I was going to do a dad blog, but I decided to wait on that one until this presently occuring dad situation unfolds to completion. Instead, I figured I’d leap right into…
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “JUST IN: Trump says the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will be ‘all or none,’ with no passage for any ship until Iran relents.” To share a later quote, “I don’t understand how blockading the strait is going to somehow push the Iranians into opening it. I don’t get the connection there,” Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. So now we are the ones blocking the strait because they’ve decided to toll people going through, and we won’t let what we describe as a terrorist organization toll their own space? This is getting so dramatically out of control that I no longer expect a peaceful resolution in my children’s lifetimes. I mean how much damage can we do to our world reputation in four years?!
- Meanwhile, we are about to host the World Cup in the worst possible political climate for such things. I fear for the fans, honestly. That is if the ones we consider “undesirable” even get let in.
- I don’t like the way things are going and the level of existential stress it is causing me as a human. It feels like this administration is resetting us to a time when we all had to consider the constant threat of global nuclear war. However, there are so many more threats at play now with the way we’ve handled technology. Oh to be able to go back to a time where it wasn’t like this!
- Then this happened: “Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father’s funeral” Which brings me back to the root cause of much of this. I don’t deny Israel’s ability to protect themselves, but what we are seeing here is another example of hardliners silencing the masses and creating conditions to both keep themselves in power and carry out their life-long missions of not only destroying other cultures that threaten, but expanding their own footprint. Israel doesn’t care about societies that are not as wealthy or globally appreciated as they are and man, it is showing here.
- Then there is this: “In February, Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report that said the deportation agreements with foreign governments cost American taxpayers millions ?of ?dollars – at times more than $1 million per ?person shipped out of the country – and produce little benefit.”
- Well, that’s our stem of reality. It could be worse. It could also be quite a bit better…