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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be a lot of information about the virus and its effects on mental health. How you respond to the stress during the pandemic can depend on many factors..........Read more 

James Bryce (1839 -1922) Irish-born academic, historian, jurist, Liberal politician and British Ambassador to the United States.

Source: From a 1909 speech before the Fifteenth Annual Conference on International Arbitration on the subject of "Allegiance to Humanity" held at Lake Mohonk, NY   

And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." .........Read more

The Avatar was off his game.
He was looking for you,
as he wanted your name.
Pay attention to him,
for this I will exclaim,
"He will seek you out",
as he needs you to blame
for the ills of the World,
he says he's trying to tame.

* "Tonight saw a Friday night news dump that will go into the history books". || by Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American

* "Fractured Skulls, Lost Eyes: Police Often Break Own Rules Using ‘Rubber Bullets" || by Liz Szabo and Jay Hancock ~ KHN 

* The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles || by J. David McSwane and Ryan Gabrielson

Employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft have raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter Foundation thinking it's the international racial justice movement seeking to end police brutality. That couldn’t be further from the truth............... Read more

The shadows dance;
It is not a romance.
They are creatures
who jump and prance.
Rippling light, in the dark.
A different noise; a Lark?
I think not
was said to me.
Justice for all
and to be free.

When you try to be clever,
like you often do,
the results can be fatal,
because of you.
Your failure to take action,
for months on an end.
Happened on your watch.
Is this too deep a subject
for you to put in your steeple?
Turn the action over now
to the Medical People,
now, before you "bunch up" your shorts.
Take action with a plan or just Abort.

FALLS CITY, ORE. — A few hundred feet past this Oregon timber town, a curtain of Douglas fir trees opens to an expanse of skinny stumps.
The hillside has been clear-cut, with thousands of trees leveled at once. Around the bend is another clear-cut nearly twice its size, then another, patches of desert brown carved into the forest for miles.

Logging is booming around Falls City, a town of about 1,000 residents in the Oregon Coast Range. More trees are cut in the county today than decades ago when a sawmill hummed on Main Street and timber workers and their families filled the now-closed cafes, grocery stores and shops selling home appliances, sporting goods and feed for livestock..........Read more