Brenda Middleton, seventeen, is missing from Horton, Kansas. She disappeared sometime after 1:00 AM on Thursday, June 13. She is thought to be in the company of an adult man, and took her clothes and other belongings with her. If you have seen her or know where she is, please let law enforcement know. Hopefully, I will be updating this post soon, to state that Brenda has been found safe.
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Today is his birthday; he was born on this day in 1904, as Theodor Seuss Geisel. He died in 1991, after writing many books for children. Today, however; appears to be a perfect day to share something he wrote for adults. In 1974, Dr. Seuss submitted a paraphrased version of Marvin Mooney Will You Please Go? to the Washington Post, in reference to then president Richard Nixon. Several weeks later, Richard Nixon resigned. Can anyone think of another corrupt White House occupant who should heed this message?
"Richard M. Nixon will you please go now!
The time has come. The time has come. The time is now.
Just go. Go. Go!
I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow.
Richard M. Nixon will you please go now!
You can go on skates. You can go on skis. You can go in a hat.
But.. Please go. Please!
I don't care. You can go by bike. You can go on a Zike-Bike
If you like. If you like.
You can go in an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO! Please do, do, do, DO!
Richard M. Nixon, I don't care how.
Richard M. Nixon,will you please GO NOW!
You can go on stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car
If you wish. If you wish You may go by lion's tale.
Or stamp yourself and go by mail.
Richard M. Nixon, don't you know
The time has come to go, go, GO!
Get on your way! Please Richard M.!
You might like going in a Zumble-Zay.
You can go by balloon . . . Or broomstick.
Or you can go by camel
In a bureau drawer. You can go by bumble-boat. . . or jet.
I don't care how you go. Just get!
Richard M. Nixon! I don't care how.
Richard M. Nixon will you please GO NOW!
I said GO
And GO I meant . . .
The time had come
So . . . Richard WENT."
Valleys of Neptune, by Jimi Hendrix, was recorded in 1969, yet not released until after Hendrix's death. The song seems to have been written for all of us.
Lord, I feel the ocean swaying me
Washing away all my pain
See where I used to be wounded
Remember the scar?
Now you can't see a thing
And I don't feel no pain, no, no
Singing about the Valleys of Sunrise
Green and blue canyons, too
Singing about Atlantis love songs
The Valleys of Neptune are rising, rising, rising.
Mercury liquid, emerald's shining
Now showing me where I came from, baby
Honey sun, turquoise bed he lays in
On the burning edge horizon
I'm sailing on a bluebird's mission
Bubbles and curls and tiptoes in the foam
See the wind make love to all the ocean
Tidal waves spread, and the message got home
And the message got home.
Singing about the Valley of Sunsets...
Purple and gold... the Armies of the Lord
Before ancient Egypt, there were moon trips...
The Valleys of Neptune is arising -
Look out east coast, but you're going to have a neighbor
A rebirth land, home of the praying hands
We know there were kinds, so much older
And they shall rise, and tell us much more the truth of man
I see visions of sleeping peaks erupting
Releasing all hell that will shake the Earth from end to end
And this isn't bad news, good news, or any news
It's just the truth, better save your souls while you can
Singing about the New Valleys
Of the Sunrise... Rainbow clean
The world is gonna be...
Singing about getting ready for the new tide...
The Valleys of Neptune is arising.
Donald Trump actually, without first gazing into a mirror, called someone else rude. A female aide snatched a microphone from Jim Accosta, of CNN, during a press conference. No person in the civilized world puts his or her hands on anyone the way that dirty wench accosted Jim Accosta, especially a person of the opposite gender. How filthy! Snatching an object from someone's hands is assault and battery, yet Jim Accosta is the one who has had his press pass revoked. Donald Trump is the one who called on him in the first place, it appears to yours truly that Donald Trump had arranged that entire situation in a desperate attempt to provoke Jim Accosta. When it didn't work out as planned, Trump simply accused Accosta of the very thing his employee did: assault. Jim Accosta should file charges for assault and battery against the promiscuous aide who puts her hands all over male reporters. The video gives the entire story.
Reflecting surface on the wall,
I gaze in you and see it all,
Better than a camera lens,
Backward, forward, to all ends.
Hidden things are found in you,
Shadows jump out from the blue,
Secrets and illusions chance
To make the light reflections dance.
While your faithful blogger is digging up posts from the past, concerning public schools, here is another oldie but goodie. This one is about textbook rentals.
Textbook Rentals. That's what someone from the superintendent's office
at Vermillion, USD 380, in Kansas told yours truly about the unlawful
tuition that Dean Dalinghaus, the principal of Frankfort School, in
Frankfort, Kansas, charges the parents of the unlucky children who
attend his institution. According to federal law, there is no such thing
as a "textbook rental" in a public school for a required course. If a
student loses or destroys a textbook, it is, of course, another matter;
but Frankfort has no legal business charging any parent 50.00 for its
moth eaten, outdated, information-challenged tomes that are seldom even
read by students.
Prior to paying for a "textbook rental", each parent should inspect the
property for which the unlawful tuition is purported to pay. Is the
textbook torn up or missing pages? Was it published in 1953? Was it
written and compiled by authors whose contributions to the subject
matter have been superseded by better authorities? If so, the school
should not charge, in the name of state and federal government, for the
use of the published material.
The savvy parent should also call the publishing company used by the
school and inquire about the actual prices paid by the school for these
textbooks. Have the books already been paid off, many times over, by
parents who have paid "textbook rentals"? If so, it is very
inappropriate and legally questionable, even in cases wherein such a fee
is legal, to force a parent to pay for such a thing. How much would the
publishing company charge a parent for a new or used textbook?
Shouldn't the parent have this information, up front, before paying
rental fees? One would not rent a car, or a home, without knowing the
actual cost of purchase, so why not find out how much a used book would
cost?
USD 380 and Dean Dalinghaus should stop charging tuition for public
school. If Dalinghaus wishes to charge parents more money than the
actual value of his product, he should attempt to pimp his product in
the private market for childhood education, and find out, there, the
actual value of his services and textbooks.
This happened over a week ago, so it is probably "old news" by now, but it still deserves to be noted and discussed by Americans. Donald Trump is opposed to "chain migration", the process by which legal immigrants to America invite their family members who are not citizens in America to also immigrate. Anyone who is from a Latin American country or an African country is discouraged, by the Trump administration, from doing this. The Trump administration has denied any discrimination and claims that it treats all immigrants equally.
If chain migration is not a good thing for America, why have the parents of Melania Trump, the third concubine of "the donald", been permitted to immigrate to this country, under the questionable sponsorship of Melania? Viktor and Amalija Knavs were never starving in a war torn country, so they needed no asylum; neither of them are working or pursuing further education; and neither of them have anything special in the way of skill to add to our American community. There are many, many people who are more deserving and productive, yet denied citizenship, here in America. There are many better candidates who have been waiting much longer than Melania's parents for green cards and citizenship. Melania's parents are probably the ugliest Americans we have, right now. Hopefully, there is a process by which the next President can revoke their citizenship and send them back to their country.
