Friday 29th January

I haven’t been up to much lately, the weather has been cold although bright and sunny, but has turned quite warm today.

I’ve been told – although it is not new – that I shouldn’t be watching Fox News.  It is EVIL but no one ever actually tells me what is wrong with it (apart from being right wing, if that counts) or gives me any fact based accounts of where they have misled the public.  The journalists reporting the news seem to me to give a pretty unbiased account of events, and when there is something contentious being reported or discussed, there is always a representative from both sides putting forward their respective viewpoints.   What else can one ask for?

Of course they don’t like Hilary Clinton getting a bad press, but it is nothing she hasn’t brought upon herself, like deliberately lying about Benghazi to the families of the four Americans killed there.  She knew from the outset that the Embassy had been attacked by terrorists, but had tried to put out a story that it was a ‘protest’ over a video, a story which has now been blown apart. 

I heard tonight that there are 18 e-mails between herself and Obama that are so top, top, top, secret they cannot EVER see the light of day.  One’s imagination runs riot  wondering what on earth is in them, like the CIA was planning to assassinate Putin (that’s the most way out scenario I could come up with).  

And Chris Christie, the NJ governor and Presidential candidate, who is also a Federal Prosecutor, was saying tonight he was going to prosecute HC when the time comes.  He looked as though he was almost relishing the prospect.

There’s a rumour that the lovely governor of South Carolina, Nicky Haley, might be Vice President in a Republican win for the Presidency.   She won my admiration after a crazy individual, a young white supremacist, shot nine people in an African American church, and she dealt with the situation very well.  She ordered the removal of all Confederate flags from Federal buildings in her state.  I always thought the Confederacy and its paraphernalia belonged in history, but they have become very real symbols of hate and division.

Since we buried the hatchets in our Civil War at the Restoration, I sometimes find it hard to get my head round the fact that over here they are still fighting theirs, 200 odd years down the line.