Fathers Day, Executive Order, and Short Thoughts
by Barry Blauer
Last Sunday was Fathers Day and I got a visit from all three of our daughters and our eldest son-in-law, Scott. My other two son-in-laws were out of town. I’m kind of funny about Fathers Day, gifts are a plus but I expect cards. I don’t own a piece of Hallmark Cards; I just like to read nice things about me.
Kristy & Ross got me the book, “Killing Lincoln.” I’ve wanted to read that book so I just ordered it on my Kindle Fire along with, “The Amateur,” and another David Baldacci book, “The Innocent,” so I had to tell her I already had it. I didn’t want her to spend money on another one.
It brought back memories of their late Grandfather on his birthday when they bought him some licorice sticks. He pointed up to the cupboard and said, “I already have some.” It kind of burst their bubble at that age and he probably thought later that he should have just kept quiet.
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In a follow-up to last week’s segment about our garden some things have changed since then. We were late getting our rabbit fence up and the damned rabbits were already enjoying the fresh greens we were growing, namely our green beans! It wasn’t enough for the rabbits that Betty was already feeding them shelled corn.
They did a pretty good number on the beans but we put the fence up anyway. Don’t ask me why we didn’t put up the fence when we planted. We still remember the old days I guess when there weren’t any rabbits. Don’t expect Betty to quit feeding them because she loves animals. Me, I can get along without them except on my dinner table.
I read a few years ago about soaking the garden seeds before planting them. We had one package of beans seeds left so I put them in a jar and added enough water to cover them. The next day half of them had sprouted. I went out to the garden, pulled out some chewed off beans, and replaced them with the bean sprouts. Only time will tell if I’ve recovered some of our plants.
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I’ve wrote about this before but it bears another look. Early immigrants to this country and those who settled the conquered/purchased territory in the west came here knowing there are three things that would happen. They would survive on their own, they’d go back to their homeland having failed, or they’d just plain perish – just as Mother Nature intended.
Oblama’s executive order (Open Borders Act) which bypassed the Constitution and Congress gives 800,000 illegal aliens (mostly Mexican) under the age of thirty a stay of deportation. We have no idea how many other family members are involved with this stay or anything else about them. They can apply for green cards and go about their business just like they were a citizen. It’s the right thing to do; Oblama says – not so says the Constitution.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are responsible for this mess that the tax paying citizens of this country will have to pay for. They did this for political reasons and they’re vying for the votes that will come from this. It’s the poorest excuse imaginable and they’ve turned immigration into a sham.
All the foreigners have to do is just cross the border anyway possible and wait for some idiot politician to give them amnesty.
On a recent radio talk show a woman called in and said her parents came here over sixty years ago. They had to go through the maze that existed back then to insure that they qualified to be here. People carrying diseases were turned away.
She thought what’s happening today is a joke on all the other immigrants who went through the process legally.
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Short Thoughts:
We are given two choices in a presidential election, evil and the lesser of two evils.
Did you ever notice that actors do some of their best acting when they get involved with an election campaign?
First we had Oblama’s executive order freeing the slaves from Mexico and then he enacted executive privilege to cover-up some inadvisable actions by someone in the Oblama administration. Who says it’s going to be a boring summer.
Until the next time . . .