Commentary

I was wondering what I would write about this week…..and I began with the date of this column. 9-11-19.

These are three numbers that recall bad memories to all of us. 911 is the number we call in case of an emergency. It is also the date (September 11) of the worst catastrophe sustained in the United States. Catastrophe means disaster….and that’s exactly what the 911 attacks on America were….a huge disaster with 2,983 victims claimed by terrorists on our homeland.

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NEW RULES ON IMMIGRATION

Starting October 15^th , green card applicants could be rejected if they turn to public benefits for more than twelve months of any thirty-six month period. It includes most forms of Medicaid, food stamps and public housing assistance. They also could be rejected if officials determine they could use these benefits in the future. The rule attempts to cut legal immigration with a new rule making it harder for legal immigrants already here lawfully to become permanent residents if they use our public benefits. This probably could reduce the number of people who receive green cards and visas by half with the government estimating that the status of roughly 382,000 immigrants could be immediately effected.

Sometimes kids get strange ideas that get bigger and bigger and then scare them! Such was the case of The Witch House in Hingham, Massachusetts, when Wendy and I were in second and third grade.

Wendy was a year older and our neighbor. We were best friends and did everything together…rode bikes, ice-skated, made a lending library for the “younger kids”, carved soap, sneaked up into her big brother’s attic room to get pipe cleaners, etc.

She even talked me out of switching bikes, so she could ride by bigger pink bike. I pedaled fast behind on her little blue bike. Of course, she was wise enough to change bikes when we were out of sight of our homes!

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I love movies. Obviously, because I have collected lots and lots of DVDs, so I can grab most of my favorite flicks and sit back and enjoy!

Last week I decided to go through a big trunk of my “chick flicks” as Hubby-dear calls them. These are movies I have separated…so he won’t mistakenly watch one!!

First one out of the box was the second season of “The Crown”, which was a Christmas present last December. I still haven’t been able to watch it because hubby-dear thinks it’s boring.

It is on the top of my stack. With hubby retiring a number of months ago, it is hard for me to watch my chick flicks.

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Just some random thoughts this week. --Children and grandchildren should not live more than a hour ride from their parents/grandparents home! --Your husband should not be a better cook than the woman of the house! Just saying…… --Telephones should not ring after 9 p.m. unless it is an emergency. --Gas tanks should have a voice-activated message that alerts you to a low gas level. (This isn’t for ladies!) --One should not order online more than twice a month! I say this because several weeks ago, we had the UPS, Fed-Ex man and our mailwoman delivering packages. Thankfully only one was mine! --No online shopping after midnight. When I can’t sleep, I shop and that has brought on stress on my part. 

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By Daniel Jones, editor

It was the holiday season of 2017, and I glanced on Amazon to see that the AncestryDNA kit was on sale for sixty bucks, so I pulled the trigger and took the test. 

Several years before I began researching family history, which went back to the 1100s on my mom’s side, but not very far on my father’s side.  All I knew was that my grandfather was named George Jones and born in 1896.  My grandmother was Esther Ainsworth, born 1897.  Both were born in Mississippi in Jones County.  Of my ten aunts and uncles on that side, I met only two or three, and even then, I was a child or teenager at the time. 

It took around a month for the results to come back, and I wasn’t really surprised by the results.  They came back as 62 percent England and Wales, 32 percent Ireland and Scotland, four percent Sweden, and two percent Germanic Europe.  I also received a profile of my family’s migration across the United States.

WARNING

We better watch out. We took our eye off of the housing market and it resulted in 2018 with a deep recession for the U.S. The Obama Administration relaxed the qualifications of home buyers and we are liable to have to eat a lot of those loans and do this nation irreparable harm again.