All kinds of things going on. President Biden says our border isn’t secure and that he’s been saying it for the last ten years. Okay…….but his Homeland Security Director insists the border is “Secure.” Won’t be long until the President will complain the wealth gap has gotten much worse after he’s allowed millions to come in illegally. Meanwhile, Hunter was having dinner in Malibu with the First Lady and smiling for the cameras. The Biden’s are like the fictional Carleone Family, except reality and more dangerous. Another 4 years of the “Lying dog- faced pony soldier” and we might become divided up amongst hostile nations. Down in Georgia, the District Attorney who is trying to put The Donald away has problems of her own. Fani Willis hired her boyfriend to help prosecute the case. He has no experience in this type of law and was paid $653,000 of taxpayer money. Have you ever seen a bigger sense of entitlement with so many people in government? It’s sad when our public officials can’t even perform a political hatchet job without ethics violations. This whole sham has derailed and will crash and burn as it should.
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Let’s move on here. During lunch Aunt Jane said her discussion group is in the middle of reading letters written by a young wife in Jackson County to her parents. They moved from Missouri to California around 1861. It took weeks for those letters to travel west and weeks for their letters to get to her. Sometimes you didn’t learn of family deaths for a long time. The writer lived in a farm house with several children and a husband who was away fighting the Jayhawkers. Some of the Union Troops weren’t much better. They rode up to her home one morning and told her they were going to burn down the house, giving 30 minutes to remove anything she wanted to keep. Neighbors were afraid to take her in for fear they’d be next. What happened to her, happened to many families on both sides of that war and it’s little wonder feelings ran so high. As Mark Twain wrote, “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
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Miss Hanson who works in the Clinton office has been on a steadfast diet since January 1. The bitter cold has weakened her resolve. She was eating French fries at her desk and I noted that Phillip Seymour Hoffman “Fell off the wagon” too and that didn’t end well. Miss Hanson replied, “When they find me on the floor it won’t be a needle sticking out of my arm. It will be a French fry.”
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Another winter weekend is headed our way. Peace. Joy. Wisdom. Warm Weather. I wish these things for you Old Buddy
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Til Next Week:
J.M.W.
