Eastern Screech Owl

Do you get the impression that Screech doesn’t want to have his picture taken? He sits behind a fence at Green Cay Nature Center in Boynton Beach. A copy of a statute protecting him has been pasted on the fence. Aggressive photogs in pursuit of a shot had climbed the fence, some using ladders to capture his image.

Duckmans Return From Cuba

Fourteen days in Cuba created more questions than it answered about Cuba future. Visit now to see time stood still. Fidel and Che, 50’s cars and buildings, plus the remnants of the Soviet experiment. Still looks like an agrarian economy which overshadows free mandatory-education, free health care and housing. What direction will it turn after the last Castro leaves?

Bail Schmail

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/bronx-school-stabbing-manslaughter.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront

So, a kid in school kills another kid. He had been bullied, threatened and harassed. I am not ready to say justified, but hey, agree on the facts and do something with the case. If you don’t, try it. But don’t set bail at $500,000 on a kid who cannot post it, keeping him in jail until the case can be resolved.

In Murder cases, bail can be denied. A person is entitled to bail in all other cases, with minor exceptions, not present here. Setting a bail which is clearly unnameable and outside the realm of Constitutional thinking, defeats the purpose of the 8th Amendment. Set a reasonable bail and let the kid get his life together, go to school (get him a tutor of home school), and receive counseling. Don’t set a bail that looks good in the newspapers, while denying justice.

You have to wonder, don’t you, why high bail was set in this case? Don’t you? Is the kid a threat to flee? Is the proof of guilt overwhelming and the conviction a certainty? Then again, maybe you don’t wonder, because you don’t know enough about the system or you read the NY Post.

People Without A Moral Core

SO, you want to do good and you work for a racist bully, liar, scheming, mentally ill, selfish cretin who believes that Nazism has a right to be heard and that people should be lauded for exercising their right to protest the removal of a statue honoring a treasonous slave owner whose conduct cost the lives of 600,000 or so Americans. You know that you have the power to change America for the better and won’t be able to do it if you continue to support him. WHY DON’T YOU RESIGN?

There are no good Nazis. And by abiding him, standing next to him, without walking away or expressing outrage, either immediately or soon after, you missed a chance to show moral outrage. Your silence affirmed the fact you support an evil President. Hold him accountable or resign.