You make it sound like we should blame ourselves because our government failed us. I for one have been carving out a life against all odds. I suspect I am not alone. We can be awake and feel uncomfortable with each of these players but we all can't be expected to spend hours each day baby sitting our leaders. At some point we need to feel safe enough in our personal lives to do so but right now many of us are battle weary. We recognized the need to stay engaged but watching the games, lack of justice and not knowing who will be next to die, we step back for a break. Even if we have a gut feel about someone's integrity we are told we should trust the plan or that we need to believe in Trump.
Gettting pretty tired about just being on this side of the grass at this point. I have a great deal going on beside the ending of the movie though. Could use your prayers as my older brother sues my executor brother and still living mother over the trust. Plan is to say dad and mom were incompetent and executor took advantage, this after older brother abused my Dad, already got $50k, my grand parents house and 40 acres. He stole guns, my dads coin collection, a bike, tried to steal mom collection of kewpie dolls and nesting dolls. Problem is mom has no problem giving house and stuff to executor but she wants to live in it and can't, she has medical concerns. She keeps saying she wants to go home. We are all so worked up after a lawyers appointment yesterday we are about to give up. We come here and so tired of the goings on I can't focus to actually read stuff to feel better. Could definitely use prayers for my family, and any lawyers out there wanna help style us down if appreciate that so much.
I am a woman. I grew up in the era of brain washing kids about women power. I have been mysoginistic for years because I had no choice at all. Proverbs 31 is my model of a woman. I'm actually distressed over my career woman daughter. She doesn't have a clue what it takes, I'm proud of my son and his wife for structuring their lives to cover her income with rental properties so she can stay at home and raise their son.
I've worried about this too! If everything is in Trumps control, what will he do with it? After all many German citizens love Hitler in the early 30s. I say we trust but verify. I think many are blindly following, without doing their own research.
Right there with you. I have a disease called OPLL. I was offered a complete fusion of my cervical vertabrea but refused and cold called UofM. Because OPLL is very rare in white females rather than those with Asian decent, I'm in a medical journal somewhere. UofM installed titanium bridges at each vertabrea. Its not perfect but I have full motion. I have nerve damage, pain or nueropthy but I count my blessings every day that I was on of the lucky ones.
Right there with you. Grew up the same time. Did you ever think those very same hippies are the ones running our government? The main reason I hate someone calling us boomers. The cabal started their distruction of America way back then. I tell my kids the stories of that time so they know what Trump means about MAGA.
I grew up in mid Michigan. When I was a kid my family and the families of friends would head up north in the spring and join 100s of others doing what was called smelt dipping. Basically you'd stand in the river at night with nets and scoop net fulls of smelt out. We would dump them into 5 gallon bucks waiting on the shore. When we got as many as we felt we wanted we'd load up the car and head home. The woman then cleaned them to freeze. We ate them until the next spring. I haven't been for years. My Dad would tell stories of doing the same when he was a kid in the '40s and '50s. My gma would save gunny sacks to put them in and the car would be so full that Dad would ride back home sitting on the bags.
Saving these fish isn't a new idea here in Michigan. Many may remember the flood that happened in Michigan because the DS decided not to repair the Edenville and Sanford Dams. When rains put a strain on the dams they refused to open the spillways because they wanted to support invasive fish and mussels.
The failure of these dams allowed these invasive species, such as lampreys, to enter upstream rivers, threatening native fish populations. Prior to the dam break, the dams had been blocking the upstream migration of invasive species from Lake Michigan. After the breach, invasive species had easier access to upstream waters, potentially outcompeting and preying on native species.
The point is I love to eat smelt. I understand what invasive species can do to native populations, yet many think at some point we need to put people first. What are the cost of repairing dams and conserving water so that we as Americans can make both convervation and peoples needs a priority?