Sunday, June 18, 2017
Fathers Day
![Dad putting on boy's shoe](gif-ani/boys_shoe_lg_clr.gif)
![father rocking baby boy](gif-ani/father_rocking_baby_boy_lg_clr.gif)
[1812 - President James Madison signs declaration of war against Great Britain
for impressment of US sailors, and interference with commerce]
![Monty Flagg's Uncle Sam Wants You Poster](pix/sam-wants-you.jpg)
[1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, born in Pelham Manor, New York]
![Mountaineer George Mallory](pix/mallory-george2.jpg)
[1886 - George Herbert Leigh Mallory, mountaineer, born in Mobberley, Cheshire, England]
![Actress Jeanette MacDonald](pix/macdonald-jeanette.jpg)
[1903 - Jeanette (Anna) MacDonald, singer, actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
![Songwriter Sammy Cahn](pix/cahn-sammy.jpg)
[1913 - Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen), songwriter, composer, born in New York City]
![Author Sylvia Porter](pix/porter-sylvia.jpg)
[1913 - S.F. (Sylvia Field) Porter (Feldman), author, financial columnist, born in Patchogue, Long Island]
![Actor E. G. Marshall](pix/marshall-e-g2.jpg)
[1914 - E.G. (Everett Eugene Grunz) Marshall, Emmy Award-winning actor, born in Owatonna, Minnesota]
![Richard Boone as Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel](pix/boone-richard3.jpg)
[1917 - Richard (Allen) Boone, actor, born in Los Angeles, California]
![Basketball Great George Mikan](pix/mikan-george.jpg)
[1924 - George Mikan, Basketball Hall of Famer,
ABA Commissioner, born in Joliet, Illinois]
[1942 - Bernard W. Robinson is first African-American officer to be commissioned in US Naval Reserve]
The Quality of Justice
In The Merchant of Venice the Bard tell us that:
The quality of mercy is not strained,
It falleth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
. . .
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
William Shakespeare, being somewhat more talented than poorwilliam, said it for the ages. Poorwilliam cannot resist adding for this age of ours:
The quality of justice is sadly stained,
It falleth more harshly upon the poor, and
on the downtrodden: it is twice cursed;
It curseth him that metes it out and him that gets.
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in pursuit of justice, none of us
Find salvation: we do pay dearly for mercy.
If mercy be not strained, justice surely is.
'Tis sifted through the filter of the purse.
Upon the poor pours through mesh of chicken wire;
The rich sheltered by so fine a sieve as men desire.