#b. 1942 american speaker／author

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

請留意，你說出的任何關於你自己的故事都是給自我的食糧。

Notice that any story you tell about yourself is food for the ego.

－ Byron Katie ／American speaker and author

[blackhistorychatgpt]

Great Figures

me: Can you give me 50 important Black historical figures that I can study with a short bio for each of them?

ChatGPT:

Certainly, here are 50 important Black historical figures along with a short bio for each:

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) - Civil rights leader who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advocated for nonviolent resistance to racism and segregation.

Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913) - Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and later became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved people to freedom.

Barack Obama (1961-) - First Black president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) - Born into slavery, Douglass escaped and became a prominent abolitionist, writer, and speaker.

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) - South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who became the country's first Black president.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) - Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) - Poet, author, and civil rights activist who wrote the autobiographical book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) - Civil rights leader, historian, and sociologist who co-founded the NAACP and was the first Black person to earn a PhD from Harvard.

Malcolm X (1925-1965) - Civil rights activist and leader of the Nation of Islam, known for his advocacy of Black self-determination and his criticism of nonviolent resistance.

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) - Born into slavery, Truth became an abolitionist and women's rights activist, giving her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851.

Angela Davis (1944-) - Political activist and author who was involved in the Black Panther Party and later became a professor of philosophy.

Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) - Historian and author who founded Black History Month and dedicated his life to promoting the study of African American history.

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) - Civil rights lawyer who argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before becoming the first Black Supreme Court justice.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) - Political trailblazer who was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black person to seek a major party's nomination for president.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) - Author and civil rights activist who wrote about the experiences of Black Americans in works such as "The Fire Next Time" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain."

Mae Jemison (1956-) - Astronaut who became the first Black woman in space in 1992.

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) - Jamaican-born political leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated for Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) - Journalist and civil rights activist who documented lynching and other forms of violence against Black people.

Medgar Evers (1925-1963) - Civil rights activist who worked to desegregate schools and public places in Mississippi before being assassinated by a white supremacist.

Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) - Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, which advocated for Black self-defense, community empowerment, and socialism.

Paul Robeson (1898

[honeyleesblog]

