Breakfast Casserole

Hello Friends,

Once each month a bunch of nice people in Long Beach and I make casseroles. This one will have been served at Saint Luke's church in Long Beach this Saturday morning, mostly to homeless people. At 8:00 am we serve coffee and banana or zucchini or carrot bread my friend Janna makes. A full meal comes at 10:30. They also have a shower program, and clothes to provide those in need.

This casserole is one I've made several times, I found it online called "Easy Cheesy Breakfast Casserole". It has eggs, cheese, italian sausage, potatos, and varous other niceties. If you want the industrial size casserole recipe write me back. It's pretty tasty. I took this shot with a Fuji W3 and used lines on the stovetop for phantogram processing in StereoPhoto Maker.

Another disturbing week is behind us. I'm not going to expound my ignorance of the middle east as to for or against the US bombing Iran. Most friends say it was about time to do it. One, a history professor, thinks it a mistake. I don't know, but one thing for sure is that all the noise about how much damage was or wasn't done has become idiotic.

What really has me disturbed at this precious moment is the fact that my United States of America is currently sanctioning a large and growing number of immigrant concentration camps. We're grabbing random dark skinned people off our streets by agents trying to meet a quota. Then we're emprisoning them in a hodge-podge of available spaces. For many their only crime is being here. I won't claim this is equivalent to Nazi slave and death camps, but reports are coming in saying these holding places are unprepared and badly maintained, with lack of food, drinkable water, and sanitation, access to legal aid, and to healthcare.

By law congressional representatives are allowed to visit these places at any time, but they're being illegally blocked and turned away, even arrested, ultimately being prevented from seeing what's really happening inside these places. This is deadly serious stuff. Call it what it is. We, the United States under Donald Trump are running concentration camps. We're really doing this, we're letting it happen, and it's a crying shame.

Online I asked two questions, and I suggest you do the same or similar. I asked "How many immigrants are currently being held in the USA?" and "How long is the average detention of immigrants in the USA?"

Regards,

Barry Rothstein

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