It has been pleasantly warm today, one thermometer said 81 degrees as I drove through town. I am reading a very interesting book "The Perfect Summer, England 1911" by Juliet Nicholson. It was the Coronation year of George V and Queen Mary; the first half of the book focuses on the life of the upper class, the aristocracy. The second half is about the working poor - I thought I'd learned enough history to know what life was like for the working poor, but I was very shocked. Anyway, the point I am making is that it was a very hot summer, and the temperature climbed to 81 degrees, and they thought that was very HOT!!! I consider very hot to be 103.
Another interesting aspect of the book is that the young Winston Churchill features in it quite a lot.
I mentioned that Bill is doing something else for the next few months on Tuesdays, so I got to the hospital early and had breakfast, and spent most of the rest of the day watching the news, which at the moment seems to be all the latest poll figures.
Bernie Sanders is doing quite well, bless him, but I can't see him being President. Hillary's poll numbers are dropping, and Joe Biden isn't even in the race. He is going to make an announcement at the end of the week. If he does run I think that will really throw Hillary Clinton under the bus.
She is still being dogged by her e-mails. She's signed a form to the effect that they have all been handed over, but there are still some missing, I think she is headed for a federal prison rather than the White House. And the FBI must all be working overtime to get through them all. One e-mail has revealed that President Gadhafi's son approached her for Peace Talks and she refused, and no one seems to know about it. It is said that even in her autobiography, where she devoted a whole chapter to Libya, she didn't mention it.
I have recently finished Marco Rubio's biography. He writes very touchingly of how his parents came to America from Cuba and struggled so that their children could have a better life than they did. He is very, very patriotic and talks sincerely of how wonderful America is that the son of a Cuban immigrant can work hard, achieve success and ultimately run for President. Since I am not required to have any political biases I'm hoping - at the moment anyway - that he will win the Election.
His book has only just been published but I bought it for a knock down price, so I think he obviously wants to get it out, and has timed its publication very well.
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