• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
MISC. PANDEMIC NOTES OF THE WEEK
(an update for my descendants)
Seems that everyone is changing their name/logo or motto recently, yon descendants, and now we have the former Dixie Chicks, now to be known as The Chicks.
I doubt, yon descendants, that none of you all will have ever heard of either The Dixie Chicks or The Chicks by the time you read this.
Many of yon descendants will probably not have heard of Aunt Jemima or Uncle Tom. Goodness knows you will all probably see few of the statues is memory of America's past as they all being torn down, read further for more info.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
Corona Virus Cases Going Up and Life is Misery Once Again
I just can't give a quote verifying that the virus is back and running amok.
No, I do not believe it, yon descendants.
All of a sudden very Republican areas, states where President Trump plans to hold rallies in the near future, are all spiking in virus cases although death rates and hospital patients with the virus has not increased and indeed, in many cases has decreased.
It's not clear whether the so-called increase in cases is because of more tests administered, multiple tests given to the same person but counted as individual cases or just outright manipulated.
Yon descendants, this virus ain't going away until after the election.
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MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Already with the bad ballots and the statues come down
Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, N.J., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (pictured) announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body.
It is the first day of July 2020 for this writing, yon descendants, and already we have people going to jail for fraudulent mail in ballots.
Because in this new normal in American elections, if you can't win an election, you should then steal it.
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It's not exactly a statue
On June 16, 1952 John P. Barbieri was the last man to be whipped in Delaware. 20 lash for breating Mrs. Belle davis.
FULL TEXT: Wilmington, Del., June 16 – John P. Barbieri, 30, flinching at every stroke of the cat o’ tails, received 20 lashes on his bare back today in Delaware’s first public flogging in three years.
Barbieri, sentenced to the flogging after he pleaded guilty to beating Mrs. Belle Davis, 59, last April 18, made no outcry during the 45 seconds it took to carry out the sentence.
Here in early July 2020, yon descendants, the big flap this week is removal for what is called the shipping post in Georgetown, Del, five miles from me.
The whipping post was memorialized at the back of the old Sussex county courthouse and a plaque nearby explained what it was. We are assured that the whippings were not restricted to only people of color.
But such is our absurd sensitivities, yon descendants, that it shall be removed, indeed, as of this writing it has been removed.
Can't have you descendants reading and learning from our history now, can we?
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM ME RE THE PANDEMIC
(that my descendants may know how I handled it)
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Ocean Point Grill is the most ordinary of ordinary restaurants in Lewes, Delaware. As of this writing, yon descendants, it is the site of my very first restaurant meal for over four months.
It deserves a tip of the hat.
I could go on about the quality of its food but that would take one sentence. It was my birthday and the meal was a gift from my friend. I had my favorite meal because truthfully, yon descendants, I really don't go out to eat that much. But like most of America, I probably eat out in some fashion about once a week, at least once every couple of weeks. That all changed when Corona-19 came to town.
I had breakfast, even around 11:00 am because I never make myself a big breakfast at home. I had three eggs over easy, a side of two pancakes, some sausage and a small tomato juice. Of course I had coffee but for some reason it was cold, I don't know why.
What was different about this meal is how it was served. First, this table was opened, this table was blocked off. With phase 2 of having life come back to Delaware restaurants could now have eating in but only at 50% the normal capacity. Ocean Grill did a nice job of roping off those tables/booths that could not be used without it being a pain to get around.
All of the serving staff wore masks and, indeed, customers were to wear masks until they were seated at their assigned table. Our server was very busy and there were times when me and friend had to wait for more cold coffee or extra napkins.
Still and so, it was really nice to sit and converse with a friend without extra work.
I quite enjoyed it and may all the Delaware restaurants now slowly opening up to normal business do as well as the Ocean Point Grill.
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Colleges
It took me thirteen years of night school to get my college degree. I was working at Western Electric, then the manufacturing arm of AT&T. WE offered to pay for college for all employees so long as they took courses pertinent to their job with the company.
Night school began for me when I was 21 and when I was 33 I got my degree. Throughout it all I got married twice, became a widow, gave birth. I remember the day I received my degree, via the U.S. mail. I was then separated from my second husband and living with my young child at my father's house while he wintered in Florida. I pulled the tube out of the mailbox, opened it up while still on the street and pulled out that hard-earned degree. I looked around. There were no neighbors around, not another soul in sight. My family had only a vague idea I was even going to night school.
What should have been whooping and happy hollering was quiet, deadpan, kind of sad.
The next day after receiving that diploma I gave Western Electric my two weeks notice. The company was not pleased for paying for my education to have me quit but I had my 15 years for a retirement and with the degree I could do anything.
I never used that college degree again for anything.
Oh sure, I framed it and hung it on my wall. And over the following years I of course mentioned in my resume that I had a college degree and it probably meant something. I did hold many responsible jobs over the years and mostly made good money. I likely would not have even gotten an interview without that college degree, much less a job. Thus to be fair, the degree did give me access to a paying career, eventually my own consulting gig.
Today I have a friend who has a son currently researching colleges in his senior year. I listen to her laments....this college ain't good enough, that college has a bad reputation, the college down that way has never had anyone of any fame pass through its portals.
I roll my eyes. Me, a person who for 13 years went to work every day then got in the car and went to night class. Just getting to a class was my big struggle. Whatever college I got a degree from mattered not. I just wanted that degree.
And so I note that today, it's the reputation of the college among the elites that matters, not the knowledge and experience attendance at a college will give one. George Dubya Bush graduated from Harvard and there's a college that anybody that is anyone wants to attend for its glamour reputation. I'm sorry but Dubya Bush was not the smartest guy in America but his father had been the President. Of course he should go to Harvard!
So my friend's son, and soon her daughter, seeks to get a college degree but attendance at a Community College with the final two years at a nothing-burger state university- the way I did the college thing-was not something these fine people could tolerate.
I am to understand that her son will be going to some prestigious school in Pennsylvania and for that they cheer, hoot and howl.
Because it's all about the college you went to, not how you did in that college.
Weird.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
Also the National Garden of American Heroes is yet another stroke of genius by our potus: 