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By Orange and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Ask no questions and you shall be told no lies.  That is nearly as disdainful as let them eat cake. [shared_counts] https://youtu.be/eWd5QsZf9oE?feature=sharedLet's Go Back In Time To 2013Senator Whitmer claims she was raped, yet she let convicted felons loose during COVID and just signed a law that gives former convicts voting rights.  Does this position square with someone who was a victim of sexual assault?This speech, speaking truth to power, garnered her an interview with Salon Magazine.  It appears there is a path to the ascension of power.https://www.salon.com/2013/12/23/why_i_spoke_out_about_my_sexual_assault_sen_gretchen_whitmer_talks_to_salon/I want to ask you about the end of your testimony. You mentioned that the rape, 20 years ago, is “something that I’ve hidden for a long time.” What spurred you to…

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. Our Christmas traditions are a wonderful blend of our western culture.  When those values are reflected in literature we want our children to experience them. https://youtu.be/sUGACO6WVI4?feature=sharedThe Melting Pot 1.0Holy, rowan, mistletoe are facets of Germanic and Norse mythology that were transplanted to England with the arrival of the Saxons and again with the Danes.The Yule Log is also a mixture of Christian and Nordic tradition celebrated during the month of December.  The Twelve Days of Christmas have their origin in part in the Twelve Days of Yule.https://www.acropolis.ie/magazine-posts/yule/For the people of Germania, Scandinavia, and Anglo-Saxon England, understanding the cycles of nature and the sun, in particular, was critical to survival, and celebrating the winter solstice is an ancient pagan tradition ...Yuletide was extended…

By Orange and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Increasingly we see a reliance on remote, and automated systems as an expression of faith, whether it be genetic testing guiding our health decisions, or AI acting as a sentinel for our education. [shared_counts] AI Better At Policing Human Behavior Than HumansBig Tech social media companies are THE authority on online behavior, they assure us their AI detection systems are superior to  human interaction.https://youtu.be/cFceffZQGuE?si=G_u-9-Xs9B-GYO_VIncreasingly we are turning to authority to do our thinking.  Just a few years ago that was a select group on experts who we conversed with via the Internet.  WebMD, Wikipedia are entities that represent the efforts of trained of subject matter experts who provide the best advice or knowledge that is the result of the…

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. No book captures the American spirit better than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  Mark Twain's satire depicts the strengths and weaknesses of the 1800s, something we need to learn from. https://youtu.be/-PmmMG-6mwo?si=TSGPqAfu0VXWSYzl Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer We have all, at one or another, been loved by A Tom or pursued a Becky,  Mark Twain depicts the courtship of Tom and Becky in such a way that easily conjours our…

By OrangeZipple1 and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Platforms are here to devour your speech, no matter how egalitarian, libertarian the Selected Few may sound.  What is it that compels us to acknowledge the Selected Ones? [shared_counts] [shared_counts] Opening Day 1937A better more robust culture, it required more of you. https://youtu.be/Ib8_8gwqezM?si=Lh0EEMC-GjJgAxDNYou Threaten Democracy By Questioning the Vote, But Also By Wanting Local Property RightsIn Michigan, law makers now say due process and the exercise of "democracy" delays the agenda.  They forget that they said democracy is what they protect when they reject people such as we who believe in Natural Law, the rule of law, and well, our state laws.https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/is-democracy-too-messy-in-michiganThere was a consistent thread in the Michigan Senate Energy and Environment Committee meeting Tuesday: Democracy is too messy.…