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Smoke And Mirrors


The current administration and the adjunct Congress have brought bad government to a new low. While TOTUS spouts from his bottom half, the neer do well Congress is busily subverting the justice system. Botch McConnell is attempting put unqualified Judges in Lifetime judgeships. All of this to repay the debts he owes from well heeled contributors to his campaigns and the upper income Kentuckians. Politics has always been dirty but the past 10 years have shown that the value received by American voters from elected officials is far less than they (elected officials) try to make us believe. There have been few “honest” politicians as the system has evolved to be “what will you do for me if I support you” rather than what can we do for our country and its citizens? It is an unfortunate reality that so many voters have become “entertainment” oriented. Governing is not a game but with the advent of mass media and TOTUS some of us are viewing Governing like a game show. This “JS”* mentality is what got TOTUS in office and has allowed the Neer do well Congress to continue it’s “business as usual” ways. It is incumbent on voters to correct this imbalance by voting with an understanding of the candidate and questioning when necessary. The voice of the people needs to be loud and clear at the ballot box.

*Jerry Springer- indicating Audience members who believe the events on stage as being spontaneous.

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Trump vetoes bipartisan measure against DeVos’ loan rules


Again TOTUS Policies give to the  rich and criminal while ALL students under heavy debt, underemployment to unemployment. MA.

 

Collin Binkley, Associated Press

 

Education 

President Donald Trump on Friday vetoed a measure that would have overturned a policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued in 2019 making it harder for students to get their loans erased after being misled by for-profit colleges.

The Senate gave final approval to the bipartisan measure in March, dealing a rare rebuke of DeVos from the Republican-led chamber. But Trump on Friday said DeVos’ rules are better than an Obama-era policy that would have been restored if the measure succeeded.

In issuing his veto, Trump said the rules created by former President Barack Obama “defined educational fraud so broadly that it threatened to paralyze the nation’s system of higher education.”

He added that DeVos’ policy “strikes a better balance, protecting students’ rights to recover from schools that defraud them while foreclosing frivolous lawsuits that undermine higher education and expose taxpayers to needless loss.”

Democrats condemned the move and promised a House vote to override the veto. Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, who led the the bill in the House, said the fight is “far from over.”

“President Trump sent a message to the American people that he cares more about enriching predatory schools than protecting defrauded students and veterans,” Lee said.

A statement from the Education Department thanked Trump for the veto.

“This administration is committed to protecting all students from fraud and holding all schools accountable when they fail their students,” the department said. “This administration’s rule does just that, despite false claims from many corners.”

Lawmakers moved to overturn DeVos’ policy through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn federal rules with a simple majority of both chambers and approval of the president.

The resolution sought to strike down DeVos’ changes to a policy known as borrower defense to repayment, which erases federal student loans for borrowers whose colleges commit fraud.

The policy dates to the 1990s but was expanded under Obama to forgive loans for thousands of students who went to for-profit college chains that used false claims to get them to enroll.

When DeVos took office, though, she suspended the rules and began writing her own, saying the Obama policy allowed too many students to get their loans erased at the expense of taxpayers.

Her changes were opposed by borrower advocates but embraced by for-profit colleges, who said their industry had unfairly been targeted by the Obama administration.

DeVos’ 2019 update made it harder for students to get their loans discharged by requiring them to prove their colleges knowingly misled them and caused personal financial harm, among other changes.

Congress’ effort to reverse the rules were supported by advocates for military veterans, who make up a major share of students at for-profit colleges.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who led the measure in the Senate, said the veto hurts veterans while helping DeVos and the “fraud merchants at the for-profit colleges.”

“My question to the President: in four days did you forget those flag waving Memorial Day speeches as you vetoed a bill the veterans were begging for?” Durbin said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her chamber “will soon vote to overturn this veto, which poses a grave harm to the financial security and futures of America’s students.”

The congressional measure was applauded by education advocates who said DeVos’ rules made it nearly impossible for defrauded students to get loans erased.

James Kvaal, president of the Institute for College Access and Success, said he was “crestfallen” by the veto.

“As a direct result of today’s action, hundreds of thousands of students cheated by colleges will have no way to get a fresh start,” he said. “The message to unscrupulous colleges is that there will be little or no consequences for illegal wrongdoing.”

