DOWN DAY

     Sorry, folks. Don't know why, but it is just a down day today. Could not seem to drag myself out of bed and just remained lying there staring off into the semi darkness. The cause? Who knows.
     Is it a day that comes with PD? Depression is part and parcel of it, but today seems the worst it has ever been. Am I tired of putting on a happy face, showing the battling side of my nature, my determination to not allow this thing to get the better of me? It is not easy to try to always show a positive face, a positive outlook to a situation which can only get worse.
     Or is it the situation of my home, my Village. Have we allowed a selfish individual who cannot see beyond his own wishes, see the reality of it and the costs to the Village of his wishes. Right now we are right in the same path as the Federal government, running a straight line to future bankruptcy and inability to pay bills, the huge bills that will come due as our crumbling infrastructure demands fixing. No more patchwork, but a whole job and where the hell does the money come from? He delivers pie in the sky presentations to the delegates, a quarter of whom are walking zombies and listen to their master for the sake of their pathetic 'power'.
     We have committed to a ten year contract to a company which has bitten off more than it can chew and we are the undigested mouthful. Dirt piles all over the Village, long ugly scars of 'directional boring' which turned into old fashioned ugly trenches. Cut wires and pipes and by Wellington our grass has not received its irrigation due to a long term cutting of the power and/or pipes - not sure anymore at this point, but in any case, the problem seems unable to be fixed, despite Don's earnest efforts and so our 'boring' has turned into a dry and ugly hard earth scar and our grass withers. At least this rain will help. And to add insult to injury, the gunk is back in the lake!
     Our 'shed' building which was supposed to be the place for The Rag is now being given, given away to Atlantic Broadband and the realty building, well, blow me down, but it still seems to be standing there and no one is being carried out on a gurney felled by the supposedly desperately unhealthy air. Shafted again, residents. And who pushed this? Guess!
     But why be shocked when the whole country is being run by a bunch of denizens of the swamp, corrupt, selfish, incompetent, nasty people who are true role models for the "tuchus lickers" of the year! Need translation? Think of your hindmost portion of your body!!We have at the head a demented person who believes that ranting and raving are the way to go, who has just received a dose of his own medicine from the other demented dude, Kim Jong-un. He befriends 'great' guys, like Putin, gives China a break on its phone company right after the Justice Department had done otherwise. He has brought us to a point of panic and many points of not light, but darkness within our country.
     We have become tribal. We do not hear anyone anymore. We ban all political talk among friends and family due to vehement feelings and disagreements. People willfully blind themselves to his immoral and disgusting behavior, excuse it, saying he has done much. Huh!! Yes, given to the rich, a true Robin Hood in reverse! He has tanked our economy for the future as the debt grows and grows and the taxes are cut for the oh so deserving rich once again.
     And the depths of our depravity, the depravity of the world is uncovered daily by the revelations concerning harassment and abuse of women by men with power over them. When will this stop? When even a champion fighter in this area is revealed as a practicing member of the crowd - well, then the despair grows even deeper and darker.
     When the world expects Israel to cut its own fences of the border and its own throat and allow in screaming beings with fire and explosives in their hands and hatred in their hearts and allow them to kill and maim and burn and torture and kill and ransack and destroy - from the 'river to the sea', to kill the Yahud -and oh, dear, must not forget proportionality! When does this hatred ever stop? When do people stop lying and tell the truth - anti Zionism, anti Israel, IS anti Semitism and it cannot be denied, though one tries to do so. When does killing the Jew stop being a legitimate expression of political opposition and when are Jews allowed to defend themselves and is there an unwritten rule about that - how many they have to sacrifice before it is allowed?
     Just a down and dark day and this rainy weather, while helping the grass of ours with its useless and inoperable irrigation, does not help. It seems that today nothing will truly help and I will just muddle through hoping for a better day tomorrow And as for that chocolate? There is not enough in the world to change the deep and dark mood of me, of the country, of the world. Not today.