Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
The main factor in the difference between getting involved in the affairs of other countries and helping other countries is simple: they asked for that help.
Putler can also try to twist his invasion as freeing Ukraine from western influences or whatever is his justification of the week, but that will not pass since nobody asked for such "help".
Ukraine asked us (as in, all countries in the free world) to help them, so providing what they asked for is not interfering. When in doubt, looking at any situation from the perspective of consent usually helps to make it more clear.
Slava Ukraini!Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred
I love this sentence:
With Scarlet Johansson as Katie Britt, SNL Gave Viewers What They Asked For—And Then Some(It takes impressive talent for a real actress to be convincing as someone really bad at pretending not to be acting.
Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.
Before March 2021, Elon Musk’s charitable foundation had never announced any donations to Cameron County, an impoverished region at the southern tip of Texas that is home to his SpaceX launch site and local officials who help regulate it.
Then, at 8:05 one morning that month, a SpaceX rocket blew up, showering the area with a rain of twisted metal.
The Musk Foundation began giving at 9:27 a.m. local time.Mr. Musk, the world’s second-richest person according to Forbes, presides over SpaceX, Tesla and other companies that are pushing the boundaries of technology, while also controlling a social media platform, now known as X, through which he promotes his often-polarizing political and social views.
At the same time, he runs a charity with billions of dollars, the kind of resources that could make a global impact. But unlike Bill Gates, who has deployed his fortune in an effort to improve health care across Africa, or Walmart’s Walton family, which has spurred change in the American education system, Mr. Musk’s philanthropy has been haphazard and largely self-serving — making him eligible for enormous tax breaks and helping his businesses.
Since 2020, he has seeded his charity with tax-deductible donations of stock worth more than $7 billion at the time, making it one of the largest in the country.
The foundation that houses the money has failed in recent years to give away the bare minimum required by law to justify the tax break, exposing it to the risk of having to pay the government a substantial financial penalty.Mr. Musk is under no obligation to have a charity, and he has made clear that he believes his for-profit enterprises will change the world for the better far more than any philanthropic venture could. But once he set up a nonprofit and filled it with tax-deductible gifts, he was required by law to ensure that his foundation served the public, and that it did not operate for the “private benefit” of its leader.
A New York Times analysis found that, of the Musk Foundation’s giving in 2021 and 2022 — the latest years for which full data is available — about half of the donations had some link to Mr. Musk, one of his employees or one of his businesses.
Among the donations the Musk Foundation has made, there was $55 million to help a major SpaceX customer meet a charitable pledge. There were the millions that went to Cameron County, Texas, after the rocket blew up. And there were donations to two schools closely tied to his businesses: one walled off inside a SpaceX compound, the other located next to a new subdivision for Musk’s employees.In depth look at his charity and what seems like borderline legal self dealing. To be fair as the article points out rich people don't HAVE to be charitable. But, there are rules and laws if you are to get tax breaks.Mr. Musk, instead, used his small foundation to help groups tied to him personally, including a food charity run by his brother and a “Temple of Whollyness” that was set on fire at the 2013 Burning Man festival, an annual event that he often attends.
He also founded his own nonprofit school called Ad Astra — Latin for “to the stars” — to explore new ways to teach math and science.
But that school, too, would serve a personal purpose for Mr. Musk. In its first year of operation out of his home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, five of Ad Astra’s 14 students were his own children.
And as Elon frequently lambasts Democrats wanting the rich to be taxed more by claiming how much he pays in taxes. While neglecting to point out how much he also benefits from his own charities. By direct ways like his childrens school, or counties where his companies happen to be etc.
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Katie Britt defends sex trafficking story she falsely links to Biden presidency
And listeners were going to make that inference how???“I very specifically said … I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. So I didn’t say a teenager – I didn’t say a young woman,” Britt replied after being asked whether she intended to give the impression that the abuse occurred under the Biden administration’s watch. “[It was] a grown woman … trafficked when she was 12.”
That doesn't mean she had to give her speech from an actual kitchen Table. Again, and listeners were going to make that inference how???Britt went out of her way Sunday to explain “exactly why [she] was sitting at a kitchen table” when she rebutted Biden.
“Republicans care about kitchen table issues,” Britt said. “We care about faith, family. We care about freedom.”
Expect her political career to be very very short.
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There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
That's an important point, although one trap is that people without morals will lie and say things in bad faith, like Putin apologists claiming he's just trying to help ethnic Russians.
Obviously, there are ways for people to determine if citizens within a country is calling for help, or if it's some kind of pretext. The solution seems to be open dialogue so that if someone makes a seemingly ridiculous claim, we can get to the truth of it quickly.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Whenever I hear a far right authoritarian theocrat proclaim their devotion to ‘faith and family’, all I can think of are the posters I learned about, growing up.
Posters like:
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https://www.facinghistory.org/resour...act-propaganda
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