August 25, 2020
This is the
first time I am doing such a thing, but it is one way of showing why I won’t
vote for Trump. I have other serious reasons but we will leave that for another
time. I included a message from my nephew, my sister’s son Chuck, in which he
explains, in an ordered way, exactly why he is going to vote for Trump. It is
the first time I have seen such an orderly presentation. At least, if you are a
Biden supporter, which I am, you know the points where you have to discuss and
debate. You don’t have to hate Trump or anyone to have a deep discussion on these points.
For example,
regarding the second amendment. I have no intention of suggesting that we try
to repeal that amendment and I think it is a misunderstanding on the part of
some persons what exactly the people who would like to have more control over
the ability to get guns, more especially automatic weapons. We have had so many
tragic cases of people easily getting possession of these lethal weapons and
using them to murder people, including children in schools, that it would seem
common sense to check how it is that people can so easily get these lethal
weapons and have some legislation to prevent, at least as much as possible, the
ability to get hold of these weapons which they then use to kill people. I
myself really don’t see the point of having a weapon that is meant for soldiers
in war situations. I don’t think anyone, realistically, buys an automatic
weapon to go deer hunting. Ha. There wouldn’t be much meat left. That’s it for
now. It is almost 5pm on Wednesday the 26th of August.
Fact check: First night of
the Republican National Convention features more dishonesty than four nights of
DNC
By Tami Luhby, Anneken Tappe, Holmes Lybrand, Daniel Dale, Tara Subramaniam and Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 0457 GMT (1257 HKT) August 25, 2020
Now PlayingDaniel Dale: RNC
first...
Former NFL
player endorses Trump: He's not a racist
Sen. Tim Scott:
Next American century can better than the last
Nikki Haley:
America is not a racist country
Florida
businessman Maximo Alvarez gives emotional speech at RNC
Washington (CNN)The Republican National Convention started off
with a parade of dishonesty, in stark contrast with last week's Democratic
convention. While CNN also watched and fact-checked the Democrats, those four nights
combined didn't have the number of misleading and false claims made on the
first night of the Republicans' convention.
Here are some of
the most noteworthy falsehoods from night one of the RNC.
CNN holds elected officials and candidates accountable by
pointing out what's true and what's not.
Here's a look at our recent fact checks.
Trump's campaign promises
A video that played
during the convention began with a clip of Trump saying, "I didn't back
down from my promises, and I've kept every single one."
Facts First: Trump has
certainly kept some of his 2016 campaign promises, but not close to all of
them. To cite just three examples, he has not gotten Mexico to pay for his border wall, has not succeeded
in repealing Obamacare
(though he did eliminate its individual mandate requiring people to buy
insurance), and has not presided over annual GDP growth of 4 percent or higher.
Fact check website
PolitiFact has tracked 100 Trump promises. It has found that 49% of
these 100 promises have been broken, 24% kept. There is obvious subjectivity
involved in this calculation, but it's clear that Trump hasn't kept every
single promise.
Government takeover of healthcare
Former UN
Ambassador Nikki Haley attacked Democratic positions on health care.
"They want a
government takeover of health care," she said at the Republican National
Convention on Monday.
Facts First: This is
true of some Democrats, but it's not a policy Joe Biden supports. While he does
advocate broadening the government's involvement in the nation's health care
system, he does not back so-called "single payer" programs like
Medicare for All, which were pushed by others in the primary.
While Biden has
agreed to back lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 60, from the current
65, as a concession to the party's progressive wing, he is not a supporter of
Medicare for All, which would have essentially replaced the private health
insurance system with a single, government-run plan. That idea was pushed by
Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Biden would also increase
the federal subsidies in Obamacare so more middle-class Americans could afford
to buy coverage.
His running mate,
Kamala Harris, shifted her positions during her short campaign -- at times
strongly backing Medicare for All. But when she eventually unveiled her health
care plan, it also included a role for private insurance companies. However,
she now supports Biden's proposal.
Abolishing suburbs
Patricia McCloskey,
the woman who along with her husband Mark McCloskey pointed a gun at protestors
from her St. Louis home in June, claimed that Democrats want to
"abolish" suburbs. "They want to abolish the suburbs altogether
by ending single-family home zoning," she claimed.
Facts First: This is false.
Democrats are not seeking to abolish suburbs or end single-family home zoning.
An Obama-era housing rule meant to
address racial segregation does not abolish suburbs in any way.
