Haven’t written much this week. Dealing with the gymnastics of getting my private disability squared away, and dealing with a sick puppy, have taken a lot of time and energy.
It also finally got hot inside the Beltway Swamp, so going and doing much of anything has been tough. That hasn’t stopped me from sticking to my exercise goal, though it’s getting to be uncomfortably-humid inside the community facility may days.
So, kind of go piece-by-piece on this.
Kind of the middle of last week, the dog started drinking lots of water, and having accidents inside. And on the couch. Friday and Saturday were largely spent both finishing season three of The White Lotus, and trying to figure out if we were going to be without our little dog friend very soon. She is almost fourteen, but still not something we are, or ever will be, prepared for. My wife had taken her to the vet late in the week, and there was discussion that she might be in kidney failure. We’d planned on getting an expensive test done to check, but that got cancelled after we had to hit the emergency vet on Sunday. I accompanied. She had a rather-nasty UTI. Antibiotics, etc., but it really wasn’t until yesterday that she seemed kind of normal.
So, what else?
The Israeli attack on Iran Thursday night was very interesting. Credit to Chris Cuomo over on NewsNation about exactly who the IRGC are. I disagreed with President Trump’s efforts to even negotiate with them, almost as much as I disagreed with john Kerry’s blessed JCPOA. If Iran needs nuclear electricity, they don’t need to refine it themselves. They might do well to refine their own gasoline to start. They certainly don’t need to be enriching uranium to refinement levels far above what would be needed for electracy generation.
But that’s what they were doing in addition to building additional processing sites. And so Israel attacked. It sounds like they’ve done some serious damage, and killed. Much like the North Koreans fighting in Russia, these people are slaves.
Two other things…
No Kings protests. Following along on X, looking at the crowd sizes. Unimpressed. But the message about who’s funding all this is getting out.
No tie-in with the stuff back in the winter. Nope. This is all organic. Repeat until enlightened — “Orange Man Bad.”
Trying to catch up some on what’s going on with the shooting of pols in Minnesota. Big headlines will be that a DFL (Democrat Farm Labor) politician and her husband were killed last night.
Pull out your Jump To Conclusions Mat, and assume it was a Republican.
Except there’s now reporting that some of the more radical parts of her party were upset that she compromised with Republicans to keep the state government open.
Moving on…..