Flock seems to be the word of the day as Americans flee in horror at the mere thought of their license plates being reconnoitered. We appreciate laws against unreasonable search and seizure, but then we think of folks alarmed by what they believe to be unreasonable searches of known illegal aliens. With I.C.E. and law enforcement in general on the prowl for bad guys under circumstances rarely encountered in recent years, customary standards of conduct in the domestic spy-and-apprehend game have undergone some enhancement with the result nevertheless pointing to success in achieving a lower crime rate. How much of this will Americans continue to accept? Politically, that depends on who is in charge, and how they tip the balance of power to keep or drastically alter the United States as we currently know it.
Back to Skool: Parents everywhere will soon rejoice in sending their ill-prepared children back to class so they can, especially in the big cities, continue to learn nothing of value, fail in reading and spelling skills, and look upon even basic math as something alien. More than one teacher has often remarked that some schools serve only as holding cells for the prisons. As child populations decline dramatically, one should expect that smaller class sizes will result in smarter, more focused students -- but considering the apparent lowball intellectual abilities among even freshmen college students who supposedly exited the public school system with actual skills, don't expect miracles.
Horses and Forests: I've supported nearly every step President Trump has taken to right the wrongs imposed upon the country primarily by disastrous political decisions. However, his Executive pen just gave permission to build roads and conduct logging in the peoples' national forests. This is a tragic mistake in a society willing to take and take and take more as national resources and historic beauty are trashed for decades or forever. And now the New York Times has reported how our wild horses of the West are apparently being rounded up, sold for a few dollars each and probably sent of to slaughterhouses under a government-sanctioned code of secrecy. A country which can neither respect its natural resources nor the beauty of spectacular animals such as the horse is a nation of shame. What the hell is the Trump administration doing here?
Iran: And so it goes. Really, from the start maybe we could have just dropped in "ghost guns" good for a few shots only and ammo and let the freshly armed Iranians slug it out with the evil military. Ghost guns falling into enemy hands wouldn't be useful after minimal use.
Trump to North Korea? Well, remember to take along Dennis Rodman to help celebrate whatever the occasion turns out to be. Maybe the North Korean army will shoot off a missile or two in honor of all the people tortured (remember our American teenage boy?) and dead under the hands of the Kim family, truly escapees from a cockroach ranch.
Floods, drought, fire, tornadoes and mental illness: Oh yes, let's continue paving over the fields and forests, screw with sources of fresh water and by all means strive to increase the human population so everything can be made even worse and increase suffering exponentially. We just don't get it.
