Please Stay Home
My view is that he wants conflict. He wants to stir people up. He wants to get the Neo-Nazis out there throwing things at the protestors. That's how he incites fear and that's his only chance left at winning.
The Portland mayor is right: This is the wrong time to incite hatred. You are not helping the situation. I think they are saying the same thing in Kenosha. Do not visit, that doesn't help.
Ordinarily a president visits in order to support the local people who are dealing with a crisis. A visit to Louisiana after the flood, yes, that makes sense. Even if he doesn't provide money, or tactical support, he can at least show that he is behind the efforts to repair things and he is aware of the devastation that has taken place.
But in the case of Kenosha, he
is the devastation. He encourages the Neo-Nazis. This is a case where people really need to see the difference between the police and the Neo-Nazis. This is not the time to cloud the issue.
It is time to think about the people that die in his eagerness to incite violence. And it is time for us Americans to realize that inciting violence and encouraging revolution is treason. Even when it's the only way a person can get re-elected.
The Story of My Life
Autobiography of the Treasurer of Hillsdale College, 1862-1877
Paperback -
On Amazon, $4.69 + postage
Kindle -
Only $1.05
Lorenzo Reynolds was my great great grandfather. That's why, when I found this typed document among my genealogical papers, I felt some obligation to get it out to the public. But as I writer, I'm very impressed by his crisp style (while I have, myself, fallen into sloppy tortured sentences at times). He's clear, powerful, and strong, and he has a grudge against a certain character at Hillsdale College, in Michigan. He tells his story thoroughly and carefully.
He was the Treasurer right through the great fire, and through some very important times. His pioneering, and his family, are also of interest. Whereas he has gotten his story of the college out already, this is the first that I know where he has told his life story. It's worth it.
another school year
I just want to say - thirty years teaching esl/efl, college level, and another two-and-a-half in public school, high school and middle school mostly, and I am
genuinely grateful to be retired. I have four left to finish educating, and there's no telling how it will pan out in this season. But my heart goes out to anyone who is ground up in this mess.
My most obvious point is, you can't just put all these kids together and hope it all comes out well. The news has come in from that school in Georgia where 1) kids had phones; 2) everyone was in the hallway; 3) few of them had masks; and, 4) sure enough, five cases just for starters. These kids
are going to be infected; they
are going to spread it, and they
are going to take it home and give it to their parents. What did they expect?
To places like Iowa where they are making the "online option" difficult or illegal or punishable, I say, shame on you. What is it, your parental concern that makes you want to infect kids? Or your blind denial that you
just don't think it's a problem???? It is a problem. Kids infect parents. People die.
I love the world's teachers. I think they must be heartbroken to see people forced to be exposed. That's one thing I'll never forget about the public schools, as opposed to say, the colleges. You
have to go to school. It's the law.
Somebody has to watch out for the children.
