Sunday Morning Coming Down

"And How Are The Children"? According to Masai this is a traditional greeting and the traditional response  would be:" All the children are well".  This could mean it's all good or something similar. You really have to wonder what motivates the current administration of the President, Senior Advisers, Homeland Security, I.C.E., the Border Patrol, H.H.S., the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and Caliburn International, and Comprehensive Health Services that has the contract to manage the Homestead Overflow Detention Center. "And How Are The Children"? The conditions  could be, should be and must be made better at the border and the various detention centers around this country.

June 13, 2019, Eyeonthewind broke her maiden with a win in the 1st Race at Canterbury Park.  The filly's Dam was Zoominthewind and the Sire was Fly the Red Eye and the baby was foaled in Minnesota in 2016. The owner/trainer is Randy Weidner.  I've been a partner with Randy in a couple of Quarter Horse ventures and overall I can say horse ownership has been crossed off the bucket list.  You can make more money flipping burgers.  Working however, is not as much fun as going to the track and it is even more fun if you can hang out with horses in the morning and see them run in the afternoon or evening. Fly the Red Eye stands in Texas for $2000.00.  Zoominthewind is a mare Randy trained for Bill Price at Hialeah and she was given to Randy after the vet bills and rehab got up there.  Fly the Red Eye is an AQHA Supreme Champion.  AQHA's Supreme Champion title encompasses the versatility and athleticism of the American Quarter Horse. The title requires a...

Boy, did I screw up.  I like golf and I watch it on TV on weekend afternoons and sometimes on the Golf Channel on Thursdays.  A friend, drinking buddy and long time golfer has me participating in a golf pool for the U.S. Open and we almost always have a side bet on the fate of Tiger Woods. The Thursday golf discussion almost always meanders around the Doral Tournament that has been around a long time.  My friend Dan has been a marshal, carried the sign that showed the group's scores for the round and the tournament.  I used to go to the Doral with my Dad and in the old days if you bought a season pass for the tournament you could play a round for free during the off season. I looked up how much it cost to play a round of golf at Doral now.  The fee starts at $149 and it includes a room.  Not sure if the fee includes a cart and it probably isn't that low on the weekends, but it seems like a good deal. The bad news is the Trump Doral Advertisement is no...

You can add Venezuela to the list of Central America's Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to countries experiencing migration issues.  According to the Miami Herald about 4 million people have left Venezuela for Peru, Columbia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina. Ironically, or maybe not surprisingly Doral, Florida, home of the Trump National Golf Course is also the home of "Little Venezuela".  This town has had a Venezuelan - American Mayor, Luigi Boria. President Trump is now considering granting TPS for Venezuelans.  Temporary Protected Status is granted to people from countries affected by natural disasters or war and lets them remain in the U.S. until the situation improves back home.   How many this will affect is unclear. President Trump has no use for Maduro of Venezuela and is one of several countries that has recognized Juan Guaido, head of the National Assembly as the Interim President. The situation in Venezuela is...

From the Washington Post: "The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational programs and legal aid for unaccompanied minors staying in federal migrant shelters nationwide, saying the immigration influx at the southern border has created critical budget pressures. The Office of Refugee Resettlement has begun discontinuing the funding stream for activities — including soccer — that have been deemed “not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation,” said Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber." And the other response is to blame Mexico and threaten to raise tariffs. The amount of money being spent to house these asylum seekers could be better spent helping Mexico, and working with these asylum seekers in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador before they get to the U.S. Border and work with NGO's to make sure legal assistance and sponsors can help...

On Father's Day, June 16th, there will be a multi-faith action at the Homestead Detention Center.  If you are able, it is important that you be there to make a statement that our country must not be known as one that breaks up families or locks up children in militaristic camps!

On Sunday, At Church, I Heard A Talk About A Detention Facility In Homestead, Florida. On Tuesday I drove by the facility.  The following is from NPR.  "The Trump administration continues to detain unaccompanied minors for indefinite periods in unlicensed and military-style facilities in violation of a decades-old legal settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children, according to court documents filed Friday in California. The allegations come in a motion filed in federal court in Los Angeles by attorneys for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law and other groups. They say that the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement is detaining as many as 2,350 unaccompanied minors in a secure facility in Homestead, Florida, and routinely failing to transfer the minors to a licensed facility or release them to adult sponsors as required. Under the settlement known as Flores , reached in 1997, unaccompanied minors c...