Well, that does it for another year. The Los Angeles Rams win Superbowl LVI on their home field, SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA.
Even though I’m more of a 49ers than a Rams fan, it was fun to watch the home team win on the home field. How many times has that happened in the NFL?
Twice now actually! With the first being Superbowl LV! Yep, last year when the Tampa Bay Bucs won over the Kansas City Chiefs at Raymond James Stadium. Talk about a coincidence.
I’m just glad I wasn’t a resident of Inglewood. I bet that was a madhouse.
This video about the Pacific Coast Highway was made way back in 2004, when I was only 10 years old! lol. But I think it still does a great job of telling the story about the highway, and making you want to take a trip up and down it’s length.
I’ve only traveled on it from San Diego up to Big Sur and I can certainly say that it’s an amazing drive. Within the next few years I want to do a drive from the southern most part and travel all the way up to northwest in Washington. I can just imagine how beautiful that would be.
Have you noticed, like I have, that the most useful things that humans produce: plastic, oil, cars, airplanes, are the things that are the most destructive to the planet? It’s no wonder that when World War III happens it won’t be over politics, or who worships who, it’s going to be over the control of resources.
We dump so much trash into the rivers and oceans it’s no wonder that it’s ended up back in the food chain. Yep, somewhere in the food you ate today was plastic. Get used to it! I don’t like how the video says that plasitc in the ocean food chain “might” be harmful. Of course it is! Plastic is not a naturally occuring element, and anything not natural is harmful.
When my brother and I go down to enjoy some time at the beach, we always bring (Heaven help us) a plastic trash bag to first spend some time cleaning up. Sometimes we fill the bags pretty fast, other times we don’t fill them completely, but we’ve never not filled them at least half way. Is what we’re doing helping at all? Well, at least that bag full won’t end up in the ocean that day. And for every bag we pick up, three more are probably going in.
It is disgusting to think how much trash is in the oceans breaking up that pristine environment. But humans generate SO MUCH trash that I’m surprised that we haven’t just loaded up cargo ship containers of it and dropped them to the bottom of the seas. Please don’t get any ideas!! We could also just rocket it all to the sun.
Nobody wants to really invest in recycling since it is so labor intensive and barely profitable, so why not hire the government to do it. They are great at losing money!
I think that until recycling becomes more profitable, or industry finds better alternatives to plastic, the Earth is screwed.
Hardly! But losing $230 Billion in a day isn’t a good thing either.
I think, like every website out there, it’s most likely reached it’s peak of users. Once that happens, the site now has to either change what it does or it’s going to risk imploding.
I’m not a big user of Facebook, and I’ve never been. I’ve never really been a big user of social media ever. Besides my blog here, the only other social media site I’m on is TikTok, and that’s at my brothers request and the channel is under his name, not mine.
Facebooks plan in the beginning I think was a good one. But the rise in security and privacy concerns, the congressional hearings, and the fines, have really hurt the company. Plus, I think Mark Zuckerburg has been the CEO for far longer than he should have. That has not helped either.
Facebook is the case of getting to big, to fast, with the wrong leader heading the charge. Believe me, I’m NOT an expert in business management. But for how old Mark is (37) he should have stepped aside YEARS ago and let someone with more international business history take the lead. I get that FB is his baby, and I don’t fault him for wanting to stay in charge. I do, however, think that there is still a way for him to get rich off of FB while handing the reigns over to someone who can properly manage the company.
Just from my circle of friends that I know who use FB, and those that don’t, I think their goal of connecting the world is over. They’ve gone as far as they can with it. While most of my family has pages on it, we mostly use it how my Mom and Dad used to use mass email. That’s basically what it is for us…a mass email machine.
And even though the younger members of our family (my brother, our cousins, their kids) have pages, they have mostly moved on to TikTok and SnapChat. I’ll get a faster reply from my brother if I send him a short video on SnapChat than I will if I send him a message on FB. Out of the three, FB is his third priority. That’s not a good position to be in for the future of FB.
So yea, it was a hard hit. I also think it should serve as a wake up call. FB is going to be around for quite a while yet. But what it looks like a year, or even five years, from now is anyones guess.
This was a pretty interesting video to watch to see what Australia’s views are about what will happen with the death of Queen Elizabeth.
At 96 years old, and in seemingly good health, Queen Elizabeth is probably poised for a few more years on the British throne. But there will come a time in the near future when the throne passes on to Prince Charles.
What kind of King will Charles be? With him being in his 70’s already, how long will he be on the throne before it passes to William?
Will the monarchy survive at all, or will England become a republic?
These are all very good questions, and ones that only time will tell. If you’re British, or just have an interest in the British monarchy, I think it’s a pretty good video to watch.
There is no “Honor” in the so-called practice of honor killing. I’m generally not one who likes to stick my nose into the lives and traditions of a country that I don’t know anything about, but killing your wife, or other family member, in order to win back honor is more than I can handle. Especially when the person being killed is a child.
