A View From The Hill
Almost like a serial
When I was much younger, a serious child watching a favorite program with the family, I could get wrapped up in the complicated interplay of the show's characters, leaving when the program ended hoping that the next installment - they were always cliff-hangers - would finally resolve and finish the cadenza with a satisfying return to a Major Key. Meanwhile, my brother wanted to turn off whatever I was watching on our floor-mounted Black and White and see Portland Wrestling. How could he not care?
When a cockroach goes exploring, it goes straight ahead unless it is standing on a broad, open plain. Even then, you will never see the creature walk backward. I guess the point here is that the insect will wander into a convoluted channel and, if not careful, will get stuck, facing the same corner or wall crevice, unable to turn around. I found myself in a situation similar to the hopefully-to-be-resolved serial cliff-hanger and to the Stuck Insect. If I can see the devious No-Good-Nick Comey coming to trap President Trump in his own words, if I see the evil machinations of Billary, selling us out to the Russians, why can't anyone else? I go to bed hoping that we have a satisfying, Deus ex Machina end to the stormy tumult of our political scene.
Backing out of the Corner
if Almighty God were to reach down and lift me, the roach stuck in the corner unable to move, and put me again in the center of the floor, I would see that life contained more stuff to see, most of it very nice.
For the first time since the end of the Korean War, some rapprochement between North and South is happening. A meeting between major diplomatic persons is going to happen. This has never been seen in three generations of rotund, psychopathic Demi-God leaders of the North. We are told Kim Jong Un will sit down with an American! As we used to say in Middle English, 'For Goddes Bonnes!' And KIim promises to put away his missiles! And back away from the Brink! Much more important than a large loud guy from Queens having a far-off, meaningless romp in the hay with a porn star. To the MSM, though, this is not news.
We ask ourselves, why the change? How did the Donald pull it off?
Some weeks ago, the Syrians and the Russians warned Trump to keep his hands off Assad's gassing of his people again or bad things would happen. He promptly sent twice the Tomohaaks than a year ago to try to settle the problem.Some grousing, some snarls - but not from Putin - but meanwhile, Kim collapses, asks for a meeting.
Later in the Evening...
Lessons I learn
Wow, have I been tossed around the last week! Maybe some day I'll see the Left for who they are, I'll see that actually I'm sometimes more a Libertarian than a Republican, occasionally center-left when seen by others; a lover of clean rivers, electric cars, thorium nucllear power plants, the reuse of old uranium fuel rods in these same plants instead of tossing them in the ocean, the closure and dismantleing of all eagle-killing windmills and a more proper use of desert acres than as a repository of solar panels better put on building-and-housetops and parking structures.
The President is a singular guy. Used to fighting about everything and maybe getting along with his enemies, we are along for the ride. I have lost some respect for DOJ and FBI in the last 6 weeks. Let's remember, though, that just as we can suddenly seem to lose our 'them or us' view of long-respected government bodies, we may develop a more realistic and more useful view of these same institutions at this same time.
