and it's cold Too!

In the thirties..and there is mention on snow in a few days.  So long as it doesn't strand me here in the Carolinas....

Odd, I never thought for a moment that I would use the word "strand" in regards to North Carolina.

Yes, I plan to return to Florida next week.  While I am no longer raving angry about what happened, I do have some misgivings.  Who wouldn't?

It's no longer complicated. Indeed, it is just as I said from the outset: if they don't want me, tell me, and I will will motor on home.  Told them that verbally, at the "discipline" meeting for the world to hear. I mean it still.  Something awful happens again and they don't need to bother with any kind of an investigation.. I will pack up that every day and head out.

It is my hope and prayer that that will never happen again .

Cold and dreary weather always gets me down.  It's been like that a fair amount of the time since I returned here. It is finally sunny today.

I recall, during those few years I resided in the midwest, how entire weeks would be like that.  It always depressed me.

I once more find myself thinking of leaving the country and relocating to Costa Rica.  I've toyed with it before.  There's no military there, a reasonably stable democracy and the temperature is almost constant, year round, the only difference being between the rainy and dry seasons.

I just do not like the kind of a country we have become and now find myself wondering if we will ever be able to find out way back.

It goes deeper than politics although I fault the republicans more than the dumocrats. Both are dominated by the oligarchs; voters know it too and that is why Clinton did not win, that and the fact that she is female. Going from the first non  white president to the first female one was just a leap we were not prepared to make.

There is more bigotry and intolerance than I ever believed.  Nazis blatantly chanting "You will not replace us" and splouiting Nazi propaganda and slogans....never saw it coming.  Still don't believe it.

Well, yes I do. I have seen it.  I have heard it. It just defies understanding.

And "Christian" people are leading the proverbial charge.

and I cannot help but think that...

How can a real Christian ever say that Trump is a gift from God? HOW??

So many alleged followers of the carpenter's son have forgotten the words that He spoke or, at least, their true meaning.  They are obsessed with controlling others, forcing us to follow THEIR rules, their intepretations of the Master's word.

Guns, gays and abortion.  Somehow they have persuaded the small minded that the feds are after their guns, that the gay shall inherit the earth and that they must opposed abortion, no matter what.  They say they are "pro-life," yet they favor capital punishment, deny veterans the benefits we have earned and have a right to, and would deny children the good and medical care they need.

How does that fit it in with "do this for the least...."????

Answer: it doesn't.

God is NOT a republican. Jesus DEFINETLY is not.

The sole reason the re;publithugs pushed through their most recent atrocity, the tax "cut" is that they have convinced a LOT of people to vote against their own best interests.

There is a lot of stupid in this country right now. Getting rid of stupid is like ridding oneself of roaches....

Leaving the country will involve working, most likely, another year.  It will take that long to eliminate all my debts, to either fix the house or dump it and leave now strings attaching me to the mother country .

Should I go, I most likely will never come back.  The thought of that is the only thing making me hesitate.