What ever happened that made someone think that they had to kill a person to restore honor is not something that can ever be undone. The action will forever remain in history. If a husband murders his wife because she ran off to another country with her family, the fact that she ran off will always be there.
“But I restored my honor by killing her because she ran off.” Yea, OK, but she still ran off in the first place. No matter what you try to do to undo that, it can’t be done.
Fortunately this sort of thing only appears to be a practice of a small part of the Eastern World. Unfortunately, it seems to be such an old, and accustomed practice, that getting these areas to change their views is not going to be an easy thing. It’s going to be up to the leaders of that country, filtering down to the leaders of that area, to tell the people who still believe in the practice that they have to find a new way to restore honor without killing anyone.
So, is it ratified or not?? Should it be admitted as the 28th Amendment as the courts figure it out? It’s been a long time coming for the Equal Rights Act.
It was 1972, believe it or not, when the ERA was sent to the states to get 3/4 (38) of them to ratify the amendment and make it part of the Constitution. Only just now in 2020 does it appear that the 38th state ratified it.
Here’s the problem though: Of the original 35 states to ratify the amendment, five of them think they’ve recinded the ratification before the original deadline, and the additional three have ratified it after the extended deadline had passed in 1982. So, is it really ratified or not?
This is my opinion: Yes, it is!
Here’s why: Keep in mind that I’m not a Constitutional Lawyer or anything. I’ve never even taken college classes about the Constitution. I only go by what makes sense, what I find on the internet, and my opinion.
The five states that think they’ve recinded the ratification are wrong. They haven’t! I believe that once a state ratifies a constitutional amendment, it’s done, forever, thank you for playing! Otherwise what’s to stop states from recinding their ratification of other amendments? What if all of a sudden a whole bunch of states recinded the 1st and the 4th? A state just can’t undo these things no matter what the will of the people is today.
As for the additional three: I don’t think there should be a deadline on when an amendment has to pass by. Once an amendment has been passed by Congress and sent to the states, again, done, forever, thank you for playing. Whether it takes one year or a hundred, it’s out there until 3/4 of the state ratifies it.
So in 2020, when the 38th state ratified the amendment, it became part of the Constitution at that point. I think publishing it on a piece of paper is just a formality. It went active as the 28th Amendment the moment the vote was certified.
I hope all of this gets resolved quickly so people can have the Equal Rights that they so deserve, and that the U.S. prides itself on.
Wow!! Talk about a major win for employees! No longer will employers be able to hide behind forced arbitration hearings when they get accused of sexual harassment. And all of the current agreements get voided out.
When people were getting hired for jobs and presented with their employment contract, it was either sign it as is, or walk away from the job. I don’t think anyone, ever, liked signing the contract, but what were you going to do? It was take it or leave it. Most people took it.
Fortunately, I’ve never been through, or known anyone who has been through, an arbitration hearing for sexual harassment. But I’ve known people that have been sexually harassed. You know, having that one guy continually ask you out on dates even though you’ve turned them down enough times now they should take the hint, or the guy like in the picture above who gets a little to “hands on” while looking over your shoulder.
But when does innocent touching or pursueing become sexual harassment? Pretty much when those on the receiving end say it is. Sure, a guy may want to pursue you to try and go out on a date and you want to play “Hard to Get”. That can’t be deemed sexual harassment. However, if after the 2nd or 3rd time you tell the person you have absolutely no interest, and the person continues, then yes, that does become sexual harassment.
How is the pursuer supposed to know though? Communication! The person on the receiving end is the one in the drivers seat. If the receiver doesn’t tell the pursuer to stop, they’ve given them the green light. But when the receiver tells the pursuer to stop, now they are in dangerous waters if they continue.
Like the couple in the picture above (and the positions could certainly be reversed), if the receiver doesn’t say anything about it, they are leaving the door open for it to continue. Now the persuer should also be reading non-verbal signals as well to assess if the touching is acceptable or not.
If I was the one seated and my Supervisor, male or female, wanted to let me know of a good job done by giving me a few pats on the shoulder, I would be accepting of that as a congratulations. But if either put their hand on me like this guy did, I would take serious offence to that, even if I was attracted to the guy.
It is so great though, that now if this sort of thing happens in the workplace, that companies will no longer have that arbitration shield to hide behind. And Hallaluha that the agreements that had been previously signed have been thrown out the window!
For far to long have companies and individuals been able to get away with sexual harassment. Hopefully, with this new law in place, that will start to end.
This is a great decision for journalists and the First Ammendment. This allows members of the press to continue reporting during a protest without the fear of being emcumbered by the city or state police.
As long as persons can be resonably indentified as members of the press, they will be able to continue reporting. Now what makes a legitimate member of the press is for the next story.
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