It's Tomorrow Already

I'm pretty sure that it's tomorrow already in Hanoi, so anything that happens there today, hasn't happened yet from our perspective.  Since electronic communication travels with the speed of light, we could possibly hear about it before it happens, which is kind of spooky.  I think something like that has already happened back in the 19th Century when the volcano Krakatoa blew its top.  

That last storm was almost certainly not our final thrashing from Old Man Winter.  Snowstorms in April are unusual, but not unheard of, around here.  Regardless, we've still got March to get through, and any kind of weather can happen in March.  I remember my first visit to Cheboygan in 1967, it was the 15th of March, the temp was 15 below zero at midnight, and there was about three feet of old snow on the ground.  The previous day, I had helped my father in Palos Park take the snow plow off his lawn tractor and install the mower deck.

I didn't know that a Daley was running for president, or did Uncle Ken mean mayor?  All I remember about the first Mayor Daley is that everybody said he was a crook, but he was never convicted of anything.  The same thing might be said about Trump, although it's a little early to say "never".  It just occurred to me that, if Trump is indeed found guilty of plotting with the Russians during the election campaign, I don't think he can be impeached for it because he wasn't president yet.  That would be ex post facto, or ipso facto, or something like that.  Then again, I don't see why he couldn't be prosecuted in court because, like I said, he wasn't president yet.

As I said before, we were all warned about the population explosion way back in the 1950s.  Everybody didn't believe it at first, but most North Americans got on board eventually.  Apparently there are parts of the world that still haven't gotten with the program, and now they want to ship all their surplus people here so we will pay the price for their irresponsibility.