A little bit of soul, a little bit of jazz, a whole lot of funk... and I think I don't need to say which Step this is for.



Saidah Baba Talibah, Revolution, composed by Saidah Baba Talibah, copyright © 2012 CLK Creative Works

The New York Times: Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a ‘Health Emergency’ but Requests No Funds
The Washington Post: Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

Yeah, because (as The Huffington Post points out), the last War on Drugs worked so well... <sigh>

On the Democratic ticket, assuming she's chosen in the primaries.

Sex and the State House, anyone?

Quote:Her announcement sets up a race pitting an openly gay liberal activist against a two-term incumbent with a $30 million US war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

CBC News: Uber halts self-driving test in Toronto after Arizona pedestrian death

It appears the pedestrian may have been jaywalking... but that's no excuse.

Four package bombs targeting minorities in Austin, Texas: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/us/austin...index.html

Edit: The last bomb hurt two white people, and appears to be a different design.

Considered putting this in the Video Madness thread in General, but it is about Trump so...

I tried my car key on every car on the walk home until I finally found my own...


...parked outside my door.

Posted by a fellow using the handle Guy Fawkes, in response to a political cartoon today:

"Donny Boy’ or ‘Air from Country Blue’

Oh Donny boy, the votes, the votes are falling
From coast to coast, down with your many lies
The trolls are done, and all the spies are dying
‘Tis you, ’tis you must go and your Russian guys

Don’t come ye back when Jr.’s in the courtroom
Or when Jared’s pushed and brings you low
‘Tis us’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Donny boy, oh Donny boy, I loathe you so

And when you rage, at all the testifying
It’s truth you dread, and the truth well may be
You’ll come to find the price of all your lying
And reel and tweet “Core” to the USMC

And I shall hear the ‘copters whir above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
It’s you that fails, yes all my country tells me
And I’ll not sleep in peace until you go from me

And I’ll not sleep in peace until you go from me.

*****
Il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un roi pour décourager les autres.  (It is good to kill a king from time to time to discourage the others.)
— paraphrased from Voltaire.  Merci, M’sieur Arouet.

At the moment, "Ontario Crane Service", "Ontario Construction Secretariat", and "Ontario Council of Shooters".

Oh, and "Ontario Cannabis Store", once it becomes legal to sell marijuana in Canada later this year.

Please don't mix up Ontario Crane Service and Ontario Cannabis Store - they provide two completely different ways to get high.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/on...-1.4574801

EDIT: Hmmmmm... Ontario Council of Shooters and Ontario Cannabis Store... We need to come up with a possible recreational-drug-related name that backronyms to "NRA".

Arabic writing on police cruisers in London, Ont., angers Americans

Never mind that it's a language in use in the city by a large minority of the population.

Never mind that it isn't the only non-Latin text on the cars.

Never mind that it isn't on every car.

Never mind that it's been there since 2009.

Some intolerant and xenophobic idiots are tying up the police switchboard with their complaints about how they think a single word identifying the car in a minority language has something to do with religion.

<deep sigh>

Grow up, will ya?