Blog draft April 1 26

Bits & Pieces

I-Phone Worries: New phone. Motorola after years of Samsungs. Automated ads dominate the phone and jam storage capacities. Routine apps simply are too slow now and finding the phone function itself is often too hard to activate. I’m sure there is a solution,  but it will cost money for what is truly unnecessary. I’m planning to ask the store I bought the phone from to fix it. If not, I will toss the phone and buy a Samsung.

Well, I did visit the store. They spent at least 15 minutes on it and cleared all of the nasty viruses and gave me back a phone that truly worked. How wonderful they were! Metro T-Mobil in West Chicago on Main Street. Knowledgeable and friendly staff. The best.

Iran War: Destruction. Death. Injuries. Civilians scattered to the winds. Chaos as norm. Expenses for everyone. And now regional chaos is spreading to several nations. This is not about keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear nation. It is about regional power, energy hegemony and culture wars. Ideology. Some religion added in, but less so.

The US has unleashed war without a suitable goal. It has no plan. It does not understand the long-term cultural realities of the region. It simply has oversimplified a complex situation for no good reason. Consequences will be formidable. What a shame. What an embarrassment to the US. This is what we get when ill informed voters select an inappropriate candidate for president. Is situation is not solely on Trump. It is on all those who empowered him then and now. Shameful.

Congressional Chaos: So what else is new? Chaos in the nation’s capital has been a longstanding feature of American government. When compromise goes missing, collaboration and cooperation disappear as well. And that, my friends, is what government does – compromise. That’s what keeps everything ticking.

I don’t mind political parties mixing it up, but when it becomes a constant, government ceases to exist. This happens at the national level but also at state capitals. Less so at the state level because the actual players are well known regionally. Anonymity helps grease these skids, so regional and local missteps are readily visible because anonymity ceases to be a factor. Nationally this is not so. That’s why so much nonsense happens in Washington DC.

The answer is more involvement by more people so anonymity is more difficult to sustain.

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