Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM

After being given a clean bill of health in February of 2024, Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostatic cancer. The centrist candidate in Romania won the presidential election today in that country, after it was predicted that the right wing Trumpian apologist candidate would win. Israel is starving the children of Gaza, resulting in diseases and deaths. Trump is being bribed by Qatar with a 400-million-dollar aircraft. America has lifted sanctions, or are about to lift sanctions, against Syria, whose president was once associated with Al-Qaeda. (A good thing, in my opinion.) Republicans in Congress are rebelling against a budget that will make the rich richer and abandon the least amongst us. Another SOE in Belize, and the courts have ruled that the SOE in 2020 was unconstitutional, and that those who were imprisoned without charges are due compensation for governmental overreach. Donald Trump is trying to tell corporations how to run their businesses, ordering Walmart not to raise prices because of tariffs; he tells them that they should eat those increases and not pass them on to consumers. What is going on?

Now, either we were lied to by the doctors who examined Biden, or they missed a cancer that had already begun to metastasize in every bone in his body. Either way, it shows us the importance of getting that checkup and asking questions while being examined. He is a good man, and I hope he lives a good rest of his life. Maybe this will be a wake-up call for all those men and women who don’t take their health seriously. If the best doctors in the world misdiagnosed the then president, where does that leave the rest of us? Living on a wing and a prayer?

Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. It seems that the rest of the world has seen enough of the chaos that he is causing at home; and even though their preferred candidate made sense to them, because of those candidates’ affiliation with Trump, they are now losing to the moderates. It is a wake-up call for this country, which has been very careless in the leaders its people have chosen to support, and that goes for both parties, and the in-betweens.

The world is finally, once again, including President Trump, realizing that Israel is starving the Palestinians in Gaza. This has been going on for a long time, but the evidence has become so overwhelming, that now there is a renewed sense of urgency. A picture is really worth a thousand words! I remember watching film clips of the liberation of the concentration camps in Europe after WWII, seeing the skeletal conditions that the victims were in, and to me there’s no difference between them and what is happening to those children in Gaza today. I’m not a supporter of this president, as everyone who reads my columns knows, but if he can get a grip on the situation in the Middle East, including Iran and the Houthis and Syria, and if he can control Israel’s exuberance in trying to wipe out life in Gaza, I would give him the credit he would deserve. He seems to be trying to make the world safer, while turning America into an authoritarian state. See, I still can’t give him a clean bill of health. And I will never forgive him for the Africaans, not Africans, that he’s importing! That is just racist.

I have always believed that these 6-month State of Emergencies are futile, and a lack of effort by the government (both parties) and the police, to control, or try to prevent gang violence and crime in general in the Jewel. It’s like there are a lot of mini Bukeles running around and acting tough, with the same results in the end. And the killing continues. As I’ve mentioned in earlier columns, people not affiliated with gangs or crimes are usually swept up in the net of law enforcement, thanks to these SOEs.

I started this column with a list of all the things that are out of whack in our present. It is depressing to live in our now; uncertainty and despair and darkness are the norm, and no clouds with silver linings are on the horizon, or in the near future. Of course, many of us are oblivious to what is going on; we have our own personal problems to take care of. Some of us don’t really care, and some of us have just given up, or given in to the death and destruction and inhumanity that seem unending. We are becoming desensitized to the reality that we are living in. Wat a ting!

I haven’t forgotten the people of Ukraine and Sudan, and Guatemala’s lust for our “happier lands.” I haven’t forgotten the migrants who are stateless, the children who are homeless and defenseless. It is just too much to care about all at the same time. It could drive one insane just tackling any one of the many subjects mentioned in this column. I suppose we just have to try harder, not give up, and hope for the best.

Glen