Politics

This is the Pennsylvania Republican Party, in which I proudly and very comfortably grew up. Label these great public servants however you choose — center-right, pragmatic, common sense conservative, moderate or centrist — it really doesn’t matter. What these men represented, most assuredly, was the governing wing of the Republican Party. They were all thoughtful, measured and steady leaders who came from the tradition of former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton, Sr., who unsuccessfully challenged Barry Goldwater for the 1964 Republican Presidential nomination.
All of them, like myself, would have no doubt called themselves Abraham Lincoln Republicans. From that noble heritage came Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and the Bushes, all of whom we hailed as decent, honorable and impactful leaders. The same would be said of GOP Presidential candidates Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
So here we are, with President Donald Trump, who has never been part of this great tradition. In fact, he speaks disparagingly and disrespectfully of his predecessors. What’s worse, he has spent the better part of his presidency undermining the international order — methodically and carefully built, defended and repurposed on a bipartisan basis after World War II and again after the Cold War.

Former Trump supporter now rival Kanye West will hold a rally in South Carolina on Sunday for his presidential campaign, Politico reported Saturday night:

Kanye West is heading South for his first political event.
The rapper and former avowed supporter of President Donald Trump will hold the first presidential campaign event of his own Sunday in South Carolina, according to a campaign document obtained by POLITICO.
West will host the afternoon stop at the Exquis Event Center in North Charleston for registered guests only. All attendees will be required to wear masks, observe social distancing and sign a Covid-19 liability release form…

West filed with the FEC this week listing “BDY”, Birthday Party as his party affiliation and filed for the Oklahoma ballot, according to Politico.
West tweeted requests this week for help getting on the ballot in South Carolina, “Hi guys please sign up to put me on the ballot in South Carolina at any of these locations You can also sign up at the website”. West needs to submit 10,000 signatures by noon Monday to qualify.

If you're a voter in South Carolina, please sign this petition to place me on the ballot Sponsored by Ye 2020 https://t.co/ZURvTEW9ee pic.twitter.com/Z9tdq0eG9c
— ye (@kanyewest) July 18, 2020

Hi guys please sign up to put me on the ballot in South Carolina at any of these locations You can also sign up at the websitehttps://t.co/ZURvTEW9ee pic.twitter.com/3rV5ujExPm
— ye (@kanyewest) July 18, 2020

by Kathleen Marquardt
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. —Frederic Bastiat
Agenda 21/2050/Green New Deal is/are all about the three Es: Environment, Economy, and social Equity. And, just in case that isn’t enough there is the Endangered Species Act, although the species that is endangered, human beings, is the only one not protected.
Many people have become aware of the great threat to our way of life, in fact, to our very lives. But, unless you have dug very deep or have been one who has been fighting this for years and years, you do not know how it was brought into our lives and the very fiber of our governments. What does it matter? It’s like knowing how babies are made, not just realizing you are about to be a parent. As Sun Tzu advises, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” So, know your enemy.
Environment

Courtesy of Bailey Elizabeth Rogers
One of the hardest parts of the racial equity uprising has been figuring out whether or not to attend racial justice events as a family. Will they be safe and kid-friendly? Are children welcome? As a big, multiracial family, we think it’s important to include our kids in as much activism as possible, since we’re working to create a better future and world for them.
Thankfully, more and more events are being created with the entire family in mind, making sure the event is kid-appropriate. After all, Ruby Bridges famously said that racism is an adult issue, a disease, and we need to stop using kids to spread it. By organizing a kids’ march for racial justice, children and adults are able to take an active role in anti-racism, and when applicable, white allyship.
Remember, racial justice isn’t superficial vibes of peace, love, and unity. Racial justice is a fight, a battle, an action—but it must be presented to kids in a way they can appreciate and understand. The ACLU of Louisiana hosted a children’s racial justice march recently, with the goal of providing a “safe space for young people to learn about the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Additionally, their goals were to help children “develop the skills to identify and interrupt racism in their schools, neighborhoods, and communities” as well as “make their voices heard about the future they want to build.”

When New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted a picture of him observing a moment of silence in honor of George Floyd earlier this month, people were quick to point out that he was doing it from behind a desk that was engraved with the name of Woodrow Wilson.

Some found the image ironic because Murphy was remembering the unjust death of a Black man while sitting at a desk that once belonged to Wilson, a former New Jersey governor and US president who defended segregation and slavery.

Now, Murphy has ditched the piece of office furniture, which he said he forgot had a plaque on the front of it that read “Woodrow Wilson’s Desk.”

“As soon as I could get a replacement, which was not as easy as I thought, I got one and I think that was the right thing to do,” Murphy said during a news conference on Monday.

The country is having a “reckoning,” Murphy said, and “Woodrow Wilson and his legacy is being swept up in that as it should be.”

