Orchids to …
• those who understand progress requires change, not more police.
• the girl running with her dog, who after cleaning up after her dog, left it by our mailbox, then returned after her run to retrieve it and throw it away, from a grateful neighbor.
• the previous administration for showing us what true leadership actually is, by not bullying people and by not disgracing this great country that was already great, from Kim.
• the editorial in Sunday’s paper that was informative and interesting.
• all support and love for all the policemen in the United States.
• the person who paid for my food at I-HOP on Thursday evening, greatly appreciated and guaranteed to be paid forward.
• Joe Biden for meeting in a church in Virginia with black community leaders.
• the new Washington Post fact checkers book detailing all the federal elected official’s falsehoods since his first day in office.
• the senior White House official who said he was ashamed, disgusted, and sick to his stomach at the publicity stunt by the federal elected official last night.
• the Episcopal bishop for the sharp criticism of our elected leader for using the church for a political photo opportunity to promote unnecessary force to break up a peaceful protest.
Onions to …
• those who carelessly throw down their purple gloves and masks for others to clean up.
• those who think the virus can’t spread in warm weather because if that was true, then Brazil wouldn’t be the fourth-highest nation in COVID-19 deaths.
• saying the referendum was about raising teachers’ pay when the referendum is about raising our taxes — how that money is used is yet to be seen.
• people who think rioting and looting helps anything.
• the political party that has indoctrinated people to riot and loot when they don’t get their way.
• people who think riots and looting are the way you solve problems.
• anyone thinking rioting and looting is the “right thing” to do.
• the federal elected official who railed against thugs during a speech threatening to use the U.S. military against its own citizens and then using tear gas on peaceful protesters so he could stage a photo op using a church and bible as props.
• the self-proclaimed law and order president who vowed in his oath of office to uphold the law, meaning uphold the law toward everyone except himself — he should resign.
• the federal elected official who is tone deaf going to a rocket launch and showboating while the country is in crisis and our cities are burning.
• the online medical chart that is too complex, littered with letters, messages, surveys, questionnaires.
• the federal leader who requires mounted troops and tear gas to clear peaceful protesters so he can walk across the street and hold up a Bible in front of a church that he seldom attends.
• complaining that people don’t wear a mask — because if they did their research, they would not wear one either.
• people who support protestors who destroy other people’s property.
• the people who are causing this country a fortune in trying to contain them.
• the federal elected official who had peaceful protestors near the White House shot with rubber bullets and tear gas so he could have a church photo op.
• the federal elected official who promised to protect peaceful protestors, and five minutes later turned around and had the U.S. military gas them and push them out of the way so he could go to a church across the street for a photo op.
• the federal elected official who is verging on the ways and means of dictatorial leadership.
• the federal elected official who can barely pay lip service to what the protests are about.
• the person not wearing a mask not realizing they could also pass it along to their parents, grandparents, and children and they won’t be around any longer too.
• the federal elected official who said he never entered a church in his life before he was elected, yet asked police officers to throw tear gas and shoot rubber bullets at peaceful protestors, right before he walked across the street to stand in front of a boarded up church for a photo op while he held the Bible upside down.
• the federal elected official, who before walking across the street for a photo op, had peaceful protestors tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets — those protestors included pastors and Jesuit priests.
• the federal elected official who last night trashed the First Amendment rights of peaceful protestors.
• the federal elected official for not keeping his promises in dealing with the pandemic.
• the federal elected official who thinks it is OK to gas and shoot peaceful protestors so that he can take a walk across the street.
Happy Birthday to …
• Gordon Skinner, from your family.
• Tommie Krager, from your family and Donna.
• Ned Goodall, from your family and Donna.
• Brian Heck, from the Gates family and the Morrow family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
