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BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
16 June 2026
Spanberger backs House budget as shutdown deadline looms over data center tax fight 15JUN26
GOV spanberger shows who she is representing in Richmond and it isn't the people. She is pressuring the Virginia Senate to accept the Virginia House budget that keeps the tax breaks for data centers and is warning of a possible government shutdown if the senate doesn't give in to her demands. This sounds like a tax plan and threat NOT MY pres drumpf/trump and the congressional gop / greed over people-republican party would support ( remember the bbb anyone? ). Please contact your Commonwealth delegate and senator by phone and / or e mail and tell them to actively oppose continuing the data center tax break for the billionaires and mega millionaires who do not live anywhere near these monstrosities. E mail and / or call Gov spanberger and express your opposition to her support for the data center tax break. And join the Ashburn Village Residents & Friends Against Data Center Development and Crew, Afton and, Falmouth Neighborhood facebook pages. This from WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, VA.....
Spanberger backs House budget as shutdown deadline looms over data center tax fight
Posted 6:20 PM, Jun 15, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she supports the House of Delegates' proposed budget as state lawmakers race to avoid a government shutdown before the July 1 deadline.
Legislators are set to meet Tuesday to review their proposed budgets, and the House could vote as early as Thursday. But a major obstacle remains: the Senate Finance chair is insisting that a billion-dollar sales and use tax exemption for data center operators must end — a position that puts the Senate at odds with the House proposal.
The governor said her team has not had a substantive discussion on what Sen. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) might present as a counter proposal. On Friday, Lucas posted a graduated tax proposal for data centers on social media but has not presented that plan to the governor's team.
As recently as Sunday, Lucas was adamant that the companies behind the data centers would pay what she called their fair share.
"They keep saying to us, 'well, if we don't get that sales and use tax exemption in Virginia, we're gonna go someplace else.' Well, Senator Locke just laid it out for you: all the other states are saying, 'no, we don't want them' and if we get them, we're going to make sure that we modify how we do these use and sales tax exemptions," Lucas said.
Spanberger reiterated her support for the House version of the budget.
"In the absence of any counter proposal or any additional budget language coming from the Senate, I continue to remain supportive of the House of Delegates proposed conference report, because it's thorough, it's thoughtful, it addresses priorities across the board," she said.
She added that if it were brought to a vote, there is broad support for the measure.
"If it were brought to a vote, certainly there's many members ... of the state Senate whose budget priorities are also in that conference report," she said.
The timeline is tight. While House of Delegates members return Thursday, Senate members do not convene until next Monday. Under legislative rules, an agreed-upon budget must be on legislators' desks 48 hours before a vote can be taken. If a budget agreement is not ready by the close of business Tuesday, the House will not be voting on Thursday.
15 June 2026
Erasing Anything Palestinian: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of West Bank Bedouin And Herding Communities 10JUN26
MORE and more Israel resembles hitler's fascist third reich, and this is not an extremist point of view. Israel's civilian government, it's civilian government agencies, it's military, police and security agencies, it's economic / business community and the majority of it's Jewish citizens are committing ( actively or complicit by approval of ) ethnic and cultural genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Bedouin, Israeli and American Palestinians, against Islamic and Christian Palestinians using the same methods and techniques the third reich used against Jews and the populations of the nations and territories they invaded and occupied. Illegal occupation of territory in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon is fascist Israel's lebensraum policy. The only thing missing are the ovens but Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian villages, casualties and deaths be damned. Israel can no longer be considered a democracy, it is an authoritarian theocratic oligarchy terrorist state a la Saudi Arabia. Click the link to read this report from Amnesty International. BOYCOTT ALL PRODUCTS FROM ISRAEL AND SUPPORT DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAELI COMPANIES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BONDS. Please consider e mailing your representative senators telling them to stop all offensive weapons and ammunition sales and aid shipments to Israel until they end their neo-nazi fascist policies toward and treatment of all Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and Lebanon. My e mails will be at the end of this post.
ERASING ANYTHING PALESTINIAN: ISRAEL'S ETHNIC CLEANSING OF WEST BANK BEDOUIN AND HERDING COMMUNITIES
Palestinian Bedouins lived for generations in the occupied West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta (Zanuta), sustaining themselves through herding, farming and dairy production. The village was designated as part of Area C under the 1995 Oslo II Accords, placing it under full Israeli military and administrative control. Today, Zanuta is being eaten away by Israeli outposts and settlements and destroyed by state-sponsored violence and terror.
Just 1km from Zanuta, Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost known as Meitarim Farm in 2021. The settlers soon began a sustained campaign of violent attacks and threats against Zanuta’s residents. They set fire to the villagers’ tents and classrooms, broke into their homes, beat them with rifles, threw stones at them, smashed their solar panels and windows, emptied their water tanks and pumped sewage onto their farmland.
The story of Zanuta reflects the fate of dozens of Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities already displaced or at imminent risk of displacement in Area C.
This report lays bare the scale and severity of the ethnic cleansing campaign targeting these communities, carried out in a context of apartheid and unlawful occupation and against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
The report also demonstrates—contrary to what too many in the international community suggest—that the campaign is not the product of “rogue” settlers, settlers’ organizations, or “extremist” government ministers.
In other words, settler violence is not an aberration but an integral part of an organized state policy.
The report demonstrates that the ethnic cleansing campaign in Area C is state-sanctioned, state-driven and state-implemented; it seeks to accelerate the Israeli government’s annexation agenda and settlement expansion through war crimes and crimes against humanity.
