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Skiing With The Grandchildren
by Tom McLaughlin
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Second liar-CLINTON JUDGE Orders
DHS To RESTART NEW DACA Signups
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ A second black-robed tyrant with the mistaken impression that he is the President of the United States has blocked the real President... Donald Trump, from doing his job. New York Federal Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, appointed by liar-Bill Clinton, declared on Tuesday that the government must completely reverse itself on the illegal DACA program, effectively ordering the violation of Federal Law in doing so. Another of liar-Bill Clinton’s black-robed agitating leftists had already ordered, back in early January, that renewals continue to be granted, but had stopped short of mandating new signups be allowed. The new usurpation calls for a full restart of the lawbreaking, including the issuance of protections for new squatters not previously enrolled in the illegal program. Issuing a dictate in search of even the flimsiest, contorted basis of support, the new ruling goes beyond the already outrageous usurpation of presidential power to execute immigration policy. The DACA mandates were not even the result of an executive order, merely the issuance of a memorandum. Yet these leftist agitators are treating them as if they are laws passed by Congress...What gives these judges the right to act against the legal law? Session needs to stop this. https://rickwells.us/second-judge-daca-sign-ups/ .
Cornyn to Senate Democrats: ‘Clock is
Ticking’ to Counter Immigration Proposal
by Mary Chastain
President Donald Trump sent over his immigration proposal to Capitol Hill that includes a border wall, end the visa lottery, and have curbs on visas for family members of legal immigrants... The GOP Senators embraced the plan and Senate Whip John Cornyn (D-TX) told Democrats that the “clock is ticking” for them to offer a counter proposal. The bill in the Senate comes from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Cornyn, James Lankford (R-OK), David Perdue (R-GA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Joni Ernst (R-IA). CNN reported that it has similarities to Trump’s... https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/cornyn-to-senate-democrats-clock-is-ticking-to-counter-immigration-proposal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29.Iran, Russia, and China's
Central Role in the Venezuela Crisis
by Joseph M. Humire
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson just completed, by most accounts, a successful visit to Latin America... He began his five-nation tour by invoking the Monroe Doctrine and suggesting the Venezuelan military could manage a "peaceful transition" from the authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. This reminded several regional observers of President Trump's suggestion last year of a possible "military option" for Venezuela, hinting at possible U.S. or multilateral intervention to stop the country's collapse. An armed action or military intervention in Venezuela by any nation in the Western Hemisphere, including Venezuela's own military, must take into account the role of Iran, Russia and China in the crisis. Russia and China were prominently mentioned by Tillerson during his visit to the region; Iran, however, was notably absent from his remarks. Prior to any discussion on what to do about Venezuela, a consensus about what led to this crisis needs be reached. The role of Iran is critical in such a conversation... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11888/venezuela-iran-russia-china .
Dems Won't Revise FISA Memo Response
by Todd Beamon
{ newsmax.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman scum-Adam Schiff said Tuesday that panel Democrats will not make any revisions... to their response to the Republican memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI and Justice Department in the Russia probe. "We are not going to make any revisions to it," the California Democrat told reporters on Capitol Hill. "The only question is what redactions will be made. "Obviously, we'd like to keep those to a minimum. "The White House has a different interest," scum-Schiff added. "Their interest is in redacting anything that doesn't reflect well in the White House."... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/adam-schiff-fisa-memo-redacted/2018/02/13/id/843197/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1778896_02142018&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504cgdn99 .
DNC Refused To Comply With Dossier-
Related Subpoena, So BuzzFeed Sued
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ BuzzFeed News sued the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Tuesday to force the release of information... that the news outlet hopes will help it defend against a lawsuit related to the Steele dossier. BuzzFeed is seeking digital information that could shed light on the cyber attacks against the DNC during the presidential campaign. The news outlet faces three separate lawsuits related to its publication of the dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by the liar-Clinton campaign and DNC... http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/13/buzzfeed-sues-dnc/?utm_medium=email .
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Skiing With The Grandchildren
by Tom McLaughlin
Shawnee Peak in summer
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ This is the third winter during which, together with their mother and their other grandfather, I’ve been teaching four of my grandchildren to ski. Their mother was a racer during high school. The other grandfather is a retired principal who once coached a ski team. Their father comes as well when he can take time off from interning to become a teacher and running a contracting business. I’m a retired history teacher and former ski instructor.
On a winter evening
We started with the older two, both girls, when they were five and four respectively. Last year, we began with their brothers — twin boys who were nearly four years old then and who will turn five in a couple of weeks. This year is more fun because all four can now ski on their own. No longer am I in perpetual snowplow with a child between my legs. No more must I follow one while holding a harness. All that was hard on my aging body.
One of the twins starts to get it
This year I can I can get to know each of them better individually as we ride up on the lift together and talk. Then we slide off and experience the sheer joy of letting gravity pull us back down the hill as we shush from side to side — all the way to the bottom. We ski right back onto the lift because there are no lines to wait in. It’s up-and-down all morning, then into the lodge for lunch.
Granddaughter learning
Every Tuesday is homeschoolers’s day at Shawnee Peak in Bridgton, Maine and we pretty much have the mountain to ourselves as homeschooling families from southern Maine predominate. We arrive about ten in the morning and leave around three in the afternoon — just as busloads of public school students arrive and noisily fill up the lodge. Every week I’m struck by the contrast in demeanor between homeschool and public school kids.
One of the twins on the "magic carpet"
There’s a sweetness about homeschoolers; they look me in the eye and smile. Public schoolers seldom do as they’re almost entirely absorbed with one another. Homeschoolers respect grownups while public schoolers tolerate them, much preferring to interact only with each other and reluctantly permitting interruption by adults. It all brings back memories from twenty-five years ago when I used to race home from my classroom, get into my ski-instructor outfit, then race to Shawnee Peak to meet the public-school group of six to ten students I taught for six weeks.
Grandson picking it up
Usually I’d be assigned a group of beginners we called “Never-evers” because they’d never, ever been on skis. There was no “magic carpet” back then — the outdoor conveyor belt that carries skiers up a short, gentle, beginners area with barely enough slope for gravitational pull. We would have to select a flattish area between the lifts and practice just walking on skis. Then I’d teach the “snowplow” or “wedge” or “pizza slice” as that beginning posture is variously called, before venturing to the bunny slope.
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