TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY

     Okay, full disclosure. I have no dog named Charley nor am I traveling with anyone named Charley. Just liked the title as it has to do with the posting.
     I am late posting because of travel. Got up with the birds yesterday to fly to California. Our plane in Atlanta to LA was a loooong layover and what do you know - they added more time to it due to construction by Delta in LAX. We then crawled over the country at a slow rate and then stood on the ground and roamed the airport for 45 minutes - again - construction and gate issues. Baggage was at one carousel but not really - we had to trek to the other end of the looong area to the last carousel and naturally, guess whose luggage came out close to last. I was already figuring out where to buy what I needed.
     Not finished. Back the way we had come to the sign for the rental company  and at last that went smoothly and we thought okay, home free, just plug in the GPS and away we go. One hour and we will be there. HA!!!!!! Famous last words. We then toured LA for two hours as the lady inside directed us around traffic and added another hour onto our little journey. Would have taken less time if we were on the highway in the HOV lane.
     At least the hotel is lovely, the Fullerton Marriot and waiting for us was our grandson so all was forgotten in the hugs and kisses. Grandson #1 all grown up and graduating college and all I picture in my mind is that little baby on his first day of life as I held him and then put his mother's favorite Bert doll into the bassinette. Cannot quite hold him the same way, but the emotion is even stronger.
     In the room, unpacked, drink and nosh gotten from the Elite room and I finally decided to see what was going on in the world. Uh oh!! Here we go again. Let's see. Market down enormously and I think I will not check my accounts, not wanting to see the size of the ill afforded loss. So, the news. Okay - Trump destroyed the market - been there, seen that. Next? Mueller appointed to head the Trump-Russia investigation. Finally! Something done right. That man was amazing after 9/11, new on the job and strong. Read that Trump not so happy about this news. Tough!!
     Coast Guard commencement and what happens? The man whines how he is picked on, getting it more than any other president - perhaps because he deserves it? - and then another goof. John Kelly, head of Homeland Security, tells Trump that he might use the sword he had been given on members of the press. Trump chuckles and answers "yeah."  Uh oh - picked up and recorded. Goof city again.
    The co - author of Trump's The Art of the Deal says that Trump will quit and not wait for impeachment . He does not like to lose and will try to change its devastating blow to him, the loss of his job, as a victory. He states that Trump is using the reactive part of his brain and cannot think straight now. Ha!! I have been saying that for months!! Personally, the sooner the better, not that I am anxious for Pence, but perhaps there will be lessons learned here for politicians and voters alike. Perhaps people will learn that we need to choose leaders carefully and not from the ranks of clowns on reality shows or people with bags of hot air, low morals and lack of aptitude and talent.
     Perhaps people will finally realize how frightening it is to realize that our supposed head of country is a traitor - knowingly or via stupidity - it does not really matter for the end result is great harm to the country. It means that our government at the highest ranks is filled with co authors of treason or again more ineptitude and carelessness and severe lack of knowledge on how to run a country. The cracks in the GOP are beginning to show but we must also remember the past before we let people off. McCarthy, I believe, said not so long ago that he believed that Trump and a Representative from California were actually getting paid by Putin as they defended him so much. Scary!! And now he still defends him!? The members of the Republican Party will have to man up, shoulder the responsibility of theirs in this morass, this catastrophe, and work with the Democrats to fix it. Even Pence realizes it as he build his own political fund, his own PAC - to make America Great or some such similar slogan. Here we go again, but perhaps he will have learned a lesson and perhaps the country will teach the politicians a lesson in 2018 and then in 2020.
     So, anyone out there musing on running for office in 2018. Hey, anyone want to run against Mast? Got my vote and my efforts. And I will say again. We must be careful and proactive and determined for  THE WHOLE WORLD IS STILL WATCHING!!!!!