WHOA!!!!!!!

      What just happened? Iowa caucus results are slow on the uptake and for some mystifying reason. This does not bode well for the other primaries nor for the main election as we have just given Trump the okay to bring in other countries to influence the election. A-holes!! In addition, dirty tricks are alive and well in the GOP as the voters of the GOP are being instructed to vote for Sanders in open primaries, hopefully causing a blowout at national convention times. What creeps. Guess they can never leave an opportunity to create havoc alone, such is their low level of morality and faith in honesty. Such is their lack of patriotism and their contempt for both the Framers and Founders as well as the electorate population. Phooey on them!!
     We are now in the midst of a national debt load that is simply unsustainable. The fatcats and the stock market are doing basically fine, except when not! but as for the little guys, forget about it! Low wages, stagnant wages, wages that do not cover the minimum needs of a person and family, homes that are too expensive to own or rent as people are turfed out. Food insecurity. Health crisis as drugs and treatments are unavailable to too many, too costly, out of stock, denied, denied, denied. But hey, otherwise we're doing just fine, right? Wrong, eminently wrong.
     The best moments of the day, when Buttigieg came in strong and when Pelosi ripped up the speech after Trump was finished lieing and following the words written for him, so he sounded sane though full of falsehood. She was reacting to his lies and to the snub he gave when he ignored her outstretched hand. He is such a crude and rude infant! Next he will deny he did that, false news has pictures of it, and he loves Pelsoi except when she is trying to get him to pay his dues.
     What a crock the whole situaton is at this point. We have ceded control and independence of our country to nefarious souls who wish for power and who could care less to whom they owe thanks for its achievement, even if they are our traditional enemies The crapola rants how we are in a great epic adventure, wonderful times, even as we are mired in ridiculous wars, we lie about the truth and the injuries, we turn away from our allies,and have become a laughing stock to the world which has begun to turn away from us, at least while the inmates run the asylum.
     Israel is not waiting with bated breath for Trump to give them their next set of steps, and neither are other countries, like the Ukraine. The USA has stirred up the waters, the scum has risen to the surface and he just goes merrily on his way. Anybody hear those wheels, see those wheels, reaching Israel as they, too, will serve as fodder for the maw of that man's ego and lust for power, to have it all?
     As for me, back to vacation and visiting family and checking out new and old sites to visit. The National Library sounds great as does the new restaurant. Israel is a wonderful place, full of new people, new mergings and fusions, and just about replete with so many languages and faces, Jews returning to their Land, along with all others
 who make their home here, from Arabs, to Christians, to religious folks of all religions. It is vibrant, beautiful, exasperating. The same pushy woman will accept a child on her lap in a crowded bus, and those two grumpy men will help someone up the steps with a loaded wagon.
     I love this place. So should we all. We should remember though, that it is a state of men, not of G-d. Yes, G-d is here, but in so many names and appearances, that someday we might all just realize that the names may differ, though the prayers for peace remain the same, the pleas for help remain the same and would that we would all remember to render thanks to He who watches over us, whether we know it or not. In the meanwhile, Israel is a nation like all others, allowed to err, allowed to live.
     So, reporting from Jerusalem, and keeping up with the American mess, I will blog again tomorrow.