Ashamed....

Remembering speeches from JFK's mouth that lifted and inspired...even LBJ frequently hit one out of the park. But that's over...politics has devolved and become a reality show where major news media follow the show contestants 24 hours a day and seemingly more with Twitter...and the huckster commercial sales line echoes from the talking heads..."and wait...there's more." They haven't quite added canned laughter yet...coming soon? I'm becoming more and more pleased with being of a certain age and knowing the curtain call is closer than when it was raised. 

Karma

I was mildly catatonic behind the wheel...no heat, wind and 17 degrees penetrates an old car like an icicle. Dazed, 4 minutes till my start time at 7:45 AM (I'm a crossing guard at Warren and Clifton),..then eyes wide, crashing and tearing of metal on metal right behind me. I turned to my driver's side mirror and saw pieces/parts of the pickup truck parked one space back and other debris in a cloud swerving to my left. I lifted my eyes and an SUV was 15 feet in the air 20 feet away from my window... flipping right side up and facing East in the West bound lanes it fell hard and bounced on its tires. Everything in that car blew open like a pinata and filled every space to the windshield. I could not see any people. I called 911 and was told the police would be there very soon. Then the passenger door opened and a woman slowly climbed out. The same with the driver. A passenger on an Eastbound bus stopped by this scene like everyone else, got out and ran to the two people. He told them he was a doctor and looked them over. Cop cars were surrounding us now and the wail of sirens everywhere as fire trucks moved in and an ambulance appeared. I'm outside my car now and asked a cop if I was okay parked where I was and he told me I was out of the way there. My car had a few plastic bits on it, but no other obvious damage, so I slowly walked across Clifton and by the SUV...both driver and passenger were without visible injuries. I was alive...my car survived...those involved were okay. Some would be late to work and irritated...but Karma seemed kind today.  So I'm happy! 

     

Medal of Honor

I am an unapologetic fan of NCIS. When I was in the Navy, it was called NIS, or the Naval Investigative Service. Myself and friends were often concerned about any NIS agents sniffing around our world...they had large sniffers. In 1992, the NIS mission was again clarified and became a mostly civilian agency. Roy D. Nedrow, a former United States Secret Service (USSS) executive, was appointed as the first civilian director and the name changed from Naval Investigative Service to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Nedrow oversaw the restructuring of NCIS into a Federal law enforcement agency with 14 field offices controlling field operations in 140 locations worldwide. And I have become a fan of the TV show. Early on, I was not a fan of Mark Harmon...he seemed full of himself and his fame. But he's grown into the role of Jethro Gibbs in a way unlike any other role he's played. And my favorite episode stars Charles Durning in what might be called his best performance as an aging Medal of Honor winning Marine trying to turn himself in for killing his best friend on Iwo Jima. I couldn't find the complete episode, but this taste is one of the best scenes...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5wIJ5eQCg 

When you get the opportunity...watch it.

Got Science??

If you want to be President...you must understand this.

Got Science??

 

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Fall Oxymoron....

September sunlight bending gently, angular and white.
Darkness cut like a green bean...oblique, scattered...
Clouds...black then white...the light so bright - like
A white blackness! Almost GOOD then almost EVIL.

Last night a 3 year old with a bullet to the brain.

Fall Harvests human nature....  

The Voters Take a Dump....

Donald the Trump was out on the stump
Feeding his hairy ego.
He claims there's no one in the land
Better built to go where he go.

"Stupid is as stupid does,"
Everyone else is painted.
To all he'd yell his famous phrase
"You're fired! And I be sainted!"

But just in case he has a chance,
And voters have fooled me before,
Let's pass a law that asks the POTUS
If the thing on his head might roar!

Guns Don't Kill People, People Who Shouldn't Have Guns and Do...Kill People.

The NRA will say, very soon, that there's nothing we could have done to ensure that this hateful kid had no access to guns. Of course there are things we can do...but we don't do ANY of them. Gun advocates claim we are out to take away all their guns...we aren't. Why do they believe that a Federal Law to provide for reasonable background checks would be so unreasonable? THEY ARE TRYING TO PURCHASE A PRODUCT THAT KILLS. Who is unreasonable?



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