Trump birthright citizenship executive order

One of his boldest moves was an attempt to end birthright citizenship for those born to undocumented immigrants.

Birthright citizenship is protected by the U.S. Constitution, and the order already faces legal challenges.

Trump ordered agencies (starting 30 days after the order) not to recognize babies as citizens if their mothers were "unlawfully present" at the time of birth and their father was not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

That also applies to children born to mothers who were lawful, temporary residents and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents. 

1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST.

https://youtu.be/spfPTHdfEF8?si=ifVu2BZ1UD_QTSSQ&sfnsn=mo 

Convicted Felon In Chief Pardons 1500+ Insurrectionist.

Today, 20 January 2025, the convicted felon president pardoned the January 6th insurrectionists, most of which were the oath keepers and proud boys. I heard it was around 1500+ pardons.

America is in the chaotic hands of a demented convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH8zPpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQXt_QZwtraA-tkzy6pObfGKvgB35vhfDHXwhQQ6LPs9SO2YnPhtfc-bYQ_aem_6o837uTNdKGXDDCpYE3LfA&sfnsn=mo 

Convicted Felon In Chief's tariff Trade Wars Begin

The convicted felon, President in Chief's trade war is coming next month with the convicted felon's tariffs on our Allies. 

https://youtu.be/14BXD9s0ndI?si=zTrGHe_JCPl142rW&sfnsn=mo 

Meta Silence Merger of TikTok

 Others have reported: 100% sure servers are now hosted on Meta in Utah. 

1~IT workers said the shutdown was a window long enough to switch servers.

2~Some TT users saw 'enhanced security verification' upon logging back in pulling info from their Facebook accounts.

3~@zuck publicly got rid of fact checking in the USA across ALL of Meta. 

4~and now someone's seen verification in source code?

We're cooked. TT's officially a zombified propaganda app. Even the algorithm was tweaked bc TT users are seeing a LOT more RW content. 

Even before scotus banned TikTok there were some insider trading of TikTok stock that should be investigated. 

Northwestern State Normal (NSN)

Castle On The Hill (burned to a shell of itself March, 1935). This is an old photo of Northwestern State Normal School, in Alva, Oklahoma, a friend, Lovina Clark (dec'd), gave it to me awhile back (20+ years ago). It is a long panorama photo that I scanned as two photos because at the time my scanner was a small screen machine.

If you look closely you shall notice the Lincoln statue, water tower, chimney in the open area between the two buildings.  This is the area where Herod Hall was eventually built. As you might notice this was taken before Herold Hall (administration building) was built between these two NSN buildings (Castle & Old Science Hall). Sometime later date the Science hall lwas moved to the eastside of the campus into Carter Hall. The old science hall has become many offices throughout its history, such as the music department when I went to NSC in the 1970s. Today it is goes by "Ryerson hall."< as it looks down 7th Street.

  A Silent message thru the ages 

  Is delivered to the races passing by,

  And the wisdom of the sages

  Flashes futily from the sturdy eye,

  Watching Life's laughter, song and tears 

  Thru the eager march of onward years; 

  With quiet, unperturbed, mobile face

  Inspires us to live with equal grace.

  [taken from The Ranger 1926 yearbook] 

Good Morning, America, Nov 6, 2020!

     Good Morning, America, Nov 6, 2020! My eyes are watery with tears of hope, joy, and an optimistic feeling. I've decided awhile back this elderly woman would never fall for the fear tactics of Trump's political party. 

     I refuse to be a pessimist. I am a moderate Democrat. I have believed in Biden since he announced his decision to run for president. 

     I have so much praise for Georgia's on ground organizers, John Lewis, Stacey Abraham and all the poll workers across America working tirelessly to show us all that America's Democratic process works.

    We just need to be patience, calm as it counts and processes the ballots. 

     My eyes are filled with hope, patience, calm and  optimistic feelings of #BuildingBackBetter our America Democracy.

     My wish and hope is that my sister Dorthy McGill's (1943-2018) soul is seeing the justice unfolding for Trump's downfall and removal.

     Let us all come together over time to Make America Care Again and Unify the country and our allies around the world.

Break the Cycle Or Be Condemn To Repeat It

I know what is like to live in a dysfunctional family. If you do not break the cycle of dysfunction, you will be condemn to repeat it. I decided a long time ago that the way my older and younger sisters treated each other to get what they wanted was not my cup of tea. I broke from that cycle during the probate from hell. My older sister believed in "all for one. None for all others." My youngest sister always played the victim to get love and attention. My sister Dorthy believed in speaking out, standing up for the injustices. My sister Dorthy was more like a parent-figure to me than my own parents. Thank you Dorthy (1943-2018) for being there for me.

