Yesterday, I got to see Virgil and we had as good a visit as you can have under the conditions. A couple of non-visitation staff members passed through the lobby while I was checking in said hi to me, and one actually came to the visitation room to say hi to me. Well, I must be doing something right. (So must Virgil.) I appreciate them too. I depend on them to keep Virgil safe and healthy and even in some semblance of good spirits. Of course I was exhausted when I got home. So this may be a bit skimpy.
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
Dem Underground – Elie Mystal, a legal expert, says . . .
Quote – Biden would be entirely within his rights to deputize doctors in Texas and make them federal employees with immunity. That’s a great idea. Make all clinic employees federal officers and untouchable.
Click through. The quote is all there is, and no link is provided, but the discussion is most interesting (Don’t believe everything. Not everyone is a lawyer.)
Her Husband Was in Jail When Ida Hit. She Hasn’t Heard From Him Since.
Click through. The quote is all there is, and no link is provided, but the discussion is most interesting (Don’t believe everything. Not everyone is a lawyer.)
Mother Jones – Her Husband Was in Jail When Ida Hit. She Hasn’t Heard From Him Since.
Quote – Yet despite a mandatory evacuation order for parish residents, Sheriff Greg Champagne did not evacuate people in the jail ahead of the storm. By Monday, the 911 system in the parish wasn’t working, according to Nola.com; on Thursday, repeated calls to the sheriff’s office and jail still failed to connect. For Davis, who has not received any word of her husband’s safety since the storm, the silence is frightening. She is planning to travel to the jail herself, along with her husband’s mother, to get answers.
Click through for story. I believe you “catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar” in any case. But this is another reason to be nice to the good staff.
Food for Thought –
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So glad that you had a wonderful visit w/Virgil. Glad that you got home safely too. Get your R&R, you deserve it, Joanne.
Cartoon: Well, that was a good, good day.
DU: Excellent! A very good idea. Hope that it’s enforced and respectful. (do it NOW!)
MJ: How tragic, and how terribly sad!!! Hope that she can connect w/her husband, alongside with the other people concerned about their loved ones, and that they are safe.
FFT: Oh, good grief!!
THIS JUST IN: TJI 1. “An expert on the circus industry recently reached out to me and urged me to not compare Trump and his comeback tour to clowns at the circus… as that is an insult to clowns. I agree.”
~ Jim Acosta~2. “This is beyond unacceptable and disgusting. @shaqbrewster was trying to do his job on a beach in Gulfport, MS. Shaq is ok. This guy who nearly attacked him clearly is not. ~ Craig Melvin ~
3. “The Court’s cowardly decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health isstaggering. The House will bring up Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America.” ~ Speaker Nancy Pelosi ~
4. “The scenes out of New York and New Jersey are chilling. Flooding brings serious and often underestimated risk. Please stay safe.” ~ Dan Rather ~
5. “Paul Gosar attended a white supremacist fundraiser alongside other far-right provocateurs like Steve King whose political career ended after Republicans stripped his committee duties after he questioned why being a “white supremacist” was offensive.” ~ Willow ~
TJI #1 – Now that Jim Acosta has been liberated from having Trump’s press people physically remove him, he is turning into a delightfully witty pundit.
TJI #2 – His poise and professionalism certainly suggest he will go a long way in journalism (assuming he isn’t assassinated first.) May God (and human institutions) protect him.
TJI #3 – May everyone in Congress respond to it: “You SHALL pass.”
TJI #4 – When Sandy hit, I had a temporary job along with about 30 other people, mostly veterans, as a help desk person for the NYC school system. That was quite an experience, even for me, not being there. Unless it has changed, the school system is cobbeled together with public and charter schools, while the IT support is cobbled together with commercial and proprietary software. Not just teachers, but also sectrtaries, custodians, anyone in any way employed by the district must use the system, if for nothing else, in order to get paid. Somehow they manage, mostly. But throw in a hurricane and flooding and that’s a whole new ball game. Now throw in CoViD, and I can’t even. And that’s just the school system. New York is so much more than that. And this is the seconf=d “hundred year flood” in ten years.
TJI #5 – Because of course he did. It’s a pity his own family can’t even do anything with them (alsthough they deserve credit for trying – if not to change him, at least to change the voters who sent him.)
Cartoon: An great find.
DU: Interesting hope President Biden does it. I’m sure it will tick off quite a few of the rotten R’s/GoPiggies.
MJ: Awful to read what Ida has caused. Not good reading that Sheriff Greg Champagne did evacuate the people when first warn of Ida coming. I honestly hope that the ones in the jail are still safe and when Davis goes with her mother-in-law they find our positive information.
Food for Thought: Despicable, they need some sense knocked into their brains.
Happy to hear that you had a pleasant visit with Virgil. Plus that the workers there are polite and welcoming to you. So you go every 2 weeks, correct? Are they scheduled months ahead or just monthly?
Hope you were able to get some relaxation today, to catch up from yesterday.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
Under normal (pre=pandemic) circumstances, you could schedule within 14 days prior on the Friday of the weekend you wanted, but not later than Wednesday of that same week. But then, you could visit any inmate any weekend. Now, the DOC requires each prison to operate at 25% of normal capacity. His prison interprets that (that all may, but I don’t know that) as dividing the inmates into four group. Let’s say that group A can have visitors this weekend o Friday. Then it follows that Group A may receive visitorte followin (seond) weekend, on Saturday, and the following (third) weekend on Sunday, but not on the folllowing (fourth) weekend. Rinse and repeat. When I reserved for the third I also told the officer I would be wanting the 19th (Sunday) but that I knew one couldn’t reserve that far out so I’d emeil again closer to it. But she already gae it to me. So I guess one already can schedule a month in advance … at least for now.
Interesting. After reading how they allow your visits, seems reasonable. Nice that they allowed you to make the Sunday September 19 so far in advance. with no issues. Hope it stays like that too.
Visiting someone in prison will never be fun, but it sounds like both Virgil’s stay and your visits are as good as it gets, Joanne. Staff members must be getting to know both Virgil and you better and are allowed some human interaction with you which must give you some peace of mind in the knowledge that Virgil is as well taken care of as possible.
Cartoon: Like Cook discovered Sydney.
DU: If at all possible, I wonder if doctors would like to be federal officers. They have to be extraordinarily dedicated to their job to go through all that to work from where? The abortion clinics will be closed soon and even if the law is rolled back they’re not expected to reopen.
MJ: COVID brought great uncertainty to relatives of the incarcerated and Ida is the icing on the uncertainty cake. Those relatives must be going to hell right now, not knowing the fate of their loved ones. The lack of compassion and the bureaucracy of the system is now punishing the relatives of those who committed a crime.
FFT: Sanity is lost in these discussions.
I had the same reaction to the cartoon … but it was TC’s so i just published it without comment. LOL!
And I do realize I’m fortunate in where Virgil is held. There are prisons in this country that no amount of being nice to the staff could keep him safe.