IT HAS COME TO THIS

The Department of Health and Human Services its part of OUR (yours and mine) government.  You and I should both be embarrassed and furious.  They have an explicit policy of separating parents from their children when they are court on our Southern borders attempting to cross"illegally".  This is being done to force parents to return from whence they come if they would like to be reunited with their children.  One of their bright spots person also said (not in these words) that they tell the parents that the kids are being taken away in order to get them showered.  When some of my relatives were taken by transport to the death camps, they too were told that they were headed for showers as they stepped off the boxcars.

I know a thing or two about the mental health of children having spent more than a few years of my professional life working with kids and their families.  The government's policy is trauma inducing and heartless. Beauregard has further told us that the policy is supported by biblical texts--as if his religion provides the rationale for this decision.  His religion but not mine.

And let's be clear:  we are not just talking about almost adult 16 or 17 year olds which would be bad enough.  We are talking also about toddlers and little kids.  Even with the furor over immigration in Europe, I have not seen or read any European policy which separates children from their parents.  We stand alone.

--Not a peep from the Republican conservatives or for that matter from liberal Democrats about POTUS cozying up to a dictator who has executed hundreds of his opposition and disregards human rights.  POTUS demeaned us (as in America) by his boorish behavior in Canada but his comfort with the worst leaders in the world is equally repugnant.
--I am actually more pissed at the silence of the Democrats than that of the Republicans.  I expected more and am getting much less.
--BTW, the staffer who said something like "McCain is dying anyway"--that young woman we now learn has left her job but Kelly Anne has informed us that she will be welcome somewhere else in OUR government.
--RBG has to stay alive and the November midterms are getting more important by the day.
--Best of luck to LH and OH as they continue to take risks and move on out into the world of new experiences.

SPORTS TALK
We really do not "get" how important the World Cup is to the rest of the world.


Shalom

FOUR CAVITIES, ONE ROOT CANAL, AND ONE EXTRACTION

That's the summary of my first appointment with a new dentist after being with the old one for almost 50 years.  It turns out that I may almost be a Luddite; but my old dentist was a dental Luddite.  The new guy actually uses digital x rays that he can see and review in real time--as can the patient.  Plus, he has this funny little gizmo which he shoves in your mouth to take pictures also digitally.  It's like the 21st century.  Now I just have to have the work done and me without dental insurance.  Moving on.

--Congratulations to recent graduate TW and welcome to new subscriber EF.
--Samantha Bee did not help.  I happen to like her a lot and feel like she and John Hodgkin are the best fruits that came from the Jon Stewart tree (btw, I miss him).  But her ugly Ivanka comments only confirm what POTUS and his base believe. The media is out to get them.  And it distracted from Roseanne's disgusting rant.
--If you tried really hard, you could not imagine or create in your imagination characters like Michael Cohen or Roger Stone.  Stone always is tanned up and walking around with his man bag.  Cohen cannot possibly be any more shyster like.  And, alas and alack, I am almost certain they are members of my tribe.  EEK.
--"I'm Phil Swift".  That's how the ad opens.  I used to get hysterical with those knives advertised on late night tv.  But Phil's ads are even more hysterical.  He saws an aluminum boat in half and then uses this special tape (and you can get two rolls for the price of one) to repair the boat before getting in it and supposedly motoring across a lake with no leaks.  It also can patch underwater leaks in your pool.  You gotta see Phil.
--The drug company "Sanofli"had a great response to roseanne blaming one of their medications for her craziness.  They more or less said the drug has many side effects none of which was racism.
--Apparently, not only are immigrants "criminals and rapists", they are also "animals" according to POTUS. And there is no reason infants and toddlers cannot be separated from their parents.  After all, they are "illegals" also.
--I get a lot of emails from the Democratic party asking for money.  First of all, I am only giving money directly to candidates I like.  More importantly, I have taken to responding to these requests. In my own small protest, I am telling them they get none of my money until one of the Democratic leaders takes on POTUS verbally and publicly.  Just won't give.
--Beside his attacks on the environment, Pruitt also does not believe too much in free speech barring reporters from certain speeches he gives.  Doing the job he was hired to do.
--I refuse to feel any sorrow, any embarrassment, any empathy for Beauregard--he wanted the job, he got the job, he is attacking immigrants, and he gets the venom of POTUS.  Tough.
--Your tax dollars helped us submerge the expressway which ran through the heart of downtown (btw, thanks).  But i don't care how much it cost because every time I walk on the Greenway which now covers that road, I enjoy it and find every penny well worth it.  Plus it is mobbed.

SPORTS TALK
--The Celtics finally faded but they were enjoyable to watch.  Why does that little person inside my head worry that neither Kyrie nor Hayward will ever be as good as they once were.  You do know that Lebron played every single minute of Game 7, don't you?  He is unimaginably good.

See y'all.  My plane is warming up.