I was just about to post my blog today when I saw that a shooter using an automatic weapon  shot at Donald Trump  during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  He was extremely lucky, as a bullet just grazed his ear, while a person in the audience behind him was killed and another seriously wounded.  The assassin was killed.   Watch this video . I haven't seen any official report, but witnesses mentioned at least seven shots that sounded like firecrackers.  Trump is fine and was walked off the stage by secret service agents into a van to take him to a nearby hospital. President Joe Biden  tried to talk to Trump and had an announcement that condemned the shooting. Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield 1881, William McKinley 1901 and John F. Kennedy 1963.   There are  always threats to U.S. presidents , so protection is crucial.   Barack Obama  and  Joe Biden  were well protected.  Trump is only a former president...

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declared that Donald Trump does have immunity for official acts!!!    In other words, they took the guardrails off his power if he becomes the next president.  When you add to this monumental judgement the awful performance of Joe Biden at the presidential debate last week, and you know what Trump will do if he gets re-elected, one can only wonder if this is just the beginning of the end of Democracy in the United States. That above paragraph is, actually, an exaggeration of the reality.  Trump and the MAGA movement, of course, are ecstatic and now emboldened by SCOTUS's action.  However, here is what actually happened: The vote could have gone 5-4 against Trump, because there are the three liberal female associate justices and five conservatives.  However, Amy Barrett was only barely in the winner's side corner, and Chief Justice John Roberts, while also siding with the majority, had some cautionary words. The ruling onl...

  We returned yesterday to Honolulu after one week on the Norwegian Pride of America.  Departing Kauai. A Liberty dinner with Abraham Lincoln. The best wine on this cruise was Conundrum. Dinner. Goodbye Abe. Saturday morning, arrival in Honolulu. A rainbow greeted us. Before departing the ship, had our first breakfast. All in all it was worth the money and enjoyable.  On the other hand, there were issues that make me want to say I won't again board this ship until certain improvements occur.  For one, the WiFi was terrible.  When we asked a staff member, they uniformly said all is fine.  But I guess that this what they are told to say in that nothing was wrong because this is the way it is on this ship.  It typically took me several minutes to download a photo when it should have been two seconds.  What made it worse was that we not that long ago returned on a 53-day cruise on the Seabourn Odyssey, and in the most remote portions of the South Paci...