Common Core "critical thinking" assignment leads 50 eighth graders to deny holocaust | Poor Richard's News

Common Core "critical thinking" assignment leads 50 eighth graders to deny holocaust | Poor Richard's News







"Holocaust is a propaganda tool so Israel can make money for Jews." That’s what one 8th grader in California’s Rialto school district wrote for his "critical thinking" exercise.



“A profitable hoax made by the Jews to obtain land, money and power” is how another eight grader describes the holocaust.



School district administration actually assigned holocaust denial reading materials as a part of the preparation for this assignment.



from Los Angeles Daily News (emphasis mine):





Dozens of Rialto eighth-graders questioned whether the Holocaust occurred in essays written for an in-class assignment this spring.



Rialto Unified School District administrators, besieged by criticism after the assignment became public in May, claimed at the time that none of the students who completed the assignment questioned or denied the Holocaust, but a survey of the students’ work by this news organization found numerous examples of students expressing doubt or flatly denying that the Holocaust occurred.



“I believe the event was fake, according to source 2 the event was exhaggerated,” one student wrote. (Students’ and teachers’ original spelling and grammar are retained throughout this story.) “I felt that was strong enogh evidence to persuade me the event was a hoax.”



In some cases, students earned high marks and praise for arguing the Holocaust never occurred, with teachers praising their well-reasoned arguments:



“you did well using the evidence to support your claim,” the above student’s teacher wrote on his assignment.



[…]



The complete archive of the essays was provided to the Los Angeles News Group in the form of 45 PDF files, some of which contain hundreds of pages of student assignments. An examination of the essays by newsroom staff found that at least 50 essays denied or doubted the Holocaust occurred. Even many students who agreed the Holocaust occurred said there were good reasons to believe it had not or that elements of the historical record were actually hoaxes.



The argument-style writing assignment was developed by district English Language Arts teachers and was coordinated by staff at the district headquarters level.



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California adopted the federal Common Core standards in August 2010. ”Critical thinking” exercises like these are a primary component of the centralized public school program that passed as a part of Obama’s stimulus package.



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Iowa Governor: I Do Not Want To House Immigrant Children In My State « CBS DC

Iowa Governor: I Do Not Want To House Immigrant Children In My State « CBS DC

July 14, 2014 1:23 PM









Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad speaks at the annual Ronald Reagan Commemorative Dinner on Oct. 25, 2013 in Des Moines, Iowa. (credit: Steve Pope/Getty Images)



Related Tags: Central America, Gov. Terry Branstad, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell, Immigration, Iowa, U.S.-Mexico border



During a news conference, Branstad said he was not aware of any of the children currently living in Iowa and that state has not been contacted by the federal government about housing any immigrant children. He said the government’s focus should be on securing the borders.



Michelle Obama: ‘We Have To Keep Fighting As Hard As We Can On Immigration’



“The first thing we need to do is secure the border. I do have empathy for these kids,” Branstad said. “But I also don’t want to send the signal that (you) send your kids to America illegally. That’s not the right message.”



Branstad was among a group of governors that met Sunday with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell as the Obama administration sought support from states that could host the children.



Under current law, immigrant children from countries that do not border the United States and who cross into the U.S. by themselves are turned over to federal authorities. Then, they often are reunited with parents or placed with other relatives already living here while they wait for an immigration court to decide their future. The court process can take years.



GOP Senator Demands Criminal Background Checks On Illegal Immigrant Children

Branstad was critical Sunday of the fact that there is no review of the immigration status of relatives who take custody of the children.



Since Oct. 1, more than 57,000 children have crossed the border. Most are from Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala.



President Barack Obama has vowed to use executive actions in an effort to help fix the immigration system.

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Judge Andrew Napolitano With Megyn Kelly 7-14-14 - YouTube

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Immoral hypocrisy of Democrat’s late-term abortion bill | Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com

Written by Allen West on July 16, 2014

Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/07/immoral-hypocrisy-democrats-late-term-abortion-bill/#V4IyT5o7ofDvpjmp.99



If there is any indicator that the Democrats are concerned about the impending midterm elections, look no further than their recent legislative endeavor. When in doubt, they go for a divisive issue, especially one aligned with the faux War on Women.

