I WILL TRY

Wednesday, 25 March.

It would seem that construction projects at The Study are over, at least for awhile – knock/touch wood.

Sophie is asleep next to one of our portals on the world (computer) and more congenial work is going forward.

Rain started ca. 4 AM – awoke early and heard it on the roof.

‘Tis now a gray day with on-and-off precipitation.

We caught some of the press conference last night, breaking our promise to ourselves not to watch b.o. directly.
It just happened. We were having a late dinner and there he was and there we were.

Even this amateur student of affairs was aware of the misstatements, spins, mischaracterizations, etc., which were coming from the oracle’s mouth.

Again, we don’t make a living with this site and therefore I will not take the time to copy/paste to prove this point. Sufficient to say, that b.o.’s pronouncements were, as one more erudite commentator has said, a ‘tissue of lies’.

This is what we have come to, a President who cannot be believed. Well, we who voted against him knew he was of that caliber.

Those who voted for him did not believe it or did not care. Probably lots of them did not care.

They liked him. They did not care what he stood for, really stood for, and so they voted for someone they liked, not for carefully thought out principles which they liked.

As we have said before, people of a democracy eventually get what they deserve.

I hope our getting of b.o. is not the result of inevitable aging of a society – the process whereby a society/culture morphs into a progressively less and less vibrant/vital entity, into one relying more and more on the largesse of the central government.

What a thought!!

The heart and mind shrinks from such a thought for it reeks of inevitability, of preordination, of ultimate failure and futility.

This could be one of the most dangerous moments in the history of the United States.

What it is not is the beginning of our ascent into the ‘broad, sunlit uplands’ of a new world, to again borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill.

I wonder what Presidents Lincoln, FDR, and Prime Minister Churchill would have thought of b.o.

What a way to end a posting.

And yet there is a connection: those three earlier leaders all led a people who were facing monumental threats.

They spoke to their people and the people listened.
They were told how they could work and act and sacrifice TO SAVE THEIR WAYS OF LIFE – NOT TO CHANGE BUT TO SAVE!!

They were NOT told that solutions would come from CHANGING/PURIFYING the greedy, incompetent, criminal and domestic fabric which had been evolving from the founding of their nation and which had produced, criticisms not withstanding, the most important nations [US/UK] in the history of the world, or that, as we have been, only now with the election of b.o. was such purification possible due to the incredibly blind policies which hitherto had been in place.

Those folks were told the truth that it was the incredibly sound and strong fabric of the culture/society which, when properly harnessed and focused, would lead to better days.

Anyway, another posting gone negative again.

What can I say?

What I can say is that a lot of good stuff is going on and I will try to reference some of it.

I will try.