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Protect Your Internet Privacy!
Here’s more info about this:
Congress Takes First Steps to Overturn Internet Privacy Rules (USA Today)
And here’s a script you can use when calling your representative:
Protect Our Internet Privacy Script (Indivisible)
National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965
The Arts
Female Representation in Government
The Age of Unreason
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy’s methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
Good night, and good luck.
Edward R. Murrow:
A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
See it Now (CBS-TV, March 9, 1954)
Dotty in the News (Not the fake news)
Tibetan Mandala
Instead of doodling, I decided to color a mandala today.
I find Tibetan mandalas beautiful and calming. According to Buddhist teachings, these geometric compositions of repeating patterns transmit positive energies into the environment and to all those who view them. They’re designed so that when you look at them, or mediate upon them, certain shapes, lines, angles, and colors, lead your eye to the center of the image, where it’s believed deities reside. This is supposed to help transform our ordinary little minds into enlightened ones.
I wouldn’t mind a world with more compassion and enlightenment, so I thought coloring and posting this mandala couldn’t hurt.
Here’s a really lovely story about a mandala that 20 Buddhist monks created in response to the September 11th attacks. And here’s a link to print and color your own mandala.
Just Say No!
Say it over and over and over again until it is heard.
But take a break every once in a while to watch this baby koala video.
