@Mariean_w Don't ask the Internet this question. Listen to yourself and your baby.
But I was not worried when my healthy full term babies slept for a little longer than the "scheduled" 3hrs.
On July 9th 1572, nineteen Catholic priests were hanged in a peat shed in the Netherlands.
They were offered their lives if they denied the Eucharist. All nineteen refused. The ropes were too long to break their necks. They strangled slowly.
The men who killed them founded the Dutch Republic.
The country the world knows for tolerance began here.
Friends, yesterday, while in Washington, DC, interviewing Vice President Vance, I visited both the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery. As I made my way from the Lincoln Memorial to the graves of Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, their assassinations weighed heavily on my heart.
A quote from Aeschylus that I have always loved is engraved on stone near Robert Kennedy’s final resting place, as he quoted Aeschylus on the night of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
I was moved to reflect upon the assassinations of all of these key figures in our nation’s history: Lincoln, Robert Kennedy, JFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in light of the quote by Aeschylus, a pre-Christian figure who, nonetheless, intuited a deeply Christian mystery that somehow, through our suffering and pain, comes the deepest kind of wisdom.
What struck me as I stood in Arlington Cemetery was the reality of the violence that has bedeviled our political society for so long. Yesterday was the second day of the trial of the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, a figure in the public square opening himself to dialogue and conversation.
This terrible curse of violence in the body politic has been a cancer in our nation from Lincoln to the present age, and it extends beyond explicit violence to violence implicit in our online interactions.
What did Robert Kennedy say to this? “What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer.” What did Lincoln say in his second inaugural address? “With malice toward none, charity for all.” These are the great ideals that should be informing our political life.
So, as I reflected upon the individuals whose graves I visited yesterday, and with the memory of Charlie Kirk in mind, I said a prayer for our country, that we may find the path to peace.
In 125 years we went from hanging horse thieves to “sorry this illegal alien r4ped and killed your daughter, but his IQ is too low to stand trial or know right from wrong.”
Another example of why Harris County needs change. 401 applicants for a $411k job… but the top scorer wasn’t picked. Instead, the daughter of a longtime Dem politician gets the role. Taxpayers deserve better than this. Full story 👇
I want my neighbors to speak English. I want them not to litter, not commit crimes, and to return the shopping cart. I want them to be colorblind and not display ethnic bias on jury trials.
These are all completely separate from taxes.
@SenMcCormickPA@SenFettermanPA Excellent! We were there the first two days and it was incredibly disappointing not to see PA represented. It's a good reflection on you both.
Why the fuck can’t you bring animals or foreign fruits across the border without ‘disturbing the ecosystem’ — but importing millions of third-world migrants is celebrated as ‘enrichment’ while they turn our countries into shitholes?
The rest of the fair did not have this issue. Everyone I interacted with clearly spoke english. The ferris wheel is one of the premier attractions. Really exposes just how much employers rely on cheap imported labor. It's in the small things...
I really, really enjoyed the @Freedom250 state fair. We went 3 days in a row. Only thing that really bugged me was that the ferris wheel was entirely operated by foreign men who could not or would not speak English. Couldn't find 4 local young men to work hard for three weeks?