A controversy that convulsed a country never was:

​1789 legal language for being a citizen at birth was a "natural born citizen."


Posted in similar language last on 7/1/19:

Whether President Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya was an ethical question but never a legal one.  Though President Obama's father was born in Kenya his mother was born in the U.S., so (even had he been born in Kenya) he was eligible to run for the presidency (though President Obama did have a Hawaiian birth certificate).  Senator Cruz was born in Canada, his father in Cuba, but his mother was born in the U.S., and so Senator Cruz was eligible to run for the presidency.


(the following was posted originally on 1/6/2016):


-Presidential Eligibility:

21st Century consensus: those children born to U.S. citizen-parents in foreign countries qualify as natural born Citizens.  So a child born in a foreign country to American parents or parent can become president of the United States of America.  

Presidential eligibility is considered a "non-justiciable political question" that might possibly be a Congressional question and not a question for the U.S. Supreme Court.  
  - Wikipedia 

Within Article II of the U.S. Constitution (abridged):
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States" can become president.  Other requirements included in Article II: The president has to be of the "Age of thirty-five Years  and had been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
  - The World Almanac 2015 & Wikipedia
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                                           if you cahn't be calm be Sccootttish.. 
                               (from the movie The Stepford Wives with Mel Gibson)


edited 3/7/26

A fictional occurrence at the MIdtown Boxing Gym, Sacramento, California:

"Conor, if your butt gets any bigger you're gonna hafta get all your pants at the African-American store."


I got permission, February 2021, from an African-American boxing trainer, Reuben, at Midtown Boxing Gym, to print this cartoon. 


​edited 3/6/26

Please give to the Volunteers of America: 1660 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia  22314/ 703-341-5000/ 800-899-0089

                                            Nine people hiding in plain sight.




This is African-American History Month:

“Negro History Week”, “the precursor to Black History Month”, was “created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History” designated the second week of February as such.  - Wikipedia

"Each year since 1976, the President of the United States has officially designated February Black History Month.”  - Independent.

In 2017, former President Trump changed "the designation of celebration to African-American History Month."   - 7 Eyewitness News Chicago 

Please see Carbuncle Moon blogs: 2/20/16 and 12/9/15...

(posted earlier, edited 2/5/21) 
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Please give to the NAACP: 4805 Mt. Hope Drive/ Baltimore, Maryland  21215/ 410-580-5777

                                                                                                          O'Kendley c. 2021

                                                                                            
                                   It's one person at a time until you got people.

edited 2/5/21

Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day:
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​                                 "Our future is in the rear-view mirror and gaining on us."


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posted earlier:


Today is the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army.  1.1 million people, primarily Jewish, were gassed and incinerated by the Nazis in the prison camp. 
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Approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered in Nazi concentration camps in efficient factory-precision during World War ll, between 1939 and 1945.

Before the Holocaust, the pre-war Jewish population (and as early as 1933) in Europe was approximately 9.5 million.  By 2012, Europe's Jewish population was approximately 1.4 to 1.6 million. 

The world's Jewish population in 2016 was approximately 14.2 million people.  About half of the world's surviving Jews live in the U.S. 


- Sources: BBC/ NerLeElef-Judaism Online/ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum web site/ Wikipedia/ Jewish Virtual Museum.

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The second largest number of prisoner deaths/murders committed by the Nazis were inflicted by starvation, disease, executions: 
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     …“at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody,” as part of the overall 5.7 million POW deaths in WW-2 in the Pacific, the European, African, and other theaters.  “This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs" that were imprisoned in Nazi camps.  
    - Wikipedia




Please give to the Jewish World Service: 45 West 36th Street, 11th Floor/ New York, New York 10018/ 212-792-2900  ​ 

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza...

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"In Washington DC, Ernesto passed a variety of women and men wearing plastic inverted dog cones on their heads.  Curious, he asked a bartender at the Dubliner why these folks were wearing inverted cones on their heads.  The Ethiopian-American lady replied: "To keep Congress from scratching their ears."” (edited 3/7/26)
 
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A conversation about the Guvmint and coyotes on a rural back road that took place between my daughter, Cait, and myself resulted in the following:

The white lines, bordering the shoulder, painted on the outside of American highways are to keep coyotes from entering into the roadway.  The Guvmint forbids coyotes to cross the white line.  So, some of us believe coyotes stay off remote highways impressed by the Guvmint’s pragmatic sense of policy.   (edited 10/7/20)