This was a crappy couple of weeks. The world may be going to Hell.
The wife of one of my best friends died of cancer. She was a wonderful lady whom we had a chance to meet at our home last Christmas. She’d just found out about a positive colonoscopy result. Nine months later she was gone. It doesn’t seem fair. It’s a tough pill to swallow for her loved ones, but, as the saying goes, “God has a plan.” I sure hope so, because my friend is having a tough time right now.
Our three dogs have put in a lot of hard work lately, chasing balls, chewing on things, scavenging up rotten stuff when they go on walks, having to go to the vet for stomach ailments (surprise!), pestering us while we’re trying to clean the house or watch TV, etc. So, they sleep a lot. Here are the bums:
Not to be melodramatic, but…Booger has a lump. We just discovered it, and it doesn’t feel like a lipoma. Charlie and JayJay have lots of them. Booger’s lump feels more substantial, hard, maybe attached to some muscle. Ugh. We have an appointment next Thursday with the vet. Fingers crossed.
Speaking of that, I messed up my left index finger again a few days ago. Two weeks ago, I lacerated my left index finger distal joint when demonstrating to my son Jeff how to safely store our tri-fold bed in the RV. Five stitches, $325. On Thursday, while climbing the stairs in our home while carrying a computer printer, I fell and lacerated THE SAME FINGER! What a klutz! That one required six stitches, $340. I’m running out of room on that finger to injure, and my funds are dropping fast. Dammit, it’s the Devil’s work, I’m sure! (Or, alternately, it could be God’s; I haven’t been to church lately.)
Speaking of the Devil, how about our President? That idiot seems to have a made a pact with Beezelbub himself to start World War III as soon as humanly possible. I don’t get the urgency. And, besides, how can Trump International make money off of that?
Amazingly, our Commander-in-Chief continues to daily threaten, belittle, insult, and mock the juvenile, nut-job leader of North Korea, who has recently added nuclear bombs and ICBM missiles to his military toy box…which he seems Hell-bent to utilize on someone, anyone, etc. It’s hard to see a Win-Win outcome with this provocation, particularly since two impetuous imbeciles are in charge of the infamous “red buttons”. One twitch by either one could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, and, for what, really?
Just speaking for myself, one Korean War was enough.
Our loudmouth President went to the U.N., made a speech, and totally embarrassed our country, acting like a foaming-at-the-mouth Adolph Hitler, threatening war on numerous countries. What the Hell is he thinking? And, why? I don’t get it, and neither does anyone else, including our allies.
Maybe the deranged “dotard”, to use the North Korean leader’s insult, wants to hasten Judgment Day? He has been acting especially unhinged lately. (Definition of dotard: a weak or senile old person. Yeah, that’s about right.)
Come to think of it, a nuclear End of Days would probably be more palatable to Trump than anticipating the coming year in Washington D.C. It would be like Suicide by Cop; “Hey, please put me out of my misery!”
The “Russiagate” investigation seems to be detecting blood in the water with regard to election vote interference by Russian actors (and, possibly, by lackeys working with the Trump campaign). More and more clues are beginning to surface, and even GOP folks are acknowledging that something was amiss. Trump’s denials are getting more shrill. Methinks his weird actions on numerous fronts are an effort to divert attention. A nuclear war with North Korea or Iran, or an invasion of Venezuela, might do the trick.
The “Repeal-and-Replace” Obamacare campaign promise (by Trump and the GOP) seems to have had a stake driven through its heart again this week. The sophomoric, hastily put-together “plan” by GOP senators Graham and Cassidy…
…was so bad…
…that the leadership tried to shove it through the Senate before it was reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office, which determines what the fiscal and societal costs might be.
That tells you something right there: When Obama was President, the Republicans used the CBO review as a cudgel to beat down Administrative proposals. Anyway, the whole Repeal/Replace sham is an insult to democracy, a thinly-disguised effort to erase part of the legacy of our first Black president. The Republicans, after stewing about this for seven years, can’t seem to figure out how to come up with something better, and then attempt to foist upon America a piece of crap legislative stinker that appears, to one journalist, to have been crafted “like sophomores clawing out a final paper at the last moment with a can of Red Bull in hand.” That’s our tax money at work, folks.
I feel bad for the President. Even if he were able to come up with a good idea (which he has yet to do, but I’m not giving up!), he has to look forward to his useless Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell steering the legislation through the Congress.
That old geezer should have had his driver’s license revoked twenty years ago, for God’s Sake.
If Senator John McCain held that post, even suffering from terminal cancer, like he is, something would get accomplished.
(Update: Speaking of that man of integrity, Republican Senator McCain yesterday appeared to drive the last nail in the Repeal/Replace coffin…for the second time this year. This is the same Vietnam war hero that Donald Trump insulted during his campaign. I think that I read in the Bible that payback can be a bitch. “Vengeance is mine!”, sayeth the Lord.)
Speaking of that, lots of Christian evangelists (who supported Donald Trump) are claiming this week that God is punishing us for our sins by smiting us with all those terrible hurricanes. (Of course, He might be doing so because we elected the lying, sinful fool…)
Anyway, these cataclysmic events, of Biblical proportions, no less, have really laid low the Caribbean islands and America’s South. Ironically, this happened when President Trump’s Administration was working hard to crater any regulations relating to environmental protection, including flood protection. Murder is still a sin, isn’t it?
An enormous amount of Federal assistance is now going to be required to restore the infrastructure and economy in those areas, right at a time when Trump and the GOP wanted (promised) to revise the tax code, to give more money back to rich folks, and magically create more money in the Federal Budget to order more warplanes and build the the President’s wet dream, the Mexican Wall.
Thank You Jesus! that you have positioned Senator Mitch McConnell in his lofty place to help dampen Mr. Trump’s sinful urges. As the saying goes, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.”
Mr. Wonderful just can’t seem to catch a break lately. Not much winning.
That “Deep State” that the Prez bitches about must have it in for him, piling on when he doesn’t need it. Surely, those satanic evildoers,Obama and Clinton, must be behind this, orchestrating this diabolical conspiracy!
And, poor Mrs. Trump. The young lady has to live with this ill-tempered lout. Melania had had to come up with a task befitting her role as First Lady. Ironically, she chose Cyber-Bullying…while she is married to, perhaps, the biggest bully in America. Is that some kind of Freudian message? Go figure.
Donald Trump, the man who would Make America Great Again: the friggin’ Pope can’t stand the guy…for some reason…and he’s supposed to love everybody! How did we do this to ourselves, America?!
It is going to be interesting how this all plays out, with God meting out punishment, right and left, the Republican-led Congress attempting to dodge thunderbolts while attempting to look busy, and our Devil-May-Care President continuing his slash-and-burn assault on our democracy and world civilization.
We’re circling the drain, I tell ya’.