Incest in American culture? Never! Maybe

Serial killer rapist kidnaps the wrong girl

(Unseen) 

I'm white. Why would I do that?

Bobby Joe Long [a] (Oct. 14, 1953–May 23, 2019) was a white rapist and American serial killer. During an eight-month period in 1984, Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least ten females in Tampa Bay, Florida. At trial, Long was sentenced to death for one of the murders and given a life sentence for seven others. He was brought to justice by a girl he raped, 17-year-old Lisa McVey, who got back at him. He was sentenced to death in 1986 by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms. He was executed by lethal injection on May 23, 2019. More: Bobby Joe Long

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We choose our suffering (Edgar Cayce)

The struggle to meditate sucks. Being there, ah!

Edgar Cayce (A.R.E. or Association for Research and Enlightenment) conducted trance-channel readings that revealed a great deal more than he the man could have known. The council or collective that came through brought forth much understanding.

Our suffering is not necessarily accidental. While bad, offensive, and sometimes insufferable, there is something that could be learned if we would view it that way.

The Aggregates that experience are dukkha.

What is "suffering"? The Buddha often spoke of it long before Cayce, so it might be good to ask him, as this is a very misunderstood term. The ancient term is dukkha, "disappointment," "unsatisfactoriness," the range of the unpleasant between annoyance and agony. The Buddha defined suffering this way:

An Exploration of Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha in Buddhism – Indo-Buddhist Heritage Forum

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Suffering is much more than one thing.

"Rebirth is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; contact with what is disliked is suffering; separation from what is liked is suffering; not getting what one wants is suffering. In short, the Five Aggregates clung to as self are suffering [unsatisfactory, disappointing, unable to fulfill, associated with pain]" (SN 56.11).

• Hey, why talk about it? Why doesn't the B shut up already? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we suffer. Got it. That's clear enough. We're doing everything we can to AVOID it. So the less we talk about it, the better we'll feel. Duh! Become a hedonist. And shut yer yapper, O Great One.

Sadly, this view has been prevalent since before the time of the Buddha, so when the Buddha, the Awakened One, bothered to mention this ugly word, dukkha ("suffering"), were people or devas happy to hear it? No way. That's the last thing they wanted to hear about.

Pain is inevitable, but suffering's optional.

This is where the misunderstanding begins, and it could end here if hearers would just put away their aversion and LISTEN. A doctor comes in with the results of your scan and examination. Want to hear what's wrong? No way, just get right to the cure! Let's only talk about perfect health. What's it going to take? It's going to take all that? Forget it. I'll keep my illness. Why, I never... It's only when we see how bad and big the problem is that we adopt the right view about it and are open to the cure.

Hacking of the American Mind

The Buddha would have had a much nicer time to only speak positively and in an "airy fairy" sort of way, doling out magic, bliss, sprinkles, blessings, smiles, good cheer, good news, and the energy of a modern motivational speaker. He could have just told everyone who came to him in pain, confused, or ignorant, "That's right, you're doing great, attaboy, right on, keep it up!" They would have been so happy to hear it. But because he understood and was willing to show us the awful truth, he came to be called the Master Physician. He never met a kind of pain he couldn't cure. The first step? Recognition. Second step? Cause or diagnosis. Third step? Assessment or prognosis. Fourth step? (This is the best one!) The cure, solution, course of treatment, the way to fix what's broken as described in the first step.

"Suffering"?

I can take it because I'm a bodhisattva. Ouch!!!

No single English word captures the range, depth, and subtlety of the ancient Pali and Sanskrit term dukkha. Many translations try ("disappointment," "suffering," "unsatisfactoriness," "stress," etc.) Each captures part of the meaning in a given context. There is value in realizing more than one term is needed because the thrust of Buddhist practice is broadening and deepening the understanding of a term so important to the Buddha that he often claimed to only teach two things -- what is dukkha and what is the elimination of dukkha. Until its roots are finally exposed and eradicated, we will not understand why he focused almost as much on the problem as its solution. When landing on the single best English translation, think again. No matter how we translate dukkha, it's always subtler, deeper, and less satisfactory than that.

