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  The study from the Public Religion Research Institute comes as the Senate wrestles with legislation that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Just 7% of Americans are completely against pro-LGBT policies, including antidiscrimination laws and same-sex marriage, according to a recent poll. SUPPORT FOR  anti-discrimination laws and marriage equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is at an all-time high, according to a  report released early Tuesday  (March 23) by the Public Religion Research Institute. The survey of more than 10,000 Americans reveals unusual unity in a populace deeply divided along partisan lines and grappling with race and gender issues. More than three-fourths of Americans overall, or 76%, and strong majorities of Americans in every subgroup – no matter what gender, religion, race, age or geographic location support anti-discrimination laws. Further, for the first time since PRRI be...

 As the song says, "Everybody hates somebody, sometiiiiiime..." It doesn't?  Well, maybe it should.  Back in the sixties, we talked about love all the time.  Love, love, love.  I love you.  You love me.  All you need is love.  Well, take that love and shove it!  Let's all enjoy a good old dose of HATE! So much to choose from, too!  Do you hate this guy?   How about this one? Let's not be unfair.  You can hate her, too! And if none of these inspire you to seethe, you can go after whole countries!   Wow, it's like a cornucopia of hate!    Seriously, what's not to love?   So share!   Tell us what you hate!  It needn't be political.  You can hate corn.  You can hate puppies.  Evil, slimy, dewy-eyed puppies.   You can hate your mailman or your grocer.  Share it with us!   Remember the words of the Kinks song:    Hatred, hatred Is the ...

  The Suez Canal was closed twice. Once when Israel/UK/France attacked Egypt in 1956, & a 2nd time when Israel attacked Egypt and neighbors in 1967. Evergreen was HRC’s code name. Evergreen is also the name of a Taiwanese shipping company that’s linked to human trafficking. Cargo ships stranded in Suez Canal halts shipping between Europe and Asia. (Even if others say it's not true, https:// meaww.com/suez-canal-stu ck-ship-evergreen-traffic-children-hillary-clinton-qanon-false-theory … ) Clintons, Laura Silsby, Haiti, Amber Alerts & Human Trafficking "Evergreen" was hillary clintons code name during the 90's...interesting how often these shipping containers get caught up in weirdness...human trafficking allegations in which trucks mysteriously pass inspections without being inspected and apparently traffic jams too. https://www.albawaba.com/node/hillary-clinton-suez-canal-blockage-human-trafficking-qanon  

 EVERYTHING NOWADAYS IS A CRISIS! The border issue is a CRISIS. Guns are a CRISIS. A stolen election is still a CRISIS for some folks. Disunity in America might be one. BUT: What about the environment? How many postings are there on political forums about climate change? Out of sight, out of mind? We have white supremacists and mass shootings to worry about. We still worry about Trump or if Biden has dementia. What about the opioid crisis? Anyone concerned about that? And then there is the Pandemic, which has killed more Americans than illegals have, than guns have, than white supremacists have, than being involved in foreign conflicts have. But still SO many Americans are ho hum about masks and vaccines? A failed marriage might be a crisis, or a lost job, or your football team losing might be. A crisis is a crisis if you feel it is a crisis, so let's talk about what is a REAL CRISIS for you. If you had to pick ONE thing, political or apolitical, that worries you the most or keeps ...

Aztec Death Whistles Sound like Human Screams and May Have Been Used as Psychological Warfare Two skull-shaped, hollow whistles were found 20 years ago at the temple of the wind god Ehecatl, in the hands of a sacrificed male skeleton. When the whistles were finally blown, the sounds created were described as terrifying. The  whistles make the sounds  of “humans howling in pain, spooky gusts of whistling wind or the ‘scream of a thousand corpses” writes  MailOnline . Skeleton of a man buried at the wind god temple, Tlatelolco, with an Aztec death whistle (indicated). (  Roberto Velázquez  ) Roberto Velázquez Cabrera, a mechanical engineer and founder of the Mexico-based Instituto Virtual de Investigación  Tlapitzcalzin , has spent years recreating the instruments of the pre-Columbians to examine the sounds they make. He writes in  MexicoLore  that the death whistle in particular was not a common  instrument , and was possibly  reserved fo...

