Prez's

Throughout my life I have liked to measure my lifetime by how many presidents I have lived under.  Not as easy as it once was,
I now sometimes have to use a pencil and paper.  I had a friend who was able to recite every president, I think it was one of those things in school like knowing the capital of each state, but somehow I avoided that.  I was always envious of him for that though.  When I was subbing most classrooms had a list of all the prez's of the US and I would try to memorize them while the kids were away.  Never manage to nail it though, and who cares all that much because how many chicks is that going to impress?

The earliest prez's look all serious and stuffy, but then they start to look real when we get to those we lived under, they step from paintings to photos to tv clips, and some of them look odd, and then Trump.  What is he doing there.

Who is to blame?  In a way I don't blame the big baby himself, he is mindless, a force of nature, like a virus.  The people who voted for him, that leering angry mob with all the misspelled signs you see on the tv?  Well yes, but they seem a bit like a mindless force of nature also.  The republican party?  Hell yes.  They invited this viper to their breast.  The people in office have had some education and they should know better.  Under the tea party they got into the habit of calling each other RINO's, and now anybody but the most hard-core Trumpist is a RINO.  


When I watched the mob from my balcony one of my first thoughts was what about the corona, but that blip never arrived.  After Tulsa again I looked for the blip and there was one though it was little ballyhooed.  Well outdoors/indoors I figured.  But now I see blips coming from things like opening up the beaches getting blips and that is certainly outdoors, so maybe it is the masks after all.  Geez, such a small thing.  You hear people bragging about willing to fight and die for their country, and they can't wear a mask for the time it takes to get in and out of the Walmart?


Due to my donating to Elizabeth just before she dropped out of the race I get emails from her most every day, but I have heard nothing from Trump.  I don't know how Old Dog's phone number got into the hands of the forces of evil, but that happens.  Shortly after I got my smartphone, some woman named Tara inquired somewhere about a mortgage and gave them my phone number, and four or five years later I get weekly notices of deals on mortgages.


Defunding the police sounds pretty cool when you are marching with your posse. but it really makes no sense.  No dem is endorsing it, but then they aren't coming down hard against it either because they don't want to alienate possible voters.  Practically speaking it is not going to happen, but maybe we can gnaw at the protections cops get in their union contracts.


Heatdome extending ten days into the future on my yahoo weather thing.  Getting a little break from being by the lake, but still it will be getting to the mid eighties.  Well, it's good for the tomatoes.


Hope all is good in the swamp.  Not like Beagles to miss two consecutive posts.