Funny how Democrats are using the compassion argument when it comes to the flood of illegal immigrant children into America. Yet they have no compassion for the thriving, healthy, but unborn American child who they support being butchered. What immoral hypocrisy — but all for political gain. It’s despicable.

As Chris Stirewalt writes for Foxnews.com, ” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is leading a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, a vote probably to be taken this week, on his bill that would override the laws banning late-term abortions and imposing regulations on abortion clinics in an increasing number of states.”

Stirewalt says “of course what Blumenthal doesn’t to address is that many of these “restrictions” were put in place after the horrific Dr. Kermit Gosnell case in Philadelphia, which the mainstream media didn’t seem to want to cover.” And these “restrictions” do offer support for women and protection.

We reported here about the drive for late-term abortions by a state representative in New York and what it entails. It basically amounts to brutal infanticide — that means killing babies.

According to Stirewalt, “Blumenthal’s bill, which already has the support of nearly two-thirds of Senate Democrats, would eradicate the restrictions in at least a dozen states where abortions have been banned after the start of the sixth month of pregnancy and rules in many more states that regulate the conditions at abortion clinics.”

Leave it to these liberal progressive socialists to do anything to save their own political skin – including murder ala Gosnell.

Stirewalt says “even the New York Times editorial board is enthused as are others on the Left who have seen access to elective abortions restricted in the aftermath of the discovery of a house of horrors at the Philadelphia abortion clinic operated by Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Blumenthal’s anti-anti-Gosnell bill takes Democrats into some very dangerous political territory.”

But with the support of a complicit media who will aid in the promulgation of their true intent and lies, the Democrats feel emboldened to take such an action.

Stirewalt posits that “Blumenthal’s hearing and legislation certainly is part of Democratic efforts to shift the election narrative and to frighten suburban women about Todd Akin-ite boogeymen lurking in every doctor’s office, it’s also evidence of the power of the left wing in the Democratic Party. One would have to imagine this hearing is designed to placate the vocal, well-funded pro-choice crusaders in the Democratic base and not designed to proceed even to a show vote.” We’ve already seen fundraising emails distorting the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby case decision.

But ponder this: Democrats and liberal progressives are so very staunch in their support of women’s choice in killing babies — but why are they so against women’s choice in educating their children? Oops, that’s right, they’re “owned” by the far left radical abortionists and the teachers unions.

So in the end, it’s not about the future of our children, it is all about politics, and placating their devoted leftist base. It’s about degrading women into nothing more than hapless victims whose basic need is to kill babies — not about greater opportunities for their future — just killing the future of life.

And the progressive socialists are masters of the lexicon as they have reframed this debate as fighting for women’s reproductive health — which should mean defeating cervical, uterine, ovarian cancers and fibroid tumor threats. Instead they’ve successfully changed language to mask their true intent — killing babies — as a means to achieve political power.

We all know where Barack Hussein Obama stands on this issue — after all when he was a state Senator he advocated for and supported legislation that a child surviving an abortion still deserved death. What type of demonic mind thinks that? Even worse, what does it say about our moral compass to have such a person as our president?

Look into the eyes of the people advocating this legislation — Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Baldwin, and others — and ask, what do you see within their souls?

Tags: abortion, Richard Blumenthal

Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/07/immoral-hypocrisy-democrats-late-term-abortion-bill/#V4IyT5o7ofDvpjmp.99

AND NOW FOR YOUR READING ENTERTAINMENT - A FAIRY TALE IN GORE'S HEAD - Turning up the Heat on Gore - Jonah Goldberg

Turning up the Heat on Gore - Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg | Mar 23, 2007


As fate would have it, the same week Al Gore was testifying before Congress, I was doing a little testifying myself. Admittedly, there were a tad fewer paparazzi in the Madison, Wis., classroom where I was giving a talk on global warming (sponsored by Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT). The debate in Washington offered some familiar echoes.

