OT: Fathers Day, 2018

[Catdancer]

Cat, can we use your real name w it?

ANN

Yes, real name:_Ann Woldt. I didn't see this earlier.....

[Howie]

Hi Ann. My older sister is named Ann. Welcome to the family!

[Parsi]

I can imagine my grandchild as one of these children.

[agate]

And some idiot at Faux News has compared the detention facilities where the children are being held to a "summer camp." Someone else compared them to "boarding school." Are these people making very bad sick jokes, or what?

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[Howie]

It wouldn't load for me.

[stillstANNding]

It loads fine for me. It was Laura Ingraham, a Fox talking head. Totally ridiculous.

Not to be confused with, “The Talking Heads,” Howie.

ANN

[Sunshine]

Right. And the concentration camps were camps. The cattle cars were passenger trains. The gas was perfume.

[agate]

Howie, I added another link to a similar story from another source (The Hill).

Sunshine, I recall reading how concentration camp inmates were forced to write cheery postcards to families and friends saying how well they were being treated.

Those headed for the gas chambers were told they were going to get "showers." It turned out to be deadly gas coming out of the shower heads.

It's horrifying how easily a cruel bureaucratic system can whitewash what it's getting away with.

[Howie]

Ann, thank you for clearing that up for me. I was a big fan of The Talking Heads. I have all of their albums on cassette.

Agate, the new link wanted me to "join" to get their news. I don't join anything online. Well, forums I do, but not publications. Thanks anyway.

[agate]

Ann, thank you for clearing that up for me. I was a big fan of The Talking Heads. I have all of their albums on cassette.

Agate, the new link wanted me to "join" to get their news. I don't join anything online. Well, forums I do, but not publications. Thanks anyway.

I'm so sorry, Howie. You can send Sam to me if you like. That should straighten me out. I must have goofed on the link. I think it's working now.

[Howie]

It's working now....sort of....kind of....a little bit. It was the upper one third of the story page, and no way to shrink it. Plus it had a popup that also had no way to make it go away. But I know the detention centers are not like summer camp. That's all that matters.

[Sunshine]

Howie, I added another link to a similar story from another source (The Hill).

Sunshine, I recall reading how concentration camp inmates were forced to write cheery postcards to families and friends saying how well they were being treated.

Those headed for the gas chambers were told they were going to get "showers." It turned out to be deadly gas coming out of the shower heads.

It's horrifying how easily a cruel bureaucratic system can whitewash what it's getting away with.

The past two years demonstrate how Germany was able to go from a highly civilized society to one of the most barbaric. Yes, it can happen in America too.

[Sunshine]

NYT says the Republicans are poised to pass a bill banning the separation of families. Perhaps they are growing a spine,,,

[Virginia]

Sunshine, I'll believe it when I see it, as far as them growing a spine.

I heard today that DT's approval rating is at 45 per cent, which is high. He has the approval of 65% of Republicans, so they say.

I am going to have to try and stop watching quite as much and reading quite as much (I am not talking about here) news. I am getting very emotional about this. I know we all are, but I am on the verge of tears ALL the time. Also, I have high anxiety. I cannot stop thinking about the children, and also the parents who want their children with them and are wondering where they are and if they are alright.

[nuthatch]

Dear Virginia, I know just how you're feeling, so please don't watch this video of Kellyanne Conway sparing with Chris Cuomo on this issue. It makes me sick to my stomach to listen to her lame reasoning, her attempt to over-talk and her general b@t#*y attitude. She is a disgrace to all Catholics, mothers, and human beings in general!
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I'm really sick of the disrespect shown by Trump, Sessions, Conway, Sarah H. S. and so many of his other minions. That includes Melania and Pence and many others who just sit with their thumbs up their A$$ES!

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