Every Day a Risk
What’s going on here? Song says,
“The Land of the Free”

Every day, it is a risk’: immigrant communities paralyzed by fear of impending Ice raids

“It doesn’t make sense. They’re not trying to arrest terrorists or criminals, just undocumented people,” she said. “We just want to pay the bills.”

My Great Grand Parents, Koop and Hendrikje Hofman, immigrated from Holland in 1868 and got married the same year.

They bought a farm in Ottawa County, near Jamestown, Michigan (i-196 crosses the farmland) and raised a family.

in the 1900 Census, information shows that Great Grandpa had, after 32 years, filed naturalization papaers.

For at least 32 years, apparently, he did not file or register as an immigrant.

But he never had to worry that someone was going to knock on his door and demand to see his paperwork.

This was America.

This is America.

It seem to me like this county used to stand taller.

At least we weren’t so scared.

Maybe we gain a smidgen of protection.

But at what cost?

Truthfully, here in Georgia, where sidearms are worn by citizens in grocery stores, its not immigrants I worry about.

Just what are those weapon toting folks afraid of?

I carry a Bible and a copy of the US Constitution and I stride this world in Seven League Boots.

I invite everyone to join me.

it never gets old
hot dogs, hamburgers, sparklers
you never too old

By far, my favorite holiday.

Maybe the food.

Hot dogs, hamburgers, deviled eggs, PIE

Maybe the sounds.

Firecrackers, fireworks, kids

Maybe the sights.

Fireworks, flags, family, picnic dinners

Maybe the smells.

Grilling, gunpowder, smoky fires.

And maybe, just maybe, a holiday when its WARM OUTSIDE!.

Truths be self-evident
All created equal, Rights
Unalienable!

In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Jefferson was also the first President to serve Ice Cream in the White House.

Could you ask for more?