Daily Planet's editorial drives the wrong way

I counted four blown-thru stop signs, three run red lights, and was personally almost run over downtown by someone who ignored the other three drivers who had stopped for me and two other people crossing. 

ALL had N.C. license plates.

Well, I can’t positively ID all as Asheville drivers; they weren’t out of state by any means. 

So I would have to agree with the opinion (that) you opposed.    

Trump (the ‘plump chump’) and his ‘Two Corinthians’....

Deranged Donald Trump, who is clearly severely mentally ill, said the following about himself on Sept. 30, 2021 in an interview with Gene Bailey on The Victory Channel:  

“So nobody has done more for Christianity, or for evangelicals, or for religion itself, than I have,” said the mad king.

Imagine just for one second, if you can, what all of the moronic mouth-breathers that clog America’s airwaves with fascist filth from Fox “News” to ridiculously racist right-wing radio rejects up and down the conservative corporate dial would have yelled and screamed about former President Obama had he said something on camera so insanely stupid and psychotically sacrilegious?  

(For demented dingbat Donald Trump, I guess it’s just par for the course.)

You know exactly what would have happened had our two-term liberal African-American Democratic President Barack Hussein Obama said what traitor Trump said. Those racist, Russia-loving Republicans would have lost their little greed-addled minds in a frenetic fit of faked outrage!

Speaking of fascist filth, the rotund dotard King Trumptard can’t wait to lose again in another landslide.

Go ahead and run for the office of Vladimir Putin’s puppet president in 2024, fool, because real Americans can always use a good laugh. 

And who wouldn’t love watching America’s biggest loser — Trump the plump chump — lose again? I sure would.

This captures why so many  women hate ‘all of us men’

This quote below says it all for me. 

It sums up what a Buddhist believes It sums up what a New Age spirituality person believes. It captures why so many women hate all of us men. 

It says a lot about what the sociological concepts of “alienation” and “estrangement” are all about and what they attribute most of our social problems to — our self-absorbed and isolated egos. 

It speaks to what French philosopher and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin meant when he stated: “Almost all of humankind is at the spiritual, emotional and mental level of a 12-year-old child.” And it describes today’s typical conservative-Republican.

We are profoundly alienated and estranged from each other.

And we don’t see it and don’t want to see it — and don’t care one “flying f---” about it. 

We have become alienated and estranged from our best inner human qualities — and we don’t even know it or see it.

EDITOR’S NOTE: “French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the U.S. in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he codified in ‘Democracy in America’ (1835), one of the most influential books of the 19th century,” the website www.history.com stated.

Reader offers clarification on N.C. religious exemption

The North Carolina religious exemption reads as follows: G.S.130A-157. Religious exemption. 

“If the bona fide religious beliefs of an adult or the parent, guardian or person in loco parentis of a child are contrary to the immunization requirements contained in this Part, the adult or the child shall be exempt from the requirements. Upon submission of a written statement of the bona fide religious beliefs and opposition to the immunization requirements, the person may attend the college, university, school or facility without presenting a certificate of immunization.”

The following information is given directly from the North Carolina Immunization Branch of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services:

“There is no form for requesting religious exemptions in North Carolina. To claim a religious exemption, the parent or person requesting the exemption must write a statement of their religious objection to immunization, including the name and date of birth of the person for whom the exemption is being requested. This statement would then be provided to schools, child care programs, camps, etc.. in place of an immunization record. If a family is requesting a religious exemption for more than one child, a separate statement should be prepared for each child. Statements of religious objection to immunization do not need to be notarized, signed by a religious leader, or prepared by an attorney. They do not need to be submitted to the state for review or approval.” This information may be viewed at: https://immunize.nc.gov/schools/ncexemptions.htm    

There are many forms online that one can use. However, most are flawed and unusable. Better to write you own and keep it simple. 

No requirement to explain your religious beliefs — just state that you have a bona fide religious belief that prevents you from taking a vaccine and you are claiming the religious exemption as provided by law.