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Federal Judge Seeks Investigation Into Whether McConnell Pressured Judge To Retire


While TOTUS lies and struts, Botch McConnell subverts the Judicial system. MA.

Andrew Solender Forbes Staff May 5, 2020,12:39pm EDT

Business

Judge Sri Srinivasan, in an order dated May 1, asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to prompt an investigation into a complaint alleging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pressured a federal judge to retire in order to elevate his protégé to the seat.

KEY FACTS

The New York Times reported in March that Mcconnell had been quietly urging Republican-nominated judges eligible for retirement to step down in order to be replaced by younger conservatives to help maintain ideological control of the court.

Later that month, progressive group Demand Justice requested an investigation into whether McConnell pressured DC Circuit Court of Appeals judge Thomas B. Griffith to make room for 37-year-old Justin Walker.

Now, the Times reported Monday, Srinivasan, the chief justice of the DC Circuit Court appointed by Obama, is requesting that Roberts assign the case to a different circuit to investigate the complaint, stating that an investigation by the DC Circuit Court would pose a conflict of interest.

“Nothing is known about whether or how Majority Leader McConnell might be attempting to further incentivize these judges,” the complaint stated. “A prompt inquiry into the majority leader’s potential efforts to influence Judge Griffith, perhaps through improper means, is essential, particularly because it appears that he has attempted to influence many other federal judges, as well.”

The complaint cites rules governing judicial conduct, which prohibit judges from accepting gifts in exchange for favors related to a judicial office.

“If Judge Griffith accepted anything of value in exchange for his retirement from the bench, including the promise of future employment, such as a prestigious professorship, or future income or any bonuses that could have come with an agreement for future employment, he may be violating these Rules.” they argue.

The Times reported that Srinivasan said he made the order public to signal that the accusations of judicial misconduct are being taken seriously by the courts, since they have been “reported in various major news outlets.”

McConnell spokesman Doug Andres told Forbes ”Leader McConnell looks forward to watching Judge Walker’s confirmation hearing this week.”

KEY BACKGROUND

Mcconnell has racked up an impressive record of confirming conservative judges, especially during the Trump administration. Like Walker, Mcconnell’s 37-year-old protégé who was confirmed to a lower federal courtship last October with no prior judicial experience, many of Trump’s judicial nominees have been young and some have received “not qualified” ratings from the American Bar Association

This spate of young appointments is part of a comprehensive push by Republicans to reshape the court in a conservative ideological image. Oftentimes, the Senate GOP’s methods have defied convention, such as refusing to give a hearing to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016. More recently, Senate Republicans pushed to gavel the upper chamber back into session to confirm a new slate of judicial nominees despite risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

BIG NUMBER

  1. 192. The Senate has confirmed192 mostly conservative judicial nominees since Trump took office, already far outpacing the 134 confirmationsin President Obama’s first term with many months still to go.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Walker is already a controversial nominee, having received a “not qualified” rating from the ABA, vocally backed Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of sexual assault allegations and openly advocated for coordination between judges and conservative political groups. This development may threaten to further complicate what was already shaping up to be a tense confirmation battle.

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The Regions and Phases of Pritzker’s Plan To Reopen Illinois


In spite of several representatives wanting to parse out their areas for reopening away from the guidelines, the basic plan is as fair as you can get. There appears to be some leeway for easements but the overall plan makes sense whether it is universally liked or not. MA

By MARY HANSEN • MAY 8, 2020

 

RESTORE ILLINOIS PLAN, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Editor’s Note: As of May 29, Illinois is in Phase 3 of the plan, modified to include restaurants offering outdoor seating; and some offices, salons, barbershops and gyms can open with capacity restrictions and public health precautions. Read more here. 

Illinois is in Phase 2 of Restore Illinois – the five-step plan Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveiled this week to reopen schools, colleges, parks and businesses, while addressing the coronavirus pandemic.

Some state parks are open. More shops can operate to fill online and pick up orders, and in some places, residents can go to a drive-in movie theater. While the stay-at-home order still applies to the whole state, Pritzker said going forward, that will change as it’s a regional plan.

“Reality on the ground looks different in different areas of the state,” Pritzker said at a recent press briefing.