Astrological Outlook and Personality Analysis for Those with a May 25th Birthday

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 Assuming your birthday is on May 23, your zodiac sign is Gemini May 23 - character and character character: impartial, unobtrusive, generous, shameless, forceful, testy; calling: social scientist, instructor, attorney; colors: cyan, greenish blue, war vessel dark; stone: cimfano; creature: mollusk; plant: strawberry; fortunate numbers: 3,5,15,30,53,56 very fortunate number: 29 Occasions and observances - May 23 Mexico: Understudy's Day. "Disclosure of the Bდ¡b", sacred day in the Baha'i schedule. Worldwide Day for the Annihilation of Obstetric Fistula May 23 VIP Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1900: Franz Neumann, German legislator. 1903 - Charles William Morris, American savant. 1905: Renდ© Cდ³spito, Argentine artist and entertainer (d. 2000). 1905: Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Spanish lawmaker and author (d. 1936). 1906: Lucha Reyes, Mexican artist (d. 1944). 1908: John Bardeen, American physicist, 1956 Nobel Prize victor in Physical science and 1972 (d. 1991). 1908: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss columnist (d. 1942). 1910: Franz Kline, American painter (d. 1962). 1910: Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist and guide (d. 2004). 1912: Jean Franდ§aix, French author (f. 1997). 1917: Jorge Gottau, Argentine minister (d. 1994). 1917: Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008). 1919: Ruth Fernდ¡ndez, Puerto Rican artist (d. 2012). 1919: Luis Papic Ramos, Chilean lawmaker (d. 1990). 1923: Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish musician (d. 2009). 1924: Karlheinz Deschner, German antiquarian, pundit and writer (d. 2014). 1925: Joshua Lederberg, American geneticist, 1958 Nobel Prize Victor (d. 2008). 1926: Joe Slovo, South African Jewish socialist legislator of Lithuanian beginning (d. 1995). 1927: Calorie counter Hildebrandt, German nightclub craftsman (d. 2013). 1928: Rosemary Clooney, American vocalist and entertainer (f. 2002). 1928: Nigel Davenport, English film and TV entertainer (d. 2013). 1930: Friedrich Achleitner, Austrian author. 1930: Jordi Solდ© Tura, Spanish lawmaker (d. 2009). 1931: Josდ© Luis Coll, Spanish comedian and author (f. 2007). 1933: Joan Collins, English entertainer. 1934: Robert Moog, American innovator (d. 2005). 1940: Cora Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (d. 2010). 1940: Gდ©rard Larrousse, French dashing driver and group director. 1942: Josდ© Pastoriza, Argentine soccer player and specialized chief (f. 2004). 1944: John Newcombe, Australian tennis player. 1944: Lena Nyman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2011). 1946: Rodolfo Aicardi, Colombian vocalist lyricist of well known music (f. 2007). 1947: Ann Hui, Hong Kong movie producer and screenwriter. 1949: Moncho Alpuente, Spanish author, artist and columnist (d. 2015). 1949: Alan Garcდ­a, Peruvian legislator, leader of his country. 1951: Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player. 1952: Anne-Marie David, French vocalist. 1952: Federico Trillo, Spanish lawmaker. 1953: Enzo Trossero, Argentine footballer and mentor. 1956: Ursula Plassnik, Austrian lawmaker. 1957: Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish vocalist (d. 1995). 1958: Drew Carey, American entertainer. 1958: Thomas Reiter, German space traveler. 1959: Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist. 1961: Lucდ­a Galდ¡n, Argentine vocalist (Pimpinela). 1965: Manuel Sanchდ­s, Spanish soccer player. 1965: Tom Tykwer, German movie chief. 1965: Melissa McBride, American entertainer. 1967: Luis Roberto Alves "Zague", Mexican soccer player. 1967: Phil Selway, English artist, of the band Radiohead. 1969: Laurent Aiello, French motorsport driver. 1971: George Osborne, English government official. 1972: Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian engine hustling driver. 1972: Sebastiდ¡n Cordero, Ecuadorian producer. 1973: Santiago Eximeno, Spanish essayist. 1974: Gem, artist and American entertainer. 1974: Mდ³nica Naranjo, Spanish artist. 1974: Sebastiდ¡n Wainraich, Argentine entertainer, jokester and TV have. 1974: Marდ­a Soledad Rosas, Italian-Argentine revolutionary aggressor. 1976: Antonio Naelson Sinha Matias, Mexican-Brazilian soccer player. 1976: Kelly Monaco, American entertainer. 1976: Emiliano Spataro, Argentine engine hustling driver. 1977: Sergio Mur, Spanish entertainer. 1978: Scott Raynor, American drummer, of the band Squint 182. 1978: Mauricio Martდ­nez, entertainer, artist and Mexican artist. 1978: 2-D, lead artist of Gorillaz 1980: Miren Ibarguren, Spanish entertainer. 1981: Gwenno Pipette, English artist (The Pipettes). 1982: Malene Mortensen, Danish artist. 1983: Heidi Reach, English vocalist (Sugababes). 1983: Alex Shelley, American expert grappler. 1983: Silvio Proto, Belgian footballer. 1983: Natalia Hernდ¡ndez Rojo, Spanish writer. 1984: Adam Wylie, American entertainer. 1984: Hugo Almeida, Portuguese soccer player. 1988: Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer. 1991: Lena Meyer-Landrut, German vocalist. 1997: Rui Tanabe, Japanese voice entertainer and artist.

[davidrivkin]

Congress Declares War, but Only the President Can Make It

By David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey

15 January 2020 in the Wall Street Journal

House Democrats, joined by a few Republicans, responded to the killing of Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani by questioning the president’s authority to order that strike. But the resolution they passed last week makes a mockery of Congress’s own powers. It purportedly “directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran or any part of its government or military” unless Congress authorizes the use of force or an Iranian attack on the U.S. is “imminent.” But it’s styled as a nonbinding resolution. That means it doesn’t need Senate approval, but it also makes no pretense of having the force of law.

