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OK, here's one that caught my attention ...

MIKA - Grace Kelly (2006)
www.youtube.com

It is an excellent performance, imo.

And the style reminds me of Freddie Mercury back in the day.


Ignorance in Action
thepreachersword.com

... I opened my Franklin planner is this morning to this quote of the day by the 18th century German novelist and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action." ...

Another view ...

Russia holds scaled-back WW2 victory parade as worries over war in Ukraine deepen
www.reuters.com

... Russia holds its most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years on Saturday due to the threat of attack from Ukraine, where victory for Moscow's forces has proven elusive more than four years into the deadliest European conflict since World War Two.

The May 9 parade on Red Square marks Russia's most revered national holiday - a time to celebrate the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany and to pay homage to the 27 million Soviet citizens, including many from Ukraine, who perished.

Once used to show off Russia's vast military, including its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, this year's parade will have no tanks or other military equipment rolling over the cobbles of Red Square.

Soldiers will still march and cheer in the shadow of Vladimir Lenin's Mausoleum, fighter planes will fly above the towers of the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin will make a speech before laying flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

"In general, everything is as usual, except for the demonstration of military equipment," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters. ...



@#11 ... The new districts would have prevented half of the state that is rural from having any voice in elections. ...

So, doing exactly what the Southern states have been doing (or trying to do) with respect to Blacks for decades?

Now, suddenly, your alias has an issue with this practice?

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]

 


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