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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

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– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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  2. JanF

    Juneteenth

    Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas in 1865, and more generally the emancipation of African-American citizens throughout the United States. Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in most states.

    The holiday is observed primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, and readings by African American writers such as Maya Angelou and Ralph Ellison.

    The NAACP wants to remind everyone of Freedom Summer and the importance of voting:

    Jan,

    Just over 50 years ago, African-Americans made up 45% of Mississippi’s population, but fewer than 7% of black Mississippians were registered to vote.

    In June of 1964, civil rights groups came together to kick off Freedom Summer, a 10-week campaign to dramatically increase the number of registered black voters in the state. More than 1,000 volunteers of all races and colors, from all over the nation, traveled to Mississippi to do this important work.

    While there, youth volunteers and their black Mississippian supporters suffered unimaginable levels of vitriol and violence, but they did not stop fighting for what was right. In the end, Freedom Summer emerged as a defining moment in the civil rights movement, pushing our country one step closer to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

    The best way we can honor the work, bravery, and sacrifice of the Freedom Summer volunteers is to exercise the right they fought for so diligently.

    Honor the mission of Freedom Summer by pledging to vote in this year’s midterm election.

    The extremely low levels of black voter registration in the South were fueled by generations of discriminatory elections practices. States were legally able to hold whites-only primaries, collect poll taxes, and administer literacy tests. When legal barriers weren’t enough, lynchings and bombings-threats and fulfilled promises-kept even more African-Americans away from the polls.

    Fifty years later, legislators are attempting to take us back toward 1964, weakening the VRA, making it ever harder for the poor and people of color to have their voices heard at the polls.

    Don’t allow these lawmakers to roll back history. They can only win and keep their seats in office when people like you and I stay home during midterm elections.

    Raise your voice against those who seek to violate civil rights and human rights. Make a pledge to vote this November:

    http://action.naacp.org/My-Vote-2014

    In solidarity,

    Lorraine C. Miller

    Interim President and CEO

    NAACP

  3. Portlaw

    in. Am very worried about Iraq and the fact that they are now selling bullet proof knapsacks for children 🙁

    Hope it’s a great Juneteenth throughout Moosylvania!

  4. anotherdemocrat

    Ok, I give up. I’m exercising today. Maybe that’ll help me sleep. I’m so tired of getting to work & nodding off here after a night of tossing & turning because my brain won’t stop talking to me. Just nonstop – and it isn’t even worries about bills & stuff – it keeps telling me stories. I keep telling it I can be asleep for that, they’re called “dreams”, but it doesn’t help. Ugh.

    Anyway, eating sweet potatoes & black beans, drinking tea.  

  5. princesspat

    So yesterday I got the boot….a walking foot/leg brace with instructions to wear it night and day for a month. It’s awkward and cumbersome but to my surprise my foot doesn’t hurt so bad so I’ll get used to it. I finally found a shoe for my right foot with the same heel height so it’s easier to balance but the stairs are tricky. Between the boot and my cane I’m quite a sight. Oh well, at least I’m still hobbling around!  

  6. bfitzinAR

    Got Quorum Court tonight.  That will wrap up the lighter half of the year.  Budget “season” starts next month.  If I’m lucky – and if I am it will be because a whole lot of other people are tired of this already too – we will wrap the budget in November and do one last self-congratulatory office meeting in December and that will be that for my adventures in Public Office.  If I’m not, we’ll end up with special sessions in December to pass the budget by the skin of our teeth in the 11th hour.  Hope everything is going well in Moosylvania.  

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