Yesterday, Delaware County Democrats and Thinking of Greene County Landscape

 Let's see what was yesterday like. I went to work. Nothing special there.

Group therapy got a little interesting with talk about debating and a discussion on the economy in group. General idea: Trump's tariffs will help build infrastructure. I said, where is the money coming from. I got called on using the phrase "common sense" about the time between investment and an operating factory. General verdict: Trump has a plan.

And the counselor was the main one pushing this point. That I was not paying attention to views opposing my own. Uh huh.

I saw the market went down again (which according to the discussion, it was going up). That Trump had not made the deals as promised, meant nothing.

SGlobal markets drop sharply on Trump’s threat of 50% tariff for EU (London Times)

DM tipped me off weeks ago about the bond market, and I brought that up. Money is going out of this country, where this was the place to send your money.

Investors Are Sending a Warning to Congress. Will Washington Listen? (POLITICO)

And I am the one needing counseling?

Then I went off to Payless for groceries. Beat, I got home around 2 and looked at the email before deciding it was nap time. Perhaps, I should rename this blog to Nap Time for Sam.

I started cleaning the apartment, I will have guests today.

While working through my email and working on some posts, I worked through my Watch Later List on YouTube. Yahoo put the following movie in my path. I saw it had Jason Statham and Mark Strong, and an unfamiliar title. The more I watched, the more bizarre it became. I checked it out on Wikipedia, and to my great surprise Guy Ritchie directed, and it was years and years old. Bad Guy Ritchie is better than most directors, so I started paying a bit more attention. 

Looks like mediation on my father's trust is going forward. 

Last Saturday's Democrat Open House Revisited, or I forgot something.

Like the Delaware County Democrats' website.

This came across on Google News a few days alter: Indiana Democrats discuss party’s future during Muncie town hall (IPR)

Indiana Democratic Party Chair Karen Tallian said breaking that control means getting voters to the polls.

“The biggest number of people stay home because they either don’t like the candidates or they somehow feel that it doesn’t matter who’s in power,” she said. “We really need to have cause and effect and show people that, hey, in that race over there, somebody won by seven votes.”

During the discussion, other Democrats stressed the importance of engaging with minority voters in the community.

Tallian said members of those communities are already working towards the same goals, but that they aren’t working together.

Tallian said she is doing everything she can to bring leaders from those groups together so that they can brainstorm outreach strategies as a team and unify the thousands of registered voters who skip out on elections.

If you think the government is screwing you so you do not vote, then what you are doing is screwing yourself.

Presidents are not entertainers. Nor are they debaters. They are to govern, execute the laws passed by Congress, and hopefully not screw up the economy or get us killed. Trump's narcissism needs attention, so he puts on a show. He cannot share power with Congress, so he will either not execute the law or will ignore it. Trump is working on ruining the economy. He has an opportunity to get us killed.

Does Trump Want to Be the President Who Lost Ukraine? (The Bulwark)

Putin has also made clear that his ambitions extend beyond Ukraine, including a rollback of NATO’s presence in Eastern Europe. A failed Ukrainian defense could encourage him to test NATO’s Article 5 commitments, especially in the Baltic states. Preventing that scenario now, through sustained support for Ukraine, is far less costly than confronting it later with American troops on the ground.

From this morning, an answer I have wondered for a long time about the movie version of The Shadow:

 

About Greene County, I forgot to mention the topography. Today, I meant to add a link to Google Earth that might give an image of what I saw. No luck, and I am getting tired of Edge crashing. Let me say that I thought the Interstate through Greene County did not look like Indiana - far, far more rolling, like maybe the foothills of Tennessee. I suspect my Swiss ancestors came, saw these hills, and said, "you call these hills?"

I have spent too much on this post, so I will close now with:

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