One student asked a long and rambling question that went basically as follows: He understood why I think Al Gore is dishonest and misleading. But how can I criticize Gore when all he wants to do is make people change their behavior and take care of this planet?

Translation: Gore is on the side of the angels and therefore it's mean-spirited to throw inconvenient truths back at the Oscar winner for "An Inconvenient Truth". "Yeah, exactly," the kid responded when I rephrased the question thusly.

The press and the Democrats seem to share this kid's sensibility. Covering Gore's congressional testimony, The Washington Post's Dana Milbank portrayed Gore as a man of science versus a bunch of creationist nutjobs. Milbank wrote: "... instead of giving another screening of 'An Inconvenient Truth,' the former vice president found himself playing the Clarence Darrow character in 'Inherit the Wind.'" It's an unintentionally accurate comparison, because the movie completely distorted the reality of the Scopes trial. The real Clarence Darrow contentedly lost the open-and-shut case after a nine-minute jury deliberation. The movie was about something bigger than the facts. So is Al Gore. And that's why his fans love him.

Gore says global warming is "a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth." It's graver than any war. He compares it to the asteroid that allegedly killed the dinosaurs.

But here's the thing. If there were an asteroid barreling toward earth, we wouldn't be talking about changing our lifestyles, nor would we be preaching about reducing, reusing and recycling. We would be building giant wicked-cool lasers and bomb-carrying spaceships to go out and destroy the thing. But Gore doesn't want to explore geo-engineering (whereby, for example, we'd add sulfate aerosols or other substances to the atmosphere to mitigate global warming). Why? Because solving the problem isn't really the point. As Gore makes it clear in his book, "Earth in the Balance," he wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems.

Indeed, he wants to change attitudes about government as much as he wants to preach environmentalism. Global warming is what William James called a "moral equivalent of war" that gives political officials the power to do things they could never do without a crisis. As liberal journalist James Ridgeway wrote in the early 1970s: "Ecology offered liberal-minded people what they had longed for, a safe, rational and above all peaceful way of remaking society ... (and) developing a more coherent central state."

This explains Gore's relentless talk of "consensus," his ugly moral bullying of "deniers" and, most of all, his insistence that because there's no time left to argue, everyone should do what he says.

Isn't it interesting how the same people who think "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" when it comes to the war think that dissent when it comes to global warming is evil and troglodytic?

"If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor," Gore said this week. "If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action."

True enough. But if your baby's crib is on fire, you don't run to a politician for help either.

You can tell that Gore's schtick is about something more than the moderate and manageable challenge of global warming when he talks of sacrifice. On the one hand he wants everybody to change their lifestyles dramatically. These are the sacrifices the voracious energy user Al Gore won't have to make because he can buy "carbon credits" for his many homes and his jet-setting.

But when asked this week about the enormous and unwise costs his plan would impose on the U.S. economy (according to the global consensus of economists), Gore said that his draconian emissions cuts are "going to save you money, and it's going to make the economy stronger."

Wait a second. This is the gravest crisis we've ever faced, but if we do exactly as Gore says (but not as he does), we'll get richer in the process as we heal Mother Earth of her fever? Gore's faith-based initiative is a win-win. No wonder so many people think it's mean to disagree.



via Turning up the Heat on Gore - Jonah Goldberg 

UNBELIEVABLE!!! - TRAITOR - Bowe Bergdahl Headed Back to Active Duty, Taking Job at Fort Sam Houston - Katie Pavlich

Bowe Bergdahl Headed Back to Active Duty, Taking Job at Fort Sam Houston - Katie Pavlich
THEY SAY HE IS STILL ON ACTIVE DUTY???? HE WASN'T SUPPORTING AMERICA ACTIVELY WHEN HE DESERTED HIS POST! HE IS A TRAITOR AND THE HIGH RANKING IDIOTS WHO ARE LICKING HIS BOOTS NEED TO BE DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED! WHAT A SHAM!
Katie Pavlich | Jul 14, 2014





Yes, you read that headline correctly. Bowe Bergdahl, the Army Sgt. accused by his fellow platoon members of desertion and possible collaboration with the Taliban against the United States, is headed back to active duty. More from CNN:

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has finished undergoing medical care and counseling at an Army hospital in San Antonio and could return to an Army unit on a Texas post as early as Monday, a defense official tells CNN.