Some Republicans and business groups have criticized the regions for being too vast and the timeline too slow, wreaking further havoc on the economy.

Pritzker defends the plan, saying he’s basing it on guidance from public health and medical experts, and that he consulted with business leaders, mayors and officials from around the state.

Dr. Mark Dworkin – a professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health – said Pritzker’s approach is ‘thoughtful,’ but alternatives are possible.

“Especially with no major science behind what we’re doing, but just trying to use expert opinion and good judgment,” he said. “But we should beware of a situation where we’re talking about our politicians because… they are preset to disagree with whatever the other group is.”

An explanation of the phases is below and in the governor’s plan. Movement between the next two phases depends on a region keeping the share of new positive tests low for two weeks, hospital admissions have to be stable for nearly a month, and the region has to have enough hospital beds and equipment to respond to a surge in new COVID-19 patients. Testing must also be expanded and contact tracing robust.

But there’s a catch to moving on from Phase 4, the one before mostly returning to normal: the state could be here for months.

“Until we have a vaccine or an effective treatment or enough widespread immunity that new cases fail to materialize – the option to return to normal doesn’t exist,” Pritzker said.

Debate Over Regions

The plan combines the 11 regions the Illinois Department of Public Health established for Emergency Medical Services into four: Northeast with Chicago and its suburbs; North-Central Illinois from the border with Wisconsin down to Peoria and Bloomington; Central Illinois from Danville to Quincy, including Springfield and Champaign-Urbana, and finally Southern Illinois, including the Metro-East and Carbondale.

 

Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin and his fellow Republicans took to Zoom this week to criticize it, saying that there is not enough local control over moving from phase to phase.

“I’m here to raise a warning flag that Watseka, Illinois is very different than Quincy, not only just four hours away,” he said. “The plan is set up in an unworkable way.”

The cities he references are both in the Central Illinois region. Durkin went on to say that the plan would destroy many small businesses and manufacturers.

State Rep. Ryan Spain, who was at the virtual press conference, is a Republican from Peoria, where he says hospitalization rates, new cases and intensive care unit capacity have all been meeting the governor’s benchmarks to start loosening more restrictions.

“We have been meeting them now for the last four weeks,” he said. “So that takes me to the third problem, which is the arbitrary establishment of some of the time periods included in the governor’s plan.”

Spain took issue with May 1 as the start date for IDPH to track metrics. That means no region can open up more until the end of the month.

Pritzker defended the designation, saying that is when some regulations loosened, such as allowing more retail stores to open.

On the region size, public health experts NPR Illinois interviewed said the larger population size in the regions could ensure that smaller or single outbreaks don’t cause big swings in the metrics the public health department is tracking.

“When you get that number of people to assess, you’ve got a good denominator on which to make decisions,” said Dr. Jerry Kruse, CEO of SIU Medicine in Springfield and dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

Timeline

Pritzker has faced criticism for using a 28-day timeframe between phases, while other states, including New York, are using 14 days. Two weeks is thought to be the incubation period for the coronavirus.

Dworkin, the UIC epidemiologist, said four weeks – or two incubation periods – is more cautious.

“It’s giving you more comfort that when you make that change, you’re that much more sure what’s going on,” he said.

 

That could mean there is less of a chance for moving backward and having to institute more restrictions.

Dworkin said he understands living with restrictions until a vaccine or treatment is available is uncomfortable.

But the alternative is worse – more infections and deaths until herd immunity is reached.

“Why would we take the hose off of the fire?” Dworkin asked. “What would we expect to happen if we did that, because we’re tired of holding the hose? We can expect the fire to burn faster and harder than it was with the water on it.”

According to the metric tracker on IDPH’s website, all the regions except Chicago are on track to meet criteria to move on to Phase 3 at the end of May.

Phases

The state is divided into four regions, and each can move forward – or backward – through the five phases of the plan as they meet certain medical benchmarks:

Phase 1 (Illinois began in March) : Broad stay-at-home order, with only grocery stores, pharmacies and other essential businesses open. Bars and restaurants are only open for pick-up and delivery orders. Only essential manufacturers can operate.

