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Mark Small's Blog – March 2022 Archive (25)

Sen Graham should know, it's not only a crime. It's stupid.

“It’s not only a crime. It’s stupid.” Talleyrand often is cited for this appraisal of assassination, but a different official under Napoleon, Joseph Fouche, Minister of Police, is the real source & might have viewed Sen Lindsey Graham as both criminal & stupid. For suggesting... 1/5

that act be carried out against Putin. The advice from over 200 years ago is sound. 1: under the 4th Geneva Convention it is a crime by international standards. In the USA it’s homicide & thus…

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Added by Mark Small on March 5, 2022 at 7:37am — No Comments

Gun advocates: report when you use that gat to stop a crime!

“Gun rights” advocates know: statistical validity of any study depends on sample size & accurate info. CDC’s been blocked fr studies of gun violence as a health issue since mid-1990s Fed laws restrictions mid-1990s, but Indiana & gun ppl can help. Guns ppl like to say “Guns... 1/

stop crime,” i.e., have net deterrent effect on crime. W/o actual reported cases as they occur only anecdotal accounts (as in fish stories of “the one that got away was so big”) exist. It is the duty…

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Added by Mark Small on March 4, 2022 at 8:41pm — No Comments

eHarmony: there are better ways to spend your $

Twitter encourages free expression. Nothing could be more important to free expression than to be able to be heard about vendors who once were good, paid their ways to prominence through savvy ads, but should now be questioned. COVID lockdown isolation drove ppl online. 1/5



To be middle-aged (okay, “senior”) & single is more awkward in online dating. A site not to use: eHarmony. Ads several yrs ago showed eHarmony’s founder, w/his grandkids, & he says how great his company… Continue

Added by Mark Small on March 4, 2022 at 5:53pm — No Comments

Evangelicals really want to save your kids from hell - your hell

Evangelicals see a hero in Gov Abbott of Texas, who wants to investigate, 4 child abuse, parents of transgender children. It won’t take long before Evangelicals persecute/prosecute parents for a “greater crime,” in their view: eternity in hell for kids of atheist parents. 1/6

Evangelicals, e.g. Indiana preacher Micah Beckwith, believe there is no separation of church & State. Evangelicals, ultimately, see a person as one of “us” or one of “them.” Protestants, Roman Catholics,…

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Added by Mark Small on March 3, 2022 at 9:18pm — No Comments

Pres Biden's State of the Union & Gov DeSantis's disrespect

I found Gov DeSantis’s tweet yesterday saying he wouldn’t send Nat’l Guard, as was requested, to “Biden’s State of the Union,” offensive. DeSantis is one of two early front-runners in the GOP nomination race for POTUS, 2024. He meant to show no respect to Pres Biden. 1/4

The GOP went off the rails a few years ago. We can’t allow a distinct minority to control a not-for-profit corporation that is structures so as to not be accountable to voters. We have to take over that party &…

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Added by Mark Small on March 1, 2022 at 9:58am — No Comments

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