A brisk wind and a sudden drop in temperature, as the sky took on a yellowish hue, signified an approaching storm in Carrollton, Texas, at 7:30 P.M. But alas, no rain – just this incredibly bright rainbow. I’ve seen a thousand of these in my lifetime, but they always impress me!
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I saw this on the news yesterday, and it’s unbelievably horrifying.
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“For more than 20 years, Magic Johnson has been HIV positive – but it’s never been revealed who he contracted it from. Last night on PBS’s Frontline documentary, ‘AIDS in Black America,’ Magic disclosed the same vague answer he’s given the press since 1991: “Sleeping with a lot of women.” Still, it seems odd that there’s been no follow-up about which of these women was HIV positive. Or how many. If anyone has any more information about who gave Magic Johnson HIV, please feel free to contact us. I think we can afford to pay more money for this now.”
– Gawker, a gossip web site offering money to anyone who can provide information about how Johnson became infected with HIV some 20-plus years ago.
Noting that the rate of female-to-male sexual transmission of HIV is very low, Gawker – and perhaps even the Frontline documentary that aired July 10 – speculates that Johnson may have contracted the virus from a transsexual prostitute at a party thrown by Eddie Murphy.
Some folks in America just don’t want to accept that HIV isn’t only a gay White man’s disease. Of course, the vast majority of gay men don’t even have HIV, much less full-blown AIDS. But, who wants facts when there’s a rumor to be passed around like…well, like a virus!
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Advocates for red light cameras are already citing this crash in Roselle Park, NJ, on June 29 as evidence for the need to expand the program. I’ve seen too many people run red lights in the Dallas area where red light cameras are common. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the Roselle Park crash, but the red light runner was taken to jail.
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I always felt Rush Limbaugh is an arrogant bastard, but he’s even outdone himself now. This time around, like a typical conservative Republican, he blames the poor and unemployed for their own plights and expects them just to make things better for themselves.
Earlier this week, Limbaugh proclaimed:
“The sad truth is that employment is not pivotal… No job, no employment, no pain. For a whole heck of a lot of people whose expectations for themselves are not very high…. There are no jobs, and yet they’re still eating. I’m telling you, there’s a new reality out there…. Because it’s not resulting in that much pain, not nearly as much as it used to…. The so-called victims of the unemployment circumstance are not suffering as unemployed people in the past did.”
With Republicans in Congress refusing to negotiate with President Obama – determined more to destroy his presidency than help the American people – our nation’s economic crisis hasn’t abated. Of course, if Obama had grown some back bone at the end of 2010 and refused to budge on the Bush tax cuts, matters might have improved by now. But, I’m not an economist. I am, however, a citizen and a voter who’s experienced unemployment for the better part of the past 18 months. For me, there’s no joy in that. I’ve all but exhausted by savings and completely wiped out my old 401K. I’ve been able to put off my reimbursing my student loans, but that can’t last much longer. Fortunately, I just found a contract position that begins next week. Hopefully, that will endure. Last summer I landed a 90-day contract gig that the client pulled after only 3 weeks because their vendor wasn’t producing the work as anticipating. It was difficult to explain that to prospective employers, but I worked through it.
I remember the 1990 – 92 and 2001 – 02 recessions very well. But, I’ve never seen it this bad. So, while Ann Romney spends more on her dressage horse than most people earn in a year of legitimate work and Rush Limbaugh squats atop his ivory tower, the rest of us normal folk continue to struggle. And, we won’t forget what our elected officials did to us and didn’t for us. Poor Rush though. All those years of Viagra and Vicodin usage apparently have had the same effect as methamphetamine.
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In yet extraordinary case of animal cruelty in the Dallas – Forth Worth area, a woman found a dog with its mouth taped and its tongue protruding severely from between its teeth. Melanie Labrake spotted the animal, a young pug mix, along a rural road in Parker County, west of Fort Worth. She stopped to try to help it, but the animal darted into a grassy field through a barbed wire fence. She contacted local authorities who spent several hours searching for the dog. They finally found it and turned it over to local animal control.
The dog, now named Hope, was taken to Bowie Drive Animal Hospital where she is undergoing treatment thanks to Dr. Kevin Buchanan.
Vets at the clinic said it took more than 100 internal and external stitches to close five open wounds that were one- to five-inches in length, through the muscle tissue. Doctors said that Hope’s mouth was taped shut for more than 24 hours and that she will likely lose a portion of her tongue.
Originally unable to eat or drink, Hope underwent surgery and was given pain killers an IV and antibiotics. Fears that she may not be able to eat or drink on her own have subsided as doctors at the animal hospital said Wednesday morning that Hope has been eating and appears to be getting better.
Several local businesses have established a reward fund for information leading to the suspect or suspects in Hope’s abuse. In total, the fund now stands at $35,000.
Anyone with information about Hope is asked to call the Parker County Sheriff’s Department at (817) 596-8845 or the Parker County Crime Stoppers Hotline at (817) 599-5555.
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Angela Gonzales (Hopi), Associate Professor of Development Sociology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University, has started a new blog to chronicle her goal of raising $10,000 for the Hopi Cancer Assistance Fund (HCAF).
To promote interest in her quest, Angela will bike 1,539 miles from Bellingham, WA, to Ventura, CA, beginning September 25, 2012.
Learn more about Angela’s motivation to raise support for the HCAF by visiting her blog, Angela Bikes 4 Hopi. Also, please consider giving financially to this worthy cause.
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Chief Writing Wolf 