Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Lights out at 10:10 after watching Rachel Maddow's strange interview with Stormy Daniels, up at 12:30 to let Lilly out, tho she came right back in. I went back to sleep until a 2:30 PS then half-asleep till 3:30 when I gave up and got up and cleaned the kitchen, put away yesterday's soup-making utensils, and let Lilly out again. Unsteady on my feet again, clumping around half-like Frankenstein, half-like the Carol Burnett-Tim Conway character, Mrs. HWhipple. I nodded off at some time and woke up at 7 a.m., nodded off again and up at 8:40.
We had almost half an inch of rain again yesterday in this very rainy Spring/Summer season.
Prednisone, day 52, 15 mg., day 16 I took my 15 mg. at 4:35. followed by breakfast of sweet-sour borscht at 5:00 a.m.. At 7 a.m., my CGM reading was 200 and at 8:55 it was 214. Morning med at 8:50, with 1 hour follow-up BP at 132/76.
Day's project was a successful trip to Meijer's for CBH, 11 cans and to Grafton Target for dishwasher detergent and printer ink.
Some things I'm thinking about today:
(1) Reagan's Farewell Address: "“[I]n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”
(2) Pius X's Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), a broadside attack on Modernism, science, and critical theology, ecclesiology, and scriptural studies. "We will and ordain that scholastic philosophy be made the basis of the sacred sciences. . . Further let Professors remember that they cannot set St. Thomas aside, especially in metaphysical questions, without grave detriment." Why I spent almost all of my 15 credit hours of Philosopyhy and 12 credit hours of Theology focused on Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain and none on Kant, Hegel, Kierkigaard, Nietsche, Niebuhr, Buber, et al.
(3) American "exceptionalism:" Is America really essentially different from all other countries, subject to different rules? Does America have 'absolute immunity' from the rules that apply to other nations because of our special status in the world? Does our government through the CIA or our military get to choose the governments we want to rule other nations, nations like Chili, Vietnam, Guatamala, El Salvador, Cuba, Iraq or Iran? Anne Appelbaum asks in today's The Atlantic: "What kind of country elects a criminal and an insurrectionist as its president?" How's that for our 'exceptionalism'? What kind of country re-elects "W" after his false claims of WMD and invasion of Iraq? What kind of country gives Trump millions of more votes after seeing his first term in office, increasing his share of the vote from 46% to 48%?
(4) Gaslighting: Biden's White House, campaign staff, and supporters. Charlie Sykes today on Nicolle Wallace show: "There has been a lot of denialism and I think there has been a lot of gaslighting. The Biden White House has a credibility problem because I think a lot of Democrats turned on that debate and they had been prepped to think that he was going to show up, that he was going to be vigorous, that he was going to be tough and take on this guy, and when Joe Biden shuffled out there and turned in the performance that we all saw, people were shocked and we have to ask ourselves, why were people shocked? Were we misled? Was there a bubble aroung Joe Biden? What do we not know? What have we not been told? In a democracy, we need to ask these questions, and we need to have answers to these questions." Gaslighters-in-chief: Joe Biden, Jill, Hunter, Audrey, Ron Klain, Sen. Coons, Anita Dunn, and Bob Bauer. It is not hyperbolic to say that the fate of the nation and of the world is in the hands of Biden and his sycophantic 'insiders.' How long I have sounded the alarm about Joe Biden and his self-centered, self-satisfied, narcisistic character. How right I have been.
(5) Cat on a hot tin roof: Karine Jean-Pierre at White House daily briefings.
(6) Strongest poem in Spoon River Anthology. Editor Whedon:
To be able to see every side of every question;
To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long;
To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose,
To use great feelings and passions of the human family
For base designs, for cunning ends,
To wear a mask like the Greek actors—
Your eight-page paper—behind which you huddle,
Bawling through the megaphone of big type:
“This is I, the giant.”
Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,
Poisoned with the anonymous words
Of your clandestine soul.
To scratch dirt over scandal for money,
And exhume it to the winds for revenge,
Or to sell papers,
Crushing reputations, or bodies, if need be,
To win at any cost, save your own life.
To glory in demoniac power, ditching civilization,
As a paranoiac boy puts a log on the track
And derails the express train.
To be an editor, as I was.
Then to lie here close by the river over the place
Where the sewage flows from the village,
And the empty cans and garbage are dumped,
And abortions are hidden.
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