This is what I expect to hear next on a BREAKING NEWS
ALERT. “This just in! “At a campaign rally, Donald Trump just
announced that he farted!” Then
somewhere in America, a woman named Edith shouted at her husband sleeping in
his recliner, “Archie, did you hear that?
Trump just farted! He’s just
like you, Archie!” Archie responds,
“That’s why I’m voting for him, dingbat!”
That seems to be the favorite reason people give when asked
what they like about Donald Trump.
“He’s just like me.” No, he’s
not! That is, unless you are a
billionaire. Unless you want to gather
all Mexicans up and herd them like cattle back to Mexico. Unless you make fun of handicapped
people. Unless you call women
derogatory names. Unless you
discriminate against people of an entire religion. Unless fighting STD’s was your own personal Viet Nam and believe
a POW is not a hero because he got captured.
Unless you are a pathological liar.
Unless you are an unbearable narcissist. I could go on and on, but I refuse to believe that you are like
Trump.
I’m just gonna say it.
If you think Trump is “just like you,” then you need to get help!
Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi! The so-called day of truth has finally
arrived. As I listened to the committee members at the great unveiling of this
seven million dollar report, I was reminded of the quote by W. C. Fields. “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance,
baffle them with bullshit.” Eight
hundred pages of it! So, after two
years and seven million dollars of our money, the Chairman of the Committee,
Trey Gowdy, reluctantly admits there is nothing new in this report. Right-wing conspiracy theorists threw up simultaneously.
If you think we’ve heard the last of Benghazi, think
again. At first I was perplexed as to
why Trey Gowdy didn’t tell the nation what the over-all findings were in
report. If he said it once, he said it
a hundred times, “Read the report. I
urge you to read the report for yourself.” (Yep, we’ll jump right on that, Mr.
Gowdy!) Then I realized this was a crafted political ploy. Gowdy is a trained prosecutor accustomed to
writing briefs. In lieu of making an
oral argument, he chose to tell us to read it for ourselves. In other words, he knows when it is read by
members of the media, there will be many questions necessitating clarification
by Gowdy and other committee members.
The ploy is to keep Benghazi alive until the election.
I’m sick of hearing about Benghazi and I will be tuning it
out or turning it off. That goes for
Facebook and Twitter, too. Where does
this stuff come from? We have enough
negative news without people manufacturing stories that are explosively
negative, with no concern for the truth.
I wrote my newspaper column and now this blog for two
years. I have felt obligated to stay on
top of the latest happenings in order to tell the truth about incidents and
issues. This has required researching
the perspectives from both the liberal and conservative sides. This has also required nearly non-stop
watching of cable news networks. Most
days I sit in the same chair for more hours than I like to admit, watching news
while browsing the Internet. Just
recently, I found myself experiencing feelings out of character for me. Nervous, anxious, worried, and a very short fuse. Minor problems that come up in my everyday
life seem magnified and I find it hard to cope.
I realized that I was living on a diet of bad news, death,
destruction, and Trump. The exposure to
so much negativity has affected my disposition and my outlook. I don’t like these feelings. I am a news junkie and I need to kick this
addiction.
I Can't Wait! |
To my faithful readers, don’t give up on me. I’ll be back all refreshed and ready to give
‘em hell!
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