Just Rambling

Sat down at the computer to write this blog, and nothing emerged!  I played a couple of games of solitaire since this at times lets something simmer to the top.  Nothing!  So, today is going to be “other irrelevant matters”.

The first thing is an update on my husband’s knee replacement.  He is doing remarkably well, and follows the physical therapist’s suggestions carefully.  It will be five weeks this coming Tuesday.

I believe most people who have heard of the death of Joe Biden’s son, Beau, feels deeply for this family.  At least my prayers are that Beau Biden’s soul rests in peace, and that much comfort comes to the rest of his family.  Probably much grief comes to every family at some time in their lives, and although one may come to realize that it is just part of life, that doesn’t make it any easier.  This morning I was rather appalled to hear a young news person comment on how the Biden family always “bounces back” from grief.  And I thought, no, they don’t.  They crawl back through a great darkness toward a speck of light off in the distance.  It takes time and courage, but it can be done.  This has nothing to do with whether one has a religious faith or not.  Faith may give one comfort and additional strength to keep crawling, but I have seen people with little or no faith make the journey back. 

As an FDR Democrat, or Eisenhower Republican, I am, of course, really thrilled that Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have decided to declare their candidacies.  I read that older people really relate to Bernie.  Well, of course we do.  We remember the good times in this country when the policies he has always supported were well entrenched in our political system.  And some of us remember the bad times of the Great Depression and the economic safety net FDR gave to really poor people, and the hope for a better life he gave to everyone else.  That better life came during the three decades between the end of WWII and Ronald Reagan.  By bringing those policies back to the forefront, maybe we can get some sanity back into Washington, D.C. 

Before this week, however, the one thing that really got me excited was the comment by Jeb Bush that it was probably a mistake to invade Iraq.  A mistake, my foot!!  It was a deliberate action taken for purely economic reasons, and based on lies, lies and more lies.  My greatest disappointment when we achieved a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate in 2006 was the decision not to impeach George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.  Vincent Bugliosi’s book, “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” is a must read for an excellent legal basis for that prosecution.  These past years since 9/11 have greatly eroded the internal strength the United States had that gave us the world-wide respect that we had enjoyed since WWII.  It was the adherence, at least on the surface, to the principles that we said we believed in that made us so respected.  George W. Bush, et al, absolutely destroyed that. 

Oh, well.  The Giants’ game is on, and I have rambled enough for a Sunday afternoon.