 Happy Monday everyone! Sheesh, another week, another chance with which to succeed (huh?).
I’m happy to report that after some stops and starts I was able to finish filming a scene in my new (mercifully) short film (due out sometime in early 2019) while The Daughter was here over the weekend. Let me tell you people, filmmaking is hard work. Shot more than an hour of video for what will amount to a few minutes of finished product. And, of course, I kept having to deal with Cousin Fred constantly peering through the front window here at the Main House and knocking on said window to be let in. He so wants to be in the film. Actually, I had intended to use the Hairdressing Hydrologist Gigi in a small part, but she’s off in Florida somewhere keeping Fearless Leader’s hair intact (so to speak). Speaking of Fearless Leader, did you hear that he is now referring to himself in the third person (nothing new) term, “President T” (that’s new)? How creepy is that? The Washington Post yesterday published an article about Fearless Leader attempting to rein in (among other things) the Federal deficit. He reportedly is thrashing his aides and department heads to find ways to slash the budget and close the gap (more like a Grand Canyon) in the budget which has ballooned over the past couple of years. The 2017 deficit was $666 billion (yep that’s billion with a “b”). The estimated 2019 deficit is $984 billion. Hijo de la chingada! Wonder how all those people who so rabidly defend Fearless Leader’s “draining the swamp” feel about that? If you’re among the woefully undereducated of this country trying to do the math, that is MORE THAN $300 billion dollars in two fiscal years. That’s a heap of cash. But wait, there’s more…did you know that as of July of this year the U.S. debt is nearly (hopefully you’re sitting down) $22 trillion? Uncle Sam apparently keeps taking those damned payday loans (there oughta be a law!). I’ll give you a minute for that to sink in as you run off to the bathroom to throw up. How did we get here, you ask? Well, let’s start with an apparently out-of-touch-with-reality administration bent on spending $$$ on a border wall…ummm, then there’s tax cuts for everyone…neither of which has enough funding to back it up. The WP report cites a few examples of Fearless Leader’s out-of-touchness-with-reality – my personal favorite is that he thought the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (the senior ranking U.S. military member) made something on the order of $5 million a year. Chief of staff John Kelly (himself a retired four-star) informed Fearless Leader that it was less than $200,000. Yeah, Mr. T, here’s a news flash, no one joins the military to get rich…trust me on that. The concept that someone might do so and stick with it because they feel a call to serve their country in whatever capacity is something completely foreign to a certain narcissistic misogynist who has failed at every business in which he’s tried his hand. The WP report is very telling. Granted, the reporting is almost certainly skewed to the left, BUT…if only 1/10th of 1 percent of the reporting has a kernel of truth… We’re doomed, I’m telling you! Read it (and weep) for yourself here. That is all! Comments are closed.
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