Bergdahl was held captive by militants for five years before he was released in May in exchange for five senior Taliban members held by the U.S. military. He has always maintained his active duty status. He cannot retire from the service or be discharged until the investigation concerning his disappearance and captivity in Afghanistan is complete.

For about three weeks, Bergdahl has been an outpatient at the San Antonio hospital, and military officials have interviewed him about his time in captivity.

Bergdahl is set to take a job at Fort Sam Houston, the Army post in San Antonio, according to an Army statement Monday. He will return to "regular duty within the command where he can contribute to the mission," the statement said.

At this point, not a single soldier from Bergdahl's platoon has come forward to defend him or to justify his disappearance. Army Spc. Cody Full, who testified in front of Congress last month about Berghdahl's disappearance, is not impressed.

Full will be on with Sean Hannity tonight at 10 pm et on Fox News to discuss this latest development.

DNI extends its Alberta SBH Property over fracsand targets

DNI METALS INC. (DNI : TSX-Ven)(DG7 : Frankfurt)

TORONTO, July 11, 2014 /CNW/ - DNI Metals Inc. (DNI:TSX-Ven)(DG7:FSE) announces that it has recently concluded acquisition of additional metallic and industrial mineral permits over 61,440 hectares adjoining its Alberta SBH Property to secure strategic locations over exposures of the Pelican sandstone Formation which is known elsewhere in Alberta to contain sections of sand suitable for use as a natural sand proppant (fracsand) by the oil/gas industry.

Compelled by growing demand in fracsand to supply fast growing tight oil/gas plays in western Canada, and the scarcity of local deposits, DNI has decided to test the Pelican Formation sandstone on its Property for suitability as fracsand. DNI's field program to sample and test this Formation on the Property will start shortly.

The Pelican Formation sandstone contains poorly cemented, hard, clean white coarse sand with relatively smooth round grains. Fracsand is currently being produced from the stratigraphic equivalent of this Formation in the Peace River region, in west-central Alberta. In addition, high silica (98%+) coarse and smooth grained sand sections have been reported by others from exposures of the Formation from locations adjacent to the Property which are being evaluated as a source for fracsand. Similar outcrop exposures on DNI's Property have not yet been sampled and their suitability as fracsand has not been determined.

DNI's subsurface geological and stratigraphic database, based on nearly 600 oil/gas wells drilled over its Property by others, confirms that the Pelican Formation sandstone extends under the entire Property with thicknesses typically ranging 30m-60m. Downhole geophysical logs from a random selection of the wells confirm the presence of porous clean sand sections within the Formation.

The Pelican Formation is under thin overburden cover throughout most of the eastern parts of the Property, and it is intermittently exposed in valley walls along the 100km trace marking erosional edge of the Birch Mountains on the Property. This Formation is eroded away to the east of the Property. The Pelican Formation is poorly consolidated and would lend itself well to free-dig extraction.

Four large areas have been identified on the Property offering ~1km-2km long outcrop exposures of the Pelican Formation some of which are accessible by road. These areas provide primary targets for sampling.

DNI has been exploring metal enriched zones in polymetallic black shales at its SBH Property since 2007 and has successfully delineated two mineral resources at the Property, one of which (the Buckton Deposit) has advanced through a Preliminary Economic Assessment for the production of base metals, Uranium and REE (announced inDecember 2013). The Pelican sandstone Formation at the Property lies beneath the flat-lying metal enriched black shales, and offers new targets with potential to add further value to the Property. DNI's planned exploration program to test this Formation will be an adjunct to its ongoing work to continue advancing its polymetallic shale resources toward pilot demonstration.

