TWEETY AND SYLVESTER

I hope some of you remember this cartoon from the olden days.  I am thinking it either was on after school or on Saturday mornings.  Whatever, Tweety was a tiny yellow bird (presumably a female canary but who knew). Sylvester was a black and white male cat with a red nose (presumably a big drinker but who knew). Sylvester was always on the prowl trying to capture and eat Tweety.  Tweety, who was wily, was also on the prowl mainly to keep away from getting caught. And here is my point (and you thought I was wandering, huh?):  If we all close our eyes together and imagine Tweety in the color orange, we can pretend Tweety represents POTUS.  Sylvester on the prowl is the elite Eastern media ready to pounce but never quite catching their prey.  Now open those eyes and think about Morning Joe--which I swear I have never watched--and the tweets about them from POTUS.  Come on you folks out there who voted for him--do you like him tweeting?  He is the fucking President of the USA and he is engaged in a media struggle on a personal level?  And the Huckabee woman (who seems to have kicked the toy boy out of the room) and Kelly Anne go on tv and with straight faces defend him.  On the other hand, my three bourbon sipping boys down there in bum fuck Louisiana love it.

Moving on:
--This is not nostalgia talking but a stark contemporary contrast.  Went to see the Boston Pops the other night on what is called Gospel Night.  With a background of an Aaron Copeland composition and a gigantic Gospel choir, an African American  minister spoke the words of JFK.  When you hear those words and compare them to the words of POTUS, you know what we are missing.  More than sad.
--I am not the first one to say this but POTUS is determined to undo anything associated with Obama and not just Health Care.  The most frustrating thing for me (despite perhaps understanding it) is that the former President continues to act presidential when I wish for his anger and his disgust.
--So many of the states which supported POTUS also expanded Medicaid and saw the rates of uninsured drop dramatically.  Apparently, the governors of those states must chat up the Senators from those states and helped convince some of them to defeat the Senate version of Obamacare repeal.  This is not over and folks like Ted Cruz want versions of the bill that are even more draconian to be proposed.  Rand Paul needs to have a chat with the governor of his state (that being Kentucky) whose rate of uninsured was way down.
--I want Jon Osoff to publicly apologize for his pathetic campaign down there in Georgia.  He avoided making it about Trump and decided the issues were about the bureaucracy not the war against the poor. And, omg, his whiny emails.  Yuk.
--Kudos, however, to the guy who climbed El Capitan in Yosemite without any nets, ropes, pitons, helmets-basically just him and his muscles.
--On a very somber note, we buried Aaron last week in Maine next to Norma.  Both terrific people who suffered and struggled in the end.  If I don't grab every minute with gusto and energy, I am just plain stupid.  R.I.P.
--On that note, no sports talk.

Happy new fiscal year.
Shalom