Jasonisms

Let us never forget, the USA was founded on the separation of church and state. Christian Nationals has no foothold here, no matter how much they try. Need more evidence that prayer is divisive? Speaker Turzai, who controls the invocations and couldn’t keep his jaw from dropping during Borowicz’s prayer, has prohibited certain legislators from delivering prayers. Rep. Brian Sims, an atheist, is  excluded  from this opportunity because of his beliefs. When guest chaplains were permitted to deliver prayers in place of legislators, atheists, humanists, and other secular Americans were similarly excluded— unconstitutionally  according to the courts. https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/03/27/penn-legislators-jaw-dropping-prayer-showcases-americas-christian-nationalism-problem/

A tragedy unfolds for entire ecosystems as humanity unwittingly sets a oendemic off across the globe. There are hundreds of species of chytrid fungi, and most of them are unobtrusive decomposers. But  Bd  is an oddball: It has a fanatical taste for the proteins in amphibian skin. In the early 20th century, human activity—such as trade and war—accidentally spread the fungus around the world. ...... Some amphibians can tolerate Bd, but in many others, it degrades the animals' permeable skin, which they use to breathe and regulate their water levels. Runaway infections trigger a death spiral that ends in cardiac arrest. Not only is Bd lethal, it's also devastatingly effective at spreading. While most pathogens target specific hosts, Bd can infect at least 695 species to varying degrees. It also doesn't kill its victims quickly, which increases the odds that the fungus will spread. Species it doesn't kill, such as the American bullfrog, can act as reservoirs. ht...

In Memoorium I miss you every day, Rufus. 

As usual, when I found myself with an extra moment I opened up Google+ on my phone and began reading stories. After scrolling through what remains of the Plus's active users, I found myself reading a story from NBCNews about #DonaldTrump , America's #GlobalIdiot. Some might call him our President and, yes, he does hold the Executive office, but I'm fairly certain he's an idiot on a global scale more than he's a president. Regardless, this story was about the Jussie Smollett case that kind of threw the country on it's side a couple of weeks ago. The details of the case aren't important, but the gist of the story is this: Jussie Smollett was attacked in downtown Chicago by MAGA-hat wearing people shouting racist and bigoted slanders at him. Then, it turned out the attack might have been staged for publicity. Whether Jussie Smollett is guilty or innocent in this situation is inconsequential to the point I want to make here. Apparently the DOJ and the FBI...

I left this morning with the intent of stopping at a wifi hotspot and typing out a blog post, but for the life of me I can't recall what I wanted to write about today. So, you get a life update ... Let's see, what's been going on with me? Well, an organization I know that helps homeless veterans had another veteran with an apartment they thought I might enjoy living in so they made contact with him and he gave me a call. We spoke for a while one night and he kept telling me I sounded "cool." (For the record, I am cool.) We chatted for a while and he seemed amazed that I didn't need to go out drinking every night, that I didn't do drugs and that I was pretty much laid back. We texted back and forth and I guess my first reservations started when he would just send me questions randomly throughout the day like, "Hey, Bro. How the day going?" He knew I had a job, what I did and that I typically left the office and went to the gym. Why was he ...

Many President's gave had the opportunity to review reports, findings, tell-all books and more before the public seems them, but every other president is not #DonaldTrump. No, that's not a good thing. Donald Trump has shown himself to be more than cavalier with the truth, distanced from reality, a narcissist and an outright liar. Any one of these things would be circumspect with anyone wanting a chance to "change" inaccuracies, but with Donald Trump it could mean re-writing reality to fit the preferred narrative. And this the American public should not stand by and idly allow him to do. Bana-Republic dictators do this, not leaders of the free world (which one could argue the USA no longer is). People with something to hide do this, not persons confident in their innocence. Narcissists do this to shine a positive light on themselves, not self-confident people of sound mind. No, we cannot trust what we #TrumpNation wants us to know. They're renowned liars with a ...

Of course, there's no mention of MeW actively targeting the Google+ users who need a new home. Users like myself and countless others who we're abandoned by Google when the Alphabet subsidiary decided to shutter their most recent entry into the social networking sphere. MeWe achieved 405% growth in 2018. In 2019 it is already growing twice as fast. MeWe also spent multiple days ranked as the No.1 Trending Social App in the Google Play Store in December 2018. Is this a sign that the tide is finally turning on the big social media giants that dominate today? https://www.androidpit.com/mewe-exceeds-4-million-members