Doing OK

Well, it's been a month, or so.  I've been working on resumes, and otherwise trying to avoid the news.  As someone who wants to be a good leader, I can say there are quite a few bad examples in the world, and the best thing for me to do is to simply note that a lot of what's being done is not how people who wish to be known as good leaders behave.

So that's enough about that now. As a kid, I can recall the summer of 1972 when most of the cartoons I WAS allowed to watch during the day were pre-empted because someone was holding some sort of hearing about a fellow who had done things that I gathered he shouldn't have done.  Turns out that the fellow who was doing bad things was the president, Richard Nixon.  For some reason, other members of his own party, which was a quite different Republican party, had decided they weren't going to turn a blind eye.

I also recall rather vividly a Saturday Morning back when I was 5.  I was allowed to go out to the living room, with my blanket and a pillow, and turn our black-and-white TV on, quietly, to one of the six channels we got.  Channel 2 was the local PBS station, channel 4 was the CBS Affiliate, channel 5 was the NBC Affiliate, channel 7 was another CBS affiliate that was based up the road about 50 miles from us, which had the advantage of being outside the blackout area for NFL football, so when Vikings games did not sell out in Bloomington, Channel 4 could not broadcast the football games, but Channel 7 could.  Channel 9 was the ABC affiliate, and Channel 11 was independent.  As I recall, channels 4 and 5 had cartoons, but when I turned them on this particular Saturday in November, they were showing a presidential Funeral.

I ran into my parents bedroom and told them there was something wrong with the President.  My mom got up, and told me that this was a rebroadcast of what had happened when President Kennedy had been shot five years before.  

I guess after this we will find out what the American political landscape will look like with three political parties.  There will be the Democratic party, hopefully a bit more effective than it was in the last election, and the two successors to the Republican party.  I expect a Reformed Traditional Republican Party for those people who do believe in smaller government, fewer regulations, and more law and order, which will undoubtedly split with the Fascist Republicans, those who do not seem to care for our current form of government.