I know Memorial Day is a day to honor those armed forces members who gave their life defending our country and Veteran’s Day is to honor all veterans, but I want to give a shout out today to the young female sailor and her colleagues who helped thwart Thursday morning’s attempted attack at the naval station in Corpus Christi, Texas. An armed terrorist tried to speed through a security gate at the base and then opened fire on a sailor who was manning the entrance to check ID’s. The sailor was shot in the chest by the terrorist, but received only minor injuries due to the kevlar vest she was wearing. After being hit and knocked to the ground, she was able to roll over and hit an emergency switch that raised a barrier preventing the shooter from getting on base. Other navy personnel were then able to shoot and kill the Syrian born gunman, who appears to have been a supporter of jihadi ideology. The female sailor’s name has not been released, but is back home and doing well. Their heroic actions undoubtedly saved lives on the base that day.
Boy was I bamboozled the last couple of days. I was in agreement with those folks who were of the opinion that if tRump was out golfing we would have a respite from the tweets. He showed us, however, that a game of golf doesn’t have to slow down the tweeties, you can tee up and be teed off at the same time. How this guy is supported by any moral, intelligent, ethical, religious, and compassionate member of society, I will never know. There are people I know who would be washing their kids’ mouth out with soap or timing them out for anything that closely resembles the crap coming out of Donnie’s mouth or his tweets. In the course of about 48 hours he managed to retweet a tweet calling Hillary a “skank;” shared a tweet making fun of Stacy Abrams’ weight; mocked Nancy Pelosi, suggesting she drinks booze on the job and should have her mouth taped shut; continued to push the conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough had something to do with an intern’s death; and played “twitter tennis” with his former AG Jeff Sessions. Instead of showing any sort of empathy for the loss of 100,000 lives and saying or tweeting anything that would come from a leader trying to heal the nation, he continued with his modus operandi of being a divisive leader and stirring the pot. It has taken only three and half years to nearly take this country apart, how long will it take to put America back together again? And for the members of his cult who say he is Making America Great Again, their day of reckoning is coming.
Ramble at ya’ later. Ziggyman
Mountain Man Musings 