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june 2021 ted today skip to content home about conversations across time grant foreman heather cox richardson post viral disorders why this blog ted today a blog by ted leach menu home about conversations across time grant foreman heather cox richardson post viral disorders why this blog month june 2021 justice nonviolence june 30 2021 june 26 2021 moderation years ago a friend was interviewed to direct a capital campaign at a local church a member of the hiring committee asked him do you believe in the second amendment my quick thinking friend replied i believe in all the amendments i must leave it to you to determine how the right to bear arms is a factor for hiring a fund raiser this anecdote reminds me that many americans hold as sacred the right to bear arms so i m reluctant to suggest the us has too many guns in circulation however i invite you to consider whether there is any correlation between the two charts below my personal view is that we have plenty of firearms and too many automatic machine gun type weapons when it comes to guns my motto is all things in moderation from america s gun culture in charts bbc news april 8 2021 from countries with the largest number of prisoners per 100 000 of the national population as of may 2021 statistica 2 comments justice nonviolence june 29 2021 june 28 2021 peace officers jim arness 1923 2011 was matt dillon in all 635 episodes of gunsmoke s 20 year tv run he shot 383 people one every 1 7 episodes that s a lot but most of the smoke was from other guns arness had a peaceful demeanor his character was reluctant to use force i prefer the term peace officer it s a subtle but basic shift at their best peace is what they do it s who they are let s honor our peace officers and lift up those who model the profession s best practices i agree with peggy noonan that we need more not less funding for peace officers we ask too much and pay too little the defund movement seeks to redirect resources to accomplish some social service roles we ask of law enforcement it can be both and not either or fund the cops find ways to offload some of their social work duties in 1985 charles strobel a roman catholic priest in nashville opened his church to the homeless until then when the dispatcher received a complaint about a homeless person an officer s only recourse was jail strobel s work led to room in the inn a faith based shelter providing network that has been replicated in other cities there are creative ways citizens can be involved from 13 certified as peace officers by npc white mountain independent june 25 2021 1 comment art civility june 28 2021 june 25 2021 deep roots casey crime photographer the fat man the man called x mystery is my hobby the silent men yours truly johnny dollar radio detective story hour dick tracy dragnet nick carter master detective gang busters and 21st precinct the dozen links above provide a sampling of modern us radio crime shows as opposed to old timey radio shows like the lone ranger tom mix and gunsmoke some radio shows had later incarnations as television shows including two decades of tv s gunsmoke before we dig into some current issues of crime and how we police ourselves these samplers provide a nostalgic and instructive background of our national crime solving consciousness from calling all cars radio dragnets and the technology of policing kathleen battles 2010 leave a comment justice people june 27 2021 june 25 2021 a place to begin when i write a string of posts about a topic it s not because i have answers but because i have questions and it helps me to write and engage others in my search for next steps the impetus for these posts came from two newspaper items one was peggy noonan s may 27 wall street journal column defund the police no fund them better you can read it free at her website peggynoonan com the immediate catalyst was neil macfarquhar s june 24 new york times article why police have been quitting in droves in the last year asheville nc lost more than one third of its officers in one year the article includes the painful story of one officer caught in an us versus them crossfire officer lindsay rose was belittled by some of her lgbtq friends who chanted all gay cops are traitors it s a complex multi faceted problem and it s not new violence is introduced in the first biblical family when cain the son of adam and eve murdered his brother abel among the story s lessons 1 we ve always been prone to violence and 2 we are all family officer rose quit she later asked the chief if she could have her old badge to give to her grandfather who had pinned it on her the chief talked her into returning to the force he had made some changes one example short sleeve shirts are now okay from why police have been quitting in droves in the last year neil macfarquhar the new york times june 24 2021 2 comments justice nonviolence june 26 2021 june 25 2021 closure closure is often sought and difficult to achieve friends and family of the june 24th surfside florida condominium collapse are dealing with the what if and if only thoughts that are part of achieving closure after a tragedy the june 25th sentencing of derek chauvin for the may 25 2020 murder of george floyd was another opportunity this week for the entire nation to move toward closure after a tragically transformative event in minneapolis for the next week these posts will focus on issues of crime and restitution crime isn t a uniquely american problem but america has a unique crime problem crime is a universal problem as old as the first family in the bible tomorrow i ll share a newspaper article that prompted my own self reflection about these issues as well as a word about our brothers cain and abel what s happening in one city the stan greenspon center for peace and justice at queens university charlotte nc leave a comment engagement generativity june 25 2021 june 24 2021 shovel ready the lehman brothers bankruptcy in september 2008 signaled a major financial crisis