Album Taboo subjects from Diane Putnam

A dark place

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:05:20 +0000

Shock, anger, fear, depression.

Feel free to comment about the "situation." I might not have much heart or brain space to respond very much.

NO TO WAR

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:22:32 +0000

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A petition on Change.org. www.change.org/NetVoyne

The two young Russian Youtubers I have followed for three years have gone silent. This petition link was on one's Instagram homepage. Of course, Putin will not be paying attention to any of these things, but it is a way to show solidarity with the over 110million people who have signed - most of them young Russians.

If you wish, please sign and leave a comment so that they know you are behind them. It is something to do when we feel helpless. Thank you.

"We fear no one"

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:16:59 +0000

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Photo: Reuters tinyurl.com/553dbb2f

My heart is with the Ukrainian people as they struggle against evil.

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nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:32:15 +0000

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EDIT 6/1/21: Gun violence, including mass shootings, continue and an almost daily rate. Most government and police officials are alarmed by what the summer might be like.

Wish us luck!

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:01:48 +0000

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True story: Right after I dropped my ballot into the slot, Bruce Springsteen came on the radio, singing, "Born in the USA." I drove away feeling emotional and thought, "Yeah, and I want my country back!" I have never missed an election in my life and this one is the most important of all.

American week

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:04 +0000

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An unspeakable event* has lead to massive rioting in most large cities. An outrage inside a societal crisis inside a pandemic inside a leadership vacuum. Our very own Matryoshka doll.

White cops killing unarmed black men - not an unusual event in the USA. They almost never result in charges against the police, even when a bystander's video clearly shows it was, at the least, an unjustified shooting and needs to be presented to the District Attorney for possible criminal charges. Fortunately, there were many bystanders filming at the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. That is our Memorial Day, I might add. There was something about this particular case that touched and enraged the entire population - with certain exceptions - and led swiftly to murder charges against one officer. The other three will possibly be charged, too, since none of them (one a senior officer) stopped the primary perpetrator.

I am sick of grief and anger. I just want to have peace. I don't even expect happiness.

* WARNING: difficult to watch...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMGUAHBFmjk

Hey I have an idea I'll start a war

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:26:46 +0000

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"Night Blaze"
Acrylic, 2006

34 in 1 week

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:57 +0000

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1) 28 July, California: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/instagram-account-connected-gilroy-shooter-pushed-staple-white-supremacist-internet-n1035926 White supremacist.

2) 3 August, Texas: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/active-shooter-near-el-paso-mall-police-responding-n1039001 Avowed white nationalist.

3) 4 August, Ohio: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-investigate-active-shooter-incident-dayton-ohio-n1039046 Motive so far unknown.

A rational proposal:
thehill.com/hilltv/rising/456339-former-white-supremacist-calls-on-trump-administration-to-stop-using-fear-to

National fault line

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:54:06 +0000

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On federal furlough

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:39:36 +0000

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Nate, my son, will be using this to panhandle in front of grocery stores. His attitude is a lot less kindly about it than it looks in this photo. He and his co-workers are seething. Oh, gee, I wonder who made this happen! www.politico.com/latest-news-updates/government-shutdown-2018

The sign for translating:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture office is currently closed, due to the lapse in federal funding. The office will reopen once Congress restores funding. [This last part is not the real problem.]

9/11/01

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 01:19:41 +0000

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RIP 2,996.

NASA PHOTO: www.space.com/41785-nasa-remembers-9-11-17th-anniversary.html

Freedom can fade away

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:07:06 +0000

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This photo and the next are based on shame and anger. They aren't meant to be good photos. 2,300 children, from infants to teens, were removed from their parents' custody as they sought to enter the country from the southern border. They are in custody in chain link cages in Texas and other sites. (I will not be interested in discussing illegal immigration. I am talking about children.) For clarification, please refer to: tinyurl.com/yd6ufryn

I am very proud to say that Sen. Jeff Merkley of OREGON was the first member of Congress to go to Texas, trying to enter one of the "shelters" last week. He was turned away and others started showing up. Now it is all exposed.

Summer in America

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:06:58 +0000

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This photo and the previous one are based on shame and anger. They aren't meant to be good photos. For clarification, please refer to: tinyurl.com/yd6ufryn

Now we hear on the news that there has been no organized identification, cross-matching and tracking system to get the children back with their parents. And, in a panic, those "in charge" (?) have sent hundreds of children all over the country to shelters and foster homes. Many are too young to reliably even give their parents' names, much less any other information. Ordinary citizens are showing up at airports to help, based on tips that children are arriving in their cities. One couple has raised nearly $18 million for setting up a system and eventual transportation to reunite the families, since the Immigration dept. does not seem to have done so. Donations continue to increase as the shock and outrage spreads across the country. I will have to say this: MOST who are shocked and dismayed are not Republicans, though some of those are at least moderately bothered by it. Particularly politicians up for re-election this November.

This is the most severe moral failure in the United States since Japanese-American incarceration in WWII.

There are hundreds of attorneys offering pro bono help with immigration and other problems in the USA, all because of one mentally deficient man who claims this is all the fault of others.

The International Relations Doughnut

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:26:43 +0000

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YUMMY! ;-b

Today's artwork

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:16:59 +0000

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Scroll down in this article for a breathtaking speech by high school student Emma Gonzalez. www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-florida-school-shooting-protests-20180217-story.html

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nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 05:48:47 +0000

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See Smiley's post here: www.ipernity.com/doc/smiley_derleth/46225968

The gentle epithet "fools" would not have been my choice. Credit would be given if I knew who made this. I did a Google image search and it's on about a hundred websites. tinyurl.com/y75q2jsx

Blue tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:19:29 +0000

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Pelican Bay State Prison, Crescent City, California. Some of you commented on my photos of the Air base in Klamath Falls. I accidentally went one better by taking a shot of this California state prison, the state's highest-security, rated a "Supermax." It was kind of impulsive, since I was driving by and happened to know what it was in the first place.

There are loads of photos of it online (inside and outside), Youtube videos and TV documentaries about Pelican Bay. Anyway, a guard came running up to me and informed me I couldn't take pictures, which I can understand in retrospect (oops, too late). Escapes have been aided - not especially at this one - by people on the outside "casing the joint."

California state prisons are heavily populated by gang members of all ethnicities. They are also notorious for excessive use of solitary confinement. Pelican houses the super-violent, and in no way has done rehabilitation until recently in small scale. When I was doing mental health therapy, I had a few Oregon clients who actually had PTSD from having been in California prisons.

I have NO illusions or soft feelings about career criminals, especially violent ones, but nearly all US prisons release people who are more felonious and crazy than when they went in. President Obama and both parties of Congress were making headway in prison reform, but the current regime will turn all progress backward.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_Bay_State_Prison

Don't panic, Carla...

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:04:08 +0000

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...I've got a bomb shelter on rush order from Sears and the Dumpster is paying for it.

I found the tape

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:15:11 +0000

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Maybe too much of an inside joke.

Inauguration

nobody@ipernity.com (Diane Putnam) — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:32:38 +0000

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Thank you, Keith Burton, for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOeG-uTJxw