December 7

 Snowy good morning to all. We got another couple of inches overnight and earlier this morning. The forecasters predict a slight warm up (very slight) in the middle of the week. Hopefully some of this mess will melt. I am taking things easy today. Friday was especially exhausting. I struggled with two different sites trying to order some particular embroidery threads and couldn't make either work. After a good deal of yelling and swearing I decided to simply go to the local Michaels, whose on-line site had been particularly frustrating, and purchase the threads there. To do that I had to clear the car of about 8 inches of packed snow. It took me four trips out to do that and left me a bit light headed. I also had to take out my winter boots for the first time in three years. Yesterday I woke up feeling very foggy but, thankfully, that has pretty well passed. This not-so-little old lady should NOT be clearing snow. Oh well I have enough thread to begin work on my last table cloth--a cross-stitch piece.

I didn't really read much yesterday but today I found this by Bill Astore which sums up the entire Trump administration and Trump himself especially. He says what I thought but more gracefully. Given Trump's stamping his name on what used to be the United States Institute For Peace, after essentially eliminating it in all but name. I wonder if anything at all in this country will be stamped with his name.

Corbin Trent at AMERICA'S UNDOING posted a longish article "The System Has No Reverse." I agree with most of it especially when he writes that Trump is only half right when he says Trump's charge that "affordability" is a Democrat hoax. Neither party has or, I would say, ever had a real plan to manage the economy for working people. They do a bang-up job for the ultra wealthy but not for the lower two-thirds of the economic pyramid. But the hoax it that they CAN do anything about it except muck it up. If they change one aspect they may set up a wanted change only to find that secondary, tertiary, and other down stream aspects unfavorably.

Stray thought: sometimes you can see that an era has changed in a small detail. This morning I realized 1) it is December 7 and 2) no news shows covered any commemorative observances of Pearl Harbor. Last summer several of the reporters wondered how many more years the "HONOR FLIGHTS" taking veterans to commemorations of D-Day. I speculated that they wouldn't continue much longer as the Veterans are mostly in their late 90s.