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canoeing

I went canoeing with Anne on the Juniper Spring River run in Ocala National Forest, and we had a great time. Many of the people in front of us did not know how to canoe and would go from bank to bank, and then flip their canoes. The alligators love it when the little pink paddlers float right up to them.
by mlhiss April 2, 2008
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Great Culling of 2020

Great Culling = Great Depression with massive culling of vulnerable industries and businesses and significant amounts of culling of those in the population with existing health problems.

A major international culling event in a capitalist system in 2020 caused by a failure of the capitalist system to be prepared for an epidemic. The Great Culling of 2020 it was activated by a epidemic. In the US in 2018 the White House dismantled the National Security Council’s global health security office it opened the doors as wide as possible for the private market sector to take responsibility for future epidemics and show their stuff.

Most people did not have a stomach for the capitalistic culling process in which businesses and industries that cannot survive and adapt are allowed to fail. These people are especially uncomfortable when those businesses that provide their job fail and go bankrupt. The masses also get queasy about job security in general, losing accumulated wealth, and being able to pay their mortgages or rent, or afford health care insurance when they need it most.
The Great Culling of 2020 is a great test of how a capitalistic system solves market failure. The biggest problem will be when there are demands for government involvement in the private sector, especially when people start dying in mass, industries and commercial businesses start failing and people are left in self quarantine without jobs and income.
Sadly the capitalistic system is never allowed to allow only the survival of the fittest, leaving the rich and powerful with another lost opportunity.
by mlhiss March 19, 2020
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Black Lead Matters

Black Lead Matters was a precursor to the Black Lives Matter and was a largely under reported protest movement focused on the public health crisis. Black Lead Matters was original brought to national attention when local Flint water supply was diverted from the Great Lakes to a highly polluted River. The water crisis in Flint it turns out was a much more common problem of polluted potable water supplies. It later became a low intensity national movement that is still under reported as hundreds of water supplies are revealed to have serious potable water quality problems. The result has been a lot of people got really sick and some died from the lead and other pollutants that were either in the water supply or from the chemicals leached out of the pipes, like lead.
Black Lead Matters was largely a local movement to protect the predominantly black communities from environmental pollution that came to light during the 2016 election system. Sadly the pollution of the public water supply was related to actions by the state government who acted with little concern to the primarily black community from the start. Even worse there was a cover up and continuation of the bad policy till it became a major political issue during a strategic time in the election cycle. Sadly Black Lives Matter is also a protest of police brutality and lack of consideration of black lives by public safety officers or police. However environmental pollution may be just as serious a problem for minority communities as racial profiling.
by mlhiss September 21, 2020
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implausible speculation

Frivolous musing. Legal term for senseless argument.
The Appeals Court dismissed the defenses argument as implausible speculation.
by mlhiss October 7, 2020
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transphobic

A person that feels uncomfortable and lacks a rational understanding or revulsion of people with transgender people, especially those with a real diagnosis of gender dysphoria (distress caused by the discrepancy between a person's physical gender and their gender identity).
There are as many different transphobic types of people as there are transgender people. Some transphobic individuals have a real fear and negative emotional reaction to transgender people, whereas others have a more outward hatred and rage towards transgender people. Many people who are considered transphobic have had little contact with transgender people and so may act stupidly, make light of the encounter by joking or teasing, or lack political correctness, or make insensitive comments but are not clinically transphobic. Some transphobic people claim it is immoral, social perversion, a ruse for voyeuristic people, or claim it is against their religion to rationalize their transphobic behavior. Many transphobic people can quickly learn more about gender dysphoria and to accept it without responding negatively.
by mlhiss December 20, 2019
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NIL

Name Image Likeness.
College student athletes can now develop their own brand based on their NIL
by mlhiss April 11, 2024
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stepfamily

A family where one or both parents have a genetically related child that is not genetically related to the other spouse. In some cases, both parents may have one or genetically related children that are not genetically related to the other spouse. The stepfamily designation parents may be discontinued to be used if the child or children have been adopted by the non-biological parent.
Children may have a relationship or in joint custody with both biological parents, meaning visitation rights or have a joint custody agreement where a child lives with one biological parent at a specific time, but they may only live with one biological parent at a specific time.

A stepfamily only occurs when there is a genetically unrelated parent. However, the use of the term may be discontinued if all the children of the family have been adopted legally by the non-biological parent.
A simple stepfamily is where only one of the spouses has a genetically related preexisting child or children and the other spouse does not. If the child or children have been adopted by the non-genetically related parent the stepfamily may be referred to as a family.
A complex or blended stepfamily occurs when both parents have biologically unrelated children at the start of the family. However, a simple stepfamily can become complex or blended when the two parents have a biologically related child in addition to the one or more child that is biologically unrelated to one of the parents.
I grew up in a stepfamily with one full sister and one halfsister, and one full brother and one halfbrother. I did not have a stepbrother until my father divorced my mother and married a woman with a son from a previous marriage.
by mlhiss July 30, 2019
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