Tuesday 28th July

Out and about early, went to the hospital.  I saw Bill for a while, then he had meetings so I took lunch home with me, 'to go' as they say here, and have been watching the news which is mostly about the Presidential campaign.

This is one of the polls but I think it is fairly representative of all of them.  Trump is leading (SIGH) Jeb Bush is the runner up.    I have never even heard - in all my hours of viewing - of the guy at the bottom, Gilmore - where is he from???  Perhaps Fox News just don't like him.  Lindsay Graham, also at the bottom, who is the senior senator for South Carolina, has a lot of coverage, so I am well familiar with him.  Rick Santorum is a nice guy, I hope he moves further up and the abrasive Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, drops down.   As I've mentioned before, it is all about personalities with me.

I hope that by voting day Trump will have dropped down.

Speaking of whom................

 

Who knew that he of the silly hair pieces and baggy eyes was ever tall, dark and handsome!!  Trump with his ex wife, the mother of his children.   And speaking of  his hair pieces, sometimes they are silver grey, and sometimes they are brown.     It is ever so confusing.    For the sake of continuity he should stick to the same one.

 

Rick Perry, the irritating former governor of Texas was a guest at an afternoon talk show.   His solution to the illegal immigrants (sorry, 'undocumented persons') crossing the southern border is to have border patrols in aircraft flying around,  they can then see what is going on, and where people are trying to cross and can alert patrols on the ground.  I thought that was a much better idea than Trump's - building a 100 foot wall.  And why didn't he do that when he was Governor? 

Remember her?   She was the prison worker in what passes in this country for a maximum security prison, where tools are smuggled  inside ground beef, and they cook hamburgers in their cells while they scrape away at the walls, and manage to excavate a tunnel from which to escape.   But when the two prisoners emerged, expecting to find her with a getaway car, she'd had  a panic attack and took herself to hospital (honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up!) .    There was a massive manhunt for the prisoners, which cost a billion dollars.

She is likely to be sentenced to seven years, which means she will have to do a minimum of two and one third of a year, and probably no more than four and a half.

My heart went out to her actually, sitting with her attorney, wiping her eyes.  She made bad choices and took wrong roads.  Thinking of the cost of the manhunt I might not have so much sympathy if I were a US taxpayer.