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Convicted Trump gets sentenced

In the days of action cartoons, the hero always got caught up by the evil villains in such a way that there was no escape this time. But he always escaped. How, that was the question. We never saw that coming, the how. That he would escape, that was assured. How, that we never knew. Often the writers had to cheat physics or go back a little further to show the great escape. Judge Juan Merchan should throw the book at felon Trump, but he has promised no punishment, just ignominy, a little humiliation, a legacy of disgrace, sexual abuse, felonies all over the place, and Trump an unindicted co-conspirator in what his associates were up to on his behalf.

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Stuck with Trump, they're turning on Elon

Trump and Obama chat at Carter funeral while GOP politicizes LA fires

(The Daily Show) Jan. 9, 2025: Delightful Desi Lydic, genius comedian, tackles the historically awkward reunion between Trump and all his political enemies at Pres. Jimmy Carter's funeral. Plus, conservatives blame DEI for the raging wildfires in LA, so Michael Kosta is stepping in to help with his straight white maleness. #DailyShow #DesiLydic #LosAngeles. Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow

30-year predatory history of Jay-Z

The 30-year predatory history of Jay-Z

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Liberals, Jon Stewart, and Bernie (JDS)

Jon Stewart on what went wrong for Democrats | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) Nov. 11, 2024: Jon Stewart's post-election analysis: what Democrats prepped for, what went wrong, and how the pundits who got it all wrong are now the ones pointing fingers. #DailyShow #Democrats #Election

Analysis by Jimmy Dore & Co.

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

Author Thomas Frank has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 1,814 ratings. From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics, here's a book that asks:

• What's the matter with Democrats?

It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the correct course.

But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party.

Drawing on years of research and firsthand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals:

• expanding opportunity,
• fighting for social justice, and
• ensuring that workers get a fair deal.

Justice now! For big killer cats

Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for 16 of the last 24 years, yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated.

Wall Street gets bailed out, wages keep falling, and the free trade deals keep coming.

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, Frank lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over the years.

A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment, he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity.

But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats to their historic goals -- the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America. More (Audiobook)

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Trump finally to go to jail? Judge rules

The judge overseeing DJ Trump's New York criminal trial delayed a key ruling today (Tuesday, 11/12/24) on whether the president-elect's felony conviction should be set aside, according to correspondence between the political parties.

Trump’s team wants the case dismissed completely, and the prosecution says it needs time to evaluate the next steps now that Trump has been re-elected.

The court has granted them a week's delay to provide their position.

In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan [who doesn't want to lose his pension or job], prosecutors said they agreed with Trump's request for a stay to consider how to proceed given his new status as president-elect.

"The People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances and that the arguments raised by defense counsel in correspondence to the People on Friday require careful consideration to ensure that any further steps in this proceeding appropriately balance the competing interests of (1) a jury verdict of guilt following trial that has the presumption of regularity; and (2) the Office of the President," prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote in a letter to the judge.

The rich don't go to prison. This is the USA

“Accordingly, the People respectfully request that the Court adjourn the upcoming scheduled dates to afford the People time to assess these recent developments, and set November 19. 2024 as a deadline for the People to advise the Court regarding our view of appropriate steps," he added.

Trump had been tentatively scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26. Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. He has denied any wrongdoing.

• This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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• Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Apache Stronghold, Oak Flat, Arizona

Naelyn Pike, member of Apache Stronghold, speaking to NWF and HECHO teams at Oak Flat

Protect Oak Flat (apache-stronghold.com)

(HECHO Online) Some experiences and places can be transformative and change our perspective. Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, is a sacred land in southeastern Arizona.

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It is the kind of place that stays with one way after a visit, just like the people of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, who have lived in and cared for this beautiful high desert since time immemorial.

That was the experience that members of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and HECHO teams had during a recent visit to Oak Flat, 60 miles east of Phoenix.

Articulate it to a judge; make them understand

They saw firsthand the extraordinary beauty of this area now at risk and listened to the eye-opening testimonies of members of the Apache Stronghold.

