Leave the World Behind

 Tuesday.  The day has started out bright and sunny, though cool.  The temps outside are a brisk 28 (F).  I find it funny that so many people regard this temperature as frigid, it isn't.  Frigid is when we -5 (F).  That's cold.  We might get those temps once a year, or at least we used to, the last few years we've been trending towards much milder winters.  Because this is happening slowly, many view these weather patterns as normal.  In the grand scale of things, they indicate that in this part of the country things are warming up.  Part of the problem is that people do not have very strong long term memories.  These people are fine as long as they can go to a computer and look up last year's weather, but memory wise, when asked, they'll say the weather was warm without remembering any of the specifics.  They don't remember if the temperature went below 0 (F).  It didn't, at least not in my neck of the woods.

Retail yesterday was slow.  I did manage to hit my goal of 2 measures for the week.  A retired Registered Nurse is getting measure for both vinyl planks and blinds.  She wasn't concerned about the cost.  She didn't bat an eye when I told her the cost of one blind was going to be close to a thousand $$$.  When she found out I had been in the Navy, she asked how my feet were.  She specializes on veterans who suffer from foot neuropathy, mostly soldiers who served in Vietnam while the US was using Agent Orange.  One of the multitude of problems that defoliant causes is nerve damage in the feet.  I really feel bad for these seniors who served their country and now have problems simply walking.

I watched Leave the World Behind last evening, a new film playing on Netflix with Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali.  It's a thriller about things going wrong, about people becoming allies, and a young girl's addiction to the TV show Friends.  Some parts were very good, other parts were meant to make you ask questions, sometimes the latter work, and sometimes they don't.  Here, I don't think they did, otherwise there wouldn't be people explaining the ending on YouTube.

Okay, so Jack Smith went straight to the Supreme Court about the Moral Degenerate's immunity claims, and they're going to rush it, meaning a decision probably by December 20.  Trump's legal team is pissed, they wanted this to work its way up toe the Court slowly, taking a lot of time and creating those delays the Orange Anus loves so much.  Now that's not going to happen.  The true irony here is that if the Supreme Court decides in Trump's favor, it means that Joe Biden, our current president is immune as well, so he can do anything he wants.  This is why many believe the Court is going to side with Jack Smith.  

Down in Texas the state's Supreme Court sided with Ken Paxton, the Attorney General, in refusing to allow Kate Cox an abortion.  The fetus has been diagnosed with a fatal syndrome, so it will either be born dead, or will die shortly after birth.  Carrying the child to term also creates many health risks for the mother.  And the state Court told this woman she can't get an abortion, she needs to carry a baby for nine months that will be born dead or die shortly after birth.  Do these Conservatives even stop to consider the terrible message they are sending to American women?  Or is it that they hold women so low on the ladder they just don't care?