Monday 16th June

My car is still the lead story, and today has been frustrating.   To avoid paying another $65 or $75 towing fee to get my car to Terry's, I asked Pattisue if she would take me to Emmanuel, where I'd left it in the car park, and I called AAA - the equivalent of the AA or RAC.

Guy comes out with towing truck, loads it on, I hand him the keys which he puts in his pocket, and he sets off to Terry's auto shop.   Terry and his mate (Dad has retired, which is a shame because he would have been there) are at lunch (goodness knows where they go, we haven't got country pubs here, but I digress) so guy with my car leaves it in the forecourt, and forgets the keys.   I was spitting feathers when I heard.   I became even more irate when he didn't return straight away with them, and I had a call from Terry that they were about to leave and he hadn't turned up.  I was later informed he'd arrived and left them in the cup holder. 

Fr Bill  took me home from Emmanuel, I knew the towing truck would be about an hour and I didn't want to keep Pattisue waiting.   But in a frustrating day I appreciated their kindnesses, and Pattisue rang later in the afternoon to see if I needed anything else.   Rosalyn also rang and invited me to lunch with her and Bruce, and some visitors staying with them, which would have been very nice if I hadn't had so much on.

So that's been my day.............in the news......................

I said that Obama is besieged by scandals at the moment, and this one is positively Nixonian (a new adjective being bandied about at the moment).

The IRS - of which this woman here is the key witness - sent confidential taxpayer information to the FBI because she was up to some political skullduggery at the time of Obama's re-election campaign.   The legal problem being  that 33 of the 12,000 tax returns included confidential information, which the IRS is legally obliged to protect.   So she broke the law, and if convicted is looking at jail time.

On Friday it emerged that critical e-mails - which obviously would have condemned her - have been lost, there was a computer crash.  An excuse no one at all is buying.   Everybody from Microsoft technicians, the FBI, and everyone else are saying that e-mails can be retrieved in any kind of computer crash.  They are there somewhere.    So that is this week's scandal.   I don't know how Obama is bearing up under it all, and a war as well.

A while back she had to appear at a Congressional Hearing, and pleaded the 5th Amendment.   Which means that she could refuse to answer any questions on the grounds that anything she said might incriminate her.      How handy is that!!!!!

This adorable child was attacked by a pit bull (and they still haven't banned them in this country).  This picture was taken a while ago just after it happened - I didn't have the camera out in time for a more up to date one - and her family were asked to leave a  KFC restaurant because her scars were 'distressing other diners'.

The weather..........in Nebraska

It is very unusual for two tornadoes to touch down simultaneously like these are doing.  The meteorologist reporting it said she had never known it, and it will go down in text books.   One person died, and 19 are critically injured.

I took these from my front porch this evening.....the skies in Oklahoma are so spectacular at times, and these pictures don't do them justice.

It doesn't look like it, but I took them both at the same time.