SEE, IT'S AN ISLAND AND THERE IS AN OCEAN, AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT

Honest to god, that lecture in geography from the POTUS, while not a direct quote, is so unimaginably infantile that I have no words for it.  Alec Baldwin and the SNL crew did have a few funny words for it and I must see all of it.  Meanwhile, those bourbon sipping seniors down there in bum fuck Louisiana must love the lesson being taught.  What's the big deal, they might say, we survived Katrina.  Barely.  And, ahem, many people of color did not survive.

Saw the President of the NYC Council on the tube.  She is a Latina originally from Puerto Rico.  She said it out loud:  the racist response of our POTUS to the disaster in Puerto Rico is more than just a bit different than his response to the disasters in Texas and Florida.  He seems to not even know the folks on that island were U.S. citizens. And his battle with the Mayor of San Juan is scary.  In the midst of the disaster, in the midst of losing out on Obamacare repeal, in the midst of a verbal (so far) war with North Korea, and in the midst of being the President, he has time for twitter battles with the Mayor and with NFL players.  To use his language:  "so sad".

Some columnist or other made it clear that Price's firing/resignation was for the wrong reason.  The charters are a sideshow from the fact that he was the losing lead on dismantling health care for poor people.  And I am tired of having to thank John McCain for being heroic.  And what took Susan Collins so long to say she would vote no.  The POTUS and his crew of white appointees seem to have been born without the empathy gene.  Betsy DeVos and Beauregard Sessions want to re-visit Obama regulations on campus sexual assaults because too much emphasis has been place on victims.  Honestly?

Three further random thoughts about POTUS.  His speech at the UN was nothing short of an embarrassment.  Please tell me the man is not my president.  Second, too cute by half his release of a video showing him hitting a golf ball at Hilary. Lastly, don't look now but he is filling the ranks of lower level Federal courts with people who you do not want to know about.

Other points of interest:
--Interior Secretary Zinke is moving ahead to reduce the number of national monuments and wants to open up vast areas of Alaska to drilling.  Hope none of you are caribou.  The new monument in Maine was donated for god's sake and supported both by hunters and environmentalists.  Looking a gift horse straight in the mouth.
--I do not want to hear one more word about Aaron Hernandez.  He was a thug and, yeah, he might have had a diagnosis of CTE--but he was a thug
--What's up with the U.S. embassy in Havana?  All I know is that it seems to be a fine excuse for POTUS to back out of the relationship developed by Obama.
--Non sports sports items:  The FBI did the NCAA's job for them by going after Pitino and other college athletic staffs.  It is totally unsurprising that sex and money are at the heart of recruiting. And what to make of Kraft and other owners (all big supporters of POTUS) who sided with the players in the latest kerfuffle?
--The big silver bird is warming up and will take us East in a week.  See you in November.

SPORTS TALK
My bad thinking Aaron Judge would fade away.  He came on stronger that I expected.  They may get by the Twins but that's it for them.  The Red flops will not make it out of the AL.  Mr. Brady and the boys lucked out last week but should improve today.  Thursday in Tampa Bay should be much tougher.  Good news that hockey is back this week--lace 'em up, boys.

Shalom