The Alberta SBH Property previously consisted of 2,720 sq km held under 36 permits, and provided coverage over six mineralized areas. Through ongoing rationalization of its land position, DNI allowed a large portion of its prior land position, being non-strategic areas over remote lower priority permits, to lapse in March 2014. These permits contained three early stage blind targets, namely; the McIvor West and North Lily Anomalies, and the Eaglenest Target Area. These targets are challenged by remote field access, lack of outcrop exposures and seasonal field activity constraints. DNI has not previously carried out any work on these areas other than compilation of historic work, and has instead prioritized the eastern parts of the Property where the shales are accessible and exposed.

DNI recently acquired additional permits adjoining the northeast and southeast parts of the SBH Property to secure localities over new targets which have potential for hosting large volumes of sand which might be suited for use as fracsand in the oil/gas industry. The SBH Property currently comprises 1,812 sq km held under 25 permits, and contains three drill-tested polymetallic mineralized zones or resources, namely; the Buckton Deposit, the Buckton South mineral resource and the Asphalt Zone. The foregoing comprise DNI's black shale hosted strategic polymetallic assets.

DNI's Qualified Person in respect of its Alberta polymetallic black shale projects, and this announcement, is Mr. Shahé F.Sabag P.Geo., President and CEO of DNI.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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SOURCE DNI Metals Inc.

 For further information: DNI Metals Inc. - Shahe Sabag, President & CEO or Denis Clement, Chairman - 416-595-1195, email ir@dnimetals.com. Also visit www.dnimetals.com

Taxpayer Ripoff Alert: Surge Of Undocumented Minors Includes Pregnant Teenagers - Tea Party Command Center

Taxpayer Ripoff Alert: Surge Of Undocumented Minors Includes Pregnant Teenagers - Tea Party Command Center

Taxpayer Ripoff Alert: Surge Of Undocumented Minors Includes Pregnant Teenagers
Posted by National Director, Dee on July 13, 2014 at 5:35am in Illegal Alien Invasion
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The thousands of undocumented minors in U.S. detention facilities includes an unknown number of pregnant teenaged immigrants.

The pregnant minors have been moved into longer-term shelters operated by the Department of Health and Human Services in order to provide federally funded health care.

As many as 90,000 undocumented minors from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are expected to enter the United States this year. The rush of children, many of whom are trafficked by drug cartels and other criminal organizations, has become not only a strain on the asylum process but a political nightmare for the Obama administration.

POLL: Should birthright citizenship be denied for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants?

It is unclear how many of the minors are pregnant and now in HHS custody, and HHS spokesman Kenneth Wolfe said Friday that the department does not have “available” statistics on the number of pregnant minors housed in HHS facilities.

But Wolfe confirmed the department, which is tasked with overseeing the flood of immigrants, moves pregnant girls to permanent shelters, rather than the temporary detention facilities that most of the undocumented children are in.

read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/surge-of-undocumented-minors-in...


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Mother of Officer Brandon Mendoza Killed by Illegal Immigrant Writes Oba...

• Posted by Asst Natl Dir Melony B. DeFord on July 12, 2014 at 6:55am in Illegal Alien Invasion
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On May 12, 2014,  Sgt Brandon Mendoza was killed in a traffic accident by one Raul Silva Corona.

Sgt Mendoza was a LEO for the City of Mesa Arizona Police Department. The accused, Corona, is here in these United States illegally and has a previous conviction.

POLL:  Is the border surge a humanitarian issue or an invasion from South America?

Mary Mendoza, Brandon's mother, has penned this letter to Barack Obama in regards to the Illegal Invader situation and her son.

President Obama,

I am writing this letter to you regarding illegal immigrants.

