Rain has ceased her assault for now,
broken records shattered faith
in weather patterns, and how!
Streets flooded and gardens submerged.
Waves above plants crested and surged.
Climate change shows the fruitless folly
of distracted senses unable to observe
nothing that matters more
then destructive weather battering the door.
Mother Nature refuses to give up on us,
On Earth’s survival and our own.
She bellows and blows
to drive her message home.
The nihilism of our young is no surprise
as they watch all they knew of truth and honor die.
The hopefulness of youth also decries
the callow acceptance of loss
by ancient leaders who fail to count the cost
as their years surmount their reason
in their final season.
Time to allow youth its voice
and watch them lead us forward
to a better choice.
Allow youth to set aside
the greedy old clinging to their wealth;
as if wealth, not life, is the real prize.
Stay strong young sons and daughters.
These old bones are counting on you
to laugh and love, to plant and grow
a world much better than we have left behind.
I salute you and offer you
all the wisdom you can unwind
from old codgers
with weak limbs, but loving minds.
annarino writes 
State’s Rights and Fascist Court ?
I just ate an entire bag of Milano double dark chocolate cookies. Better that than crying in outrage that separation of church and state has overcome our constitutional rights as white politicians within the Republican Party exploit the personal faith of voters to retain their control of government. Why? Because of their racism and sexism, and gender fears. And, to allow corporate and private wealth to stay in power through them, personally rewarding them financially and supporting filling their campaign chests.
These protagonists blocked the Equal Rights Amendment for women in my youth. Women finally got the right to vote but it and other civil rights have never explicitly been assured. This is one reason the privacy rights under the constitution was used to explain why women have a legal civil right to decide their health care rights and family planning rights.
This same reasoning was used to protect a couple’s right to use birth control. That right is now also facing elimination according to Justice Thomas’ dissent.
The Supreme Court is our greatest and final protector of our freedoms and civil rights. Today, the court threw women to the wolves. They invaded the privacy right of a woman to her own body. They destroyed a woman’s right to safeguard her mental and physical health. Her rights no longer belong to her. They belong to state legislatures. women no longer have rights equal to men in this nation.
We have been here before. Despite the end of enslavement of African-Americans recognition of their civil rights took another 100 years to secure. And, those rights, including the right to vote are again, still, under siege. The Voting Rights Act has been eviscerated. Will the supreme Court’s States Rights Rule now be applied to any individual’s right to equality and freedoms? This case opens that door. The decision today directs us through that door.
The violence and intimidation against women is now supported by our Supreme Court, using its judicial powers. I fear it will soon be the same for people of color, LGBTQT community … indeed any group the white supremacist leaders supported by our churches think they have a right to control.
Today’s decision is far worse than overturning abortion rights. It overturns equal rights. I fear it is not only women who are under threat. Our very identity as a free society , as an American society, was destroyed today.
I am out of cookies. Out of words. Only tears remain. Fascist Court? Not usually 2 words that go together. They do now!
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