Thursday, April 14, 2016

Politics aside for the moment, I’d like to take a moment to mention what the past month has been like. My son Chris left the USAF last fall after six years of service and finally made it down here to Nicaragua in March. Carol and I hadn’t seen Chris in over five years up until then.
                I have to admit, I was certainly impressed with the boy. He’s 30 now and has developed an incredible amount of good sense evidenced by the fact that he’s become a diehard Cubs fan, just like his ‘ol man. He even signed up with MLBTV so we can watch every game on the computer.

                He’s also got this awesome beard!
 

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Opening observations of the 2016 POTUS campaigns

Now that we’ve gotten all the history of my personal presidential elections out of the way, we can begin to examine the current travesty known as the 2016 GOP and Democratic Party primary campaigns.
Starting on the GOP side, we were initially witness to the most bizarre clown car of applicants ever assembled for the amusement of the American public. There were over a dozen at one point, none of whom were even qualified to serve as dogcatcher, let alone POTUS, but there they were just the same. There was a fat guy, a raving bitch, a deranged doctor, and a Cuban robot, to name just a few, but attrition, along with a mega dose of stupidity, has whittled it down to a measly pair who barely qualify as human. On the one hand, we have the narcissistic, money hungry, Mexican hating, women abuser, wall builder wannabe Donald Trump who wants to “Make America Great Again” which infers that it once was at some point in the past but doesn’t explain exactly when that was. The other survivor is the Canadian born son of a Cuban religious zealot, a slimy weasel of a man sent to the U.S. Senate by a bunch of other slimy weasels from a state full of slimy weasels, who nobody who ever met and spent time with him seems to like, even his own wife and children, -- the darling of the Tea Party, or American Taliban as it is rapidly becoming known, Rafael Eduardo Cruz, Anglicized to Ted, because the other sounds too ….. well ….. Mexican …. or Cuban …….
The fact that these two pathetic examples of diseased DNA have evolved into the front runners of what was once a viable and worthy political party -- the party once headed by Abraham Lincoln, for chrisakes – is a clear indication that a large segment of the populous of the United States of America has been reduced to mindless blithering idiots, mostly incapable of logical thought, barely able to dress themselves and all possessors of very limited skills beyond how to load a gun. To support either Trump or Cruz is to publically state loudly to the world as a whole, “I am stupid, I know I’m stupid, and I’m happy to be stupid because all my friends are stupid, too. Hell, my dog’s even stupid. Let’s make ‘Murika great again!”
So many of these imbeciles exist in my Motherland that I feel much safer and, indeed much freer in this little war-torn nation where I am allowed to reside that merits such little attention from the rest of the world. Just as well …….
On the other side of the aisle, we have the potential for the first female POTUS, a beltway insider and spouse to a former POTUS whose most famous claim to fame was having received the blowjob “heard ‘round the world” from a young, but enthusiastic, intern. Bill Clinton, rightly so it was said, bent to the left. Hillary Clinton has been picked and prodded over the years by her opponents in the GOP more often than anyone in recent history, allowing of course for the GOP’s attitude toward the current POTUS, Barack Obama, that ….. well, ……. don’t you understand, he ain’t an old white man, see?. ….
The other noteworthy finalist is an old Jewish dude from Brooklyn, a social activist going all the way back to his college days, a former city Mayor and current Senator from Vermont, technically an Independent but running as a Democrat because running as an independent against the two major political parties is tantamount to political suicide in the U.S.

As it stands now, Bernie Sanders has both my support and my vote. More on all this later ……