cascading stock prices bottomed in march 2009 we remember those days as the great recession barack obama then a candidate for president identified some much needed shovel ready projects to stimulate the economy he worked for this in the early days of his administration the young president wasn t able to accomplish his goals in the fall of 08 i hoped we would rebuild our infrastructure in the fall of 16 i hoped another new president said to be good at building things would prioritize our infrastructure his priority was overturning the affordable care act a recent tv news broadcast showed a crumbling highway bridge in rhode island that has been shored up with wood pilings recently the i 40 bridge over the mississippi river has been closed to repair a cracked beam so i was happy to watch president biden s announcement of a bi partisan deal on infrastructure based on earlier failures of our national government s efforts i confess some skepticism whether it will be passed by congress and signed by the president but as alexander pope said hope springs eternal from bipartisan solutions to rebuild america s infrastructure by jessica lombardo forconstructionpros com april 26 2021 leave a comment engagement people june 24 2021 june 23 2021 escape from fantasy island two friends i ve never met are peggy noonan whose column i cite occasionally and rachel maddow whose tv program i ve not cited until today it s quite possible they ve never met they could be good for each other as each has been good for me a true friend encourages a person to think which these commentators accomplish from their respective perches on the right and on the left noonan s recent wall street journal columns are available without a paywall at her website she writes for her friends on the right and the center right her recent columns urged them to reject the conspiracy theories that have flourished in america s fantasy island atmosphere of recent years maddow is our best fantasy island tour guide giving context for conspiracy theories a replay or transcript of the 6 22 21 program gives oxygen to important reporting by the arizona press about the bizarre events unfolding there around the election audit let s find a way off this island from the arizona election audit is a partisan and amateurish endeavor that should not be trusted expert review finds by charles davis business insider june 22 2021 leave a comment interspiritual people june 23 2021 june 22 2021 a friend at the center a friend i ve never met is cynthia bourgeault among her many involvements is serving on the faculty of the center for action and contemplation i know her primarily through her contributions to cac s daily meditations bourgeault practices a tradition called centering prayer i ve learned from her interactions with people in a variety of spiritual traditions they re drawn together by a common interest in contemplative prayer our chaotic fragmented world needs the healing that comes when we are drawn together in silent prayer like spokes of a wheel get closer as they get nearer the hub bourgeault reminds me to create space for silence reflection consciousness of what i ve come to call the defining presence wisdom like water is itself clear and formless but it necessarily assumes the shape and coloration of the container in which it is captured between formless essence and manifesting particularity there is a reciprocal dynamism you can t have one without the other cynthia bourgeault from wisdom teaching and quotes at the wisdom way of knowing from an introduction to cynthia bourgeault at the contemplative society leave a comment engagement people june 22 2021 june 21 2021 a friend on the right the weekly standard a conservative magazine was an early opponent of trumpism it was acquired by the washington examiner and is now an arm of the examiner a recent article described the search for the alpha energy that motivated at least some of trump s supporters without making the outlandish statements that many found off putting from trumpism after trump by sean trende june 17 2021 some of the pre examiner weekly standard writers are now at the bulwark a web based magazine with conservative principles that i find helpful a self description the bulwark is a news network launched in 2018 dedicated to providing political analysis and reporting free from the constraints of partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices a friend i ve never met at the bulwark is charlie sykes yesterday s morning shots focus was why ban only critical race theory his classic conservative principles express the essence of democracy from charles sykes author at the bulwark 1 comment art humor june 21 2021 june 20 2021 friends i ve read about friends who never met but had long deeply personal correspondence with paper and ink i have friends i ve never met which is increasingly common in cyberspace matt l r is someone i know only through wordpress the blog platform you re now reading he s a cartoonist who conveys much needed humor around some of life s absurdities at lastflyingcow com matt invites me to reflect about life s meaning from a safe distance charles schulz 1922 2000 did that with peanuts we all need a safe place to ponder life s mysteries i grew up with mad magazine as editor of our school paper in the 9th grade alfred e neuman graced the cover of our first edition my mom gave me an appreciation of satire and self deprecating humor from the cartoons woke me from a deep sleep by matt l r lastflyingcow 4 comments posts navigation older posts search for recent posts exploring the imaginal july 2 2026 citizens united july 1 2026 jefferson s bible june 30 2026 imaginal cells june 29 2026 a morning prayer june 28 2026 recent comments meerkatglitterybac0b on citizens united meerkatglitterybac0b on a morning prayer ted leach on a morning prayer ted leach on a morning prayer meerkatglitterybac0b on a morning prayer archives july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 march 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