WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

I have often been heard to say that I saw the glory days of motoring and reports like that confirm me in my belief Kev! A break in a wire results in £700 worth of damage.... I'm glad I don't have to worry about these things.
Susan and I are hiring a car for a fortnight at the end of the month so we can both go visiting old friends. £700 will cover the hire and fuel for the fortnight and someone else can worry about the maintenance!

[Stanley]

THIS caught my attention....

3 Hours ago.
President Donald Trump has complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai on his English-speaking, during a meeting with several African leaders at the White House. Trump told Boakai he speaks "such good English", asking where he went to school. The visitor politely laughed, but did not mention that English is the official language of Liberia. Africa's oldest republic, Liberia was founded in 1822 by freed American slaves with the goal of resettling free black people in Africa.
Remind me how this jerk got to be president!

[PanBiker]

I bet the Liberian President can string a perfectly coherent sentence together as well.

[Stanley]

See THIS latest piece of Trump's foreign policy......
A message from US President Donald Trump on Wednesday landed like a grenade in Brazil, bringing the relationship between the two countries to an all-time low. Trump pledged to impose tariffs on Brazil at a rate as high as 50%. He accused the country of "attacks" on US tech companies and of conducting a "witch hunt" against the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, a longstanding ally who is facing prosecution over his alleged role in a plot to overturn the 2022 Brazilian election. The move follows a fresh round of political sparring between Trump and the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It further strained a relationship that was already tense. Trump had earlier threatened members of the BRICS group - of which Brazil is a part - with tariffs, accusing those countries of anti-American positions. The bloc includes India, Russia and China and has grown to include Iran. It was designed to counterbalance US influence in the world.

[Stanley]

How cool my house stayed in the hot weather we are having despite the fact I roasted a chicken. There is much to be said for living in a terrace that has thick stone walls and one aspect facing North and not getting much direct sun.

[Stanley]

I just tripped over this in YouTube

[PanBiker]

Brilliant!

Advantage "Ball Girl"

[Stanley]

The temperature in the sun in the back yard yesterday was116F and in the shed it got to 84F.I think we can say it was our hottest day of the year so far....

Read THIS and weep.
No burial records. No headstones. No memorials. Nothing until 2014, when an amateur historian uncovered evidence of a mass grave, potentially in a former sewage tank, believed to contain hundreds of babies in Tuam, County Galway, in the west of Ireland. Now, investigators have moved their diggers onto the nondescript patch of grass next to a children's playground on a housing estate in the town. An excavation, expected to last two years, will begin on Monday. The area was once where St Mary's children's home stood, a church-run institution that housed thousands of women and children between 1925 and 1961. Many of the women had fallen pregnant outside of marriage and were shunned by their families - and separated from their children after giving birth. According to death records, Patrick Derrane was the first baby to die at St Mary's – in 1915, aged five months. Mary Carty, the same age, was the last in 1960. In the 35 years between their deaths, another 794 babies and young children are known to have died there - and it is believed they are buried in what former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny dubbed a "chamber of horrors".

[Cathy]

That was a heavy read.
Hopefully we will be told of the outcome.
I imagine some newborns were just put aside to die, immediately after birth. Shocking .
I wonder how the Nuns explained it all to their Maker.

[Stanley]

"I wonder how the Nuns explained it all to their Maker."
That's the root of my questions also Cathy.To me it demonstrates how badly organised religion can distort the basic principles of their 'faith'. And remember this is only one site, there are many more where the same questions can be asked.
How can anyone respect a religion that supported behaviour like this?