Lawrence Hall, HSG
What Do These
Teachers Teach These Children in These Schools?
PETA thinks this is how farmers get the wool off sheep? 😂 | Not the Bee
Sheep-shearing isn’t a topic in English class
Not here in cattle country; we give sheep a pass
Lawrence Hall, HSG
My Illegal Oxygen-ish Apple Watch
My Apple Watch ™ © ® has the oxygen feature –
Do I confess to the Law? Or to the preacher?
(My Apple Watch worked fine until it was messed up by the last two updates, which cannot be undone. When this thing fails completely I will find a cheap knockoff on amazon.)
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The-Maybe-We’ll-Show-Up-and-Maybe-We Won’t Environmental Service
A little after four in the afternoon on a scheduled pickup
day The-Maybe-We’ll- Show-Up-and-Maybe-We-Won’t Environmental Service sent its
customers a too-late-in-the-day email stating that they wouldn’t pick up the
garbage (the “environmental”) because of the icy road conditions. They said
they would get it next week.
They could have made a decision and sent that email the night before so that their customers wouldn’t have to take their garbage to the end of the lane in the cold morning and then bring it back to the house in the cold afternoon.
The plea of weather conditions would be understandable
except for the unhappy reality that The-Maybe-We’ll-Show-Up-and-Maybe-We-Won’t
Environmental Service isn’t dependable at the best of times. In the last two months or so they have missed three pickup days, seldom answer telephone calls (the
one call they answered for me was “I can’t tell you when”), and do not reply to
messages. I then must load the sacks of garbage and for a dollar each leave
them with the nice folks at the county dump.
The-Maybe-We’ll-Show-Up-and-Maybe-We-Won’t Environmental Service have a good thing going – I pay them for a service which they sometimes don’t perform.
And, yes, at the end of this cycle I will be a former customer. I asked The-Maybe-We’ll-Show-Up-and-Maybe-We-Won’t Environmental Service for three pickup days at the end of the contract for those they missed and $6 for the bags I took to the dump but I am not hopeful.
So have you been to our county dump extension on U.S. 96? Access is an easy drive-through and the folks there are nice and helpful, and if you have health problems they will happily unload the sacks for you.
The-Maybe-We’ll-Show-Up-and-Maybe-We-Won’t Environmental Service could learn from them.
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Lawrence Hall
A Government Church?
We establish no religion in this country. We command no
worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must
remain separate.
- President Ronald Reagan, Speech in Temple Hillel, Valley
Stream, New York,
26 October 1984
Each American may his own conscience search
For by the Grace of God we have no national church
Cf. The Constitution, Article
VI and Amendment I
Lawrence Hall
When a Book Banner’s
Books are Banned
Bill O’Reilly approves of banning the printed word
Except when it comes to his books – “That’s absurd!”
Bill O’Reilly Is Furious As His Own Titles Get Removed After
Supporting Florida Book Bans (msn.com)
Lawrence Hall
To Accept Israel
“Israel
was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is
the child of hope and the home of the brave. It carries the shield of democracy
and it honors the sword of freedom.”
– President John F. Kennedy)
To deny Israel is to curse ourselves
For we are inheritors of the Covenant
That He should be our God, and we His people
He creates us, He calls us – this is so
He has given us prophecy and law
Cattle in the fields, fish in all the seas
And lovers, flowers, sunsets, songs, salvation
The Great Dance of Creation - and Himself
Let not the sinister whisperer divide us!
To accept Israel is to accept - everyone
Lawrence Hall, HSG
An English Major
Screaming at a Wall Clock
(A French officer would be too well-mannered to do that)
Passing from one office to another in quest
Of some elusive official signature
I saw a woman screaming at a clock
And heard her, too, because screams are like that
“She’s an English major,” someone said in explanation
“She and her boy Wordsworth are at it again
And meddlesome Coleridge keeps putting his oar in”
I nodded in understanding; Milton had mentioned it
A scholar should never scream at institutional clocks;
He should discreetly disapprove of them
