YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and I’d like to say to our President: “Please don’t use such bad language in your late nite social media posts. The world is watching and taking in every word.”
Crude language is not very Presidential, not worthy of the leader of the United States of America.
Mr. President, when you make outrageous, violent threats you remind me of the late Saddam Hussein’s late Iraq Minister of Propaganda who made many bloodcurdling pronouncements mostly to the effect that Americans would drown in their own blood.
He made so many promises of violence that he became a comedic character.
We still executed him after the war, comedic or not.
And one other thing, Mr. President (and I say this with all due respect for the office of U.S. President), please don’t call upon Allah on Easter weekend.
One of these days, Mr. President, you are going to do or say something that finally loses your MAGA base of support.
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EASTER EGGS. Nashville City Park workers were prepared to ‘hide’ 8,000 trinket-filled plastic eggs on the youth baseball fields. Rains put an end those grand plans.
Parks and Recreation Director Meghan Floyd says that the eggs will be sealed in big plastic tubs and will be used at next year’s annual Easter Egg Hunt.
Weather permitting.
Growing up at 303 College St., we had egg hunts every Easter. When rain prevented an outdoor egg hunt, the older kids hid eggs all over the house for the little kids to find.
On year, after a week of sniffing something offensive in the living room, we found an egg hidden behind a book.
Whew, that pastel blue sure did smell!
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SORRY TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE …… BUT normally in tense times like these Dear Leader in North Korea can be counted upon for some headline-making mischief.
A missile test. Maybe an underground atomic bomb detonation, or a NKorean navy ship shooting at something in SKorean waters. Something provacative.
But he’s been suspiciously quiet. UNTIL THIS WEEK.
He is supposedly preparing the NKorean people to accept his 13-year-old daughter as his successor.
One of the ways the Kims do this is to show the successee shooting firearms or riding a horse or waving lovingly to the masses during one of those giant parades.
This time …… The daughter was shown to NKorean people while driving an army tank. Unfortunately, she was texting while driving and she ran over a half-dozen peasants who were harvesting rice.
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THIS TIME LAST YEAR we were still agog about the total solar eclipse which was supposed to bring hundreds of thousands of visitors that would completely overwhelm us.
Sometimes even the best-intentioned experts miss.
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BANS. As of this writing, the burn ban in Howard County has been cancelled by recent rains. The burn ban in Hempstead County has NOT been cancelled by recent rains.
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I GET EMAIL. Lots of it. In fact, Mr. Schirmer has asked me to take a pay cut because I spend so much time reading emails.
(In fact, the frequency of worthless or titillating emails has significanty increased, and that’s why I am repeating this tiny part of last week’s column.)
I didn’t ask for the emails.
Overnight I get maybe 180 emails from Costco, Omaha Steaks, AAA, Kroger, Mariott Hotels, BlueCross, Little Rock Zoo, nearly every political candidate under the sun and some Ukrainian wimmen.
Maybe our visiting ITech guy can do something to weed out those useless emails. Except for the ones from those Ukrainian wimmen. They sincerely want to meet me, I believe.
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MORE THINGS I LEARNED from opening an email: How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?
I suppose I could ask one of those ravishing Ukrainian wimmen who are longing to meet me. Maybe someone at one of those Kroger stores has the answer.
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WORD GAMES. I love oxymorons: At the No Kings rally here there was a small crowd.
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HE SAID: “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President and General of the U.S. Army
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SHE SAID: “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and abolitionist
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SWEET DREAMS, Baby
