So, I am getting very old and not likely to accomplish much, but promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CLICK] seems worth while Are you aware that the U.S. is the only nation that has refused to recognize children's rights? Why? Because parents, like slave owners of old, are not to be deprived of their property. Since I was not born in this country, I have never been owned. That is also true of the DACA children, as well as the child migrants who got disappeared into the foster care system. The parentalrights.org people explain it well. 2/3 of the Senate need to ratify for it to go into effect. That's according to the Constitution; not a filibuster rule. Can we get Senate candidates to make it a campaign issue?
I miss puddle, and Catreona, and it would be sweet to hear from Renee more. It was good to hear from Bill the other day, as he's been quiet and I wondered if he were okay.
This little Dean community has been together a long time. I hope we keep on.
Dean never appreciated the grass roots. His tenure at the DNC was ineffective in terms of recruiting and training good public servants. Obama was no better. After his election, he paid scant attention to the volunteers, even when they provided cash. However, the internet selection and promotion of candidates for office continues to grow to the point that the press has figured out that if they do not recruit readers/viewers, they are not going to survive. The party operatus is already defunct. IMAGINE, while seeking the Georgia governorship, Stacey Abrams is soliciting support for Witmer
Predicted high temperature today and tomorrow 110F; then it will cool off to a mere 107F for a day or two. I'm starting to get tired of this, although it is far from unprecedented in Fresno at this time of year.
May your electricity hold out! With the devastating heatwave in Europe, I keep thinking how dangerous it must be that most of the people in England do not have air conditioning.
After lunch I threw the compostables onto the compost heap; the weeds have really been growing like weeds, but it is just too hot to be extirpating them. All in good time.
So, I am getting very old and not likely to accomplish much, but promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CLICK] seems worth while
ReplyDeleteAre you aware that the U.S. is the only nation that has refused to recognize children's rights? Why? Because parents, like slave owners of old, are not to be deprived of their property.
Since I was not born in this country, I have never been owned. That is also true of the DACA children, as well as the child migrants who got disappeared into the foster care system.
The parentalrights.org people explain it well. 2/3 of the Senate need to ratify for it to go into effect. That's according to the Constitution; not a filibuster rule.
Can we get Senate candidates to make it a campaign issue?
Yes to all of the above, Hannah. I think incest is also due to the notion of parents OWNING their children, as well.
DeleteLadybug not seen in Vermont since 1966 found less than 2 miles from our house.
ReplyDeleteTime to start looking more closely in the gardens!
click here!
And! TWO rare species were found in two successive net swipes! First one species, then the other. So cool.
I miss puddle, and Catreona, and it would be sweet to hear from Renee more.
ReplyDeleteIt was good to hear from Bill the other day, as he's been quiet and I wondered if he were okay.
This little Dean community has been together a long time. I hope we keep on.
Dean never appreciated the grass roots. His tenure at the DNC was ineffective in terms of recruiting and training good public servants.
DeleteObama was no better. After his election, he paid scant attention to the volunteers, even when they provided cash.
However, the internet selection and promotion of candidates for office continues to grow to the point that the press has figured out that if they do not recruit readers/viewers, they are not going to survive. The party operatus is already defunct. IMAGINE, while seeking the Georgia governorship, Stacey Abrams is soliciting support for Witmer
Like the ladybugs.
DeleteI'm OK beyond being somewhat overshelmed and maybe a bit stressed helping plan Saturday's Disability Pride Paarade.
DeleteMore power to you, Bill! I'm grateful for your sense of civic duty.
DeleteNew COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t. [Click] I anticipate wearing a face mask when out and about for the foreseeable future; but will be among the first in line for any new vaccine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. It sound like the bivalent vaccine may be so distant that maybe I should go ahead and get my second booster.
DeleteIt's taking too long. I had my 2nd booster dose on April 1st! I'm wearing masks everywhere, and also expect to for a long time.
DeleteYes, go get the second booster, Bill.
DeletePredicted high temperature today and tomorrow 110F; then it will cool off to a mere 107F for a day or two. I'm starting to get tired of this, although it is far from unprecedented in Fresno at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteMay your electricity hold out!
DeleteWith the devastating heatwave in Europe, I keep thinking how dangerous it must be that most of the people in England do not have air conditioning.
Did I ever inflict my squirrel stew story on you folks? I probably did, but just in case. . .
ReplyDeleteHungary protests continue for fifth day amid growing anger at Orbán tax changes [Click]
ReplyDeleteRobert Reich: As a 76-year-old let me say: Joe Biden is too old to run again [Click]
ReplyDeleteAndrew Rawnsley: The march of Mordaunt could take an unknown quantity all the way to Number 10 [Click] Like Kinky Friedman said when running for governor of Texas, “How hard could it be?”
ReplyDeleteJohn Harris: Wanted: a Tory candidate with the faintest idea of what modern Britain is actually like [Click]
DeleteSecret Service’s January 6 text messages story has shifted several times, panel is told [Click] It’s an old observation that it’s easier to tell the truth because you don’t have to remember how you told it before. I’d bet a fiver that copies of the messages are preserved somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAfter lunch I threw the compostables onto the compost heap; the weeds have really been growing like weeds, but it is just too hot to be extirpating them. All in good time.
ReplyDeleteIt's impressive they are upright at all in such heat!
DeleteThere is one kind that stands particularly upright, shrugs off weed killer and must be eradicated rather than extirpated.
DeleteI hear from a classmate that it got up to all of 60F in my home town today.
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