The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

I don't understand what the fuss is all about. So far, Trump has been doing pretty much what he said he was going to do if he got elected. Maybe, because he lies so often, people are surprised when he tells the truth. Wow, a politician actually keeping his campaign promises! Who would a thunk it? It almost makes me wish that I had voted for him myself, almost but not quite. He's still an asshole after all, there's no denying that.

Without looking it up, I seem to remember that Obama issued a lot of executive orders, stretching his constitutional authority almost to the breaking point. I also seem to remember that some of those orders were challenged in court, and the courts generally ruled in Obama's favor. Now that the precedent has been established, why shouldn't Trump do the same thing? I didn't follow the campaign as closely as you guys did, but I also seem to remember that Trump promised to undo many of Obama's executive orders, and then issue a few of his own. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

I usually visit Face Book on the weekends to see what my family has been up to, but there was so much weeping and gnashing of teeth about Trump on there last night that my screen kept locking up. I thought the problem was in my computer, but then I went to Wiki and had no such problems. Wiki had one rather long article about this immigration ban. I kind of scanned over it, but there was a disclaimer on there that said it was breaking news and subject to change at a moment's notice, so I didn't see any point in reading the whole thing. One thing I caught was that two separate lawsuits had been filed in two separate federal courts, and that one court ruled against Trump's action, and one court ruled in favor of it. I suppose that neither of these two judges were aware of what the other was doing. Tune in tomorrow for another thrilling episode in the continuing saga.

I don't eat a lot of candy, and am not particularly fond of chocolate, so I've never tried to make anything like that and don't plan to. I prefer to get my sugar the natural way, from beer. I have become fond of ice cream since I started eating a daily dose of it after I got that bleeding ulcer in 2008. The ulcer cleared up in a few months, but I've been eating ice cream ever since. Come to think of it, I quit drinking beer while the ulcer was healing and, when I started back up again, I only drank two beers a day instead of six. It just occurred to me that the increased sugar intake from the ice cream may have depressed my appetite for beer. Things like that can slip up on you when you're not paying attention, you know.