REAPING THE WHIRLWIND

When Donald J. Trump encouraged disobedience to common sense Public Health guidelines that his own government promulgated, he may have been seeding the wind that will blow this nation away.

WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE

 President Trump is, supposedly, ready to sign an executive order, which would, for the very first time in our history, order that the Chief Executive of the nation be allowed to prevaricate without let or hindrance on so-called social platforms.  It is said that he feels that the First Amendment of the constitution is applicable only to Congress and not to the Executive branch since it only prohibits Congress from regulating the Press.

MY CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS BECOME VERY DEFENSIVE...

My conservative friends become very defensive when I criticize white policemen for killing unarmed black civilians, especially when they are handcuffed and unable to resist.  Their last resort in any argument on this topic is to refer to the number of deaths of black civilians, by black CRIMINALS in Chicago.  How these criminal acts can then justify, and exonerate, police officers, murdering black citizens is a stretch too far, but then it is usually followed by silence on the part of most conservative, at least those that recognize the absurdity of their position.

A SPANISH PROVERB

So Trump has paid $1 Billion to a Big Pharma company to produce a vaccine before the election.  I am reminded of a Spanish adage, "Son pagado, mal tocado" which roughly translated would be "A song paid for in advanced will be poorly played".  I hope the result will turn out better than other medicinals that Donald has touted.

THINK WHAT YOU WILL

Think what you will about Trump, he has altered history by raising the status of the 43d President, George W. Bush and is about to raise that of Herbert Hoover the 31st.

WHO HAS TO APOLOGIZE?

For more than a century, a Flu that killed millions was attributed to  Spain. It is now being attributed to the state of Kansas in the good old U.S. of  A.  What if investigators, in the future, track down the origin s of the "Chinese" to a meatpacking plant in Nebraska or Iowa, who gets to apologize to whom?