Yesterday I wrote about my new obsession with Morning Joe
and my inability to get back to sleep after turning it on at 3 a.m. I
usually switch over to The Today Show at 7 and then background TV for
the morning (because I am addicted, you know....)
Yesterday I discovered that it has become important to be
aware of the news all day long or you miss things. Things I found out
yesterday:
- First, McMaster, who stood so confidently and strongly in
the rose garden and told reporters that the report of Trump giving
confidential information to the Russians was absolutely false. "I was
in the room. It didn't happen," he said. His next statement
after Trump admitted giving confidential information to the Russians ("I am
president. I can do whatever I want") was "OK--it happened, but it
wasn't really a big deal." His next statement was something along the
line of "OK, it was a big deal but only because it was leaked to the press."
Finally, after it had been revealed that the biggie was that Trump had outed
one of our operatives, "'The president didn't even know what country was
involved."
- Next we learn that he did and that he had outed an Israeli
operative who had infiltrated Isis.
- Then there was a report that Kim Guilfoyle announced she's
in interviews to become press secretary. (Does Sean Spicer know about this?
Or has he checked his mail for a note form the president?)
- Then I learned that Trump is going to Saudi Arabia to give
a speech on Islam. Well this should be interesting. I
hope someone can get him a graphic novel so he can learn a little about it
before the plane lands. This trip should be interesting. He's
visiting England, where Parliament has voted NOT to allow him to speak to
the House of Commons, as very other US Presidents have done, then he goes to
Israel, where he has just outed one of their operatives and has stated that
the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, is not
really a part of Israel, and finally he ends up talking to the Saudis about
Islam. I can hardly wait to read the reports
- Next I heard that Trump is turning on son-in-law Jared.
Is this why we haven't seen anything of Trump's right hand daughter Ivanka
lately? Or is she too busy promoting her clothing line to be Daddy's
backup this week?
- I loved his comment at a graduation speech that "No
president in history has been treated as badly as I have." Since he
admittedly doesn't read, I assume he has not read a newspaper in the last 20
years. I suspect Obama, Clinton and Bush would disagree with him!
(When interviewed, John McCain said even he has been treated
worse than Trump has)
- And then just before we went out to dinner, I learned that
Robert Mueller had been appointed Special Counsel. We were going to a
dinner at Woodstock's pizza, which was a fund-raiser for Citizens Who Care,
the group Walt has been on the board of for many years. We sat with
another member of the board and his family and then joked "Guess what we're
taking about" (Trump, of course), but they had not had their TV on in the
previous hour and had not heard of Mueller's appointment.
So see? If you want to be informed, the headlines
change hour by hour. and it behooves you to Be Aware.
Dinner was great. We rarely go out to dinner in Davis,
and never for pizza, so this was my first trip to this restaurant, which has
been in Davis longer than we have (we have been here 43 years). I once
was called by some survey taker on pizza parlors and the only pizza place I
could think of was Steve's Pizza, where we have eaten rarely when we get a
hankering for pizza (or are meeting someone for dinner).
Walt ordered my favorite pizza -- Italian sausage and
mushroom. He added pesto to it and it was amazing
We need to get out more!
In the morning I went to the dementia support
group, which I had not been to in some time. With the upcoming move of
my mother to the Memory Unit on Sunday, I was in need of support and got it
in spades. Everyone seems to think that I'm doing it right, and
reassure me that with her level of memory loss it won't take her long to
adjust to her new apartment. Let's hope.
The best part of going to the meeting was
that the two leaders work with Davis' consignment store, "All Things Right
and Relevant" and are willing to come and pick up the clothes that we are
donating and take them to the shop.
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