MAY 2, 2018

     Today is May 2. 2018. How much longer are we going to be subjected to this nonsense and more important, why do people think that they can get away with this garbage? Why, for heaven's sake do people not realize that the truth comes out, no matter how hard one tries to hide it, to bury it.
     So locally. How many more times are we going to read of bribery arrests in the governments of our localities? How many more times are we going to see the last bits and pieces of undeveloped land go up for the destruction - the trees helping our air, the sights of nature, the endangerment of our watersheds and reserves. How much more traffic can our roads bear? Just take a drive - if you can - on Okeechobee early in the morning when people are going to work , and from Royal Palm to the Turnpike one could just as well be waiting to get on the BQE in NYC! And what about that 'city' they are building along Southern and 441. It is mammoth and just wait for those cars to come out in the near future! Closer to home, check out the backup on Haverhill in mid afternoons when from the entry to CV down even past Community, there is a long line of cars waiting for the light to change. Enough!
     Now for little tidbits here. I usually do not bother to read The Rag for I know it is full of lies, nonsensical and unnecessary articles written by the same people over and over again, but Gerry brought it up this time so I picked it up. The same lie about editorial policies of presenting the truth and all sides of an issues! Hah! The same mass of ads. Yet another article purportedly written by David Israel who, if he wrote that article, I will eat my new hat! It is simply not within his grasp to write such an erudite and formally written piece and I would guess that this is most probably picked up from some site or another such article he came across and possibly slightly modified it to make sure it was relevant to us here in CV.
      But wait, on May 2, 2018, there is more. Read the piece written by Joy Vestal and shame on you, dearie. How many ways can I count the grammatical and punctuation errors? Yes, license is allowed and rules are somewhat looser than they used to be, but..... Who is proofreading here? Are there any truly capable proofers for you or have you managed to scare them all off? Shame on The Rag and now you know one understands the nickname. At this point I simply put the paper where it belongs after cutting out the meeting schedule, the only info I needed, and deposited the rest in the recycle pile.
     So.....off we go to the wider world of the stinking mess of DC and the chief weasel in residence, Trump. Never before have I had such contempt for a sitting President. Never before did I think that anyone in his chair was as dangerous to our survival as a democratic country as he is. Never before did I ever think we had as morally bankrupt a Congress as we do now. Never before have the Republicans and their party sold out to this degree.
     Truly. When the emphasis seems to be how to avoid talking to Mueller; when it seems that the point is to avoid telling the truth and more to the point - to tailor the lies to match what others have said; when we hear that medical records were 'kidnapped' and to hide what, may we ask - when the concern is that the president is neither intellectually, nor morally, nor in any way for that matter, capable of undergoing an interview with any degree of success (meaning hiding the truth) - well, what the hell is he doing in the Oval Office?!
     The absurdities of life in brief and limited amount on May 2, 2018. Perhaps May 3, 2018 will be better. I hope. I dream.