McCloskey seems to
be repeating Trump's racially coded nonsense from July
when he worked to overturn the change the Obama administration made in 2015 to
the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), a decades-old federal
requirement aimed to eliminate discrimination and combat segregation in housing.
You can read more
about the regulations and Trump's false claims here.
Some background:
The McCloskeys drew national attention in late June after they were seen in a
viral video brandishing guns outside their mansion at protesters walking on a
private street en route to demonstrate outside the St. Louis mayor's residence.
The mayor lives on
a nearby public street and the protesters were going down a street that doesn't
reach the mayor's house, a St. Louis city official said. The Missouri couple
was charged in July with unlawful use of a weapon, a class E felony.
Unemployment
Multiple speakers —
including Rep. Vernon Jones, Rep. Jim Jordan and Mark McCloskey — touted the
low unemployment rate America has witnessed under the Trump administration.
Both Jordan and McCloskey credited the President for the "lowest
unemployment in 50 years," while Jones said President Trump "built
the most inclusive economy ever, with record low unemployment for African Americans."
Facts First: This is
misleadingly outdated, as it ignores the economic destruction caused by the
coronavirus pandemic. While the US unemployment rate fell to a seasonally
adjusted rate of 3.5% last September -- its lowest level since 1969 --
the pandemic has put a definitive end to America's strong jobs market and
millions of people remain out of work.
After dropping to a
50-year low in September 2019, the unemployment rate hovered around that level
for five months before Covid-19 hit and millions of jobs vanished.
The unemployment
rate for Black workers, meanwhile, fell to 5.4% in August of 2019, a record low
for the data, which have been collected since 1972. It was mostly driven by a
drop in the jobless rate for Black women. The Black unemployment rate rose
throughout the winter months.
All in all,
America's jobs market was strong when the pandemic hit. The March jobs report was the
weakest since 2009. Things got worse in April, when more than 20 million
American jobs disappeared amid the pandemic lockdown, by far the most sudden
and largest decline since the government began tracking the data in 1939.
The unemployment
rate spiked to 14.7% — the highest level since monthly records began in 1948.
Joblessness had not been that severe since the Great Depression: The
unemployment rate peaked at 24.9% in 1933, according to historical annual estimates from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While the pandemic
affected workers across the country, minorities fared worse than White workers.
In July, the overall unemployment rate fell back to 10.2% — still higher than
during the worst part of the Great Recession — while the jobless rate for Black
Americans was 14.6%.
China and Biden
Donald Trump Jr. referenced
a report from the US intelligence community in claiming that China preferred
Biden for the presidency because he would weaken the US economy, "Beijing
Biden is so weak on China that the intelligence community recently assessed
that the Chinese Communist Party favors Biden. They know he'll weaken us both
economically and on a world stage."
Facts First: While Trump Jr.
might be asserting his opinion here, his characterization of a recent
assessment from the US intelligence community is misleading. The US
intelligence community did not determine that China preferred Biden because he
would economically or otherwise weaken the US. Rather, it outlined that China
preferred that President Donald Trump lose the election because he was
"unpredictable" and because of the many actions he has taken against
China.
William R. Evanina,
director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, in a statement on Aug 7
updating the election threat landscape heading into the election noted that
"China prefers that President Trump -- whom Beijing sees as unpredictable
-- does not win reelection."
The statement went
on to note that China has been critical of Trump's "COVID-19 response,
closure of China's Houston Consulate" and "actions on Hong Kong,
TikTok, the legal status of the South China Sea, and China's efforts to
dominate the 5G market." Evanina's report makes no mention of China preferring
Biden because he would weaken the US economy.
Middle class
In praising his
father Monday night, Donald Trump Jr. pushed the idea that the middle class has
benefitted from President Donald Trump's economic policies. "After eight
years of Obama and Biden's slow growth, Trump's policies have been like rocket
fuel to the economy and especially the middle class," he said at the
Republican National Convention.
Facts First: Actually,
middle class income grew in the final years of the Obama administration but has
stagnated under Trump. Median household income stayed essentially flat in 2018,
at $63,200, breaking a three-year streak of increases, according to the most
recent Census Bureau data.
Median income
ticked up only 1.8% in 2017, Trump's first year in office, and then plateaued
despite a strong job market and very low unemployment, according to the latest
Census data, which predates the pandemic and this year's recession.
