Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
The recent leak of personal information of every gun permit applicant in California in the last ten years is an unconscionable security breach that needs to be investigated and prosecuted by the state’s Attorney General. We’ll see if Governor Newsome is truly concerned about the right to privacy and whether it applies to these particular California citizens.
In today’s contentious political and social environment, we quote civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and this is true in any context: “We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.”
Years ago, literary critic Lionel Trilling prophetically announced that “It is now life, and not art, that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”
Instead of begging our enemies, declared and undeclared for more oil, President Biden should listen to former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford who recently suggested, and we quote, “The president should unwind the bureaucratic hurdles to the federal permitting process that his administration installed; expand oil and gas leases on federal land; expedite creation and implementation of the Interior Department’s five-year offshore leasing plan; and, finally, stop vilifying U.S. energy producers, many of which are leading the development of technologies to limit carbon emission…”
