Points out the stakes in this election; you know, the one Pelosi says is too dangerous to leave to the voters.   

Thanks, Pookie!

Houston Chronicle by  Hannah Dellinger Nov. 18, 2019

Brookshire woman who mailed explosives to Obama, Abbott sentenced to 10 years in prison

A Brookshire woman who previously pleaded guilty to mailing explosives to then President Barack Obama, Gov. Greg Abbott and the director of a federal agency was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Monday, just moments after denying her involvement in the incidents.

“My problem is that I have a huge heart and I’m too trusting of people,” Julia Poff said at her sentencing in a Houston federal courtoom.

The 47-year-old mother of four said she and her family have helped dozens of people in need over the years. She cited Bible verses she said she and her husband, a co-defendant in the case, live by.

Poff worked at a fireworks stand for nine years, according to prosecutors, and “knew what she was doing.”

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Brookshire-woman-who-mailed-explosives-to-Obama-14843999.php

LONDON — “Is it time to stop looking at Gauguin altogether?”

That’s the startling question visitors hear on the audio guide as they walk through the “Gauguin Portraits” exhibition at the National Gallery in London. The show, which runs through Jan. 26, focuses on Paul Gauguin’s depictions of himself, his friends and fellow artists, and of the children he fathered and the young girls he lived with in Tahiti.

The standout portrait in the exhibition is “Tehamana Has Many Parents” (1893). It pictures Gauguin’s teenage lover, holding a fan.

The artist “repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls, ‘marrying’ two of them and fathering children,” reads the wall text. “Gauguin undoubtedly exploited his position as a privileged Westerner to make the most of the sexual freedoms available to him

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/arts/design/gauguin-national-gallery-london.html

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