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| BEAKED HAZELNUT FALL COLOR |
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| AMERICAN CHESTNUT FALL COLOR |
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| TAMARACK NEEDLES TURNING GOLDEN |
Tuesday, 9:30 AM. 45 degrees F at the ferry dock, 40 on the back porch. Wind variable and calm, sky clear, humidity 80%. The barometer is falling, predicting rain on Wednesday and again on Saturday, with low temperatures in the low 40's and highs around 50 for the next seven days.
As fall becomes later and later, the finalists in the color competition take the stage. The bright yellow hazel nut bushes stand out on the woods edges, the American chestnuts give a hint of what the forests of eastern North America looked like a hundred and more falls ago, and the tamaracks turn overnight from light green to gold, and in another night from gold to bronze.
Fall is no less beautiful because it is late.
As fall becomes later and later, the finalists in the color competition take the stage. The bright yellow hazel nut bushes stand out on the woods edges, the American chestnuts give a hint of what the forests of eastern North America looked like a hundred and more falls ago, and the tamaracks turn overnight from light green to gold, and in another night from gold to bronze.
Fall is no less beautiful because it is late.
OFF THE CUFF
I gave up reading The New York Times some years ago because it became biased against conservative values and candidates, and I am about to abandon The Wall Street Journal for the same reason.
But isn't the WSJ the quintessential conservative publication? No, it is the quintessential Establishment publication. I fear the Establishment is now comprised of the major players in our economy and politics, which includes both the right and the left, the Republicans and the Democrats, and every persuasion in between and beyond that has a stake in the status quo and is therefore against any change or real progress.
So these combined vested interests all rail against Donald Trump and do everything they can to destroy him. Case in point with the WSJ: Peggy Noonan, their vaunted conservative pundit, had a long opinion piece in last weekend's paper that railed against Trump, calling him insane many times throughout. This was not in jest and was in no way meant to be humorous. Not crazy, not daft, not nuts, but insane, a clinical term meant to completely and with finality preclude him from the office of president.
No one would elect an insane man the presidency. This is the most serious of slanders, meant to cripple, injure, and kill his reputation and candidacy. It is even worse than what was done years ago to Ross Perot, another successful, prominent businessman and patriot who had the audacity to challenge the establishment with an independent run for the presidency in 1992 and 1996. He predicted the disastrous job losses that would result from NAFTA (remember his "giant sucking sound" statemet?), and was ridiculed for his prescience.
Ross Perot was an honorable and brave man, who rescued his employees held by a foreign government via a helicopter raid, when the US would do nothing. As with Trump, his opponents took offhand comments out of context and called him crazy, and they destroyed him. The same tactics were used to destroy Herman Cain, another successful businessman, but neophyte politician. I could go on, but I think I have proved my point.
Ross Perot was an honorable and brave man, who rescued his employees held by a foreign government via a helicopter raid, when the US would do nothing. As with Trump, his opponents took offhand comments out of context and called him crazy, and they destroyed him. The same tactics were used to destroy Herman Cain, another successful businessman, but neophyte politician. I could go on, but I think I have proved my point.
It is the Establishment that is corrupt and unqualified, not their opposition, that they slander as insane.
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| THIS IS NOT INSANITY |
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