Donald Trump Has Yet To Visit Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria has knocked out all the power on the island of Puerto Rico, in addition to completely flooding it. Anywhere a person might go involves wading or swimming, and there is virtually no wifi or cell phone service. Could this be why Donald Trump has not bothered to visit Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria? President Obama would have bothered. Even while campaigning for president during 2012, he immediately cancelled his campaign stops in order to survey the damage caused on the East Coast by Hurricane Sandy. Many, many people in New Jersey and New York were also left without electricity, but that did not stop President Obama from responding to his constituents.

Anyone who needs to find out if a friend or relative in Puerto Rico is safe can or call the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration's Office in Washington DC at 202-800-8133 or 202-778-0710. The island's government radio station, WIPR, can be reached at 787-777-0940 and 787-766-0505. Puerto Rico's disaster relief team can be emailed at maria1@prfaa.pr.gov, and, of course, the Red Cross is accepting donations and training volunteers.

Maybe Donald Trump is waiting for electricity and wifi before he visits Puerto Rico. He is, after all, not accustomed to any sort of inconvenience or difficulty.

I'm Just An Innocent Policeman's Wife

So the wife of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer wants us to feel sorry for her. Normally, I would not agree with anyone having to live under threats of violence, but after some experience living in neighboring Kansas, my opinion has changed, somewhat. Whenever I make requests of my local school district, USD 380 Vermillion, that their schools guarantee at least an honest effort at compliance with federal and state law, the secretary at the superintendent's office will rudely tell me to move house and live somewhere else. Pam Slifer does not want me to ask what will be done if another child is abandoned a few miles away from school and officially missing, as my daughter was in October of 2009 when a guidance counselor named Tom Schroeder transported her in his vehicle and dumped her, allowing her to remain missing until she got a ride back with strangers. (Suck it up, Frankfort, my daughter told me that those men who picked her up were NOT part of any search party, and that NO search party had been formed. The school board's spin on it was nothing but a LIE) Pam Slifer would rather tell me to move than tell me what policy Frankfort and Centralia Kansas follow when children and adults take drugs, alcohol, and guns to school with them. She feels that because Frankfort is a small town, and because she lives there, I personally owe her the liberty to violate the law and endanger my children. The wife of this Ferguson policeman feels that she, too, is owed some sort of special privilege not granted to the rest of the population. In the face of black men being shot by white policemen, just for being black men, (which is not the law, by the way) the families of those who are allowed to shoot minorities at will want special protection so they can enjoy their special privilege! Ha! I say that anyone who wants the freedom to violate the laws and step on the rights of others at will should move.....if a place where lawlessness can be guaranteed by cohorts, witnesses, and victims can actually be found.

Pam Slifer feels that because the violent intent expressed here uses my married name and not my birth name, the facebooker and police officer are not guilty of actually referring to me, and that the person to whom they refer does not exist. This is how these people deny and rationalize every dirtball act or intention in which they engage. Why should the wife of a police officer get to live worry-free? 

Mitt Romney Uses Wife To Project Image

In yet another great example of a smoke and mirrors ruse, Mitt Romney got his wife, to whom he refers as "sweetheart" all dressed up in a white apron to serve breakfast and play "June Cleaver". She's supposed to "humanize" him a little, and make him appear to have stuff in common with other Americans. Somehow, I just don't see it.

First of all, in this picture, taken at a GOP gathering in Michigan, she appears nervous and her smile looks fake. This makes her husband look even more fake. Then, she talks about serving pancakes to her five sons every morning before school. That's nice........but before unemployment became the problem that it is now, both parents in most American families normally worked. This, more often than not, meant that no one would have time to make pancakes in the morning before school. A parent's time was, and is, often spent sitting in traffic in the morning, before school. Is Mrs. Mitt coherant with that reality? Is Mrs. Mitt coherant with the reality that a lot of families do not have two parents at this point, and a lot of families with school aged children have at least one parent deployed? Pancakes or not, if she and her husband move into the White House and inherit Bush's mess from Obama, she'd better learn something about it, or risk being perceived as another Nancy Reagan.

Second, speaking of national unemployment, the only reason anyone supporting a family, and that's usually BOTH parents, would have time to make pancakes before school is unemployment. Even if Americans wanted the clock turned back forty years, to the days when moms usually stayed home, I don't think Mitt Romney could do that. The world's economy no longer supports the nuclear family of the 1950's and 1960's in America, and never truly did. Even if it did, quite a few women were not happy with that lifestyle, and we really don't want to go back. Mitt, I am not impressed with your marital theatrics. Why don't you spare your wife the stressors of public life, and let her stay home? That's another reason why I don't believe you.......your wife really isn't living the "ideal", is she? You're actually USING her, and you could hire a model to fill her shoes if she didn't want to play follow-the-leader with you.

Third, Mitt Romney will never be coherant and fluent in Reality enough to truly relate to mainstream America. His assumption that every woman wants the same thing in life, and that every family wants to be a replica of "Leave It To Beaver" is almost an insult. He is not only overlooking and ignoring Reality himself, but he is asking me to do the same! Sorry, Mitt; I can't do that for you. If I truly wanted all the things you want, I would try writing letters to Santa Claus before I'd vote for you. I also don't wear high heels to clean the house or work in the garden.