2009 actually, a small little soul joined our family.
Here in Minnesota, we get snow storms. March, 2009, and we're told that the cold and the snow are coming back for us. Mrs Bollox and close friend have gone walking and tell of a small grey and white cat, seemingly without a place to shelter.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …”
Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. You can find part one of Comfort Food recipes at: Comfort Foods Part One (Recipes): Street Prophets Sunday All Day Brunch.
US District Judge Pamela Pepper on Monday rejected a motion by the Kenosha Unified School District to dismiss the case brought by Ashton Whitaker accusing the district of discriminating against him. On Tuesday Pepper issued a temporary restraining order barring the district from enforcing its policy prohibiting Whitaker from using the boys' restroom while the case is pending.
There's no question that Ash has already suffered harm and has had physical repercussions from the policy as well as emotional repercussions.
--Judge Pepper, who challenged the district's argument that its local school board — and not the courts or an individual student — should determine its own policies
I'm very excited to call Ash to tell him what the judge decided. The case is certainly not over, but we're happy she recognized that his harm is real.
--Joseph Wardenski, attorney for Ash and his mother
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Sources (with excerpted text) below:
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/deadly-police-shooting-sparks-violent-pro...
Who do you think is telling the truth?
"Scott’s family who have insisted that he was disabled, sitting in his car reading a book, and had no gun. “He sits in the shade, reads his book and waits on his kid to get off the bus,” Scott’s sister told reporters. “He didn’t have no gun, he wasn’t messing with nobody.” He was the father of seven children.
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(Headline is in all caps - not my doing)
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