Kitten watch day 12 and other news
The really really big gigantic news is that little teeny itty bitty kitten eyes are opening! The photo above shows only two, but we’ve seen all five with their eyes open. They can’t see anything yet, but we’re looking forward to the weekend when all five of their heads will swivel when they hear us coming, and we’ll see five smashed-in little kitten faces looking up at us.
In other news, it’s election day here in Milford, PA. Tracy and I plan to be at the polls in a couple of hours casting our votes for two decent people running for the school board, hoping against hope itself that the women who showed up on my doorstep about a month ago with their “we own our children” parental rights nonsense will go down to defeat. One of the two of them mentioned her church and God and our precious angels from God and God-only-knows-what-else in her candidate announcement. With Texas pushing through a bill that will mandate a copy of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom and time reserved during the day for prayer, we in Pennsylvania have our collective antenna up for any such moves in our state.
They’re always talking about how wonderful everything was back in the days before the Supreme Court banned prayer in schools. I went to a high school in Leavenworth, Kansas, back then when there were gangs, knife fights in the boys bathrooms, and kids getting mugged on their way to school for their lunch money and anything else they had on them like a Timex watch or even their belts. God apparently had his back turned when it came to that school and many, many others in this country in those days when Leavenworth made LIFE magazine for having the highest incidence of what they called juvenile delinquency in the nation. The only thing that kept that school from having dead students was the relative inaccessibility of the kinds of firearms that 18 to 21-year-olds can buy in states like Texas by walking into a gun store and putting down their driver’s license and a thousand dollars and walking out with a semiautomatic rifle the military first began using just about the time I attended that high school in Leavenworth.
We’ve got a Democrat sitting in the governor’s office here in Pennsylvania, two Democratic senators, a Democrat represents the Congressional district Milford is in, and Democrats control the House in the state legislature for the first time since the Tea Party landslide in 2010, the disgusting reaction around the country to the fact that America had elected the first Black man in history as president.
I don’t think I can stand to dive back into the sewer of the sexual assault and theft lawsuit against Rudolph Giuliani, but overnight, it emerged that there is an allegation in the suit that Giuliani was attempting to sell pardons for $2 million each while Trump was in office. I hate to break into day 12 of our Kitten Watch with this, but here is the relevant paragraph of the lawsuit in a tweet from MeidasTouch:
On that disquieting note, Tracy and I will now repair to our respective dressing rooms to get ready to vote in some Democrats.
We have the same ugliness happening in the red state of Ohio. We have similar people attempting to get on our school board here in Delaware, Ohio. Our two children are teachers here and we shudder to think the Orban of Hungary philosophy is white Christian nationalism is front and center in our nation.
Being the obnoxious person I am (my wife will agree with that) when the one candidate appeared at the door touting school prayer, I asked if he believed in all that is said in the Bible both Old and New Testament. He said of course, the Ten Commandments also should be displayed in the classroom. So I said would he also display Exodus 21:7? “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are." or Deutoronomy 21: 20-21? "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice...And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
The man left.
Those precious babies just get prettier every day! I’m thinking there’s a fertile black tom somewhere in the neighborhood. 😉
May your votes be fruitful and multiply!