Lone Tomato
Boynton Beach Camera ClubEastern 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.
Just Looking
Three Trees at Green Cay
Just missed the light. Nothing too dramatic. Photos should have a wow factor. Sometimes they just feel good.
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?
Dinner Cruise
Lorin Duckman Enters 2018
So, what will the year bring? I don’t want to be sick, but I cannot do anything except hope my white cells increase and I don’t need to use them. I want to travel, see things and photograph more people, including myself. Surprise me, I say.
Chad
We should ask Rex, the Secy of State, why are we in Chad?
Bail Schmail
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.