Haitians

Everybody knows that if you want to get to the United States illegally that you come up through Mexico.  The Haitians know this as well, as did Trump regardless of whether you loved him or hated him.  Maybe I'm missing something, but the masses of Haitians storming the borders are not recent victims of the series of unfortunate events in their homeland.  Rather, they are those who have made a stable life for themselves in several Central and South American countries some years ago, who chose to abandon what now they have to try to get to the United States illegally because "somebody said that Biden open the borders." 

Please tell me I'm wrong.

I don't know what the border patrol was supposed to do when they are faced with illegal migrants crossing into our country with the scarce to nil resources they had available.  The border patrols tried.  They were doing their jobs.  Now they are being chastised for it.

There are so many of those who want to enter the US legally and they are patiently waiting their turn.  Why should illegals get to jump in line and get preferential treatment?  Many who are waiting patiently for their legal entry to the United States are coming from dire circumstances, perhaps more dire than those who are trying to jump the border.  We will never know as the ones trying to enter legally are being ignored and pushed down the line to make room for those who cheat and mock our laws, and also to create sensationalist headlines as to how cruel we are. Nobody is asking for illegals to come across our borders.  They are crossing by their own volition. 

Enough is enough.  Borders, and the associated laws of entry and citizenship, are there for a reason whether you personally agree with them or not.  You are always welcome to leave the United States if you do not agree with our ways and think that it's better elsewhere. However, another country will have to admit you.  Even if you find a country you want to immigrate to, you probably won't like their immigration policies and the chances are that there will be a lengthy and cumbersome process for entry and/or citizenship, should you ever get that far.   

Does that give you the right to jump in line and enter illegally? 

Russians

This hacking attempt is so lame.....and yes, I'm certain it's the Russians.  LOL.  Seriously, this showed up in my inbox as if I'm stupid enough to click on it.  I don't open any email attachments unless I'm expecting them.  Even then, sometimes I verify emails as hackers are getting trickier and trickier.  For instance, if my name is not specifically mentioned and there is nothing of detail in the subject matter I don't immediately recognize I won't open it.  

Example:  You have overdue payment.  Pay now.  

None of my bills are ever overdue.  Even if they were overdue, I would not respond to any email demands.  If it's truly something of importance, they will snail mail me.

 

 

Paul McCartney: Still AWESOME

 Paul McCartney is still kicking it.  Yes, it's a deep fake video but it's soooooo cool.  It took Paul 79 years to get his groove.  LOL.  I just *knew* if he came to dance class with me I could teach him a few moves.  Paul will be my forever first love.  Yup.  Me plus 10,000,000 other teen age girls.  He was one of my first crushes at age 12.  Too bad he does not know I even exist. 

Black Lives Matter

 Recall California Governor Newsom:  YES

Who will replace Newsom:  Larry Elder

Why?  Because BLACK LIVES MATTER

On a serious note, California is way out of balance politically.  You do know what happens when something is seriously out of balance, don't you?  There will be an abrupt correction to the opposite.  It's simple physics.  For every action, there will be an opposite reaction. 

We need a psycho-conservative to balance the out-of-control bleeding heart liberals.  

Nashville

 I'm scheduled to go to Nashville, Tennessee in a few weeks.  I cancelled my trip.  I also cancelled my trip to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho that happened last week.  I was also invited to some super snob-atorium-old-money-resort in Virginia that's scheduled for Sept 12-15.  I declined that invitation as well.

Why did I decline?

For starters, I don't want to wear evening ball gowns to dinner in Virginia.  I don't even own an evening ball gown.  I don't want to.  Along with my invitation, I was issued instructions on proper attire for breakfast, lunch, cocktails, dinner, etc., to honor their time honored tradition of proving to everybody how snobby they are.  If they really knew how boring and non-wealthy I was, I would not have made the invite list to begin with.  That's a story all unto itself.  

Sigh.

All that attire instruction to hob nob in the Virginia snob-a-torium is too exhausting for me to deal with.  Give me the Florida Keys where homeless people blend with ka-billionairs and nobody knows one from the other.  

On a serious note, the reason I'm cancelling all my travel is because of COVID.  While we had a reprieve over the summer, it's back with a vengeance.  Yes, I'm fully vaccinated.  No, I don't want to be trapped away from home sick and not able to GET home  - even if I don't end up in the hospital.  I'd still be away from home.....and sick.  My nephew, who is fully vaccinated (age 28 super healthy male) got the Delta variant.  He was flat on his back for 10 days.  He still can't taste anything.  He did not end up in the hospital, but was on the verge.  Good thing he did not have to go to the hospital, as the beds are FULL.  

Somehow, traveling to Virginia or wherever needing a beaded ball gown seems so unimportant in comparison - let alone the impacts of human travel on global warming.

Hurricane Ida?  Tahoe Fires?  No water? 

This is just the beginning of the end.   Nobody should care what I wear to dinner (ball gowns), let alone whether I show up or not as the impact of human travels is what caused us to be where we are at.  

I'm staying home, and I'm quite happy about it.