The Spartan Way

I stared at this morning's headline about the ending of two programs providing assistance to the Deaf/Hard of Hearing. I thought of the sweet couple who sold me my teardrop: he was deaf, she wasn't, but both worked as teachers for a school for the deaf, not far from Portland.  Why would anyone cancel funding for the deaf, blind, any so-called handicap members of our society?  I thought of the Gerard Butler movie, 300; and the idea of tossing unacceptable newborns into the sea, or whatever.  I couldn't read any more.

Did I hear correctly that the new quota for picking up illegals is going from 3,000 a day to 7,000?  If they're already swiping personnel from other decimated agencies to support ICE, who'll be left to protect the rest of us?  Home-grown crazies are just as dangerous and deadly as crazies smuggled in, look at most mass killings.  It's the Under-30's who seem to be particularly nuts, so let's just round them up until they turn 40.

But 7,000?  That now pertains to anyone here illegally (as were many of my generation's grandparents) and who may have been here for, what, up to 70 years, with nary a traffic ticket?    I've asked this question before:  Who is the Government going to detain when they're finished with the dangerous dark-skinned illegals?  Are they going to go after light-skinned nationalities, or will they get a pass?  I'm biased there because of late-husband Tino's illegal status, another story; but the whole thing reeks of Hitler's idea of the Master Race. Even just a smidgen of similarity should scare the bejesus out of you.

If Joe Biden had made one fraction of the decisions Trump has since January, Republicans would be screaming for daily cognitive testing.  Why are they letting Trump do whatever he wants, acting as the spoiled child he remains?  Vindictive, he is, slandering those who won't do his bidding.  We'll all be required to take loyalty tests to acquire something-or-other currently taken for granted but which will become preferential treatment, mark my words.  Passports, for instance.  Can't travel overseas unless...  Or,  Highly preferred interest rates for loyal subjects citizens only.  I'm no longer in that market, and I hope to be overseas before the Passports change - volunteering somewhere remote.

So whaddaya think of the new FLAGPOLE installed in front of the White House?  Takes away from the nice view of the stately building, but I'm guessing it gives Trump a rise each time he looks at it, so he doesn't care.  I'm hoping the next president with good taste moves it, why not next to the Washington Monument for scale; and gets rid of the Goldoval Office.  It's not one of Trump's casinos, although I take that back.  He's used to hosting high-rollers in the dark, surrounded by tacky glitz and barely-legal incentives.