BUSTED BALLOONS

  We all love balloons. Adults, children and everyone in-between. Birthdays, graduations, fun day at the park. Even when they fly off into the air, we watch, amazed, enjoying the action and flight. We send them everywhere - homes, camps, overseas, wherever we can order or ship. Why? Perhaps because they represent childhood and its supposed simplicities of life. Or perhaps because they are pretty or can be personalized. But there they are.

However, when a balloon goes pop! well, that is when the tears come. The fright or the disappointment. The loss of a pretty, wanted item. Whatever it is, when that balloon bursts, well, reality slips in and we begin to understand that all balloons cannot last forever. Even if they survive to remain in one's home, room, office, the air seeps out and one day they are a flat piece of foil or latex, lying limp upon the floor. Its bubble has burst.

As I watched a balloon soar high in the air yesterday, I wondered where it would go. Would it die in space? Would it land in a child's backyard? Would it pop, because that is what stressed balloons do. I thought how many of my balloons have burst wide open, leaking inner anguish for what that represents. I wondered why there is such a plethora of burst balloons these days and if there is anything to be done about it.

On MLK Day, loud, clear, frightening, pop!!! went one balloon, though not surprised, just taken aback at the chutzpah of it. A demented woman, crazed with the new power and influence she wields, and anticipations of its further growth, Boebert did not disappoint her distractors. On the day we mourn the death of a champion of rights for all, a man of magic speeches and words, shot by one who could not tolerate such a man and his dreams, she goes way over the top with her hypocrisy, and reminds us of all the gazillions of burst balloons she and her ilk represent. Compare the two statements.

MLK- "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.... 

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.... I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."... this is our hope. 

This is the faith. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. ... 

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

Boebert - “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“On this day, we remember his incredible legacy and contributions to this great nation,” the congresswoman added.

POP!!!!

The hypocrisy of a woman of the shamed GOP fighting so hard to reintroduce days of yesteryears which should have been buried long ago, and she states this!!! 

No, no graceful flight through the air, only a great big POP releasing rancid air, toxic to this country.

She is joined in her hypocrisy by a supposed representative of the people, but which people are allowed into her oh so warm embrace? These people only.

Vengeance is mine declares the Lord. God will not let evil go unpunished," Greene's tweet stated. "The [House GOP] must do what is right for the American people and no longer serve the Uniparty and the Globalist agenda. America First!]

Where am I and others like me, others who do not fall into her definition of worthy people, only subject to the wrath of the Lord? 

Far, far, far, and further than that, away from her. No, Marjorie Taylor Greene is no friend of this country. Nor of democracy anywhere upon this earth. This is what she and others like her, be they GOP or Democratic or whatever category they assign to themselves, incite.

Anti-Semitic display projected on building in downtown West Palm Beach

I am so upset that I will leave further burst bubbles and balloons for another day.

My country??????

Do I need to check my papers again? Do we all?