  An Atlanta shopper believed he heard someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. Police arrested a man with 6 guns An Instacart shopper who entered an Atlanta supermarket bathroom this week told police he saw an AR-15 style rifle and heard what he believed was the sound of someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. The witness rushed out of the bathroom and notified staff at the Publix Supermarket. When police arrived soon after, they arrested a suspect as he was exiting the bathroom -- with six loaded guns in his possession. The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rico Marley, now faces a slew of charges related to the incident, which came just days after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. After arresting Marley, police recovered six firearms: a DPMS AR-15-style rifle, a 12-gauge Maverick Arms Modell 88 shotgun, three semi-automatic 9 mm pistols and a .38-caliber revolver. All of the weapons were loaded and the rifle, shotgun and three 9 ...

  GUN VIOLENCE  ARCHIVE 2021 Evidence Based Research PUBLISHED DATE: March 25, 2021 Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes4 9,783 Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU1 4,239 Suicide3 5,544 Total Number of Injuries1 7,455 Mass Shootings2 107 Mass Murders2 6 Number of Children (age 0-11)1 Killed 65 Injured 127 Number of Teens (age 12-17)1 Killed 241 Injured 597 Officer Involved Incident1 Killed 15 Officer Killed or Injured Injured 72 Officer Involved Incident1 Killed 286 Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured Injured 221 Defensive Use2 278 Unintentional Shooting2 416 Murder/Suicides Incidents2 134 https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 2021 https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/number-of-gun-deaths There have been 103 mass shootings in the US so far in 2021. Here's the full list. There have been more mass shootings in the first quarter of 2021 than in 2018, 2019, and 2020 https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootings-in-america-this-year-2021-3 Chart showing mas...

  The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council recently came out in disapproval of adults using ketchup on hot dogs. In a  guide to hot dog etiquette , the organization decreed that for those 18 years of age and older, acceptable wiener toppings include mustard, relish, onions, cheese and chili. https://www.foodandwine.com/condiments/7-rules-ridiculous-no-ketchup-hot-dogs#:~:text=The%20National%20Hot%20Dog%20and,%2C%20onions%2C%20cheese%20and%20chili Why Does Ketchup on a Hot Dog Piss People Off? https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/121025/why-does-ketchup-on-a-hot-dog-piss-people-off/ I Will No Longer Be Shamed For Putting Ketchup On My Hot Dogs And Neither Should You I’ll respect your right to put whatever the hell you want on a hot dog and only ask that you respect my right to put ketchup on mine in return. https://brobible.com/culture/article/ketchup-on-hot-dogs-debate/ IS not ketchup on hot dogs an example of CANCEL CULTURE? SO, what is YOUR stance?

Tiny Mars helicopter to pay homage to Wright brothers Andrea Leinfelder ,  Staff writer March 23, 2021 Updated: March 23, 2021 2:43 p.m. Comments Andrea Leinfelder This artist illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity reached the planet on Feb. 18, 2021, strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover (seen in the background). The helicopter's first flight could be in April. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, poised to take the first powered flight on Mars as soon as April 8, is carrying a small piece of aviation history. Underneath the helicopter's solar panel is a stamp-sized piece of fabric.  It was a part of the wing covering on the Wright brothers’ aircraft that took the first powered, controlled flight on Earth on Dec. 17, 1903. “We are very proud to honor that experimental aircraft,” Bob Balaram, Ingenuity's chief engineer, said Tuesday during a news conference. Ingenuity is a 4-pound helicopter th...

 I picked this up from a media social outlet (don't want to say which) of a comment that had been widely shared, and eventually made it's way to my partner's social media account and she showed it to me, and I have reposted it here, and will let you all decide whether you think the following is a trope or a true characterization of how the issue of race is being used against white people. Billy's Mom:  What did you learn about in school today, Billy? Billy:  We learned all about whiteness and blackness. Billy's Mom:  Oh. About how we're all brothers and countrymen, and how we shouldn't judge a man by the color of his skin? Billy:  No, mom. Whiteness is everything around us. All our literature, our courts, our laws, our police, our schools, our industries and economy, our great men, our governments, all of it is whiteness. How we think about families, about science and math, about prosperity, mom, is whiteness. Even things like Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, and pea...