Author: coastcontact

I am a somewhat cranky but mostly optimistic 65 plus who refuses to give up on this maddening world. The purpose of this BLOG is to express my feelings, thoughts.

No Reverse Migration

As reported by the Associated Press, President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”

What happened to the words on the Statue of Liberty?  “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal inside the statue, not on the tablet itself.

Everyone in America except native Americans are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Immigrants made the United States what it is today. Donald Trump’s Reverse Migration idea is opposition to what has made America great. The wordsmiths who are the columnist for our newspapers will write about this more elegantly than me.

25 Classic character/supporting actors & actresses

Row 1: Elizabeth Patterson, Burt Mustin, Margaret Hamilton, Charles Coburn, & Jack Elam
Row 2: Mildred Natwick, Henry Travers, Mary Wickes, Beulah Bondi, & Christine McIntyre
Row 3: Eve Arden, Dudley Dickerson, Norman Lloyd, Thelma Ritter, & Bud Jamison
Row 4: Walter Brennan, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald, & Edward Everett Horton
Row 5: Charles Lane, Judith Anderson, Frank Morgan, Andy Devine, & Lillian Randolph

You Can’t Buy anything for a Penny

The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country’s smallest denomination coins have been produced since 1793.

The Canadian penny is a 1-cent coin that is no longer in circulation, with production ending in 2012 and distribution ceasing in 2013. While cash transactions are now rounded to the nearest 5 cents, pennies can still be used for payment and are available for collectors. They were first issued in 1858 and their design has varied over the years, but the reverse typically features maple leaves.