tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post2349600203829316629..comments2024-03-27T22:11:56.751-04:00Comments on Bless Our Hearts: There Is So Much I Do Not Understand And Even Fewer Things I I Know For Certain But The Obligation Of Keeping Children Safe Is One Thing I'm Pretty Sure OfMs. Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-31060830654673839252019-06-24T11:12:52.513-04:002019-06-24T11:12:52.513-04:00I feel that way about so many things in the news. ...I feel that way about so many things in the news. A kind of helpless rage, a disbelief that our nation has somehow arrived at such an immoral state of being. I mean, there are STILL people being held in Guantanamo, with no charges and no way to get out. How are these things happening? The sad fact is, many people don't care because those afflicted are not "American," whatever that means.<br /><br />Your point about the parallel with Nazi Germany is interesting. I suspect you're right.<br /><br />I can understand how canning and making clothes would be satisfying. I think all of us would be better off if we did more with our own hands.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-51518912080590117342019-06-24T09:47:35.538-04:002019-06-24T09:47:35.538-04:00Owen holding Levon as he sleeps, be still my heart...Owen holding Levon as he sleeps, be still my heart. This is how children should grow, surrounded by love, which includes the provision of basic needs, like blankets, and toothbrushes, and care.37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-24906962489525200692019-06-23T10:51:17.243-04:002019-06-23T10:51:17.243-04:00and the people running those places are making $75...and the people running those places are making $750 a day per detainee. where is that money going? well, I know where and not for soap or toothbrushes or proper food or clean clothes or diapers. I never thought America could do no wrong, in fact I have been vocal about what I see as America's failings but I never in a million years thought we were capable of this. Ashamed is the least of it. horrified and helpless as it plays out. helpless because even if we all arrived with soap and food and clothes and medicine and toys and loving arms, they would turn us away. perhaps we have always been thus with our history of slavery and genocide, of war after war and it was only the PR machine that has fooled us into thinking we were better.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-50614474227851828742019-06-23T04:50:30.999-04:002019-06-23T04:50:30.999-04:00You don't know what else to say? But wow, you ...You don't know what else to say? But wow, you have said so much...so much passion, so much anger, so much wisdom and so much love. I had not thought of those awful places as concentration camps but from what I have seen on TV, I think you are right. One of the worst things is that those awful places are run by profit-making companies who try to cut as many corners as possible in order to maximise their incomes. For example, instead of proper food they serve shit.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-7899438551148406712019-06-23T02:57:45.373-04:002019-06-23T02:57:45.373-04:00I suppose ust keep donating to the layers who are ...I suppose ust keep donating to the layers who are fighting his torture, if you can. I know the parents and caring people of the world should rise up and go there to protest, bigger and bigger hordes of people, go amass where it is happening. But it's not so viable to do that. I rarely make my on protedts an hour away in the city. <br />The idea that these people consider themselves pro life is astounding. Pro suffering, is all. Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-77235978081287121192019-06-23T00:38:26.968-04:002019-06-23T00:38:26.968-04:00I feel the exact same way as you do -- I can't...I feel the exact same way as you do -- I can't stop thinking about it, reading about it, stewing about it, even as I go about my "normal" life. I think it'll be the end of all of us. I do. Or whatever it means to be America.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-72204202682103795062019-06-22T23:01:23.334-04:002019-06-22T23:01:23.334-04:00What you said--so well--that's enough.What you said--so well--that's enough.Sally Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732355543080603989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-87277683000057629262019-06-22T22:03:36.556-04:002019-06-22T22:03:36.556-04:00That prick in Washington deserves prison at the ve...That prick in Washington deserves prison at the very least. I am ashamed to be an American and that this country is failing so miserably and that we have dead kids as a consequence. Your pickles sound delicious. I hope you enjoy them.ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-44500311211344778342019-06-22T21:06:03.660-04:002019-06-22T21:06:03.660-04:00Mary, I think if we stood on the National Mall and...Mary, I think if we stood on the National Mall and lighted ourselves on fire in protest of that bastid's treatment of babies and children and mothers and fathers, he wouldn't give a damn. Not a one second flicker of conscience. It is wrong, and the rest of the world should and does think we are less than human and our only solution is to keep showing up at the polls and voting, people, voting.<br />He wasn't worried about losing 150 Iranians as collateral damage of a strike. He was worried about losing votes. Enough. Let's go to bed and try over again tomorrow.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.com