My blog will feature illustrations,paintings,and photographs I have created during fifty years of creating visual images.
I will share photographs from family photo albums and thoughts I have written.I look forward to your comments and any memories you have to share.
You have good genes, you know that, right?” Trump told the crowd of overwhelmingly white supporters Friday. “A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe?” he added. “The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”
The “racehorse theory” of genetics holds that some human beings are born genetically superior to others.
Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, characterized Trump’s remarks as “eugenics” — basing a human being’s worth on genes. “It was used by Nazis to justify genocide,” she tweeted. “Today, it’s used by white nationalists — & apparently the @POTUS — to justify hate.” Mary Papenfuss , Trends Reporter ,HuffPost
I’ve photographed a few scenes of my television set today to record things I’ve seen today. Some news and some entertainment, and for some reason I see a connection to the coronavirus pandemic. Scenes of clueless men, movie theaters closed, a hero of poor victims fighting a vicious killer that comes to town. And help that may be coming.
BREAKING NEWS 3000 daily deaths
Three Stooges
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958. Their hallmark was physical farce and slapstick.
Pancho Villa movie
After an overseer beats his peon father to death, a young Pancho Villa spills his first blood when he enacts revenge on the man. Retreating to the hills, Villa (Wallace Beery) spends a number of years as a vicious bandit, brutally attacking the wealthy, which earns him the respect of the poor. Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. The film was shot on location in Mexico.
Dominic relaxing after finishing his lessons at our home on April 22,2020. Godzilla is trying to eat mannequin man.
President Donald Trump has released general guidelines for how to lift coronavirus restrictions and reopen parts of the U.S. economy – including schools. But most state education leaders say their buildings will have to remain closed until at least late summer or fall.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 35 states and Washington, D.C., had ordered or recommended school buildings remain closed through the rest of the school yearto contain the spread of the coronavirus, according to a tally from Education Week magazine.
Schools in coronavirus hot spots may not even be able to hit a fall deadline for reopening. But a couple of rural states are holding out hope for opening some schools in May.
The problem, some state leaders say: Neither Education Secretary Betsy DeVos nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said much on how schools should be planning for the future. Left to figure out a plan on their own, state and local education leaders are banding together.
Others say America’s schools have long been designed to be locally governed – and a national pandemic doesn’t change that.
“Our grandson Dominic is off of school until The Fall semester, and may not return then.
My wife Carolyn and I are teaching Dominic and his sister Sophia when they have been at our home while their parents work . Their mother is now working at home during the Pandemic, and we have our grandchildren at our home so that she can concentrate on her work responsibilities. Their dad works outside of the home. We watch one child at a time several times a week. My wife does most of the teaching and we both focus on art projects with the grandchildren.
Dominic is studying in our home art studio.
In this blog post are photographs that I took in my home. Many are of my television screen showing recent events during the Coronavirus in America on April16, April 17 and April 18,2020.
Photograph of light in my house on April 18, 2020 10:07a.m.
Know the Facts April 18,2020 12:03 p.m.
President Trump boxed in Thursday 7:02 a.m.
Food supply concerns Wednesday, April 15,2020
“The Disasters” -Today Saturday April 18, I was looking at etchings by Francisco Goya
I started this blog around 2010 with the purpose of sharing visual images, which include my drawings, paintings and photographs and the art of other people. This post is about love and compassion for children.
I am a United States citizen because I was born here. I did nothing to earn being a citizen. I served in the Army reserves from 1961 until 1967, worked for the United States Air Force as a civilian from 1962 until 1966. I vote.
below is an e-mail that I sent today to my Senators, Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill that represent Missouri. I am a 79 year old citizen of the United States that has lived in Missouri for 79 years and have never been so sad and angry at our elected leaders about how we are treating children from other countries. I am a visual artist and have taught at St.Louis Community College at Meramec since 1997. It has my privilege and joy to have taught many students from other countries. Would you and Senator Roy Blunt please work together to unite the children in President Trump’s detention centers. Would both of you travel to Texas to visit these children and release a statement about when these children are going to be united with their parents? Work together as human beings and not politicians. Do this for America and for which ever God you believe in. I am sending this same message to Roy Blunt. John Dyess
Journal of Seeing by John Dyess 