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