Listen to Naelyn Pike, member of the Apache Stronghold. #SaveOakFlat

• HECHO Online, Feb. 4, 2023; Apache Stronghold; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US cuts deal to save face: Assange FREE

Julian Assange is free: WikiLeaks founder's brother Gabriel Shipton on the end of decadelong legal saga

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UPDATE: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from Belmarsh Prison in London, where he had been incarcerated for the past five years, after accepting a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors.

After a decade-plus of legal challenges, Assange will plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material for publishing classified documents detailing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan [serving as a negative model for many other countries to do so] on WikiLeaks [in massive data releases and websites the U.S. was desperate to have Americans avoid and not dare go near for fear of surveillance and prosecution, coercing service providers into pulling their platforms from WikiLeaks].

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Why did US prosecute him? To silence him with torture or ruin.

How can the System thank Obama for his service?

The Australian publisher is expected to be sentenced to time served and allowed to return home, where he reportedly will seek a pardon. Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton describes learning of his release as “an amazing moment.” He speaks to Democracy Now! about Assange’s case and what led up to the latest developments, as well as what he expects will happen next.

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(Reuters) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was at a location given as London, Britain, in a video released June 25, 2024. He is presumably in a British jail at the moment.

Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

The deal marks the end of a legal saga in which Assange spent years in a British high-security jail and in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and fought allegations of sex crimes in Sweden, while battling extradition to the U.S., where he faced [trumped up] criminal charges.

Portrayed as a villain by the U.S. government for potentially putting classified government sources at risk [by exposing them for their crimes by showing their own records to the world], he has been hailed as a hero by free press advocates for exposing wrongdoing and alleged war crimes.

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On Wednesday, he is due to be sentenced to 62 months of time already served at a hearing in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, at 9:00 am local time (2300 GMT Tuesday).

The U.S. territory in the Pacific was chosen due to Assange's opposition to travelling to the mainland U.S. and for its proximity to Australia, prosecutors said. WikiLeaks' Julian Assange set to be freed after pleading guilty to US espionage charge

• Sky News Australia; Alasdair Pal and Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters, Reuters via MSN.com, 6/24/24; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Bannon going to prison, is Trump next?

I'll see you on the cellblock, Stevie. You're my boi! We'll gangbang and kick it on the yard.

RNC makes plans for Trump to accept nomination from jail, GOP demands revenge: A Closer Look

Trump has achieved total saturation. Steve who?

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) June 6, 2024: Meyers takes a closer look at Republicans openly demanding revenge against Democrats for finding Trump guilty of the crimes he committed in the latest verdict against him, while making preparations for the fact that Don may be thrown in jail before the election.

Trump wants a rich VP with a hot wife, Nigel Farage attacked with milkshake | The Tonight Show

(The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) June 6, 2024: Fallon addresses the latest news, like Steve Bannon getting ready to begin his prison sentence, Trump narrowing down his short list for vice president, and Costco's plan to stop selling books.

JK on King of the Con: People vs DJ Crimson

Patriots, get your guns! Meet me at Mar-a-Lago. I will pay your legal bills. It's time for Civil...

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Trump found GUILTY on ALL COUNTS and Superfan Jake Byrd is outside the courthouse

No, Judge, I never called you 'conflicted.' - But I
heard you with my own ears! - No, I said covfefe

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 30, 2024: It was a big afternoon in New York and for the United States of America as Don the John Con-Man Trump was found guilty of 34 felony charges in his falsified records (hush money) trial.

Defeated Donald Trump returns to Trump Tower after criminal conviction.

When you get tired of winning, it's a good idea to start admitting to losing.

If I'm sentenced to prison, I'm calling for war.

Jimmy and Guillermo re-enact what happened in the courtroom, Trump marched over to the reporters outside the courthouse to let his displeasure be known, the big question remains if he will do time in prison or community service, the only family member who bothered to be there for him was Eric the Dumb One when the verdict was read, all the bloodsucking jellyfish who feed off of his essence are losing their minds, and comedian/friend/legal correspondent Jake Byrd has been camped out in New York embedded among the MAGAots for a very special report on the Donald’s trial. #Kimmel

What did he do? What crime is there? Cheating?

• False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
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Trump supporters break down in tears because Trump is guilty on all 34 counts

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• Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 30, 2024; David Pakman Show, May 30, 2024; ABC News, May 30, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly