Story Time with Steven & Mila
Joan Dahlin gave the book fables to Steven and Mila during our visit in 2018. Steven read five stories starting with The Baboon's Umbrella and ending with The Ostrich in Love. The extended version of the last story goes off the rails with comical scenarios suggested. Three generations including Grandpa, driving to Hemet from La Jolla. The book of fables contains 20 stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel. It was the1981 Caldecott Medal (for early readers children books)
They are available as a podcast:
(Starting 2026)
Youtube pulled Fake News:
Youtube pulled down two videos I posted during the period
around the Iraq war. s
The first one was Drinking the Koolaid It was posted in 2005
The second pulled recently was Fake News, which was posted in 2009.
(Summer 2025)
Tribute to soldier, Rory Dunn from Renton WA, disabled in Iraq, passed away in 2025
The video above is followed by poem "Road March" with permission and read by Rory's Mother
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Nicolette
and Evelyn
Grace's Tiger
Out in Golden Valley
Happy Baby
Hey Little Kitten
If I was Black
Article 2 Section 4
Tale of two Christmas
Lights
Lost Another Jedi
No More Wall Street
Climate Change
Teflon Man - Anniversary
Edition
Let the light shine
GOP Trojan Horse
Fake News pulled by youtube / redoen with images removed see above
The concept of the media or press as a fourth branch stems from a belief that the news media's responsibility to inform the populace is essential to the healthy functioning of the democracy.The phrase "Fourth Estate" may be used to emphasize the independence of the press particularly when this is contrasted with the press as a "fourth branch"
2/18/26 youtube pulled this one similar to Drinking the Koolaid. I'm trying to find my copy since they yank it.
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Song about repression of media surrounding the republican convention in Minnesota.
Drinking the Koolaid Pullled by youtube 2024? Redone with images removed see above
Song about the lies leading up to Iraq war.This one got pulled by youtube for violating content policy - most likely pictures of civilian casulties. posted 2003. They cited some areas in the file but I no longer have it so I can't see what they are referencing. This was flagged and removed in 2024 20 years later- Are we scrubbing historical content? Now I'm the one drinking the koolaid! It just seems odd. They talk about clamping down on misinformation in a time of extreamism, and this is what you get. Stop the Iraq war before it's too late? It's not exactly current events. But yea, way to go. Really standing up for democracy and being proactive.
Black Friday edition
notes:
The stock market is not the economy for 99% of Americans.
To be among the top 1 percent in America in 2018, you needed a minimum household income of $737,697 before taxes
Most Americans depend on pensions (like social security) and savings (like 401(k),IRA’s etc.) in order to be able to retire from the work force
During the 1940s, labor unions became interested in pension plans and pushed to increase the benefits offered. By 1950, nearly 10 million Americans, or about 25% of the private sector workforce, had a pension. Ten years later, about half of the private sector workforce had one.
In 1978, Congress passed “The Revenue Act of 1978” in which Section 401(k) cleared the way for the establishment of defined contribution plans
During the Reagan administration during the mid 80s rules were changed to allow executive compensation with stock and corp ability to buy back their own stock which was illegal before that, paving the way for further consolidation of wealth at the top.
Pensions offer guaranteed income for life while 401(k) benefits can be depleted
and depend on an individual's investment and withdrawal decisions.
Companies moved to 401(k) because it was cheaper to fund than pensions. Employees
were told it could put them in a better position to retire.
The Glass-Steagall Act effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things. It was one of the most widely debated legislative initiatives before being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in June 1933.
In 1999, Democrats led by President Bill Clinton and Republicans led by Sen.
Phil Gramm joined forces to repeal Glass-Steagall at the behest of the big banks.
What happened over the next eight years was an almost exact replay of the Roaring
Twenties.
The repeal of Glass-?Steagall coincided with low interest rates that put pressure
on financial institutions to seek returns through more arcane financial instruments.
Wall Street investment banks, with their appetite for risks, led the charge………..
The Volcker Rule was a poor man's version of Glass-Steagall. Part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.
the “Volcker Rule”, limited proprietary trading by banks and their affiliates. ...”Glass–Steagall” Section 16 prohibits banks from being a "market maker" or otherwise "dealing" in non-government (i.e., "bank-ineligible") securities.
On June 9, 2017, The Financial Choice Act, legislation that would "undo significant parts" of Dodd-Frank, passed through congress. On May 24, 2018, President Trump signed the partial repeal into law.