As a tax paying, law abiding citizen of the United States, I WANT my voice heard on this issue. My son, Sergeant Brandon Mendoza, an officer who was with the City of Mesa, Arizona police department, was killed in a tragic head on collision on May 12, 2014 by a wrong way driver on our freeways.

This man happened to be an illegal immigrant, was in this country illegally, convicted of previous crimes, no Social Security number, no valid driver’s license BUT he had purchased a vehicle and registered it to drive in Maricopa County Arizona.

I had my son’s life STOLEN from me by a man who didn’t value his life, was 3X the legal limit drunk, was high on Meth, drove for over 35 miles THE WRONG WAY on 4 different freeways and had NO BUSINESS BEING IN THIS COUNTRY!!!

The Federal Government knew he, Raul Silva Corona , was an illegal immigrant when he was convicted on crimes in 1994 in Colorado. The prosecutors were “lenient” on him and several charges were dismissed. When he was convicted of these crimes and 1994 and the government knew he was in the country illegally, why wasn’t he deported? Why are any of these illegal criminals in this country ??

I am furious that the Federal Government allowed this criminal to stay in this country and KILL my son! I have attached several articles for you to PERSONALLY read about my son. He was an Icon with the City of Mesa Police Department. He was instrumental in making life better for people of all walks of life in the park project he took on. He was humble, selfless, worked many hours off the clock helping disadvantaged children and often used his own money to do things for the community, including “adopting” children at Christmas to provide them with gifts….out of his own money!!

I have attached numerous articles for you to read about my son. This was not a life that should have been taken so early. The good he was doing in our community is remarkable, the difference he made in people’s lives is amazing and the comfort he brought people in friendship was unmeasurable.

All you have to do is Google ” Sgt/Officer Brandon Mendoza” and you will have plenty of reading material about my wonderful son who had just passed his Sergeant’s exam to become a Sgt. The Chief of Police posthumously promoted him during the week of his funeral but that highlight of his life was stolen from him!!! He was officer of the year last year. Officer of the quarter for the first quarter of 2014. He was only 32 years old and had done more in his life than most of us have done in a lifetime!

I am going to have my voice heard and I want to you to know what my personal feeling is on whether CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS should be allowed in this country. I have been DIRECTLY affected by this. I am sure if your life had been affected like mine has been, you would have a different view of this situation. I have lived in Arizona most of my life. My son, Brandon Mendoza, was half Hispanic. It’s not the color of skin that my son or I see, it’s the person and how they conduct their lives. If you can’t enter this country legally then you shouldn’t be here. If you commit crimes, you should pay the time any of us as US Citizens would have to serve.

Letting these illegal criminals out of our jails before their time is served and turning them loose on the streets to commit further crimes and KILL our loved ones is NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ME!! AND it shouldn’t be acceptable to any US Citizen. Mr. President, you don’t have the right to make this decision yourself……I have a say, even if it is for one moment. Maybe that one moment will light a spark with another citizen who can then light a candle, who can then light a bonfire, who can then light a city up and so on. My light has just been lit and I am not going to back down when so many of these illegal immigrants have more rights than we do. My son’s death will not be ignored as another statistic.

I want laws to change that would not allow illegal immigrants to purchase vehicles in our country and register them to drive them in our states WITHOUT having driver’s licenses to drive them legally. How is this happening??? I want laws changed that will force the removal of illegal immigrants who break our laws. This man, this repeated law breaker, was allowed to be released and he continued breaking the laws in our country until what???? UNTIL HE WAS STOPPED BY MY SON IN A HEAD ON COLLISION THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED!!!! HE KILLED AN OFFICER OF THE LAW AS HIS LAST ACT!!!

When are you going to see the flip side to this issue? When will you realize the hurt and pain and destruction these illegal immigrants who break the law will continue to cause???? Until you live in a state that deals with this on a daily basis, you will not understand it.

I want answers that make sense. I want answers from you personally as to why this criminal was allowed to stay in our country until he took my son’s life.

Sincerely,

Mary Ann Mendoza

H/T: IJReview