Foot In Mouth - Washington DC's Current Outbreak

I was amazed the other day, June 5th, when the spokesperson for the US State Department was trying to emphasize how close the US is with Germany's government, and she cited D-Day.  Since she was hired by the 45th Administration straight from "Fox and Friends," I guess I should have expected such stupidity.
   The President insisted on standing in front of the Marine Chorus while they sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America" - but he did not know the words to either song, and just appeared more stupid than usual.  At the same event, which was originally set up to congratulate the Philadelphia Eagles football team for winning the Super Bowl, 6 months ago, he had to bus in aides from Congress to make the crowd look like a crowd.  That was because the day before the event, he un-invited the football team from participating.  What was even better was that a white man in the crowd knelt in support of the football players during the singing of the National Anthem.
  And Sarah Suckabee Panders really made me laugh out loud when she stated that she, herself, has more credibility than the national and world-wide press organizations.
  Did you see (the Crypt Keeper) Smelly Ann Conway call 45 the "President in Cheese" in an interview?  She quickly corrected herself and secondly called him the President in Chief...  Which makes me really wonder why is "the President in Chief" a term?  Why those particular words?   Doesn't the term "President" already connote the meaning of leader, chief, head, etc?
   Anyway, enough of my nonsense - there's more than enough in Washington with Mueller's Special Counsel investigation, and Rudy Giuliani's three-ring circus stunts and interviews....  With 19 indictments and 5 guilty pleas, I think there is a heck of a lot that 45, Manafort and Cohen have tried to sweep under the rug.

Bits And Pieces

One of my cousins lives in Washington, DC.  A few weekends ago, she and a friend ordered cheeseburgers, fries, and drinks, and sat outside at a bistro-style sidewalk table while waiting for their order.  They were talking about the popularity of zombies on television, and the proliferation of zombie-based computer games.  A complete stranger, who was sitting several tables away from them, suddenly jumped up and ran at my cousin and her friend.  As he approached, he began yelling that he was a zombie.  He knocked the table over, grabbed my cousin's arm, and bit a piece of flesh, the size of a tablespoon, out of her forearm.  Other diners restrained the man and he was arrested.  My cousin, who had paid a little over $5 for her meal, never got the food.  She was taken to the local emergency room, and given a tetanus shot, an antibiotic shot, and a course of antibiotic pills.  In six months, she has to be tested for Hepatitis and for HIV...    So much for a quick lunch with a friend!
  My cats are normal cats.  They have their natural hunting instinct, even though they know I'm not fond of them bringing dead prey to me.  I've had to laugh over the past nine years, while in this apartment, at some of the critters my children have caught and brought in for me to see.  In the spring, they usually bring me baby chipmunks and baby squirrels, which I turn loose again.  (Actually, if the critter is undamaged, it always goes back out, once I've checked it over.)  Young birds are brought in all the time, except the dead of winter.  Grass snakes are brought in and placed in the bathtub.  While Banichi was still with us (before Nedi), he and Lovey gathered up 19 baby field mice from a nest and put all of them in the bathtub in a two-hour time period.  As the weather here has gotten slowly colder, the kits have been bringing in mice recently.  I knew that one had escaped me for several days, but Nedi was usually on patrol where the mouse was hiding, so it didn't bother me.  Yesterday afternoon, I had to used the bathroom.  As my pants settled around my ankles, I glanced to my left, and saw Nedi curled up at the back of the tub.  As he sleeps there frequently, I didn't think anything of it.  Then I caught movement out of the corner of my eye.  I thought Nedi had shifted, but as I glanced over, I realized his fur was moving.  Then I looked even more closely, and realized the mouse was crawling all over Nedi, while Nedi slept through it.  I finished what I was doing, grabbed a jar, and caught the little mousie and turned him loose again.  Nedi has been looking everywhere in the house, and frequently in the tub, for his little buddy.
   And, just as a side note, from 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, until 12 a.m. Wednesday, I received 6 telephone calls, 2 mailed advertisements, and 106 e-mails regarding the need for me to get out and vote yesterday. Having voted on 22 October, I am happy that voting day is over!

Photo Miscellany

Clydesdale foal

Female barred owl in flight

A statue of Thor, circa 900, from Iceland

Fall full moon over Washington, D. C.

Mother's love - a cougar cuddles one of her four kits