To move to the next phase: The growth of new cases must slow, and surge capacity of hospital beds and ventilators must be available. Testing must be available for any healthcare worker or first responder with symptoms, and 10,000 tests done daily statewide.

Phase 2 (Began May 1) : Stay-at-home order continues, but more retail stores can open to fill online and pick-up orders, similar to restaurants. Face coverings are required where social distancing isn’t possible, and some outdoor activities, such as boating, fishing and golfing, are allowed.

To move to the next phase: A region must keep the share of new positive tests at 20% or below for two weeks, with no major spikes. Hospital admissions for COVID-19 have to be stable for 28 days, and the region has to have 14% of hospital beds and equipment available to respond to a surge in new COVID-19 patients. Testing availability must expand to anyone with underlying conditions, as well as residents and staff as nursing homes, jails and other congregate settings. Contact tracing begins within 24 hours of diagnosis.

Phase 3: Offices, salons and barber shops can open, with capacity limits and other safety precautions. Face coverings are still required. Any gatherings of 10 or fewer are allowed.

To move to the next phase: The positivity rate and hospital admission criteria are the same as moving from Phase 2 to Phase 3. Testing must be available for anyone, regardless of symptoms. Contact tracing must begin within 24 hours for more than 90% of the cases in the region.

Phase 4: Childcare centers and schools, as well as bars and restaurants can reopen, all with safety guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health. Any gatherings of 50 people or fewer are allowed. Travel resumes.

To move to the next phase: A vaccine or effective treatment must be widely available. Alternatively, a region has reached herd immunity and there are no new cases over a sustained period of time.

Phase 5: Conventions, large events and festivals are permitted. All businesses, schools and recreation can resume with safety guidance.

 

Returning To Normal?


Apparently many of us are caught up in the minutiae of how to protect oneself and others from COVID-19. The one fact that seems to escape us is the lack of testing. Testing will not prevent COVID but it will identify people who may have it or perhaps have come in contact with the disease. The key to getting back to relative normal is: TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING. The second part is contact tracing if someone is positive for the virus-Contact tracing is the process of contacting the person(s) who the infected person has come in contact with.

Testing for COVID-1

Guidance on Interpreting COVID-19 Test Results pdf icon[610 KB]external icon: A guide for interpreting test results and determining what actions to take.

Two kinds of tests are available for COVID-19: viral tests and antibody tests.

  • A viral test tells you if you have a current infection.
  • An antibody test tells you if you had a previous infection.

An antibody test may not be able to show if you have a current infection, because it can take 1-3 weeks after infection to make antibodies. We do not know yet if having antibodies to the virus can protect someone from getting infected with the virus again, or how long that protection might last.

Who should be tested

To learn if you have a current infection, viral tests are used. But not everyone needs this test.

  • Most people will have mild illness and can recover at home without medical care and may not need to be tested.
  • CDC has guidance for who should be tested, but decisions about testing are made by state and localexternal icon health departments or healthcare providers.
  • If you have symptoms of COVID-19 and want to get tested, call your healthcare provider first.
  • You can also visit your state or local health department’s website to look for the latest local information on testing.
  • Although supplies of tests are increasing, it may still be difficult to find a place to get tested.

Results

  • If you test positive for COVID-19 by a viral test, know what protective steps to take if you are sick or caring for someone.
  • If you test negative for COVID-19 by a viral test, you probably were not infected at the time your sample was collected. However, that does not mean you will not get sick. The test result only means that you did not have COVID-19 at the time of testing.

This is by no means a complete preventative method, there remains the hand washing, masking and other everyday precautions.

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A Cautionary Tail (not a misspell)


I would like to extend a Thanks to TOTUS aka Donald J. trump for putting America on path to ruin in just 3 short years. With his help we have put the spotlight on the neer do well congress that has silently been rearranging our judicial system in the worst way, allowed public health and safety to be pushed aside or eliminated. A shout out to the administration for alienating our long time allies when we need them the most in combining research on the COVID 19 ( which TOTUS can spell and unable to pronounce) pandemic. A special thanks goes out for embracing and elating our long time national adversaries to a status they do not deserve. The bright light at the end of this tunnel is the year end election and the hope that the folks who did not vote last time will do so this time. A non partisan ending is “better Biden than continued ineptitude and national disgrace”. This  current administration is the “tail wagging the dog!

