I’m travelling for this week. Things I’ve noticed so far. How come the hand rail of the esculator goes faster than the stairs so you have to keep adjusting your hand position on a long ride up or down? How come the younger people in line at the airport TSA have to take off their shoes and older people do not? Don’t you think there are old ones out there who imbrace violence the same as the young ones do? How come you are sitting…
Why are generals who usurp the democratic process by instigating a coup have the audacity to shed their uniform and claim to run for the presidency. Egypt. Does Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi think the world does not know his duplicity? Such arrogance. Why do the big banks, like Bank of America and others before it, pay billions and billions of dollars to settle Mortgage Securities suits? Why just fines for the companies? Where are the names for prosecution? Why is the TSA expanding itself once again? This…
I wish a number of common sense people could move to the congressional districts of stubborn uncompromising representatives and vote them out of office. I wish we had term limits for all elected officials. I wish Congress would have our Social Security System and our health care and not the elitist systems they voted for themselves way back when. I wish we each had the power to demand certain drivers retake the written and road test. I wish there were a universal code of behavior…
Observations from a plan I was traveling out of country last Friday to visit friends for a few days of levity and what goes with it. Bermuda has always been a favorite destination in the past I wish I were traveling first class, but I wasn’t. I reluctantly mixed in with all those who don’t want to pay thousands of dollars more for reasonable comfort. I was sitting one seat away from first class and it was difference of a thousand dollars between the seats…