The mention of a purportedly bipartisan, so-called unity “No Labels” ticket, among several potential impacts, is reminder that the Republican Presidential Nominee presently need only prevent Biden from garnering 270 electoral votes to be elected President. To clarify, were no candidate to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes, the election would be decided by the U.S. House, wherein Republicans currently control 26 delegations, Democrats 22, and 2 are tied (MN and NC). Each delegation would get 1 vote. Because a contested 24 election would be decided by the next Congress, we thankfully have time to flip a handful of delegations. Accordingly, because I’m determined at least to try and reverse the Republican advantage, I’ve started studying some charts to establish which delegations appear most likely flippable and will post my list once I’m ready. Meanwhile, I welcome your thoughts.
I just want to thank all the American firefighters who have gone to Canada to help...According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, as of Wednesday, there were:
102 firefighters from France in Quebec
327 firefighters from the U.S. in Alberta and Quebec
Thank you for highlighting the devious and destructive goal of the "No Labels" organization. I don't know why RFK, Jr. has gone so far off the rails in recent years, but I never thought he'd get in bed with such a pack of diseased fleas as the Looney Toons of Anarchy listed in this newsletter.
I hope this "No Labels" conspiracy to draw votes away from President Biden is widely revealed by the media and the public from now until the election. Let's force the "Bannon, Stone, Flynn Gang" to take their books of matches and play in some other sandbox.
Until a couple of years ago I had never heard of Juneteenth or its significance. My history classes growing up in Kansas were more about memorizing dates than learning about the context of being a person living in those other times. The short history lessons from Robert and Heather have peaked my curiosity and I want to learn more about those first few years of freedom. How does one go from being a slave one day and a person with rights (at least on paper) the next day? The "don't teach anything that will make a white boy uncomfortable" laws being made here in Texas are basically going to make all these boys into wimps. Life has its tough times for everyone. What would be most helpful to our children is to teach them resilience. Resilience, a major focus of positive psychology, is defined by the American Psychological Association as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress. Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, has a theory of well-being which includes five elements: positive emotions, positive relationships, engagement, meaning and accomplishment. Find out more about positive psychology and the elements of well-being at: https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/ My dream is to have our government measure its success by a Well Being Index where every policy and piece of legislation must show how it improves the well-being on all the people. A number of countries like Great Britain, for example, are already doing this. Let's strengthen all our futures by moving away from learned helplessness and toward learned optimism.
" The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery only in secessionist states—but not (a) in the slave states that remained loyal to the Union or (b) in those portions of secessionist states under the control of the Union Army. As a result, when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, it left nearly half a million people in their enslaved condition." - Only now that I am learning this! Only recently learnt that the propaganda of Swedish school, that slavery in Sweden was abolished in the 13 hundreds, but that this was true only within the country, and only for Europeans. The last Swedish African slaves were freed in the 17th century.
The reason for abolishing slavery in the 14th century is now commonly understood as a matter of economy. It is common sense that it is cheaper to pay people so that they can stay alive only when they are working for you, and leave them to themselves at other times. The "noble" difference between slavery and employment I think can be made only when you have free, fair, and respected labour unions.
Bingo: "while we should NEVER support a No Labels/third party candidate, we should also not assume that such a candidate will automatically hurt Biden more than Trump"
Bingo: Biden’s diplomacy is ...[j]ust one more way that [he] is renewing global trust in the US as a responsible partner. We are all better off for Biden’s steady hand in international relations"
Life is really hard to predict and there are few things more important than creating trust.
Robert, you say "Biden’s diplomacy is such a breath of fresh air and relief after four years of international relations that seemed to be guided by the personal financial gain of the US. President." I think that's absolutely right. I hope that more and more people come to see Trump as little more than an amoral grifter out to promote his and his family's fortune. I'm still galled by the Saudi's payola to Jared about one nano second after leaving the White House.
