• 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)
To my descendants, please note that elected people are not always good and fair. Sometimes they get power and they thrive in it. Then they roll around in the spotlight of attention like a dog rolling around happily scratching its back.
We've had elected Kings and Queens forbid us from buying paint and telling us who can get a haircut. Not who can GIVE a haircut; who can GET one. The latest atrocity of power involves the Governor of Washington state who wants to open restaurants but, for a while until cursed and scolded to change, demanded that names and contact information be provided of all who eat at the restaurant.
They scare us, precious descendants. Pay attention. Don't let them get drunk on power and do it to you.
Begin with never letting the economy be shut down, not ever, ever again.
Below, a powerful Deep State politico just to show you how nuts they are.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
There's lots in the political news this week but nothing much new. One of the bigger stories is the leaked discovery of what might be a new vaccine coming on the horizon. This was revealed earlier in the week, right after President Trump declared a "warp speed" attack to find a vaccine.
From all that is heard it sounds like a winner.
Also we'd been hearing about excess crops and meat produced on some farms by farmers without a system to sell it. And losing the Chinese market, if that's the case, doesn't help. So Trump declared a 119 billion grant to farmers in exchange for food distribution across the fruity plains.
As of this writing I am a little confused about how this is all going to work in terms of distribution and payment but a special press conference was held today, 5/19/20, with lots of guest speakers, with Ivanka Trump part of the implementation team.
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MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Leave It to Beaver Character Dies
A famous cast member of one of my childhood favorites, "Leave It to Beaver" died this week. He played the character of Eddie Haskill on Beaver. In real life he was known as Ken Osmond.
Eddie Haskill became a LAPD policeman and was shot 5 times while in pursuit of a criminal.
I never knew this.
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South Korea fills football stands with sex dolls.
This is not a joke. South Korea had, like most countries, no live audience for a football game. So they used sex dolls. Pic below.
Well it made me smile.
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM ME RE THE PANDEMIC
(that my descendants may know how I handled it)
Off My bucket List
Like a lot of people, especially of my age, I have a "bucket list" that I want to achieve before my limited years left are done.
I now announce we can take the item "taking a cruise" off my list.
To my descendants, should you read this, perhaps by that time you will be able to take a luxurious, relaxing cruise in a splendid cruise ship with wonderful accompaniment.
For me, well I've lived a life never having taken a cruise. I will die without ever having taken a cruise. Because at this point in my life I am too old to ever get stuck on a cruise ship with a nasty virus run amok.
But descendants, include in YOUR bucket list cause it's bound to be fun and by the time yon descendants take a cruise, everyone will probably have to have a vaccine before going aboard.
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Will My Church Ever Be back?
I won't name my church but I think the two or three people that read this column probably know the name of the church I attend.
First, at the beginning of March our Pastor announced that he would not be returning after the end of April. Then the big quarantine was announced so we've had no live masses for over a month. Of course the end of April came and we didn't even have a chance to give the guy a little goodbye ceremony.
At the same time the church PR Director too retired so we got a new Pastor that we've never met, no very important church secretary and no idea if we will ever hold a mass in that church again.
Finally, at the same time, the Bishop of our diocese retired.
My church holds many people. Around 500 or close I think. And it is packed almost every scheduled mass. Since we are a summer resort locale, in the summer we have around six scheduled masses every weekend, all of them packed.
Will we ever be able to do that again? Will we ever be able to sit crammed into pews, singing and praying and spraying germs everywhere?
I miss it and don't know when it will ever be the same again.
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REVIEWS TV SHOWS
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
Competitive Reality Shows
I have always enjoyed what I call competitive reality shows.
In fact, the reality show Survivor ended this past week. With me, obviously, picking the correct winner.
I've never much liked Survivor because it so foreign to me, people living on a deserted island with only water....no food.
Big Brother is a little better, along the lines of Survivor but inside of a normal house with food and drink.
The Bachelor/Bachelorette shows amuse me but there is an underlying story of love soon to be upon. And while in Big Brother and Survivor the other contenders vote out the next to go, in Bachelor/Bachelorette the person looking for love votes out the next to go.
Amazing Race is one of my favorite reality shows. The next to go on this series is the last couple to complete the voyage/task/errand then upon. I find this show the most interesting of the competitive reality shows in there is not a lot of idle talk as happens on the likes of Big Brother, and which bores me. Amazing Race is intriguing throughout the entire show, as I see it.
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Gordon Ramsay's "24 Hours to Hell and Back"
Gordon Ramsay is a world-famous Chef, host of MasterChef and other food shows. Of late he has a show that has him disguising himself and entering a restaurant that needs his help.
Ramsay has a team that will ultimately take an existing restaurant and re-design the interior and overhaul the kitchen, cooks, food and all.
Recently, and during this pandemic, I chanced to watch his latest restaurant overhaul and damn if he didn't overhaul all of Ellicott City, Main Street, Maryland.
Why yes, I have been to Ellicott City many times. The reason why so many places on that town's Main street needed to be overhauled is due to Ellicott City's tendency to flood.
And it wasn't just restaurants that Ramsay and his crew overhauled. There were a few "main drag" types of shops and Ramsay even included a brand new hand-painted mural welcoming all into town.
But here's the thing.... The show did include a large blurb onscreen at the beginning and end. Because folks, they did all this work and now the restaurants can't be opened. In the blurb it was said that everything will be okay.
Think about it...had Ramsay and crew been able to re-design the restaurants' interiors AFTER the pandemic they could have put in plexi-glass separators, spread the seating areas further apart.
But after all that work, well they might to RE-re-design those restaurant interiors.
Still it was a pretty good show, interesting, kept my attention.
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Learning to Make My Own Chinese Food
I, like many Americans, am a fan of Chinese food. For now I won't say I won't ever buy food from a Chinese restaurant again but I am considering.
Now I know these people didn't send Covid-19 to America but it did come from their home country. And I'm very angry about it.
A lot of Americans are angry at the Chinese because it's now well known that they knew back at the end of last year that they had a runaway virus on their hands. So they shut down THEIR surrounding cities yet allow their infected people out to spread the virus far and wide.
I can't shut off all trade with these rotten people who did this but I shall make my own WonTon soup.
They have a great life here in America but maybe if they are shunned, even if temporary, they could have some influence on those wonderful and fine people running their country.
Maybe not. But I tell my descendants that perhaps when they read this you will be ordering shrimp fried rice by the buckets. Perhaps all will be well between America and China. Maybe the Communist Chinese party will be pushed out of power, as they should be.
For now, my descendants, I don't like China at all.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
