“You are the wind beneath my wings!” (lyrics, Bette Midler).
“… and in the spring… becomes a rose.” (lyrics, Bette Midler).
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night! Take these broken wings and learn to fly!” (lyrics by Paul McCartney, song, “Blackbird” from Beatles White Album).
“He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!” (lyrics from the Hollies, 1960s).
Frank Sinatra: “New York, New York….” (croon it, baby!)
To my recently deceased uncle: happy birthday to you! This is the first time we will not be able to celebrate – even if by phone!
Happy birthday to my grandson!
I love Upstate New York!
“People! People who need people! Are the luckiest people in the world!” (Lyrics of song, “People,” sung by Barbra Streisand).
If millions of people believe false and stupid information, it does not suddenly make that information correct. It just means that many people are stupid and unable to discern fact from fiction.
If a large number of people wish to use a “simple majority” to impose rules and regulations upon a minority of people, this is NOT democracy, but is no different from the genocide imposed by Hitler upon minorities and upon the genocide imposed by Saddam Hussein upon the Kurdish people.
Just because a “simple majority” makes a decision which adversely impacts a group of people, does not validate the decision as one of democracy. The best example of this is: Dixie Jim Crow Laws imposed by a “simple majority” of white folks upon people with a different color of skin. Another example of this: denial of homosexual monogamous relationships and the legal contracts which define such relationships and allow people in those relationships to adopt children and create a family (also called same-sex marriage).
To invoke Jim Crow Laws and exclusive heterosexual marriage laws – or any laws that adversely impact a minority of people, there should be a UNANIMOUS decision by all involved with the issue. Period. Then true democracy has been practiced. So why do we waste our government tax dollars considering such stupid issues when there are more pressing issues at hand?
Tioga Herald 
15 August 2011
“Imagine there’s no country! No religion, too! Nothing to live or die for!… only a brotherhood…” (lyrics by John Lennon).
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