Yesterday I started out saying I have  no interest in the fate of Hunter Biden .  Today, just having learned that he was  found guilty of three felony counts , that all changes.  Also, today, the  Hamas accepted the U.N.-backed Gaza truce plan , this is  the one President Joe Biden talked about last week .  Both developments are, interestingly enough, positive signs for Joe's re-election campaign. But about Hunter: Is 54 years old. Mother was Joe Biden's first wife, Neila Hunter.  She was driving the car in 1972 with their four children that crashed, killing her and one daughter, seriously injuring Hunter (f ractured skull and severe traumatic brain injuries ) and his older brother Beau. Jill Jacobs Stevenson became their stepmother in 1977.  Jill and Joe had a daughter Ashley in 1981. Hunter got a BA from Georgetown University in 1992. Served as a Jesuit volunteer in Oregon, where he met Kathleen Buhle, got married in 1993, and divorced in 2...

At one time the posting today was named,   What is Death?   Then I decided to use these contents next week.  But that title still applies, for our government was supposed to be shut down, or die, this weekend.    However, Speaker Kevin McCarthy took the bipartisan pathway and all is well for the Federal government, at least until another death threat deadline comes in mid-November.   McCarthy will, of course, undergo another kind of death, lost of his speakership, to be advanced by recalcitrant Republicans this week.  Matt Gaetz will be at the head of that line.  Will they succeed?  Maybe Democrats will save McCarthy.  Such is the nature of politics in the House of Representatives today. So on to what else will be happening in the USA this coming week: The New York lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of inflating property values will come to trial tomorrow.   All reports indicate that  The Donald himself will show up i...