In the last two
years of former President Barack Obama's administration, median income rose
more sharply -- increasing 5.2% in 2015 and 3.2% in 2016. However, the middle
class has not advanced much, if at all, over the past decade. Median income in
2018 was not statistically different than in 2007 or 1999, which was the high
point.
Democrats and guns
Ohio Rep. Jim
Jordan claimed that Democrats were trying to confiscate US citizens' guns.
"They're also
trying to take away your guns," Jordan said.
Facts First: Some Democrats
have supported a mandatory
gun confiscation buy-back. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, instead supports
a voluntary buy-back program.
Along with banning
the "manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity
magazines," Biden's plan includes mandating that people
who own assault weapons either sell theirs to the federal government or
properly register them with the authorities.
Xenophobic accusation
Donald Trump Jr.
claimed that Joe Biden had called President Donald Trump a racist and xenophobe
for having imposed travel restrictions on China.
Facts First: Biden did accuse
Trump of "xenophobia" in an Iowa campaign speech the same day, Jan.
31, that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the Trump
administration's travel restrictions on China -- but it was not clear if Biden
was even aware of the travel restrictions at the time, and his campaign says he wasn't.
Biden first took a firm position on the travel restrictions in early April,
when he expressed support for
them.
Biden said on Jan.
31 that "this is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria and
xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fear-mongering to lead the way instead
of science." But he did not specifically mention the
travel restrictions in that address.
China travel ban
While the President
has come under fire for his administration's response to the coronavirus, two
speakers at the Republican convention Monday night praised the travel
restrictions he had imposed on China.
Natalie Harp, an
advisory board member for the Trump campaign, spoke about the Trump-supported
Right to Try legislation and its role in her fight against bone cancer. Harp
commended Trump for fighting for Americans, saying that if not for him,
"In January, there would have been no China travel ban. Millions would
have died."
Donald Trump Jr.
said that after the coronavirus came to the US, "The President quickly
took action and shut down travel from China."
Facts First: These
comments are misleading on two counts: Trump imposed partial restrictions on
travel from China, not a complete ban, and they were announced in January but
effective February 2. There is no evidence that the travel restrictions on
China saved millions of lives.
You can read a
longer fact check here.
Postal workers
After weeks of
increasing political furor over recent cuts at the US Postal Service, President
Donald Trump on Monday said he would not support agency cuts.
"We're taking
good care of our postal workers. That I can tell you," the President said
on the first night of the Republican National Convention. "Believe me,
we're not getting rid of any our postal workers, you know." He went on to
claim, "If anyone does it's the Democrats, not the Republicans."
Facts first: This is false.
Internal USPS documents obtained by CNN contradict the President's statement.
Before Postmaster General Louis DeJoy suspended many changes until after the
election, the USPS was planning to drastically cut work hours in at least one
district. Also, Democrats have not proposed laying off postal workers.
In documents
obtained by CNN, USPS managers held a "stand up talk," around July
13, telling workers they would be cutting roughly 100,000 to 124,000 work hours
across the district, in all sectors — retail, delivery and processing. It was
unclear how management would be implementing the changes. The USPS planned on
cutting so many work hours in mail processing operations — 124,000 — the
documents say it would be the equivalent of closing all processing plants in
the Appalachian district for 29 days or eliminate an entire shift of workers
for 86 days.
Delivery in urban
areas would be reduced by 110,983 work hours. The documents equated the work
hour cuts to: not delivering mail for 13 days, or stopping 43 city routes, or
ending mail delivery by 25 minutes every day.
It also included
clerk and retail operations, which management was going to cut by 112,475 work
hours. That's the equivalent of shutting post office retail operations for 90
days, district wide, according to the documents.
The initiative to
cut work hours has since stopped because DeJoy paused them after intense public
scrutiny. But union officials CNN has spoken to fear the changes will be
brought back after the 2020 election.
They also are
concerned because past work hour cuts have led to job cuts.
In his
congressional testimony, DeJoy alluded that significant changes are still coming
to the USPS, they're just coming after the election now.
DeJoy operates
independently of the President, but has significant ties to him as a mega-donor
and the former finance chair for the Republican National Committee. In recent
weeks, the President has pushed baseless accusations that sought to undermine
trust in the USPS and has said he opposed funding the USPS
because of mail-in voting.
Police funding
Top Congressional
Republicans attacked the Democrats on police funding.