This will allow you to attend — as stated in the law — the college, university, school or facility without presenting a certificate of immunization. The key word in the law is “facility.” This is very broad and may be interpreted as a workplace, a restaurant, a club, a sporting event, etc.

Be prepared so as not to be intimidated. 

In one case. a person was tricked by their employer into believing that they had to have a priest sign their exemption and, as they were not a church-going person and did not have a priest, they felt they had no choice but to take the vaccine. 

This sort of coercion is common and may be actionable. 

A personal religious belief is no one’s business, but the holder of that belief — and it is inviolate. 

No one has the right to con or force anyone to violate that belief no matter what form it takes. 

Even an atheist has a religious belief.                                                   

Dems’ scary agenda, â€˜ghoulish GOP’... Yikes!

Halloween is almost upon us and it promises to be very scary with the Democrats’ spooky pie-in-the-sky agenda promising (as usual) too much and delivering almost nothing, while the ghoulish Republicans promising nothing but lies and misinformation (of which they’re so good at).  

Be afraid... Be very afraid.  

Happy Halloween to all!

Despite mis-attribution, reader still backs JoJo Siwa on $20 bill

Monetization of nature: Step right up â€” rainforest for sale here!

Translation, the banksters want to plunder nature’s economy. To co-opt both her wild resources and her biological processes. It is the ultimate hostile takeover with satin gloves. The rhetoric is heartwarmingly delicious:

"There haven’t historically been mechanisms to encourage the capital formation necessary to preserve and restore the natural assets that ultimately underpin the ability for there to be life on Earth,” NYSE COO Michael Blaugrund told Fortune. 

We stand then on the verge of the attempted monetization of nature. What might be the unforeseen consequences of allowing this most avaricious class of humans to exploit, for profit, the delicate balance of ecosystems? Should any one group of human beings be allowed to “own” nature? 

This aspiration betrays an enormous hubris and a basic misunderstanding of how the natural world works with all its subtle synergistic interconnections. 

Modern science has become reductionist in nature and does not take into account the holistic behavior of natural systems. 

To tamper with the web of life is to tamper with our lives here on Earth in ways that we don’t understand with likely damaging side effects. 

“Sustainability” is just a cover story. Wall Street does not make investments unless it is for profit first. 

What is the likelihood that they really care about preserving and restoring natural assets? The fact that they see them as “assets” says it all. 

They are not “assets.” They are gifts that Mother Nature has bestowed upon all of us to share and care for. 

NYSE’s new class of “investment vehicles” are to be referred to as natural asset companies, or NACs. 

Imagine a company like Monsanto taking control of the pollination process. Maybe we should put Beyer in charge of photosynthesis. These new asset companies could give Big Pharma control over medicinal plants and herbs. 

You will no longer be able to have a nice relaxing cup of chamomile tea at bedtime, steeped from chamomile grown in your own backyard, because Pfizer will own the chamomile DNA — and only they can sell the tea.

In 1855, Chief Seattle of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes sent a letter to President (Franklin) Pierce in response to his Administration’s offer to buy 2 million acres of their land. Chief Seattle wrote in part:

“How can you buy or sell the sky –the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. â€œYet we do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? â€œWe will decide in our time. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. â€œThe sap that runs through the trees carries the memories of the red-skinned man.”

You can read his entire letter to President Pierce here: https://www.alexrovira.com/en/sensaciones/articulo/carta-del-jefe-indio-seattle

Our careless exploitation of the environment has damaged the planet. 

We have deprived ourselves of sharing our soul essence with Mother Earth and vice versa. 

To move forward in an enlightened manner, we will need to heal our relationship with the planet. 

We have the collective wisdom of indigenous peoples all over the world to guide us. 

I believe that the golden age of Celtic civilization provides us with a truly inspiring model for creating a better world for, in the end, we are not opposed to the Earth, we are an integral part of it…..

(Stay tuned for more on this.)