On this Juneteenth I like to honor the first and only black man I became acquainted with in the all white suburb I grew up in. Mr. Steele was the custodian at my elementary school. He was Mister Steele which taught us to be respectful no matter what one's skin color. He was kind, soft-spoken and dignified. We all loved him and he loved us. He's a person I'll always admire.
The efforts of Republican state lawmakers to rewrite history reminds me of George Orwell’s comment in 1984. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
The unfulfilled nature of Juneteenth is also seen in shootings that have already occurred at a Juneteenth celebration, killing one and wounding seventeen. The gun crisis affects us all, but the toll has historically been higher on the black and hispanic communities. Musk is a bad actor, and it is sad that RFK, Jr. can’t find a more positive outlet for his energies than anti vaxxing.
Long live Latin! I am happy to defend its forms, including its plurals! Afterall, I took four years of it in high school. ("Veni, vidi, vici!" Thank you, Sister Mary Rose!) Oh, and even before that, there was the Latin Mass of my childhood. "In nomine Patris. . . " Let Latin be Latin! Please.
(How to say that in Latin? Google was not definitive!)
As a teacher of HS AP US History (retired!) I would argue the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one beyond those in Union occupied territories., and the last two lines of General Order #3 makes it very clear how limited the defense of that freedom would be. Lincoln had no power over those states still in secession and fighting. The only way knowledge of the Emancipation passed amogn the enslaved was word of mouth. What the document did was enormouse, though. It changed the focus of the war from fighting to reunify the nation to freeing the slaves. It kept England from formally recognizing the Confederacy since they had already outlawed slavery in Britain. Had Britain come to the aid of the Confederacy, as France did for the US i the Revolution??? Things could have turned out very differently.
The mention of a purportedly bipartisan, so-called unity “No Labels” ticket, among several potential impacts, is reminder that the Republican Presidential Nominee presently need only prevent Biden from garnering 270 electoral votes to be elected President. To clarify, were no candidate to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes, the election would be decided by the U.S. House, wherein Republicans currently control 26 delegations, Democrats 22, and 2 are tied (MN and NC). Each delegation would get 1 vote. Because a contested 24 election would be decided by the next Congress, we thankfully have time to flip a handful of delegations. Accordingly, because I’m determined at least to try and reverse the Republican advantage, I’ve started studying some charts to establish which delegations appear most likely flippable and will post my list once I’m ready. Meanwhile, I welcome your thoughts.
I just want to thank all the American firefighters who have gone to Canada to help...According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, as of Wednesday, there were:
102 firefighters from France in Quebec
327 firefighters from the U.S. in Alberta and Quebec
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/international-firefighters-canada-wildfires-1.6879084
Thank you for highlighting the devious and destructive goal of the "No Labels" organization. I don't know why RFK, Jr. has gone so far off the rails in recent years, but I never thought he'd get in bed with such a pack of diseased fleas as the Looney Toons of Anarchy listed in this newsletter.
I hope this "No Labels" conspiracy to draw votes away from President Biden is widely revealed by the media and the public from now until the election. Let's force the "Bannon, Stone, Flynn Gang" to take their books of matches and play in some other sandbox.
Until a couple of years ago I had never heard of Juneteenth or its significance. My history classes growing up in Kansas were more about memorizing dates than learning about the context of being a person living in those other times. The short history lessons from Robert and Heather have peaked my curiosity and I want to learn more about those first few years of freedom. How does one go from being a slave one day and a person with rights (at least on paper) the next day? The "don't teach anything that will make a white boy uncomfortable" laws being made here in Texas are basically going to make all these boys into wimps. Life has its tough times for everyone. What would be most helpful to our children is to teach them resilience. Resilience, a major focus of positive psychology, is defined by the American Psychological Association as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress. Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, has a theory of well-being which includes five elements: positive emotions, positive relationships, engagement, meaning and accomplishment. Find out more about positive psychology and the elements of well-being at: https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/ My dream is to have our government measure its success by a Well Being Index where every policy and piece of legislation must show how it improves the well-being on all the people. A number of countries like Great Britain, for example, are already doing this. Let's strengthen all our futures by moving away from learned helplessness and toward learned optimism.