Ohio Rep. Jim
Jordan implied Democrats want to "defund the police" and House
Minority Whip Steve Scalise said "The left wants to defund the
police."
Facts First: While some
Democrats have joined calls for a radical shift in police policy, including a
reduction in police budgets, top congressional Democrats and Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden have not supported
calls to "defund the police."
Biden's published
criminal justice plan called for a $300 million investment in community
policing efforts -- including the hiring of more officers.
On June 8, Biden
told CBS, "No, I don't
support defunding the police," Rather, he said, "I support
conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain
basic standards of decency and honorableness. And, in fact, are able to
demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the
community."
House Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat of Maryland, told CNN, "Defunding police
departments are not the answer." House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, Rhode
Island Rep. David Cicilline and Karen Bass have also spoken out about the
phrase, CNN reported in June.
It's worth noting
that the slogan "defund the police" means different things to
different activists -- from the
dissolution of police forces to partial reductions in funding.
Trump's campaign
has seized on a single comment Biden made to a
progressive activist in a July video chat. In that conversation, Biden repeated
his opposition to defunding police. When pressed, he did say he
"absolutely" agrees that some funding can be redirected to social services,
mental health counseling and affordable housing, but he immediately
transitioned to his previous proposal to deny federal funding to specific
police departments that do not meet certain standards. Biden said in early June
that decisions about funding levels should be made by local communities, since
some have too many officers but some don't have enough.
Trump and coronavirus efforts
An RNC video played
during the convention contrasted President Trump as a "decisive
leader" on coronavirus while suggesting that Democrats and media outlets
"got it wrong" by downplaying the pandemic.
Facts First: This suggestion is
inaccurate. Trump continued to downplay the virus into March. Trump declared in February
that the number of cases in the US would go "within a couple of days"
from 15 to "close to zero," and he predicted that the virus might
"disappear" through a
"miracle" or something of the sort. In late February, he was still
likening the virus to the flu; in March, he suggested that
the virus did not require the country to take more severe measures than the flu
requires.
He claimed in March
that the virus was under "control" and that the
media and Democrats were overhyping the
situation.
Arrested pastors
During the opening
remarks of the Republican National Convention, Charlie Kirk, founder of the
youth-oriented conservative group Turning Point USA, claimed that "bitter,
deceitful, vengeful activists...have us locking up pastors."
Facts First: This connection is
not true. Pastors in the US have been arrested for disobeying state and local
social distancing orders during the pandemic by holding in-person church
services.
One of the first
instances of a pastor being arrested in the US
happened in late March when a Florida pastor held two church services that
disobeyed state health emergency rules. The pastor turned himself in at the
time, the Associated Press reported. CNN could not find instances of pastors
being arrested because of "bitter, deceitful, vengeful activists."
#SettleForBiden
Florida Republican
Rep. Matt Gaetz said on Monday, "'Settle for Biden,' that's the hashtag
promoted by AOC and the socialists."
Facts First: While New
York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticized Biden in the past, and
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was her first choice to be the party nominee, she
has never professed or encouraged others to "settle" for Biden.
A review of
Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter and Instagram posts dating back to the start of the
primaries did not reveal any use of a hashtag "#SettleforBiden" or
"#SettlingforBiden." Her only Instagram post referring to Biden during that
time appeared to be from Tuesday, congratulating Biden for winning the
Democratic nomination.
A review of the
congressional and campaign Twitter accounts for Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib
and Ayanna Pressley -- fellow members of The Squad, a group of progressive
Democrats, along with Ocasio-Cortez -- also did not reveal any uses of such a
hashtag or phrase.
While the hashtag
appears to have been used dozens of times, dating back to as early as the day after Sanders
dropped out of the race and Biden became the presumptive nominee, it does not
appear to be common among high-profile progressive Democrats.
This story has been
updated.
I received this
explanation from my nephew as to why he will be voting for Trump. I have
already voted for Biden, and think that he is the right man for the job, but I
appreciated my nephew,, Chuck Bullock, my sister’s son), for putting together a
cogent picture of what encourages him to vote for Trump. I haven’t seen
something like this before, and what I have included with the fact finding
above are some of the reasons why I am sticking with Biden. Have a look.
To answer all of
those who would say “I can't believe you would vote for Trump." Well folks
listen up! I'm not just voting for him. I'm voting for the second Amendment.
