Wednesday Reads

"They died doing what they loved."

Another country to scratch off from the bucket list.

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Obituary:  Former congressman and Oakland mayor Ron Dellums, 82, of California died the other day.    He was one of the most prominent African American politicians in the United States.  He had been suffering from cancer.

Snip:

A former social worker representing Oakland and Berkeley, perhaps the nation’s most liberal congressional district, Mr. Dellums went to Washington in 1971 as a fiercely liberal — some said radical — firebrand protesting the Vietnam War.

He demanded a House investigation into American war crimes in Vietnam. When his pleas were ignored, he held his own informal hearings, which drew national attention. As antiwar protests raged outside the Capitol, a former Army sergeant told in unsworn testimony how he and his platoon had massacred 30 men, women and children in a Vietnamese village. It was a shocking beginning.

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I agree with this person about veganism and vegetarianism aren't healthy, but what we are dealing with are cultists who are fucked in the head like all cultists.