Up Against the Wall, Mothas

I was never against the idea of the wall, I just thought that it would be costly and ineffective. Hadrian the Roman proved a long time ago that a wall is no good unless you post guards on it, and that costs money. I do like the idea of tightening up our borders, but it will take more than a wall to do that. I understand that they did a pretty good job of intercepting those banned travelers that were in flight when the ban was announced, so maybe the wall is just a symbol of the total effort. From what I've seen on the news, Trump did not ban Muslims, he just banned people from seven countries that happen to have a Muslim majority. Wiki says that there are about 40 other Muslim countries in the world that are not on the list. I said during Trump's campaign that he couldn't legally ban people of a specific religion, but he could legally ban people from a specific country, it's been done before. They said on the news this evening that Obama did it himself back in 2011, he banned people from Syria for six months. Trump's current order is only for four months because he figures that's how long it will take to develop an effective screening process. (I guess they are calling it "vetting" nowadays, but I don't know why.) Okay, the four months is for the six other countries, Syria has been banned indefinitely, I suppose because it's going to take longer to sort out the good guys and the bad guys in that one.

I don't know what to think about Trump. He's an asshole, to be sure, but he seems to be trying to do the right things. Obama was a nice guy, but he tried to do the wrong things. I usually try to judge people by what they do rather than who they are, but I'm finding that hard to do in Trump's case. I'm beginning to think that being an asshole is what it takes to get elected in this country anymore. Reagan was a nice guy who tried to do the right things, but that was a long time ago.
McCain and Romney were both nice guys who might have done some of the right things if they had gotten elected, but they didn't get elected.

We have had a mild winter so far, but our winter is only half over. We had a couple of cold weeks, but I don't think it ever got below zero, which is fine by me. I don't see why it should ever go below zero. That's why they call it "zero". Most of the snow around Cheboygan melted away in the last thaw. There is actually some bare ground in the open areas, and only a few inches of snow remain in the woods. The last couple of snow events missed us completely, and the current one is predicted to only graze us. Call me "crazy", but I think it's because our county voted mostly voted Republican in the last election. When we had two hard winters in a row after Obama was elected the first time, I blamed it on him. He said he was going to do something about global warming, and he apparently did. After the Republicans won a majority in the House, we had two mild winters in a row. We got two more hard winters after Obama was re-elected, and then two mild ones after the Republicans gained control of the whole Congress. Coincidence? I think not!