Circumstances Require This Interlude


I thought it a little bit coincidental that I would be arriving in Canada just when the news commentators were reporting on the overturning of Roe v. Wade back in the US.  Canadian television broadcast Justin Trudeau guaranteeing all Canadian women the right to choose.  I was actually entering a country with fewer guns, and provided more freedoms to its people, than in the US.

We have some very unhappy, spiteful, unethical people in the US.  The most hypocritical people on the face of the planet.  If you think that politicians care one iota about preserving a fetus, you are wrong - their vote (and yes Supreme Court justices are politicians) was purely politically motivated.  "Leave it to the States" is their motto.  I say, "Leave the choice to the individual".  Politicians who cater the uneducated masses who believe themselves to be Christians; who celebrate stupidity and fascist anarchists; who clearly are not living up to Jesus' commandment: "Love thy neighbor as thyself".

More guns in public places, more back-alley butchery, more hate, more social unrest, more division, more corruption.  What do we stand for, what do we fight for, what do we live for - in the good ole US?  We live in a very sad time - ---

.... on a more selfish note: I am in Canada.  Land of the reasonable.  The lighthouse is in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Let it be a symbol of freedom for all that enter these shores.

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  1. Dining Diva of BocaJune 25, 2022 at 1:08 PM

    hear hear.... how did we go from Democracy to Fascism so quickly?

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