Benjamin Franklin Connection

Back in May, 2011, I ran across a ancestry connection to the infamous Benjamin Franklin ( Not a direct relationship). The Benjamin Franklin connection appears on my father's side of the family with  the Craighead, Holmes (Homes) and McGill

Let me see if I can get this ancestral connection straight. As I said in an earlier newsletter in 2011, "I found a link to Benjamin Franklin." It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was a brother-n-law of the 1st cousin 3x removed of husband of our 2nd Great Grand Aunt, Nancy McGill, daughter of Wm Nathan McGill, Jr.

Are you totally confused yet? Let me see if I can confuse you more and fill in some more names.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) had an older sister, Mary Franklin (1694-1731), who married Robert Holmes (Homes), the second husband of Mary Franklin

Robert Homes was the son of Katherine Craighead, who was the daughter of Rev. Robert Craighead, who was the son of Rev. Thomas Craighead, who had a son, Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead, who had a son, Capt. Robert Craighead, who was the paternal grandfather of Samuel Geddes Craighead, husband of my 2nd Great Grand Aunt, Nancy McGill.

Capt. Robert Craighead, who had a son Wm Craighead, who had a son Samuel Geddes Craighead.

Nancy A. McGill's father was Wm Nathan McGill, Jr, who was also the father to David Milton McGill, who had a son, Wm Pearson McGill, who was our Great Grandfather.
 W. P. McGill connects our grandfather, Wm Jacob McGill, who married Constance Estella Warwick. Their sons were Gene and Robert McGill. Gene McGill married Vada Paris and had four daughters, Connie Jean, Dorthy Eileen, Linda Kay and Amber Ann.

NOW! Do I have you totally confused?

This my short version of the Benjamin Franklin connection. Benjamin seems to me to be an in-law of more in-laws and cousins 3 times removed of our 2nd great grand aunt, Nancy A. McGill, and our 2nd great grand uncle, Samuel Geddes Craighead!

So . . . Is Benjamin Franklin related? There is not a direct relationship with the infamous genius known as Benjamin Franklin.

OH! What the heck!  Let's just say some interesting people crossed my McGill ancestors paths.

There were some Craighead's that married into our Warwick ancestors, also! If I can connect the Luttrell ancestors to the McGill's, then there were some Lord's, Sir's and possibly royals in that line!

You can find all sorts of funny family ties if you look long and hard enough, huh?

1730's - The First Great Awakening

A powerful Protestant religious revival swept across the New England colonies and through Georgia starting in the 1730s, later named the First Great Awakening.

Emotionalism, emphasis on individual worship, and skepticism towards religious leadership pumped new life into sects that mirrored these values like Methodism and Baptism. European circuit preachers traveled across the Atlantic, delivering dramatic sermons to crowds larger than populations of colonial cities themselves. Though the revival lasted only a generation, it signaled the end of traditional worship and the rise of evangelical faith.

Mary Franklin (1695–1741) wife of 1st cousin 3x removed of husband of 3rd great-aunt. When Mary Franklin (oldest sister of Benjamin Franklin) was born on September 26, 1695, her father, Josiah, was 38, and her mother, Abiah, was 28. She married Capt. Robert Homes on April 3, 1716, in Boston, Massachusetts. They had four children during their marriage. She died sometime after or around  June 16, 1741, in Dukes, Massachusetts, at the age of 45.<br /><br />
William Homes was father of Capt. Robert Homes (a Rev. and ship Capt.), married to Mary Franklin.oldest sister of Benjamin Franklin and daughter of Josiah Francklin and
Abiah Foulger.

When the First Great Awakening spread throughout New England and Georgia during the mid-1700s, Mary Franklin was living in Massachusetts.
OTHER RELATIVES
4 of our family ancestors lived in In the New England colonies or Georgia during the time when the region was overtaken by a momentous Protestant religious revival:

Capt. Robert Homes (1694–1743), 1st cousin 3x removed of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.

Abiah Foulger/Foulger (1667–1752), 2nd great grand aunt.

Rev. William Homes (1663–1746), husband of 2nd great grand aunt of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.

Katharine Craighead (1672–1754), 2nd great grand aunt of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.

During the religious revival, colonists revived their mission to proselytize to both Native Americans and enslaved African Americans. About 1736, Georgia.

Staunch puritans (called Old Lights) who championed ceremony and traditional church hierarchy rejected the revival’s evangelicalism and its emphasis on a personal relationship with God, while those who accepted it were dubbed New Lights.