I'm voting for the next supreme court justice. I'm voting for the electoral
college, and the Republic we live in. I'm voting for the Police, and law and
order. I'm voting for the military, and the veterans who fought for and died
for this Country. I'm voting for the Flag that is always missing from the
Democratic background. I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be
censored. I’m voting for secure borders. I’m voting for the right to praise my
God without fear. I’m voting for every unborn soul the Democrats want to
murder. I’m voting for freedom and the American Dream. I’m voting for good and
against evil. I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of
my Country! What are you voting for?
Copy and paste, I
did!!! Just because you hate Trump you shouldn’t just vote for sleepy Joe. You
will throw this country in a s**t hole if you did that.
August 6th,
2020
75th anniversary of Hiroshima,
violence during demonstrations, closing down of seminary in Argentina, John
Hume, explosion in Beirut, snakes, internet.
I will comment on these things now, or soon.
Today is the 75th anniversary of
Hiroshima and there are not many left who are the living reasons why we never
ever want a nuclear war. They will soon be gone and then there will be less
evidence of what nuclear war means. Because of the threat North Korea holds
over Japan, Abe Shinzo wants to push for Japan to nuclearize, after solemnly
swearing that Japan, after experiencing what nuclear weapons can do, would
never nuclearize but would try to persuade the rest of the world that it was a
lose lose proposition. Someone once commented saying that those who managed to
survive a nuclear war would envy those who died. You can see why when you see
the aftereffects of radiation damage to bodies long after the war.
And here we
are pulling out of the agreements we made to cut down on nuclear weapons, while
India and Pakistan and now North Korea, have all joined the club. I smile when
I think of Isreal, who is also nuclearized, doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear
capability. It is alright for them to have this threat hanging over the
Iranians heads but…..
Another area
of concern is how the trump administration hastens to call all demonstrations
(legitimate demonstrations, freedom of speech in our constitution) terrorist or
anarchic, when they must know that the majority of demonstrators are ordinary
people and only a few (they might even be hired by the opposition to make the
democrats look bad, as promoting
troublemakers and violence or they are professional thieves who, like
vultlures, come to the scene of legimitate demonstrations, and use them as a cover
to smash windows, steal goods, damage cars to draw the attention of the cops
and demonstrators, while they quietly sneak away with the stolen goods.). I
would advise the organizers of the demonstrations to take a page out of Martin
Luther King Jr.s book, and drill the demonstrators in the absolute necessity of
non-violence and keeping an eye out for those who go out of line and start
doing violent things. Call the police and tell them about those who are getting
out of line and let the news people know that you have done this, As soon as
things get violent, the people whom you want to get on your side are pushed
away and no longer want to support people who are going to try to use violence
to accomplish their goals. And, of course, at present, it helps the government
to use the violence to de-legitimize the protest. Maybe I am naïve but they did
the same in South Africa, making all blacks look like criminals, twisting
legitimate demonstrations into illegitimate destructive acts.
Recently here in South Africa, there have
been many demonstrations against the fact that poor students can’t afford the
ever-increasing school fees, but some of the activists get out of hand and burn
school buildings or university libraries, or smash teachers cars, not realizing
that they are pushing away many people who would otherwise support them trying
to find ways to solve their problems.
In the States, it seems to me, that the
anger and frustration that drives so many people out into the street, even at
the risk of being infected with the deadly virus, when one witnesses one killing
like Floyd, after another an one mindless shooting of people in schools, malls,
or anywhere with automatic weapons (war weapons), and wonders when will this mindlessness
stop. To use a scriptural phrase, “ how long, o Lord, how long!”
When it comes to shooting or in some way,
killing people, is it accidental that it
is always black people. I can’t remember a case where a white person was shot,
usually in the back, or murdered by a policeman, or am I just prejudiced. If
there was someone, I don’t think it has been, as with our black brothers and
sisters, over and over and over again.
You all saw, I am sure, the news about that
horrendous explosion in Beirut, that blew out windows as far away as 5 miles,
and whose blast was felt in Malta, 150 miles away. What devastation. And who
will be held responsible. The Ammonium Nitrate that is so dangerous was stored
in a warehouse in the middle of an industrial area that, as is clear now if it
wasn’t then, very dangerous. Who is responsible? Good question. You can be sure
that no one is responsible. There will be finger pointing----you, not me. How many changes of the guard were there
during that six years. Those who went before, surely, are responsible. Ha. Watch what is going to happen as we see
the corrupt people take over to handle this situation corruptly. Or am I just
being cynical.
