I am glad everyone is safe but disappointed you didn't get more rain. I'll have to pray longer.

Yes, we are one big happy family, no jealousy everyone works together or they don't last very long. We are a smooth running team.

I can't believe mother nurse let me stay up this late. I guess because I told her I was worried about you guys fighting that Forrest fire.

She knows what we went through a couple of years ago with a small couple hundred acres of our tree's. We were lucky the neighbor's had several thousand acres damaged.

Good night, God's blessings on all you guys, be safe.

Good Morning, and Thank You...

We have more rain today so hopefully it will help...

Just wanted to clarify one thing.. I am not fighting the fires, just delivering water where I can..Being out in rural areas they only have what they brought and it goes quickly.. I figured it is one way to help at least a little..

Keep those prayers coming please they are working!!

Its not in gaining custody though, its in making her carry to term for he to then take custody..He can not force her to carry at all..

Men have no say in her decision to carry or terminate..I think it unfair when the father says he would take care of the child..

The Supreme Court has found laws requiring a spouse's consent for an a******n to be unconstitutional. In Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, the Court reasoned that a husband's refusal to consent would in effect veto a woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy. While both prospective fathers and pregnant women have an interest in the decision, when the two disagree, only one partner's position can prevail. According to the Court, since the woman actually carries the pregnancy, "the balance weighs in her favor," preventing the husband from vetoing her choice....

Heck, the woman doesn’t even need to tell the father she is aborting...If the father's consent isn't required for a******n, does he have a legal right to be notified when one occurs? The Supreme Court addressed this question in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and found that the father does not have a legal right to be notified of an a******n....

It is life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, who are you that you quoted our Constitution as Life, Liberty and property? It was written as property under John Lock and his ideology of America's Trinity.
The eighteenth-century British political philosopher John Locke wrote that governments are instituted to secure people's rights to ‘life, liberty, and property and in 1776, but Thomas Jefferson begged to differ. When he penned the Declaration of Independence, ratified on the Fourth of July, he edited out Locke's right to ‘property’ and substituted his own more broad-minded, [h]distinctly American concept,[/u] the right to ‘the pursuit of happiness.’ " Jefferson the best president ever.JMO

Now the pursuit of "Happiness", is all inclusive to the freedom of choice over my body.

The Law is for the protection of "Life" is for the individual, there in the flesh living and breathing. independently.

Liberty defined as the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

So YES Joyv it as ALL to do with our unalienable rights, for damn sure, and NOT an overreaching government.

I believe you mean the Declaration of
Independence~~~

Jefferson didn’t beg to differ with Locke...He took study of the phrase “property and pursuit of happiness” and drew from it this conclusion.~
Offered as yet another view that I believe in...

“Familiar as all this sounds, Brook is wrong on three points. John Locke lived from 1634 to 1704, making him a man of the seventeenth century, not the eighteenth. Jefferson did not substitute his “own” phrase. Nor is that concept “distinctly American.” It is an import, and Jefferson borrowed it.

The phrase has meant different things to different people. To Europeans it has suggested the core claim—or delusion—of American exceptionalism. To cross-racial or gay couples bringing lawsuits in court, it has meant, or included, the right to marry. And sadly, for many Americans, Jefferson might just as well have left “property” in place. To them the pursuit of happiness means no more than the pursuit of wealth and status as embodied in a McMansion, a Lexus, and membership in a country club. Even more sadly, Jefferson’s own “property” included about two hundred human beings whom he did not permit to pursue their own happiness.

The Greek word for “happiness” is eudaimonia. In the passage above, Locke is invoking Greek and Roman ethics in which eudaimonia is linked to aretê, the Greek word for “virtue” or “excellence.” In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote, “the happy man lives well and does well; for we have practically defined happiness as a sort of good life and good action.” Happiness is not, he argued, equivalent to wealth, honor, or pleasure. It is an end in itself, not the means to an end. The philosophical lineage of happiness can be traced from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle through the Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans.

Jefferson admired Epicurus and owned eight copies of De rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) by Lucretius, a Roman disciple of Epicurus. In a letter Jefferson wrote to William Short on October 13, 1819, he declared, “I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.” At the end of the letter, Jefferson made a summary of the key points of Epicurean doctrine, including:

Moral.—Happiness the aim of life.
Virtue the foundation of happiness.
Utility the test of virtue.

Properly understood, therefore, when John Locke, Samuel Johnson, and Thomas Jefferson wrote of “the pursuit of happiness,” they were invoking the Greek and Roman philosophical tradition in which happiness is bound up with the civic virtues of courage, moderation, and justice. Because they are civic virtues, not just personal attributes, they implicate the social aspect of eudaimonia.

The pursuit of happiness, therefore, is not merely a matter of achieving individual pleasure. That is why Alexander Hamilton and other founders referred to “social happiness.” During this political season, as Americans are scrutinizing e******ns of 2018 and p**********l candidates, we would do well to ponder that......

No matter what position you believe in nothing can take away the brilliance of our founding fathers... We would wish for such in this day and age...,