Wilson, who was the country’s 28th president from 1913 to 1921, once called racial segregation a “benefit” and said slaves “were happy and well-cared for.”

When he served as president for Princeton University, from 1902-1910, he denied African American men from being admitted, and sought to exclude them from the school’s history.

Murphy’s decision to switch out his desk comes after Princeton removed Wilson’s name from its school of public policy and a residential college.

“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement this past weekend.

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• The Minneapolis city council has said it wants to disband the city’s police department, after days of protests over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died after a city police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25. 

• US President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of National Guard troops from the streets of Washington, DC. 

• Protesters have also taken to the streets across the world – from the UK to Spain, Italy and Australia – as demonstrations against police brutality and racism entered their 13th day. While some clashes were reported, they remained mostly peaceful.

• Hundreds of mourners gathered in North Carolina on Saturday for a memorial service for Floyd, the second of three events currently planned.

Monday, June 8:
02:01 GMT (Monday): Curfews lift, police show less force amid peaceful protests
With New York City poised to reopen after a more than two-month coronavirus shutdown, officials lifted a curfew that was in place amid protests of police brutality and racial injustice. But they also urged that demonstrators be tested for COVID-19.
“Get a test. Get a test,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told people who have been participating in rallies and marches in memory of George Floyd. “I would act as if you were exposed, and I would tell people you are interacting with, assume I am positive for the virus.”

It was a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration in Hyde Park, where protesters of many different racial and cultural backgrounds chanted Floyd’s name through their face masks, demanding justice. Several protesters shared their outrage over the killing to CNN, drawing parallels with their own experiences, and expressed dismay about US President Donald Trump’s reaction to the protests.

“There’s racism everywhere, and we have to fight it. I don’t just mean white people against black people. Racism is racism, and that’s what we have to fight. We have to be just one, human beings, we just need to be one. We all breathe the same air, we all bleed the same color.

“We can’t have people being scared when reaching for their wallets in their car. We can’t have people being scared when they are raided at home by the police and being killed. We can’t have people being scared of being on the street, not doing nothing, just standing on the street and the police come and finds a reason to shoot you and to kill you and to take your breath. (…)

“It’s not the first time. Five years ago we were yelling the same thing — ‘I can’t breathe.’ Why do we still have to do it today? It makes no sense. How can this still be? Why can’t people understand we are one? Why so much hate?

“This is way bigger than just America, it’s way bigger than George Floyd. It’s way bigger than just one cop killing a black man — it’s about injustice.”

Cleo Charlery, 26

The topic of this blog is lawn care.
As I mentioned when I began the Lawn and Landscape Blog earlier this spring my professional training and expertise was in horticulture and landscaping. I have not had any formal training in lawn management, but do have plenty of experience in maintaining my nearly 13,000 square foot lawn.
I will list the practices which work well for me.
The first (and most obvious) comment about lawn care is that it is much easier to have a healthy and thick lawn when the lawn receives as much sunlight as possible. While there are varieties of grass that tolerate shade, in general the best lawns will be those that receive the most direct sunlight. Because of the way my property was laid out, I was able to choose to not plant trees in the yard immediately in front of and behind the house.
In general, lawns receiving the most sunlight will be thicker and require less fertilization and weed control.
My backyard: The trees are in the rear part of the yard, which allows plenty of sunshine for the lawn
Lawn height
The general rule of thumb with lawns (officially called “turfgrass”) is that the higher it is “on top”, the deeper the roots will be.
I do not have an irrigation system, so I need to rely on adequate rainfall, or lug hoses around the yard.

Boulder’s Alicen Kandt said her initial plans for the summer for her 5 year old and 8 year old included camps, vacation and occasional help from grandparents.
Now, she said, the camps she signed up for are “playing it by ear,” but most likely will be virtual, especially early in the summer, as camps grapple with how to operate safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are looking for backup plans because virtual is not an acceptable option for us,” she said, noting she and her husband are currently working full time from home. “I need my kids to be off of the computer that they’ve been glued to for distance learning and out of the house and not needing our supervision so that we can do work.”
She said she would feel comfortable sending her children to a mostly outdoor camp with good safety protocols — and would like to minimize exposure to their elderly parents. Hiring a nanny is another option, but she’s comcerned a nanny will find it challenging to keep her kids busy with so many places still closed.
“The uncertainty and inconsistency of guidance and public directives make planning the future very difficult for us, but also for the camp providers,” she said. “It’s also so difficult to know what is best and safest for us, our community and our local, elderly family members who normally provide backup childcare.”
Many parents, especially working parents, started carefully mapping out summer plans months ago, registering for camps, organizing trips and picking activities.
But continued coronavirus concerns have turned summer into a big question mark.