" The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery only in secessionist states—but not (a) in the slave states that remained loyal to the Union or (b) in those portions of secessionist states under the control of the Union Army. As a result, when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, it left nearly half a million people in their enslaved condition." - Only now that I am learning this! Only recently learnt that the propaganda of Swedish school, that slavery in Sweden was abolished in the 13 hundreds, but that this was true only within the country, and only for Europeans. The last Swedish African slaves were freed in the 17th century.
The reason for abolishing slavery in the 14th century is now commonly understood as a matter of economy. It is common sense that it is cheaper to pay people so that they can stay alive only when they are working for you, and leave them to themselves at other times. The "noble" difference between slavery and employment I think can be made only when you have free, fair, and respected labour unions.
Bingo: "while we should NEVER support a No Labels/third party candidate, we should also not assume that such a candidate will automatically hurt Biden more than Trump"
Bingo: Biden’s diplomacy is ...[j]ust one more way that [he] is renewing global trust in the US as a responsible partner. We are all better off for Biden’s steady hand in international relations"
Life is really hard to predict and there are few things more important than creating trust.
Robert, you say "Biden’s diplomacy is such a breath of fresh air and relief after four years of international relations that seemed to be guided by the personal financial gain of the US. President." I think that's absolutely right. I hope that more and more people come to see Trump as little more than an amoral grifter out to promote his and his family's fortune. I'm still galled by the Saudi's payola to Jared about one nano second after leaving the White House.
On this Juneteenth I like to honor the first and only black man I became acquainted with in the all white suburb I grew up in. Mr. Steele was the custodian at my elementary school. He was Mister Steele which taught us to be respectful no matter what one's skin color. He was kind, soft-spoken and dignified. We all loved him and he loved us. He's a person I'll always admire.
The efforts of Republican state lawmakers to rewrite history reminds me of George Orwell’s comment in 1984. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
The unfulfilled nature of Juneteenth is also seen in shootings that have already occurred at a Juneteenth celebration, killing one and wounding seventeen. The gun crisis affects us all, but the toll has historically been higher on the black and hispanic communities. Musk is a bad actor, and it is sad that RFK, Jr. can’t find a more positive outlet for his energies than anti vaxxing.
For me, Bill Barr has no credibility. Rather, CYA (his own) is his goal and he loves being on TV.
Long live Latin! I am happy to defend its forms, including its plurals! Afterall, I took four years of it in high school. ("Veni, vidi, vici!" Thank you, Sister Mary Rose!) Oh, and even before that, there was the Latin Mass of my childhood. "In nomine Patris. . . " Let Latin be Latin! Please.
(How to say that in Latin? Google was not definitive!)
As a teacher of HS AP US History (retired!) I would argue the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one beyond those in Union occupied territories., and the last two lines of General Order #3 makes it very clear how limited the defense of that freedom would be. Lincoln had no power over those states still in secession and fighting. The only way knowledge of the Emancipation passed amogn the enslaved was word of mouth. What the document did was enormouse, though. It changed the focus of the war from fighting to reunify the nation to freeing the slaves. It kept England from formally recognizing the Confederacy since they had already outlawed slavery in Britain. Had Britain come to the aid of the Confederacy, as France did for the US i the Revolution??? Things could have turned out very differently.
Thank you for the language note at the end. The fluid nature of language is fascinating. And yes, we need to move away from Latin plurals.
"I opted for the latter because I believe we need to move away from Latin plurals and follow the rules of American English for forming plurals."
Aaargh! Five years of HS Latin, laid waste! Et tu, Robertus! (Or is it, "Roberte"?!)
Data or datums!?