These two cartoons say it better than any words I can write.
How to Stop Abortions
Category: Social Behavior
Warren Buffett says public speaking is the single best investment you can ever make
Public-speaking skills will set you apart.
As graduate of Toastmasters Competent Communicator program I can confirm that Buffet’s recommendations are correct. That program changed my life.
Billionaire Warren Buffett has offered investment wisdom for five decades at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting. Buffett didn’t disappoint the 40,000 shareholders who attended this year’s meeting, often turning questions about the stock market into tips for a successful life.
During the six-hour question and answer period, Buffett was asked twice to name the single best investment he would recommend today as a hedge, or protection, against inflation. While the two people who asked the questions expected a stock tip, Buffett gave what he considered a far more valuable opinion.
“I’ll tell you something even better than one stock,” Buffett said.
“The best investment–by far–is developing yourself.”
If you are exceptionally good at something, people will beat a path to your door, says the 91-year-old investor. If you develop the skills that others are willing to pay for, you’ll thrive despite what’s happening in the broader economy. According to Buffett, “your abilities can’t be inflated away from you.”
For years, Buffett hosted business school students who made a pilgrimage to his office in Omaha to meet with him. The students were often surprised when Buffett showed off his most prized diploma–a framed certificate from a public-speaking course.
“I have one diploma hanging in my office,” Buffett would tell them. “It’s from a Dale Carnegie course which cost me a hundred bucks back in 1951. It’s incalculable how much value I got from that hundred dollars.”
There’s nothing like working to improve your own skills, Buffett said. He then added, “I would say communications skills are the first area I would work on to enhance your value throughout life, no matter what you do, because if you can’t talk to people, you’ll have a real problem selling anything–stocks or anything else.”
California Abortion Law
This will get the attention of those wanting to stop abortions.
California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. It covers the cost of abortion for lower-income Californians on Medi-Cal, and also requires private insurance to cover it. And the state has rejected the idea of requiring waiting periods or parental consent for abortion.
If the fetus cannot survive outside the womb, a pregnant person can seek an abortion for any reason.
After viability, only if continuing the pregnancy threatens the life or health of the pregnant person.
It’s up to a physician’s “good faith medical judgement” — in practicality, most doctors consider a fetus viable at 24 weeks or once a fetus weighs 500 grams.
My source for this information is Cal Matters.
Once Roe vs Wade is overturned those seeking an abortion will be coming to California if their state bans abortions.
Stop Abortions at the Source
Past Socialist Plots in the United States
COVID-19 History
The deaths, spread out across four states in January 2020, had become part of a scattershot collection of clues about the virus’s early spread.
In early March 2020, an elderly man died in In California Placer County of COVID-19.
The death prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency to allow the state to respond faster to health worker needs. Less than two weeks later, schools across the state would shutter and, shortly after that, California entered the first of several stay-at-home orders.
In March 2020, the Trump administration started conducting daily press briefings at the White House. They became a joke after Trump seriously suggested that injections of bleach might kill the virus.
By April 2020 daily cases exceeded 2,000 people nationwide.
By November 2020 cases exceeded 100,000 a day. By December of that year the cases exceeded 200,000 per day. It stared ebbing in January 2021 to less than 100,00 daily cases but resurged in August and September to over 100,000 new daily cases.
December 11, 2021 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. It became available in January 2022.Three vaccines developed from different pharmaceutical companies soon became readily available.
Despite the availability of vaccines about one third of Americans refuse to be vaccinated. Daily rate of new cases still exceeds 30,000 people.
Tennessee, USA
Tennessee, USA is the heart of where country music really began – Nashville! The Birthplace of Country Music Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, tells the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest V. Stoneman, and others.
“These recordings in Bristol in 1927 are the single most important event in the history of country music.” -Johnny Cash
Sadly Tennessee is also the state that hates scientific theory and the free press.
Recall July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee. That was the dates of the Scopes Trial, also called Scopes Monkey Trial. High-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the public sphere while also stoking a national debate over the veracity of evolution that continues to the present day.
The two sides brought in the biggest legal names in the nation, William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense. Scopes was convicted and fined $100.
The film Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account and made religious people look like fools.
Now almost one hundred years later a Tennessee school district bans “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education removed “Maus” from the eighth-grade English language arts curriculum, citing “rough, objectionable language” and a drawing of a nude woman.
The Catcher in the Rye
Tennessee is a state of contradictions.
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Read this carefully
Jan. 6 insurrection cartoon
Biden’s Capitol insurrection anniversary speech, in 3 minutes
President Joe Biden summed up January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in this 3 minute speech. Replay it a few times so it sinks in. The single most important — and powerful — line from Joe Biden’s 1/6 speech, “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
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