Daily Report
Thunderstorms rolled in during the night. I remember one particularly loud crack of lightning, but it wasn't enough to draw me out of my heavy slumber. I always sleep better in rainy weather. We do, however, have a couple of dogs that are extremely frightened by thunder, and Sandy told me one of them crawled up into the bed with us. I missed that as well, but I wouldn't have minded if I had been aware. Our dogs provide a great deal of pleasure for us. Like many people, we treat them as if they were family, and heaven help anyone who ever causes them harm.
It seems as if I've been doing nothing but laundry lately. One of our dogs was sick a couple of days ago, and he threw up on our blankets and bed sheet. He's okay now, and so are the blankets and bed sheet. The two blankets were too large to go into the washer or the dryer together. The blankets also required two or three turns in the dryer to get completely dry. Thus, I have been moving them about and trying to get them fully ready for use again. I think I'm through now. If only Clementine would quit pulling them off the clothing cart and cuddling up in them.
Genealogy
Sandy has a subscription to Ancester.com, and I've spent a little time here and there researching my family tree. Like all families, you start up one branch, and then it branches out, and that branch splits, and so on, and so on. My dad left when I was ten years old (I never saw him again), and my mother passed away in 1986, so my knowledge of his side of the family has always been limited. I've got first cousins I haven't seen since before my tenth birthday, but thank goodness for Facebook. We've been able to stay in touch now because of its availability. The picture I have included today is of my paternal grandparents: E.P. and Myrtle Adams. She died before I was two years old, so I have no memories of her, and though he passed away when I was old enough to remember him, I don't have any memories of him either. I do, however, have pictures of them, and I've learned a little about them from those pictures.
People posed formally for pictures in those days. This one is unusual because my grandfather tended to show only the left profile in most photographs. He must have believed it was his "good side."
The Supreme Court
It appears the Supreme Court has a serious problem with ethics these days, and it's absolutely inexcusable. I've never been to law school, so I've obviously never been a judge, but my own code of ethics tells me that if I'd ever been placed in that lofty position--a position of high honor and responsibility--I'd know better than to place my honor and respectability at risk. I can only shake my head at the wiggling around they must be doing--not because they have been doing anything wrong, but because they got caught doing something wrong. They are on the highest court in our land! Their ethics should not only be above reproach, they ought to be so lofty no one would ever consider them capable of doing anything unethical. Instead, we get lame excuses like: "Everyone else is doing it" or "We don't have a written code of ethics" or "I see nothing wrong with what I've been doing."
I'm sorry, folks. "Everyone else is doing it" should have been tossed out the window in junior high school. You aren't adolescents. You are adults! You are judges! And who says you need a written code of ethics? You're judges! If you don't know how to behave ethically, why should you be allowed to judge others for their ethics? And if you see nothing wrong with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gifts from anyone, not just a friend, you should resign immediately for not only a serious lapse of judgment, but from shame.
And Chief Justice Roberts, if you don't do something about this, you ought to step down as well.
The Problem with Conservatives
Okay. Conservatives have a lot of problems. We all do on the face of it, and we certainly need a conservative viewpoint to help balance things when it comes to developing budgets and running the country. Unfortunately, the conservatives of the past who actually were able to play well with others and accomplish good things for America have been shoved out of the way by a pack of unsophisticated hooligans with the temperaments of two-year-olds and the same ability to reason things out.
Not long ago, I read about a fellow who ran a company that generated fake news for profit. He'd create the fake news, and he'd distribute it (usually on Facebook). When asked why he directed that fake news only to conservatives, he said he'd tried to send it to liberals. Liberals, however, researched the "news" he was disseminating. They'd tear it apart with facts, which meant the stories he wrote were never sent further along. They died on the vine. Conservatives, however, never questioned what they saw. It agreed with their positions, and they loved it. They passed those stories along so fast they could have burned up from air friction if they'd been on paper.
So, conservatives. You need to get your act together too. Running this country is not a circus for you to clown around in. You have a responsibility to work together with the rest of us to make this country a beacon of hope for others less fortunate. You need to work with the rest of us to make this country a safe place for everyone to live, and that goes especially for children attending our schools. You need to realize that church and state were separated for good reason. You need to be concerned about facts. Whether you like them or not, they aren't changing. You can't hide your head in the sand and hope the tiger doesn't rip your rear end off because you can't see him. Grow up, guys.
That's enough for now.
Take care and stay safe.
cma
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