In Argentina, a bishop closed the diocesan
seminary down because the rector together with the students defied the bishop,
who said that, during this coronavirus thing, they should receive communion in
the hand rather than on the tongue which was very risky under the
circumstances. They defied the bishop and went ahead to receive communion on
the tongue so the bishop closed the seminary down. I agree with him. It seems that the right wing forces (almost
all countries, Brazil, with Bolsonaro, a prime example, not to mention the US
and backers of Trump especially, refusing to wear masks, as simple as that is,
making a health issue a political issue) are growing and becoming More vocal
and aggressive…..
The death of
John Hume (like John Lewis) is something that you should follow up on. He
fought for truth and justice in northern Ireland and was criticized from both
sides for his stance, against the violence of the IRA as well as the violence
to the English soldiers sent to northern Ireland to crush the uprising. He
never gave up, in spite of many failures, but eventually, after many years of
pushing his non-violence and negotiating with both sides, entrenched in their own
cultures for years. He finally succeeded in bringing peace to northern Ireland.
I wonder what is going to happen now
with Brexit not having solved the problem of borders between Ireland and
Northern Ireland.
You will laugh at this but I mentioned snakes.
The other day I turned to find a big monkey sitting just outside my partially
opened window staring in to see if there were any goodies he could filch. When
I turned, he jumped away. My windows open onto an upstairs veranda, which is
enclosed by bars that I thought were too close together for any monkeys to get
in. I was obviously wrong. The other day I was sitting on the veranda (minding
my own business), when a troop of monkeys thundered across the roof, and
several of them peeked over the edge of the roof to see what was going on on
the veranda. That reminded me of a trick that retired Bishop Bucher used,
before he returned to Germany at the request of his sister who had just lost
her husband, He got some plastic snakes and put them on the veranda and when the
monkeys saw them they ran. Ha. I did the same and I haven’t seen any monkeys
since. It happened that the lady who helps to keep the house clean also went
out onto the veranda and made a hasty retreat when she saw the snakes, thinking
that they were the real thing.
As for the internet, it is on and off, on
and off, and very frustrating, because we just had a very expensive new system
put in and it doesn’t seem that it can provide the service we are paying for.
Worse than just that, I ordered, on line,
a booster, because it seems that my room is the one that suffers the most
because it is in the middle of the building with many walls blocking the
signal. The other day
(to be
continued…time for lunch…I will have to go to the monastery for a signal after
lunch).
I am getting
ready to go to supper. Our guru, Fr. Proud came over when he knew that I had
received my order of boosters. He did what had to be done to make it work, and
took one of the other 4 along to use at our retreat house. Ha. The advertisement
said you just plug it in and it starts to work….so simple. One of Murphy’s
corollaries is, and this is good to
remember when you are tempted to otherwise,
NOTHING IS EVER SIMPLE. I would not have been able to configure and
whatever else he did to make it work. It is still a bit dicey because there are
several electrical things that are fighting each other or competing with each
other and it mixes up the signals, so he explains to me. Ha. I just have to
believe it because I have no clue otherwise. I am off to supper now. back shortly, after the news, always more
about the explosion in Beirut. ( The story about the boosters is this: I saw an
advertisement for a booster to be able to get through this jungle of walls, so I
started to order it on line. When I go half way through filling in the form,
the internet went off, so I had to start again from scratch. This happened 4
times. Guess what, the company took this at 5 orders and charged me
accordingly. Of course I tried to send a message to them to cancel the other 4
but it went off into the stratosphere somewhere. I am sure that their plan is
to make it as difficult as possible to get back to them once the order has been
made.) So we will just try to find a use for them here in our complex.
Aug. 27th. As you might expect. I got happy too soon. I
had hoped that the problem about internet access was solved. I should know
better. Murphy never sleeps. There was and is no internet again last night and
this morning. More work to be done. I can’t paste this into the blog page
because there is no internet. My cell phone is OK, but I can’t use the cell
phone (maybe I am too stupid) to send this missive on my blog.
It is now the
30th of August, Sunday morning just
before lunch. I will leave it here for how and see how it goes in the coming
weeks. We are allowed to go from phase 3 to phase 2 now, which means visiting,
eating out, church services, but with proper distancing from each other and
wearing a mask. We will see if Corona manages to get through our defences or if
we ourselves, lower our defences. Take care. Lots of love and enjoy the last of
your summer. Love and peace, Cas.
