Driver's Ed

I listened to a very interesting Podcast today on Moyers on Democracy.  The Podcast:  Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Speech and the Cult of Trump.  Bill Moyers talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose reporting for Vanity Fair describes how Trump the orator has turned his re-election campaign into a militant crusade fueled by conspiracy theories and rhetoric that incites violence.

 https://billmoyers.com/spotlight/bill-moyers-on-democracy-podcast/

It's very interesting but worth listening to if for no other reason than remaining aware of just what is at stake.

On a lighter note we are dog sitting tonight.  My daughter and her husband took their four girls to the lake for an overnight stay. The girls are 15 now and they will have 4 drivers in another year.  They thought they'd take them down to my other daughter's lake house and teach them how to drive the golf carts.  Ellie is enjoying the company of their two dogs today.  They have played non stop all day and hopefully will sleep all night with little fuss. 

I taught my twins how to drive but I can't imagine teaching quadruplets.  I'd have to be on valium.  I asked my daughter how the girls were doing and she said non of them know where the brake is.  I remember the girls didn't know either.  It always felt like they were turning on two wheels. Scared the life out of me.

Shortly after the girls got their licenses to drive Julie came home from an outing carrying two of the hubcaps from my car.  They were scratched all to heck and when I questioned what had happened she defensively replied, "Well, did you want me to hit the kid on the bike?" at which I responded, "Were those your only two options? You do have a brake!" 

Sometimes payback is fun to watch!

What The Heck Is A NEW NORMAL anyway?

Due to the fact that every day is just a continuation of the last I haven't had much to say.  We have turned off the tv because the news is enough to make us go screaming down the street without  a mask.  I get all the news I can stand from the news feeds I subscribe to online.  Today's news from Kentucky was enough to set off today's bad mood.  Voter suppression that is so blatant and racially targeted only a corrupt legal system would have let it stand.  It just makes me sick.

The circus came to town in Oklahoma this past Saturday.  The only consolation was that Trump's expected HUGE turnout didn't even fill the 20,000 seats in the convention center.  There were no crowds waiting outside either.  Of course there were still 6,200   attendees too many.  I suppose we will see the aftermath of that many unmasked people crowded together in about 14 days.  If they get infected they have their ringmaster to thank for encouraging their willful disregard of health precautions.

November can't get here soon enough for a number of reasons.  The obvious is the opportunity to vote this clown out of office.  Of course I would like to see everyone who supported him during the past 4 years exit the door right behind him.  The other is hopefully we will be just that much closer to a vaccine and/or treatment for COVID19.  

I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe.