Kids, high school, college age kids and i have taken to giving them some advice maybe is a little depressing to them but i say, look, i, like you, have seen a lot of pain and a lot of bad things and i know that life is cruel and short and bad things happen to good people. So i say to these young people, look, you need to do the things youre doing, whats next . How do i get into this school . How do i get into this job . Sometimes you need to turn the telescope around and in your mind look at yourself from the end, so youre an old man or old woman, god willing, and you look back and ask yourself this question, who do i want to have been . What do i want to have been . I think the answer will be, this is what you want to have been, right . You dont want to have been somebody with a great boat or a great house or a fancy car. I think you want want to be somy who has been part of protecting the innocent, rescuing children, doing all things thaw do. Turn that around to try and guide those c
Mr. Blumenthal madam president , i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, madam president. This month we celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in roe v. Wade, a ruling that assured every woman her constitutional right to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child, based on her fundamental right to have her privacy protected. I had the honor to clerk for the author of roe v. Wade, Justice Harry blackmun, in 1974, shortly after that decision. And i can say that in that year few of us expected that we would be here 41 years later facing the kind of attack, in fact, the onschatz on Womens Health care and that right to privacy that we see again and again and again on the part of states and even in this United States congress. Just today the house of representatives will debate and probably vote on a bill that would severely restrict very practically constrict a womans right to choose, h.
Kenyetta ReesePhoto by Mike Pettinella. The first Soul Food Brunch at GoArt! on Tuesday afternoon provided both tasty African-American cuisine and some honest food for thought.The gathering at East