Daily Mail, Presidential election 'Nostradamus' who has correctly predicted almost every winner for 40 years reveals Kamala Harris as his 2024 pick
Ignoring any voting predictions--here are a bunch of folks crossing political aisles to support both Trump and Walz. I had a lively email exchange with a neighbor asking if I'd ever had any pets.
Yes, a dog, almost like having another child. As a single working mother (with 4 kids and a Cuban foster son), we had a female black border collie that I decided to breed with a male border collie, though without papers for either. What was I thinking? I wasn't thinking, obviously. Our dog then had 8 very cute puppies, 2 males, 6 females. I ended up giving away the females and selling the males for $35 each. Then my kids wanted to go through all that again, but I was done and had our dog spayed.
Your house looks really great, very relaxing and beautiful with no need for any pets! My son doesn't even notice the doggy smell now permeating his home. During my recent visit there, the odor would hit me whenever we returned from elsewhere. I suppose my first floor once smelled like that, though we never allowed the dog to go upstairs. Before that, it smelled like cigarette smoke, as my late ex-husband of 24 years chain-smoked unfiltered Camels and kept a standing ashtray by his favorite living room chair. He even smoked in bed, burning holes in the sheets. Many smells have wafted through my house since I first moved here in 1969, more than 50 years ago.[The house was built in 1895.]
My neighbor replied, "i m simply amazed at all the paraphernalia around pets these days. there is an entire industry, and noted designers are lending their name or talent to the merchandise. and then the cosmetics; shampoo, flea shampoo, treats, designer dog bowls, paw boots, sweaters."
Some folks seem almost to choose pets in lieu of children, lavishing attention on their pets, incentivized by advertisers offering even more stuff. If Republican VP candidate JD Vance with his "childless cat ladies" remark encourages some childless women to actually have children, that outcome would be probably be good for the economy, also for the children themselves. Of course, pet owners can also have human children, as I did, options that are not mutually exclusive.
Everything people do is influenced by others but trends do come and go. Has the childless trend run its course? Let's hope so, as the world now needs more newborns and young kids. Humankind relies on the births of babies to even continue in existence.
Yahoo News, Georgia high school shooting: Authorities say 14-year-old suspect 'will be charged
with murder' after 4 killed, 9 injured Two students and two teachers are dead following a shooting at Apalachee
High School.
Such tragic shootings are preventable. During a previous investigation, this shooter's father had assured
authorities that his son had no access to the family's guns. Yet he gave his son an AR-style rifle. Why
did the family even need to have any guns?
Too often, keeping a personal firearm in the home poses a grave threat not just to the occupants but to
everyone else. The right to "bear arms" urgently needs to return to the Founding Fathers' original
intent: allowing firearms only in a "well-regulated militia," not in the home for personal use. No other
modern country suffers such frequent guns deaths as we undergo here in the US, all because of the
NRA's promotion of personal gun possession by misrepresenting the Founding Fathers' intentions.
Time now to return to their actual intent by storing guns only at shooting ranges, as in Switzerland,
where firearms enthusiasts can shoot at targets all day long if they so choose.
Yahoo News, Father of suspected Apalachee High School shooter charged in murders;
FBI received warnings in 2023
Now into Central America, where many Nicaraguan political prisoners have been released.
The Biden-Harris Administration today secured the release of 135 unjustly detained political prisoners
in Nicaragua, on humanitarian grounds... The 135 Nicaraguan citizens released today included 13
members of the Texas-based Mountain Gateway organization, along with Catholic laypeople,
students, and others who Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consider a threat to their authoritarian rule.
The United States welcomes the leadership and generosity of the Government of Guatemala for
graciously agreeing to accept these Nicaraguan citizens. Once in Guatemala, these individuals
will be offered the opportunity to apply for lawful ways to rebuild their lives in the United States or
other countries.
AP, Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her
VP Kamala Harris once visited Honduras to hail the election of a female president. Since then, Honduran
President Xiomara Castro seems to be closely guided by her husband, former president Manuel
Zelaya, removed in a coup in 2009. Now she is supporting Maduro's "victory" in Venezuela. When I was
in Honduras in June, I found no supporters of Ms. Castro.
NYTimes.com: The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
My friends in Honduras have never even heard of Próspera either.
According to Wkipedia:
Próspera is a semi-autonomous city established under Honduran Zone for Employment and Economic Development
(ZEDE) laws, inspired by the concept of charter cities and cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. Through
low taxes, privatized government, social services, and self-regulation, the city hopes to drive economic development
and innovation that the city argues would not occur under normal government frameworks.
Here are a few photos that I picked out when going through the previous iteration of this blog, honduraspeacecorps.blogspot.com
Here was dearly departed son Andrew with little sister Stephanie out
boating together. (Both should have been wearing life jackets.)
Below, my 2 youngest liked to hang put with a neighbor from across
the street.
I attended daughter Stephanie's Hawaii wedding in 2003.
My late Cuban foster son Alex liked to dress up our
dog Claire in human clothes.
I visited son Jon in Hawaii in 2013.
family had no car.
I visited my sister Betty and her family in Philadelphia a few
years ago, the last time we have been together in person, though
we talk regularly on the phone. Her family is off-the-grid, with
no email.
Here I was among volunteers
making silly faces during a Honduras medical brigade in 2012.
I do need to make this posting right now, though little time has elapsed since the last posting, as parts
of it keep disappearing.
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