Yes, I was able to get up from my desk and
stagger to the recliner without having to wake Walt up to come and help.
Whew.
I slept as all right as I ever do and woke up
around 5:30. I noticed one thing right away--I could bend my right
leg, which I was not able to do the day before.
I carefully got out of the chair and though
it was painful, the pain had gone from a 9 to a 5. I was able to
hobble down the hall to the bathroom and it only took 3 tries to get
on my feet afterwards, which is a HUGE improvement.
Still, it was not a good idea to be hobbling
around so once again, I settled into the recliner with ibuprofen at my elbow
and ice on my knee and watched TV.
But watching TV today was more painful than
the pain in my knee.
Watch/listen to this recording secretly made
by
ProPolitica. It is the sound of children separated from their
families, crying for mommy or daddy. It will tear your heart out but
listen to it because we need to viscerally feel what it feels
like, not just gloss over it because it's not happening to us and we
feel helpless so why put ourselves through it. We put ourselves
through it because it is happening to children as young as a year old and we
need to have our heat torn out a bit to get us angry enough to maybe DO
something.
If there is anything positive I realized
today it's that people are starting to notice.
On every news show I watched, it was the lead
story and often took over half of the show or more itself. Everyone
from politicians (Republican and Democrats), to newsmen, to political
historians, to physicians is weighing in and the clamor is becoming louder
and louder. One newsman was almost apoplectic as he shouted the question we
all want answered -- how long is this going to go on? How long is #45
going to keep those children hostage to his^%$#@ wall?
Many people, politicians and reporters
pointed out that Trump could end the separation policy in an instant.
Hasn't he constantly reminded us of the power of the presidency? Heck,
he was able to change all the good things about this country with a stroke
of his pen, why not end the misery of these children and their parents?
And then there is dear Ann Coulter, who said
“I would also say one other thing, these child actors
weeping and crying on all the other networks 24/7 right now — do not fall
for it, Mr. President," on The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton.
Two thousand child actors, age 1 to 17. Boy--who is footing the bill
for THAT casting? Are these the same paid actors hired to pretend to
be victims of the Florida shooting? or the paid actors at the huge Women's
March?
Where is pro-Life in all of this? You'd
think this would be right up their alley, children traumatized and separated
from their parents, crying and begging for Mommy and Daddy. Why aren't
there big ProLife rallies? Or is the problem that these are "born
children" so they don't count?
A reporter, allowed in
one of the facilities, saw a crying child and asked why nobody was
comforting him. He was told they are NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE KIDS because
of fear of accusations of sexual abuse. One child, he said, they didn't
realize her age because she spent her time curled into a ball. Another older
girl had to change diapers because the caregivers had that "touching kids"
thing to worry about. Reports are that a 4 year old, placed in a sponsor's
home, was "the worse case of trauma" they had seen.
Someone today pointed
out that the facilities that reporters have been allowed to visit house boys
7 to 17. Where are girls and babies being held and why can't we
investigate those? No cameras are allowed inside facilities reporters
have toured.
Department of Homeland
Security reports that from May 5 to June 18, 2,342 children have been
removed from their parents. 67 kids/day (it was 47 kids/day according
to DHS last month)
And now there is a tent
city in the hot Texas sun for an indefinite period of time.
And the New York
Times reports that there are no protocols in place for
reuniting parents and children and many parents have been deported, while
their children remain here.
This is all biblically
inspired, Trump, Sessions, and Huckabee-Sanders say. Even Franklin
Graham is disgusted by that. (Isn't Sarah's Dad a minister? What
does HE say about all this biblical permission to persecute children for
political reasons?)
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