Which is just as well. Congress cannot limit the president’s constitutional authority to wage war in the way it pretends to here.

The resolution purports to restrict the president’s power to an even greater extent than the 1973 War Powers Resolution. The latter was enacted over President Richard Nixon’s veto, and every president since has regarded it as unconstitutional. It demands that the White House notify Congress anytime U.S. forces are introduced into hostilities abroad, then either obtain congressional authorization or withdraw troops within 90 days. The new resolution applies to all forms of military power, including drones and missiles, and claims to prohibit them effective immediately.

It’s true that the Constitution assigns Congress the power “to declare war.” Yet even in the 18th century, a declaration of war wasn’t required to create a state of armed conflict, governed by the laws of war. Today, such a declaration has to do with how citizens and property from belligerent and neutral states are treated, rather than the actual use of force. The last time Congress formally declared war was in 1942. Since World War II, lawmakers have approved U.S. military actions by other means, from the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson to expand U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

The power to declare war is different from the power to make war, which belongs to the president in his role as “commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” There are few constraints on that power when the president is defending Americans, civilian or military, against armed attack.

True, the Framers didn’t grant the president power to initiate hostilities at his pleasure. They gave Congress, not the president, the authority to raise and support armies, to create a navy, and to make rules and regulations for their governance. It’s also up to the legislative branch to define the legal framework for armed conflict: offenses against international and military law, the procedures for their prosecution, the treatment of captured enemy property and prisoners and so forth.

Congress also has the power “to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia.” Military officers are subject to Senate confirmation. Congress can use its exclusive appropriation powers to limit or eliminate funding for a particular conflict—if lawmakers are prepared to take the resulting political risks. Inaction or nonbinding resolutions have no constitutional import.

Even if it passes legislation, Congress cannot dictate when and how the president exercises his power over the military forces it has provided—especially in selecting targets. Like any American, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is free to speak her mind. But her claim that the attack on Soleimani was “provocative and disproportionate” is preposterous.

Iran has been engaged in on-and-off armed conflict with the U.S. since “students” seized the embassy in Tehran in 1979. Soleimani was a uniformed member of the Iranian armed forces, and a critical player in Iran’s worldwide terror campaign. All that made him a legitimate target. The notion that Soleimani was too senior to be killed finds no support in the laws of armed conflict. Even the most senior military leaders can be targeted, as the U.S. did in 1943 when it shot down Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto’s plane in New Guinea.

Nor is it legally relevant, as some congressional Democrats have claimed, that killing such a high-ranking officer could heighten the danger of a wider war. Any military action has the potential to escalate hostilities, as do other exercises of presidential authority. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s imposition of an oil embargo against Japan in August 1941 arguably prompted the attack on Pearl Harbor four months later.

Under Mrs. Pelosi’s logic, virtually every major foreign-policy decision would require congressional authorization. Imagine if President John F. Kennedy had to ask lawmakers for approval during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 before subjecting Cuba to a “naval quarantine,” an act of war against Havana. The threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba was real, but it wasn’t “imminent” in the sense that Mr. Trump’s critics use that word today.

Kennedy acted to prevent a long-term, highly dangerous change in the nuclear balance of power that would have put Moscow in a position to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. with virtually no warning. But there was no reason to think an attack was planned for the immediate future.

Kennedy decided that action, while risky, would enhance deterrence, as President Trump did when he ordered the killing of Soleimani. The president deserves credit for a decision that would, at any time until recently, have been considered a triumph by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Messrs. Rivkin and Casey practice appellate and constitutional law in Washington. They served in the White House Counsel’s Office and Justice Department under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/congress-declares-war-but-only-the-president-can-make-it-11579133486

[douchebagbrainwaves]

OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT SOMEONE

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