I was mistaken thinking this was Bubbles' mama, it is her learning disabled sister, Friday (she was born on a Good Friday). I was introduced to all the next door cats when I first came here, but I've forgotten. She was laying on those bricks on my back porch all day, and I thought she was breathing funnily, with a kind of twitch, I thought the heat was getting to her so I fetched Donna, who said she always breathes like that.
Friday had a very difficult birth and 'died' two or three times, Donna had to keep resuscitating her because her daughter was screaming at her to save her. So as I say, she is learning disabled, I think Donna calls her something else, she is not as politically correct as me.
I think their mother stays indoors, she is getting too old to be out and about.
I was out at the hospital today, then had lunch with Chaplain Bill. We were discussing the news and I was telling him my theory about Obama and Benghazi. He wasn't impressed with it either.
And on the subject of news............Every week there is a new scandal. Last week it concerned the Department for Veterans Affairs, which administers - I gather - free health care for veterans, or retired military, regardless of age. Anyway, waiting lists at their hospitals are way too long, and veterans on the list have been dying waiting for their appointments (of course they are, they are all coming back in droves from these foreign wars they've been fighting, and I just wonder why no one seemed to foresee this). But worse than the long waiting lists, and veterans who have died waiting, is the cover up, and attempts to hide it all. Republicans have got their teeth into this (and I'm not blaming them) and heads have started rolling all over the place.
Republicans are also saying darkly, that the Department of Veterans Affairs is what Obama Care is going to be like - ie scandalous and inefficient, to say the least.
This week's scandal concerns the guy/deserter/pow who has just been exchanged for five top level Taliban leaders. Protestors are saying that it wasn't a fair exchange and the five will go back and plot more evil deeds against the US. Someone said - and I think I go along with this - that the Prime Minister of Israel is the toughest leader, and leads the toughest government in the world, and he exchanged 1000 prisoners for a single Israeli, knowing they would be back in the fight, because "sometimes it is just what you have to do".
Video has just been released today of this pow (for want of a better word at the moment) being handed over to the US. Until today the American public had been given to understand that he was so sick it was a matter of life and death that he be exchanged as quickly as possible. and for that reason Obama didn't seek the required approval from Congress (more chagrin from the Republicans) but as the video shows, he is hardly on his death bed. He is standing up there, looking perfectly fit, watching the Black Hawk helicopter come down. and he climbed aboard with no problem at all.
His father is trying to say that he wanted to help the Afghan people, but as someone rightly pointed out, there are plenty of other agencies who do that, you don't join the US military.
So my theory - here I go again, second guessing the news before it happens - is that that will be his defence when he is court martialled. And a court martial is almost certainly where he is headed. Even the balloons have come down, and celebrations have been cancelled in his home town. And for all my tongue-in-cheek sarcasm my heart does go out to his poor mother.
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