Birds

Every morning at first light I wander out to check out the owls roosting in the big Eucalyptus. The females are hiding high up and behind as much foliage as possible. On the rare occasion there is a male owl, they roost on the blower branches and look you straight in the eye as if to challenge, this world is mine.

One could easily assume I am making a value judgement between male and female but that is not the point. Among we humans there is room for adjustments considering personality and capabilities but the point is that we all have a roll to play in life and most all of us are naturally better equipped to stay in our natural, God given lane. Travel on you birds.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Power

Doing the right thing is so very hard to do. Have you not found it so? Washington knows so. Our politicians cannot avoid doing the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time. The easy stuff such as spending our tax money is a joy ride for these gutless wonders. Throwing money around is good back home. When the chips are down, however, when it really matters, they jump ship and go home for Halloween.

This time we are talking primarily about the “good o’ boys” of the Senate. The Peoples House, with the narrowest margins, has done their job and passed a clean temporary funding bill to keep the government running, a funding bill that was written by former President Biden.

So why have the Democrats of the Senate voted 14 times in the last month to defund the federal government? Why do the Democrats want federal employees, including the war department, federal law enforcement and air traffic people, insanely working without pay? Why do the Democrats want federal benefits like snap and child care to cease? Why are the Democrats putting the lives and well-being of so many people at risk? The Democrats are now starving the very people that they count on as Democrat clientele?  

It is all about Washington power. Republican Senators, do you not know who you are dealing with? Politics is no longer a gentleman’s game. The world wars of the last century were nothing compared to our present fight from within, these are also deadly times. You and I cannot play nice with those who want to kill us. Playing nice with a gun to the back of your head is more crazy than the crazies who are pointing the gun.

Republican Senators, please join the all-out fight for America. The Democrat party, as presently constituted, will quickly trash the “filibuster rule” when and if they should win a majority in the future. Common sense would say, let’s be a real democracy now. Send the power grabbers home. Join the lead of President Trump who has laid it all on the line for America. To do otherwise will be recorded as the beginning of the end.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.