The  cold open of Saturday Night Live last night  was a signing of the Declaration of Independence in the attire of those days, with Lin-Manuel Miranda appearing ( remember his  Hamilton ?) as Alexander Hamilton.   But in pops President Donald Trump : "Just like my founding fathers, I am creating a new country as well. And just like them, we're doing it very white-ly. Workplaces must go back to looking like the TV show ‘The Office.' Mostly white people but with one funny Black guy who's having a really bad time. We're bringing back Stanley culture." "SNL" also poked fun of Trump's newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "We're filling my cabinet with some of the best people. They're all very good except for most of them. How great is Pete Hegseth? He said he's going to stop drinking if he got the job, and that's all I needed to hear!" About President Trump, the  New York Times  this morning was especially crit...

But first, 5November2024 is less than a week away.  All polls show that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are nearly tied in the key battleground states.  I ask myself, how can this be happening? Early this year,  Donald Trump was rated #45, the worst president in the history of the USA, by 154 political scientists .   Joe Biden was ranked #14. #1 was Abraham Lincoln, with Franklin D. Roosevelt #2 and George Washington #3. Barack Obama came in at #7. Donald Trump is a convicted felon, the first American president in history. Earlier this year  Common Cause said Trump should be disqualified from running again .  They cited ten reasons, and some of them included violation of the 14th Amendment, he is a danger to our Democracy, etc. Trump lies more than tells the truth, is a mysogynist, has been disloyal to his wife, only thinks about himself,  has already told us he will become a dictator and this list can go and on for pages and pages. Kamala Harris i...

   At sea Day 15.  Lunch of oxtail stew. Bones. Raspberry sherbert and coconut ice cream cone. Tomorrow we arrive in Panama City, and on day 17 transit the Panama Canal.  So we went to the Theater to watch a 56-minute documentary released in 1987:    A Man, A Plan A Canal, Panama , a Nova program. While the French started this all in the 1880's, they failed for being too early.  The technology and science were on the verge of being being developed. When President Teddy Roosevelt became president in 1901, he took on this effort as his main crusade. The  Panama Canal made the U.S. a world power . Certainly, it is in the  top ten of all construction projects , along with the Great Pyramids of Ghiza, Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Hoover Dam and Eiffel Tower. The Story of the Panama Canal. What is it? 51-mile waterway in Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Locks lift ships up to Gatun Lake, the  largest man-made...