2023 Edition of Holiday recipes

Crawford and Phoebe asked me to take a pause from puppy photos and our life to take a deeper dive into our HUMANITY. They both fell asleep to “Stand with Ukraine” from the Kyiv subway recorded earlier in May.

• In the United States this holiday was originally set aside to remember Union soldiers who died during the Civil War.
• At the end of the Civil War, many U.S. cities held their own memorial observations for their hometown heroes.
• After World War I, Memorial Day expanded to include those who died in any war or military action.
• The name “Memorial Day,” became more common after World War II, and in 1967 was declared the official name by Federal law.

STAND WITH HUMANITY

STAND WITH MEXICO

Mexico’s Gun Violence Suit in the US District Court

• Yes we Americans are truly helpless and not represented by our representatives in Congress.
• Our court’s were designed to be the check and balance when our elected representatives are negligent in their duties to We the People.
• Congress actually passed a law in 2005 U.S. protecting gun manufacturers from liability.
• Look up the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act for yourself.
• Yes if you find it funny that Our Congress would pass a law that protects Corporations over People then you really are not looking beyond the rhetoric and political storytelling that has shaped the theater of 2022.
• Mexico claims guns smuggled from U.S. killed 17,000 in 2019.
• The Mexican Government has a lawsuit filed against U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors and the arguments made by the Mexican government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts are hereby made public.
• The Attorneys General of Massachusetts and 13 additional states, note the interest of Massachusetts in having the lawsuit continue. They establish that the PLCAA (Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act) does not grant immunities when a state law is violated, supporting the Mexican government’s argument.
• 27 District Attorneys, led by San Francisco County, highlight the relationship between arms trafficking and increased crime .
• Victims of armed violence, organizations, and experts relate the harm suffered by Mexicans as a result of illicit arms trafficking, which is actively facilitated by the negligent and illicit practices of the defendants.
• The Government of Belize and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, together with a nongovernmental organization involved in human security issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasize the negative consequences of illicit arms trafficking.
• US civil society groups that promote arms control in support of Mexico’s arguments.
• International law scholars, principally European, agree with the Mexican government’s arguments regarding the application of laws in cases of cross-border harm.

STAND WITH SANDY HOOK

The above Mexico situation is why CBS Sunday Morning had to share this Sandy Hook story.

STAND WITH UVALDE

School should be a safe place to grow our next generation of leaders. This is why I coach, I’d like to make a difference by shaping humans. As we pray and send love out to Uvalde, we also need to look at the full scope of human life in the United States.

Ask honest questions, listen with open ears, write your lawmakers for change. Call your lawmakers for change. Learn more about guns even if you don’t feel the need to carry, hunt or manage pests with firearms. Understand that all weapons really are semi-automatic.

STAND WITH HUMANITY Memorial Day 2022.