Well, I'm back. It has been a difficult three weeks. Mom fell and suffered a serious spinal injury. She had surgery a couple of days later to stabilize her neck where the injury was located. After two weeks in the hospital she spent another 10 days in a rehab center she was REALLY ready to get out. We brought her home yesterday and she was definitely ready to be home. I already have medical appointments for followups over the rest of the month. Since the hospital and rehab unit were between 40 and 60 minutes away I spent a lot of time going back and forth. Thankfully the daily commute is over. Now we have to re-establish a reasonable daily routine.
She noted that she hadn't watched any news for those three weeks but it looks like nothing much has changed. She is right. All the news is a "second verse, same as the first" with a few different details. However, a few things do stand out.
Does anyone remember when George H.W. Bush was mocked because he visited a grocery store and discovered the price scanner? I do. And I thought at the time "there is a guy who doesn't do his own shopping." I hadn't though anyone could top Bush the Elder for cluelessness but damned if The Donald hasn't done it with his remarks about how Americans were going to feel "pain" because little girls were going to have to make do with three dolls instead of thirty. Most people are trying to figure out how to afford necessities as prices rise. I really do hate it when the well heeled tell the rest of us that "we" are going to have some pain but it will all be good in the end. First, what do you mean "we"? You obviously aren't part of the we who will suffer. Second, it sounds too much like certain religiously oriented people (or those who pretend to such an orientation) who promise heaven as a reward after death if we are good little boys and girls.
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