Thursday

Did an extra stint at the hospital this morning, filling in for someone away.

I finished off a crochet project for Kate at the Senior Centre.....

a little lap size afghan for a senior, and I delivered it this afternoon.

I am feeling a bit crocheted out, I've started a knitting project while watching television.

And on television Trump and Jeb continue to slug it out.

 In Trump's America everyone will speak English, Spanish will not be allowed (when I fill up the car, or go to an ATM, I have the option of the transaction in English or Spanish, so presumably that will

no longer be allowed).   

I can't understand why no one is questioning how divisive all this is.

Spanish is not even going to be allowed in the home!!!!!!!!!!    I kid you not - that is what Trump said.    Obviously it is rubbish,  Trump is taking  pot shots at Jeb and his Mexican wife and kids.   And I don't blame you if you don't believe me, if I hadn't heard him say I wouldn't believe it either.

In one campaign rally Trump is railing against Mexicans and Chinese for 'ripping them off', taking jobs that Americans should be doing, and he is going to change all that.   He is incensed because Nabisco - a biscuit making company - have announced they are relocating to Mexico where sugar is cheaper.

But a day later, in another rally, he LOVES Mexicans and Latinos and they all love him, he employs thousands of them (in the lowest paid, menial jobs).

This evening all the Republican candidates had to sign a Pledge that they would support the candidate nominated, which they all quietly did, except for Trump, who called a Press Conference, waved his Pledge about and made a great drama of the fact that he will support the nominated candidate if it is not himself.   But I can't see it.    If he isn't nominated his Pledge will be torn up while he rants and raves that he wasn't treated fairly.   He has set his heart on 'Making America Great Again'.   'Taking Our Country Back'.

I would like to know who all the young people are behind him, looking uncomfortable.

I think this belief that America should be top dog in the world is called 'American Exceptionalism', and we haven't heard much about it under Obama's Presidency.  But that is Trump's number one objective - after  he has thrown out the 18 million illegal immigrants and allowed the 'good' ones back in again, when they have gone through the proper channels. 

Someone commented this evening that no one could attack Ben Carson.  He is gentle, softly spoken, and came from a background of extreme poverty to become a highly respected neurosurgeon who can separate Siamese twins.   Of course he is more likeable than the bombastic Donald Trump.