@livefreeopinion@FaulknerFocus One must remember it was done before. When Sunny Bono of CA. was killed in a skiing accident. His 2nd wife was placed in his seat until the election was held. It's not unheard of.
@Tig_Bo We had a similar funny experience. My mom's body was picked up by two guys from the mortuary after midnight who we named Horace and Jasper due to them dressed & looking like the goons in 101 Dalmatians movie. They were clumsy and bumped the body around in our hallway.
@feelgoodtale Healing prayers for Charlotte and she will be in good hands that will help you all navigate through this.
One step at a time. God is with you. 🙏🏼✨
@jmasseypoet She's on the narcissistic destructive personality power hungry spectrum with a touch of evil thrown in. What happened to caring for the widows and orphans? She does not follow Jesus.
So, "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins came on a few minutes ago at work.
I was the ONLY person who did the air drum solo.
I don't wanna work here anymore. I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.
America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.
The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.
Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.
Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.
These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.
So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.
114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.
America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.
@QueenMother1976 Brother has a TBI. He can't figure out his tv technology. Needs help all the time. Now apt uses a laundry app. No cell phone. So I have a friend who put the app on her phone and helps him do his laundry. No more coins. Decreased his independence.
The High Court has ordered the release of teacher Enoch Burke from prison.
He has spent almost 700 days in prison since September 2022 for refusing to use gender bending ideology pronouns in the classroom.
A man of integrity.