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From Kerner to Ferguson to Minneapolis


“And the beatdowns and deaths continue”.MA

After the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 and the unrest that followed, a new commission was formed to study a problem strikingly similar to the one examined nearly 50 years earlier.

Chaired by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, the group was tasked with identifying the underlying causes of the unrest. Its final report, while much narrower in scope, bears some resemblance to the Kerner Commission’s findings. Its recommendations included:

  • Reducing the use of force by police officers
  • Reforming sentencing laws
  • Improving the health and education of children and young people
  • Increasing access to affordable housing and public transit
  • Expanding Medicaid

Like the Kerner report, the Ferguson analysis identified racial and economic inequality as the primary source of the problems that led to the protests. But the language and tone are strikingly different:

“We are not pointing fingers and calling individual people racist,” the report diplomatically states. “We are not even suggesting that institutions or existing systems intend to be racist.”

In 2018, a study co-edited by Kerner Commission member Fred Harris followed up on the status of communities examined in the 1968 report. The findings were grim. The new study found that poverty in many of those places had actually increased, as had school segregation, while the inequality gap between white Americans and black, brown and Native Americans had widened.

The original Kerner Commission may have foreseen this outcome. The report’s conclusion quoted the testimony of psychologist Kenneth Clark. Clark – whose famous doll tests were cited in Brown v. Board of Education – reminded the panel of the many previous commissions assembled to study incidents of racial unrest: Chicago in 1919, Harlem in 1935 and 1943, Los Angeles in 1965.

Testifying before the Kerner Commission, Clark said, was a kind of “Alice in Wonderland” experience: He watched the same images flickering past, sat listening to the same analysis and the same recommendations – and it all culminated, finally, in the same inaction. The commissioners quoted his words:

“It is time now to end the destruction and the violence.”

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Still TOTUS Moves Ahead


The Resident of the United States again moves ahead as if he is correct. Any reasonable and rational person should observe his ineptitude. If you think his policies and actions are OK, fine and or acceptable, just wait until the effects hit you and your family. TOTUS has no objectives beyond his personal needs and gains. If you believe a second term is good for TOTUS then perhaps you have avoided all news media. The top job in America is not like the starring role in TV show. With the background of unscrupulous elected officials we need a leader that actually leads. It is well to remember a  con artist cons, a liar lies and will continue to do so in the face of facts to the contrary. The goal of elections is to put people in place to serve the public, that has proven to be difficult since too many currently serving electeds are corrupt and have been for years. There is no good reason to keep a representative in place until retirement without close scrutiny of their actions on our behalf (the everyday people, not just the wealthy). Read the following tweet from TOTUS and think-do you want another term with this inept conman?

President Trump on Tuesday suggested without evidence that a 75-year-old man who was knocked to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., last week during a protest over George Floyd’s death was a member of antifa and that the incident was “a set up.”

Video taken Thursday shows two officers pushing the man, Martin Gugino, who then falls and hits the back of his head on the pavement, causing him to bleed. Police initially claimed Gugino tripped. He remained hospitalized in serious but stable condition on Monday.

In his tweet, the president tagged the far-right One America News Network.

“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,” Trump tweeted to his 81.9 million Twitter followers. “75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”

There are so many “dog pilers” that is sometimes difficult to see who is on the bottom but consider that we are usually the one’s on the bottom whether you believe it or not.  We as a country are victims of the biggest scam in history and the lead huckster is aided and abetted by our neer do well Congress.

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Pete Carroll says we ‘owe’ Colin Kaepernick, but he must forget his own personal history with Kap


Apparently Pete Carroll is not as much a leader as a follower. MA

Frank Schwab

Yahoo Sports•June 3, 2020

On the surface, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll’s words about Colin Kaepernick were complimentary and important.

Carroll talked about how much Kaepernick did during his peaceful protest over social inequality. He said “we owe a tremendous amount” to Kaepernick.

But apparently part of owing Kaepernick a tremendous amount didn’t include Carroll’s Seahawks giving Kaepernick a job — one he deserved in the NFL — when they had a chance.

