Tomorrow Is Another Day
This has been a very bad week for the United States. Other weeks might have been worse, but if this one has a really toxic mix going for it.
We are getting close to the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump is having tryouts for Vice President and a senator from Tennessee takes himself out of the picture, but suggests Ivonca Trump might make a good Vice President. The candidate speaks of Saddam Hussein as being bad but being good on the subject of the control of terrorists. #$%@$.
Meanwhile, a former President meets with the current Attorney General on an Airport Tarmac and they discuss his new grandchild while his wife who is the presumptive Democratic Nominee for President is waiting for the end of an FBI investigation into her use of e-mail. Maybe a kinder, gentler type of stupidity but it will be sure to bring out more of the worst from folks. How many more reasons do you need to believe the fix is in when it comes to the Clintons?
And locally in Baton Rouge a police shoots a black man, which is followed by another shooting of a black man in St. Paul Minnesota. Both events are recorded for people to see and review. And on Thursday night a lone gunman was recorded shooting at police officers assigned to a peaceful demonstration in Dallas, Texas. He killed five and wounded seven others. The suspect was killed by a bomb robot.
The late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen is quoted as saying " a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon you are talking real money". Maybe he did say it, maybe it was embellished a little bit but it's the thought that counts. Senator Dirksen's quote was about money, but I think of it along the lines of the way things seem to be handled these days.
Education, health care, wars, terrorism, gun control, the economy, tax policies, immigration, jobs, global warming, human rights, civil rights, voting rights and we don't seem to be getting anywhere fast.
On a very good day I believe things are getting better, but this week not so much.
We are getting close to the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump is having tryouts for Vice President and a senator from Tennessee takes himself out of the picture, but suggests Ivonca Trump might make a good Vice President. The candidate speaks of Saddam Hussein as being bad but being good on the subject of the control of terrorists. #$%@$.
Meanwhile, a former President meets with the current Attorney General on an Airport Tarmac and they discuss his new grandchild while his wife who is the presumptive Democratic Nominee for President is waiting for the end of an FBI investigation into her use of e-mail. Maybe a kinder, gentler type of stupidity but it will be sure to bring out more of the worst from folks. How many more reasons do you need to believe the fix is in when it comes to the Clintons?
And locally in Baton Rouge a police shoots a black man, which is followed by another shooting of a black man in St. Paul Minnesota. Both events are recorded for people to see and review. And on Thursday night a lone gunman was recorded shooting at police officers assigned to a peaceful demonstration in Dallas, Texas. He killed five and wounded seven others. The suspect was killed by a bomb robot.
The late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen is quoted as saying " a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon you are talking real money". Maybe he did say it, maybe it was embellished a little bit but it's the thought that counts. Senator Dirksen's quote was about money, but I think of it along the lines of the way things seem to be handled these days.
Education, health care, wars, terrorism, gun control, the economy, tax policies, immigration, jobs, global warming, human rights, civil rights, voting rights and we don't seem to be getting anywhere fast.
On a very good day I believe things are getting better, but this week not so much.
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