Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.To be…
Read More How To Choose Your LeadersI’ve had my flu shot and my pneumonia shot. Next, my shingles shot (shingles is a nasty, painful disease). Flu shot Tetanus (Td booster) Chicken pox Shingles Hepatitis A and/or B Pneumonia Read more HERE. Are you protected?
Read More Adult Vaccines: Protect YourselfIf you have a pre-existing condition, heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, they’re coming for you. If you love someone who has a pre-existing condition, they’re coming for you. If you are under the age of 26 on your parent’s coverage, they’re coming for you. senator kamala harris During the debate, Pence said it was an…
Read More Harris-Pence Debate Points That Stuck With Meby Rachel Nania, AARP, October 5, 2020 With several coronavirus vaccine candidates advancing to the third and final phase of clinical trials, researchers are ramping up their efforts to ensure that older adults are well represented among the tens of thousands of volunteers rolling up their sleeves to test the various vaccines. But boosting participation among…
Read More Pros and Cons of Participating in a Clinical TrialSeptember 29, 2020 5:01 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Military names can echo down through the ages, a fact underlined by the current fight in Washington, D.C., between President Trump and Congress, which has voted to strip the names of Confederate generals from several Southern Army bases. The president has vowed that won’t happen, but…
Read More A Military 1st: A Supercarrier Is Named After An African American SailorThe US Supreme Court issued a ruling which reinstated the requirement that absentee voters obtain a witness signature on their mail-in envelopes. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed to the court by the current president and supported by the current South Carolina senators, wrote the explanation for the court. US District Judge Childs prohibited, in September, the…
Read More Disenfranchised for this Election!By Pierre-Antoine Louis (Nytimes.com – Race/Related) Beauty for Freedom, a nonprofit group that raises awareness and money to fight human trafficking, is hosting on Sunday a four-hour livestream called “HERSTORY,” a day of coverage to call attention to — and raise money for — organizations founded and led by women of color from the U.S.…
Read More Programming to Raise Awareness of Human TraffickingBY DAN C. GOLDBERG MAY 19, 2020 3:00 PM A black man had graduated the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877 and the Army had its first black general in 1940. But when World War II began, African Americans were not even allowed to enlist in the Navy’s general service. […] 16 African American…
Read More How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers (The Golden Thirteen) Helped Reshape the American MilitaryVoting isn’t an event. It is not a single moment that changes the world or changes our lives. It is a process, and like any process, if you only do parts of it, it doesn’t work. That means we have to vote over and over and over again to shape the choices we want and to…
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