This Morning Was a Beautiful Morning.

This morning was a beautiful morning – it was raining, but not hard; just enough to keep the grass on the hillsides nice and green, and ready to grow when slightly warmer weather comes.  Since this is cattle grazing country this was a beautiful morning.  Just the kind when one can stare out the window with the morning coffee and wonder what in the heck one is going to write about today!  My mind began wandering and reviewing some of the major events of the last 10-12 years, and I came up with some really atypical thoughts.

Some terrorists came to this country on commercial airplanes from Saudi Arabia and eventually blew up the two Trade Center towers in New York, killing some 3000 people.  Our forward thinking Republican Administration immediately began ranting about the border between Mexico and the United States being a gateway for terrorists, and over the past however many years, both the Bush and Obama Administrations have spent billions of dollars building a fence to keep out terrorists.  Since the fence takes a bit to get over, or under, now, no doubt if a terrorist wanted to come into the United States, they would have to walk across the border from Canada.  That is, if they didn’t want to fly in on a commercial airplane from Toronto.

Even though the Trade Center terrorists came from Saudi Arabia originally, the Bush Administration drummed up some excuses that they had trained in Afghanistan at terrorist training camps, so we invaded Afghanistan.  They said nothing about the fact the Saudi terrorists had trained in the United States to fly the airplanes.  So, using that logic, are we going to invade ourselves, or just the states they trained in.  Perhaps this is why the gun-lovers are ranting about the Second Amendment – so they can protect us from invading ourselves.

Saddam Hussein made the gross mistake of wanting to assassinate Poppy Bush, so son George made up stories about weapons of mass destruction which any mother of a bunch of kids could tell was hogwash because of the “lying kid” look on his face every time he started talking about them.  So we invaded Iraq, and killed some 600,000 Iraqis.  And of course, Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s favorite corporation could make millions, if not billions, contracting to do work through their subsidiary, KBR, which of course was either never done, or shoddily done. 

Now we have a Republican Party which is so divorced from reality that in an effort to make itself more attractive to the average voter in this country, who is no longer a Protestant old white man with English ancestry, it is trying to rig elections through one means or another, and they don’t think anyone is watching!!  In an effort to woo women voters, Republicans in some states are either requiring transvaginal ultrasounds for women who seek an abortion or in other states are trying to make a human fertilized egg a person.  An unwanted transvaginal ultrasound is nothing more than mechanical rape for the woman required to undergo one.  I can just hear these immature men sniggering in the coat closet about showing these women who’s in charge here.  As for the personhood laws, what about the 1/3 of all pregnancies that naturally end up being miscarried?  Will the parents of these miscarriages be required to have funeral services for these little persons? 

My God!  I hope the sun is shining tomorrow morning!!