Carroll’s words are a lot more empty when you consider how he and the Seahawks shunned Kaepernick, and due to those same actions Carroll praised this week, when he would have been a great fit for their football team.

Pete Carroll praises Colin Kaepernick

Carroll made a long, seemingly passionate comment about Kaepernick on The Ringer’s “Flying Coach” podcast.

“I think that there was a moment in time that a young man captured. He took a stand on something, figuratively took a knee, but he stood up for something he believed in — and what an extraordinary moment it was that he was willing to take,” Carroll said, via Nick Friedell of ESPN.com. “… But what happened from the process is it elevated awareness from people that just took everything away from what the statement was all about, and it just got tugged and pulled and ripped apart.

“And the whole mission of what the statement was, such a beautiful … it’s still the statement that we’re making right today. We’re not protecting our people. We’re not looking after one another. We’re not making the right choices. We’re not following the right process to bring people to justice when actions are taken. So I think it was a big sacrifice in the sense that a young man makes, but those are the courageous moments that some guys take.

“And we owe a tremendous amount to him for sure.”

Great, right? Well, in 2017 the Seahawks could have been the team to sign Kaepernick. They brought him in for a visit. They called him again in 2018. Maybe that would have avoided the NFL’s collusion fight against Kaepernick. But they passed and signed someone who had nowhere near the resume of Kaepernick.

It’s hard to take Carroll seriously after remembering that history.

Seahawks helped keep Kaepernick out of NFL

In 2017, the Seahawks had Kaepernick in for a visit. Knowing the amount of publicity that would come along with that, it’s not just a “kick the tires” visit. Seattle had interest. But it didn’t sign him. The Seahawks signed Austin Davis, who has 13 career touchdowns, 12 interceptions and hasn’t played in the NFL since some meaningless snaps for Seattle in 2017. It’s impossible to argue he was better than Kaepernick or even a better fit in the offense behind starter Russell Wilson. Something changed the Seahawks’ mind between Kaepernick’s visit and signing Davis, and perhaps we’ll never know the full story. Carroll used the excuse that Kaepernick “is a starter in this league, you know. And we have a starter,” which makes no sense because teams are theoretically better with starting-caliber players — not Austin Davis — backing up their clear starter.

Then in 2018, ESPN reported the Seahawks contacted Kaepernick about another visit, but that was called off when Kaepernick would not promise the team he wouldn’t kneel during the anthem.

So when Carroll says Kaepernick’s demonstration was “beautiful” and a “big sacrifice” and “courageous moments,” remember that in 2018 the Seahawks called off a free-agent visit when Kaepernick wouldn’t promise to not kneel again. Beautiful, just not on the Seahawks’ field apparently.

There will be a lot of statements made by athletes and coaches as protests continue over the fight for social justice following the death of George Floyd. Just remember that some of them aren’t backed up by actions and in some cases, completely contradict what they’ve done.

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J.F. Roxburgh 1888-1954 et al


Roxburgh’s goal was to develop students with good character and moral courage, young men that would be “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck.”

It is clear to me that goal was not achieved with our current administration and the Neer do well Congress that supports him. There is little blame to be placed on his voting supporters as they as many of us have been spoofed by our elected officials and the certain parts of the news media. Looking at the current chain of events from 2016 until now, we are, in the vernacular of many “deep Dodo”. This administration has created havoc around the world through withdrawal from climate and trade pacts, assessing tariffs on countries for no other reason than the thinly veiled racism. Pounding our southern neighbors through returning and requiring immigrants to remain there until their number is called ( often years at this point), building a wall that has no effect aside from encroaching on American land owners while at the same time cutting their  farms in half. There is no Rhyme or reason to this administration other than the aggrandizement of this President and his cohorts. All of the executive orders and barely legal actions of the administration abetted by the GOP members of Congress have served only to incite the divide created by a lackluster Congress and gleefully joined by TOTUS. This scam of a Presidency has brought shame on all United States citizens but is acknowledged only by the citizens who have the wherewithal to recognize and embrace the multi nationality that made America in spite of the hundreds of years of inequality. If you are afraid of folks who are different or do not look like you then you are in the wrong country as this has been the case for the existence of the United States. If you allow the status quo to continue we will always have inept and criminal representation in government.

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