As such, the report’s conclusions demand that the international community fully confront and name the Israeli state-driven project and act decisively to prevent the destruction of Palestinian communities and the annexation of the West Bank.
MY E MAILS TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN WARNER D-VA AND SEN KAINE D-VA
MORE and more Israel resembles hitler's fascist third reich, and this is not an extremist point of view. Israel's civilian government, it's civilian government agencies, it's military, police and security agencies, it's economic / business community and the majority of it's Jewish citizens are committing ( actively or complicit by approval of ) ethnic and cultural genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Bedouin, Israeli and American Palestinians, against Islamic and Christian Palestinians using the same methods and techniques the third reich used against Jews and the populations of the nations and territories they invaded and occupied. Illegal occupation of territory in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon is fascist Israel's lebensraum policy. The only thing missing are the ovens but Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian villages, casualties and deaths be damned. Israel can no longer be considered a democracy, it is an authoritarian theocratic oligarchy terrorist state a la Saudi Arabia. I expect you to take all the necessary action to stop all offensive weapons and ammunition sales and aid shipments to Israel until they end their neo-nazi fascist policies toward and treatment of all Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Israel proper and Lebanon. To refuse to do so makes you complicit in the illegal actions and crimes Israel is committing, you will have blood on your hands and will be as guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity as the Israelis committing these offenses.
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic 12JUN26
FASCINATING. I love that this article proves again the Native Americans / First Nations who lived throughout the continent and the Caribbean were and are not ignorant people. Sequoyah is proof of how wrong the White invaders were. The problem for the Europeans who invaded, conquered, committed physical and cultural genocide and stole the lands of the Native Americans / First Nations was and still is for some is they are not White. The neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration and the gop / guardians of prejudice-republican party are boosting this ignorance, cutting funding of federal programs for Native Americans and in the bans of visitors and immigrants from Brown and Black countries while encouraging immigration of White pro-apartheid South Africans. This is all America, past and present, and this article is from Smithsonian Magazine...
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic
Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread
Illustration by Mer Young
At first, they laughed. Then they scoffed. Finally, they accused him of witchcraft. The Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah had spent years scratching strange marks on paper. In 1821, his fellow tribespeople, disturbed by his obsession, put him on trial for practicing black magic. Sequoyah insisted his invention would allow Cherokee speakers to write out Iroquoian language for the first time. To test his claim, tribal elders ordered Sequoyah’s young daughter, Ayoka, to another room. Father and daughter separately made marks on paper and told their minders in each room what the marks said. Then the papers were exchanged. When each was able to read the other’s messages aloud, suspicion turned to wonder.
The astonished elders immediately asked him to teach them his revolutionary transcription method. Within six months, one in four Cherokee, or Tsalagi, could read and write. Within a quarter-century, Cherokee people had achieved a higher rate of literacy than the country’s non-Native population.
The unprecedented development came after years of work by a man whose name means “pig’s foot,” perhaps a reference to his pronounced limp. Born in 1770s Tennessee to a Cherokee mother and a white father, Sequoyah was raised in his mother’s culture and didn’t read or write English. During the War of 1812, he served alongside American soldiers, sometimes using the English name George Guess. The experience likely exposed him to written language, or what he called “talking leaves.”
After the war, Sequoyah moved to Alabama and began experimenting with an ideogrammic approach to written Cherokee, in which each word was a symbol, but he abandoned that as cumbersome and too difficult to learn. Eventually, he hit on 86 syllables that expressed specific sounds, each syllable represented by symbols borrowed from Greek, Hebrew and English. Later reduced to 85 symbols, Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory: By 1827, the Cherokee had a written constitution, and everything from hunting guidance to sacred chants could be recorded for posterity. The Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native newspaper in the United States, rolled off the press in 1828 using his symbols. Others followed.
The syllabary was widely lauded, as its phonetic accuracy and simplicity made it far easier to grasp than English. “The superiority of Guess’ alphabet is manifest, and has been fully proved by experience,” wrote Albert Gallatin, a U.S. Treasury secretary, diplomat and linguist, in 1836. “The boy learns in a few weeks that which occupies two years of the time of ours.” Yet sudden mass literacy didn’t curb the U.S. government’s growing appetite for Cherokee homelands in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Soon after Gallatin made his comments, the government forced tens of thousands of Cherokee to migrate along the Trail of Tears to a territory now called Oklahoma.
Despite this tragedy, the Cherokee carried the syllabary to their new home and maybe even across the Atlantic. In Liberia, a Cherokee named Austin Curtis, who married into the Indigenous Vai community, is said to have used the syllabary to devise a script for the Vai, which went on to inspire written works throughout West Africa. Sequoyah himself moved to Mexico, where he died in 1843.
Today, with only a few thousand Cherokee fluent in their ancestors’ tongue, the syllabary is a key tool in safeguarding Tsalagi culture. Teenagers use it to text one another; children’s books use it to convey traditional tales; and official documents and road signs communicate in the mode Sequoyah invented—moving reminders of how a single individual’s brilliance and tenacity can change the world.
Did you know? Where did Sequoyah go?
It's unclear why Sequoyah left for Mexico when he was 80 years old, in 1842, but according to an expert with the Cherokee National History Museum, he may have been in search of his fellow Cherokee who had settled there.
Even prior to their forced removal from the southeastern United States, many Cherokee resettled in the early 19th century in East Texas, which at the time was under Spanish rule. After Mexican independence and the later fight for Texan independence, these Cherokee lost contact with their countrymen.
Over the years, many attempts have been made to find Sequoyah's gravesite, but none have been successful.
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