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  1. Manassas is where I live and damn, I haven't heard that term in a while.  They're very hard working people and most around here seem to work 7 days a week.

    Cute little Berg. I walked the Bull Run 1 battlefield a few weeks ago for a few minutes during the heat wave, before heading to dinner in Falls Church.
  2. Texas family care network. https://txfcn.org/

    Great website. Synergies, partnerships, and other mealy-mouthed jargon just to say “we now run foster care for region 5.”

    A Pennsylvania company.

    Using that private agency as a placeholder for shenanigans in the DFCS system. “Privatizing” foster care - and they are calling in cases to CPS to remove not just one, but all the children in a family where there has been a removal, even if no evidence for subsequent removals exists.

    Example - a mom has a child removed and placed in foster care, but in the meantime gets her life in order and ends up having another child. No evidence of abuse or neglect, clean drug and alcohol tests - and the hospital where the birth occurs has no problem releasing the child to go home.

    Enter these thugs, many who retired from state employment, who call in an unwarranted CPS case for exigent removal of other children - no investigation, affidavit, or court order - because its a profit center, with costs shouldered by the state.

    What a lucrative racket! Makes one wonder if they pay their workers bonuses for each removal.

    In recent sessions, the state lege has been incrementally rolling back CPS authority, which in many cases makes good sense - only to have private contractors overreach.

    File under private prisons, state agencies bypassing the judiciary, ICE contractors, tow truck companies, etc.

    My friend owns a glass company. At lunch, I always joke “hey if business is lagging, I’ll grab my shotgun and go break some windows for you,” to which he exclaims “NO!.”

    Privatization is just another word for grift.

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  3. Facebook is basically bots posting for other bots. And olds.

    By now every single SEC coach and various celebrities have stepped up to pay for all the victims funerals. Facebook said so.

    AI Sark hugging families in Hunt, too. Unless that was real.
  4. The mom of a missing girl and I are both on the board of a nonprofit; our quarterly meeting is tomorrow - obviously she will be absent, but I’m dreading that meeting. I just hope we can get through the agenda before everyone is crying.

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  5. This was your friend's baby girl?
    CHIEF

    Actually, it was the grand niece of a different friend, a lady named Debbie who is a lifelong teacher/principle and a close family friend. But my stepbrother and first cousin have children in her classes.

    The young man Heartfield is another, but that family is closer to my cousin’s family.
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  6. Yeah, lots of damned if you are, damned if you aren't going around, all magnified by social media.

    I feel like a ghoul, monitoring my friend’s Facebook for news that he and his wife found her daughter’s body. I just hope they get closure soon. Here is his wife (Ella’s mom).

    https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375339052112?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLZJXVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtP_IvCJunDm_DlsYvWBj0Vx0KFEP6hiz00rZ6RIUDoi3fyWCXKML6s-RBJS_aem_bD0IRi4J91y_8ipG1NcGGw

    A different Beaumont mom who was searching for her daughter was the one who found her remains. The mother posted “God told me to look here and that is where I found her.”

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  7. For every dollar you donate, my law firm will donate two.

    We’re looking to raise $18,000 by collecting up to $6,000 in donations to the Kerr County Relief Fund operated by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Go to the following link to make your donation and in the section at the end regarding “Tribute Information,” enter “Slingshot Law” and choose to notify angie@slingshotlaw.com.

    https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201

    Done and thank you.

    If anyone looks at you funny, remember, I chose my username before I quit drinking.
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  8. The only thing about the cell phone emergency system is the tendency now for people to shut that off themselves like I have because of the way it’s used for things like Amber or Silver Alerts.  I’m not sure it was a good idea for the Emergency Alert System to be used for this  in retrospect.   There is nothing close to giving a person a heart attack or a step rise in blood pressure than having that alarm go off at four in the morning and find out it was missing persons report at the opposite end of the state.  Please don’t take that as me minimizing that sort of event.
    What might be a good alternative moving forward is some sort of  direct alerts that are transmitted directly to the camps and other interest along the rivers facilitated though the emergency management agencies.  Make sure it gets to multiple people in charge of the facilities with the information updated every year before the peak season.  

    Southeast texas uses this.

    https://www.everbridge.com/?trk=ggls-mnbrand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=evbg_branded&campaign=96612624&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=96612624&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dm_ydS8QFgmjXuhLAME7QAczwz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29Wq3E1bdpqiEbi3jtUebBb-RqRyxZERtITGqJ33jjwY4FbyytcCeHMgaAh55EALw_wcB

    Everytime a warning hits I get a text, a phone call, an email.

    I also get a slack from my company’s weather alert system. There is almost no way I cannot be alerted when an event occurs, unless I am in a plane without wifi or - and I realize this is common in the hill country - cell service.
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  9. That place crossed my mind yesterday when the updates about the camps getting flooded started coming out, as that's where my troop went in the summer when I was a scout. Never flooded when I was there, but it's pretty crazy that they have the campsite in that deep valley and along that creek.

    Spent an idyllic week in the first campground on the other side of that creek. Even a small squall swells it enough to make things sporty.
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    Currently reading.  I've known much about his life and mission in the many documentaries I've seen about the civil rights movement, but have never taken a deep dive.  He was truly an incredible man, and his disciplined commitment to nonviolent opposition is still inspiring.  And I know the older I get the less I'm aware of how many more years ago the Jim Crow era was still firmly established in American life.  But it still seems like only a short while ago in our nation's history that America was unabashedly shitting all over the Black population, backed by our legal institutions and elected leaders. 
    The writer doesn't hold back on his extra-marital affairs, which were more numerous than I had understood.  And it's amazing how brazen the FBI was at the time in obtaining information on those affairs through extensive wiretapping.  It's also a remarkable commentary of that time that the FBI shared with certain media outlets some of those tapes in which King was talking to his mistresses or to other men about his sexual exploits, and nobody in the press wanted to publish them.  Today, the media would be blasting that in lightening speed.
    I'm about 70% through, and I'm surprised MLK made it to 1968.

    I'm reading a biography of John D Rockefeller and discovered he greatly endowed the Spelman Seminary for Black Women in the 1880s. That's where Martin Luther King’s mother and grandmother studied.
  11. Walked around the Manassas battlefield this afternoon. Twas but 103 degrees but I did take a while to imagine the short-range artillery battle in July ‘61 at first Bull Run where they wailed on each other from a mere 300 yards. One can imagine the blood soaked earth.

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