que le rouge est l’ennemi alors que le véritable ennemi est la personne qui a secoué le bocal…
Il en va de même dans la société…
Hommes contre femmes
gauche contre droite
les riches contre les pauvres
Foi contre science
jeunes contre vieux
Etcetera…
Avant de commencer à nous disputer entre nous, nous devons nous demander qui a secoué la cruche”.
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The French message above equates these ants with humans who vary between men and women, the left and right, rich and poor, the religous and the scientific, the young and the old etcetera.
It says that all will remain peaceful until someone picks up the jar and shakes it. Who could be shaking America right now? Whoever it is 30 percent of Americans now feel guns may be the only way to solve our problems.
