Good morning, good people! We are still here, haven't been blown up, and no cyber attack to take away our communication! That's something good. Uh, can't think of much else good.
Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Donald Trump.
These are the presidents I've lived through.
I don't remember anything about Eisenhower, I was too busy being a kid.
The same with JFK, except for the Cuban missile crisis and having to duck under our desks, and when he was assassinated. Oh boy, do I remember that.
Lyndon Johnson. I came of age in the 60s, especially politically, I remember that SOB very well.
Richard Nixon, the crook. Although recently there's been rumors he may have been a victim of the so called Deep State.
Gerald Ford, an attempt to heal the nation after Nixon, IMHO, it didn't succeed.
Jimmy Carter. His heart was in the right place, but he was eaten up by the system.
Ronald "Raygun" Reagan. The start of the celebrity presidents. I remember rough times at the start of his term, who knows who ran the country during his later years as president.
From there on I want to highlight a self conceived pattern. More below.
11 Years Old
Here in the Puget Sound area an 11 year old boy was arrested at a local Middle School (no, not even a High School) for trespassing with knives. That an 11 year old boy, basically a little kid, has to be arrested for knife possession and trespassing is bad, and sad, enough. What it says about society, about some people, parents, children, whatever, in society is awful. But this is even worse.
The same 11 year old was arrested last month for trying to stab a fellow student at the same school. A teacher intervened and stopped it from happening. The attacker fled and was at large for a day before he was turned in by one of his parents and was booked into a local juvenile justice center, for a time.
Alderwood Middle School in the Edmonds School District, WA Image from here
80 years ago today -
Unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich to the 'Allies' signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims, Northern France
10 years later -
Living here in the Pacific Northwest with all it's rain and mountain snow brings abundant rivers full of fish and life giving waters that make the western half of the states of Washington and Oregon green and lush.
