rain or don't rain

The last two days in Connecticut, we have lived with drizzle.

Not really 'rain', but not 'not rain' either.

It's been miserable and bleak.

With the temperature near freezing, we've watched our step on sidewalks and been carefully driving.

Rain or don't rain, is what I say.

Then, day before yesterday I was taking a plate out of the kitchen cabinet and the cabinet pulled away from the wall. I called Bern and we emptied it and put a book under it to hold it somewhat up.

Paul Bowman is sending us a guy to fix it on Monday. He said, "it will take him longer to get his tools out of the truck than to fix this."

I hope so.

And we have water in our back basement and need it pumped out and the foundation by the outside door fixed.

Paul will handle that as well.

He's the only Republican I've ever voted for. He's on the town council and has helped us with repairs before. I trust him.

Cheshire Republicans are not like DC Republicans. They are decent, honorable people.

But in all my years of voting, he's the only Republican I've ever voted for.

A man who helps fix your house deserves your vote.

Add the President of Brazil to Greta's hit list...

The President of Brazil, a potential dictator, called Greta Thunberg a 'brat'.

But guess who came to her defense and called for her to shrug it off and keep working against climate change?

Guess who?

The woman who is still my 'first lady', Michelle Obama.

That my spell check still doesn't recognize Obama pisses me off more than the President of Brazil.

Give me a break!

The son of the President (Who Will Not Be Named) and that same President both took on, of all people Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Climate activist from Sweden who speaks better English than either of her detractors do (love the Swedes, such linguists).

HWWNBNed Jr., went on line to blast Time Magazine for choosing Greta as Person of the Year. He said it should have been the protestors in Hong Kong. He might have a point but he was undercutting the only person on the planet who has gotten more media attention this year than his father. She is an inter-national treasure and voice of sanity in an insane world.

Then his father, the President, said in a speech in Hershey, PA that he loved Hershey chocolate (no surprise there) and that Greta has 'anger issues' and should 'Chill out and watch a movie with a friend'.

Greta (why she's an international treasure) changed her intro on her twitter account to: 'a teenager dealing with anger issues who is chilling out and watching a movie with a friend."

How can you beat that?

Besides, it was revealed lately that last summer the President's son went to Africa and shot an endangered sheep!

Who shoots sheep? Especially endangered ones?

As hard as it would be in a sane world, the son may be as big an asshole as the father.

Imagine that!

Leave Greta alone. She's done more good in her young years than either of you have.

Who's reading this?

In the last few weeks the readership of this blog has fallen off from almost 200 a day to some days in the 80's.

Am I being too political?

What's up with the readership?

Let me know.

Tell folks to read it...pass it along.

I'm feeling like no  one is listening.

Being a little pitiful, I known.

Who's reading this?

Today's the day...

The Democrats in the House filed Articles of Impeachment today!

I'm not happy about it, but it the right--perhaps, the 'only'--thing they could do. I'm saddened we've come to this point--but this is where we are.

Republicans have made baseless conspiracy theories (Democratic server in Ukraine, Biden somehow to blame, Ukraine not Russia interfered in the 2016 election--all false) but have no way to substantively refute the clear and dangerous facts that the President invited (perhaps by withholding aid and a White House meeting) to get Ukraine to investigate two American citizens and he ignored the constitution and did not allow Congress to have documents and interview witnesses in order to do their duty to 'check and balance' the Executive Branch of our government.

The Articles will pass the House but probably fail in the Senate.

I simply can't understand why Republicans in both Houses of Congress cannot see the clear and present danger this President  presents to our democracy.

My father--a good and decent man--was a life-long Republican, but he would have been horrified by Republicans not doing 'what's right' and siding with a man who has violated his oath of office in a myriad of ways.

Alas and alack.

Even I got bored

Abusively political, yellow dog Democrat, unwilling to name the President in my blog--even I got bored today with the impeachment hearing.

The two lawyers testifying--Majority and Minority Counsels for the Intelligence Committee--are fine and decent men who disagree about the nature of what happened regarding the President and Ukraine, but the people questioning them fall into two groups: those For and Against the President.

Every Congressperson who speaks asks, essentially, the same questions--either questioning the appropriateness of the Impeachment proceedings or reiterating what the testimony has been and how it make the President look like a selfish man disregarding the Constitution and the Constitutional requirements of his office.

Over and over, quietly or harshly, the same arguments from either side of the large Judicial Committee.

The two Counsels looked worn out after an hour (reasonably so)--but it's still going on at 5:30 p.m. Alas!

So, even someone as hyper-political and hyper-partisan as I am, just had to give up and watch You Tube and type a post on my blog.

What worries me is that if even I got bored, who, who hasn't yet decided if the President should be impeached, is still watching?

That's my fear--that undecided Americans will tune out and not hear the overwhelming evidence because it's just being parroted by every  Democrat who speaks. And, since the Republicans are angrier, how many undecided Americans will tune out and think the 'angry guys' must be right?

That really is my deepest fear.

What I didn't do

Driving home near noon from Emmanuel, Killingworth, I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, a man in Wallingford, on the side of the road, down on one knee.

And I didn't stop and find out if he was alright.

I was buzzing along listening to NPR and the traffic was heavy.

But I didn't stop.

I was several miles passed him when I decided to turn around and go see how he was.

And I didn't turn around.

I went home.

I didn't stop.

And I will regret not stopping for all my days.

Someone, apparently in need.

And I didn't stop.

My bad.

Shame on me.

I didn't stop.