Bill…great essay today on an important topic, especially since you are directly involved!
Commenting today on some of the 7 Other Things
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The debate at large traced its roots back to the end of World War II, but this round of the debate began in 1992 with the decommissioning of the last active battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63), and ended when the last of these ships was finally completely retired in 2011.[1] The Navy decommissioned Missouri after determining that her fire support function could be replaced by ship and submarine-launched missiles and aircraft-launched precision guided munitions.
Global TV in Canada has aired the full 60 Minutes segment about immigrants sent to CECOT.
Bari Weiss killed it hours before it was set to air.
The men who risked their lives to tell their story will finally be heard.
The whole world will know they were tortured.
The whole world will know the regime sent people to a foreign concentration camp.
Thank you Canada.
(From substack)
“CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk.
What she has done for journalism in the last two days is about as important, and courageous as it gets. With her cherished journalistic institution threatened, and her career on the line, Alfonsi is sounding the alarm that “60 Minutes” is sliding further into an increasingly irretrievable and dark place.”
It is interesting to me that one of the few actual laws passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump has already been broken. Who holds the DOJ accountable? Is it the president? The courts?
I can attest to the importance of #1. My daughter was born to a chain smoking birth mother. It caused very low birth weight (3lbs. 15oz.) and a whole slew of physical/mental developmental issues. One of the outcomes was that she never slept...n-e-v-e-r. To this day she will be up at 1am cooking a full meal for herself. She is grown, and a chef, so things turned out well, but that whole attention, memory and inhibition control thing is real.
#4 read with them not to them. We would sit with my son on one side so that he could, at first, pretend to be reading, then later read with us. I remember my FIL reading him a book one night. It was a nice effort, but the guy was not one for sitting and reading a book, regardless the genre or length. He started skipping pages and my son stopped him in his tracks, "papa, you forgot the part that goes...."and proceeded to recite the entire 2 pages of text that he skipped. My FIL came downstair hysterical laughing. He never tried that again.
Bill…great essay today on an important topic, especially since you are directly involved!
Commenting today on some of the 7 Other Things
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The debate at large traced its roots back to the end of World War II, but this round of the debate began in 1992 with the decommissioning of the last active battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63), and ended when the last of these ships was finally completely retired in 2011.[1] The Navy decommissioned Missouri after determining that her fire support function could be replaced by ship and submarine-launched missiles and aircraft-launched precision guided munitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_battleship_retirement_debate
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Global TV in Canada has aired the full 60 Minutes segment about immigrants sent to CECOT.
Bari Weiss killed it hours before it was set to air.
The men who risked their lives to tell their story will finally be heard.
The whole world will know they were tortured.
The whole world will know the regime sent people to a foreign concentration camp.
Thank you Canada.
(From substack)
“CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk.
What she has done for journalism in the last two days is about as important, and courageous as it gets. With her cherished journalistic institution threatened, and her career on the line, Alfonsi is sounding the alarm that “60 Minutes” is sliding further into an increasingly irretrievable and dark place.”
—Dan Rather
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/one-courageous-correspondent?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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It is interesting to me that one of the few actual laws passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump has already been broken. Who holds the DOJ accountable? Is it the president? The courts?
Kids...
I can attest to the importance of #1. My daughter was born to a chain smoking birth mother. It caused very low birth weight (3lbs. 15oz.) and a whole slew of physical/mental developmental issues. One of the outcomes was that she never slept...n-e-v-e-r. To this day she will be up at 1am cooking a full meal for herself. She is grown, and a chef, so things turned out well, but that whole attention, memory and inhibition control thing is real.
#4 read with them not to them. We would sit with my son on one side so that he could, at first, pretend to be reading, then later read with us. I remember my FIL reading him a book one night. It was a nice effort, but the guy was not one for sitting and reading a book, regardless the genre or length. He started skipping pages and my son stopped him in his tracks, "papa, you forgot the part that goes...."and proceeded to recite the entire 2 pages of text that he skipped. My FIL came downstair hysterical laughing. He never tried that again.