We have been away from Maine now for 20 days and life is
busier now than ever.
Today a plumber came to fix our kitchen faucet. He had a hard time doing so because the bolt
was on so tight. He also had a hard time
getting his body under the sink area because he was so fat. However, he knew his stuff and our new faucet
is in place and working well.
Tonight we went to a presentation on the Cuban Missile
Crisis. The man talked for an hour with
a talk titled “13 myths for 13 days”. I
was only 19 when the missile crisis took place and I was still in Australia at
that time. The crisis took place 50
years ago in 1962 and that is the year my mother became very ill and passed
away. I did not take interest in
politics at that time and the upshot of this man’s presentation seems to point
to the fact that politicians do not have a good grasp of crises that come up
and in this case there were many blunders on both sides. However, the missile crisis was avoided and
life went on and it seems that politicians are still involved in the decision
process and take accolades in success and distribute blame in failures. One quip by the speaker was “In Khrushchev's
cabinet, I wonder whose head rolled for this gaffe”.
Tonight was the Vice Presidential debate. We do not have TV and I looked on the
internet to see who won, but the comments by viewers seemed so bizarre that I
still do not know who won if anyone won.
To borrow a line from
“Hunt for Red October” the actor says to Dr. Ryan, “I’m a
politician. That means when I am kissing
babies, I am stealing their lollipops.”
Moral of the story, if you are baby, don’t let a politician kiss you and
hang onto your lollipop.
We had a lot of medical things to take care of when we came home. So far I have seen our General Practitioner, Gynecologist,
Mammogram, Retinal Specialist, Dentist
and I only have a couple more to see –
best part is that Medicare is paying for the lot. Guess there is some good in growing old.
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