My Worst Ever Accommodations

 If you count out the camping experience during a tornado 'alert' in Alabama....then you come to this seven-day deployment to Honduras for an exercise.  

The Air Force, in the mid-80s....had sent me to Honduras to play out some headquarters exercise.  They dumped us at some tent-city....the old fashion canvas tents that were still of the Vietnam era quality.

The mosquito netting?  Non-existent.

Next to some snaky-looking terrain?  Well...about sixty feet away.

Daily temperature?  Near 95 degrees and 70-percent humidity. 

Warnings about spiders and such?  Yeah.

I was among the 'lucky' ones....another hundred-odd guys had arrived five weeks prior to set the entire camp up, and their enthusiasm by the 5th week was marginally around non-existent.

The minute the exercise broke up....we got our bags, ran to the airfield and in two hours....were aboard some cargo plane going back home.  

So I kinda look over the photos of this migration-kid's center in Texas, and see a pretty nifty deal.  No mosquitos apparently.  No snakes.  No spiders.  AC apparently in use.  Three meals a day.  

I don't really see much negative over the conditions.  

Why Alabamians Get into Dear Abby or Dear Ann Landers

 Most Alabamians, after getting through the front-page, and local murders....usually go straight to the Dear Abby or Dear Ann Landers section.  It could be a seven-page description of some problem with a guy and his ex-girlfriend....the in-law troubles...the loser cousin who has confessed to 300-odd sins since age sixteen....the torrid love affair with Thai lady down at the garden shop, or the break-up of a forty-year marriage.  

It's just that we look for juicy gossip that go beyond our house, or family.

If you were to wander into a barbershop around 8 AM....there's odds that the barber will bring up the latest story, and want to chat for three hours about some guy who got into a sizzling affair with the local Baptist minister's wife.  

Part of this issue is that we live pretty routine and boring lives.  Occasionally, the transmission fails....sometimes, the neighbor comes over to chat over their cousin in state-prison...now and then, the mail-man comes by and you chat with him over food poisoning affair at the local grill....off and on, the UPS guy stops and gives you a two-minute update on his ex-wife who ran off to Orlando to hook up with a Micky Mouse-actor.  

So the Dar Abby thing gives us hope that wild things are just around the corner....it could happen to us.  Any day now....some new gal might show up at the gas station and give us the double-wink then walk over to introduce herself to you....telling you her name is Alessandra or Chantel.  Or maybe some Italian guy moves two houses down, and mows his yard in skimpy shorts....attracting a dozen local gals to come over and offer up some ice tea.  

Observations

 1.  This idea that Psaki speaking at the White House Press Conference is clueless over the border chaos?

Well...it's simply an indicator that everyone around the President is also clueless, and instead of sixteen cooks in the kitchen.....you have no cooks in the kitchen, and mostly sixteen people standing at the door....swearing they can smell some baking or burning going on.

2.  This comment by Psaki speaking at the White House Press Conference that she cannot admit or deny Biden saw a doctor after his fall on the plane steps?

Well...if you admit he saw a doctor, and there's some serious bruises or cuts involved.....then folks will ask more questions.  So it's best to act foolish and say you don't know much of anything.

3.  Why is Biden carrying the Trump-position on the German-Russian Nord Stream pipeline deal?

There are two pipelines....one exists completely...having been put up in the 1970s and runs via Ukraine (which they get to siphon off a bit of this).  The other is the new one being constructed via the Baltic Sea (missing the Ukraine entirely).

Biden doesn't want the second pipeline done.....because if that happens....the Ukraine connection drops entirely.  Remember.....who did Hunter work for....oh yeah, the Ukraine crowd.  

4.  Joe Biden saying yesterday that he intends to visit the southern border 'sometime'?

I wouldn't get excited.  It'll probably be some point in California, and 12 minutes on the ground.  A couple of migrant kids will hug Joe and ask him for his autograph, and then Joe will make a 3-minute speech....leaving shortly after that.

5.  Prince Harry and wife Meghan....now admit that 'secret' wedding they discussed with Oprah.....never really occurred.

What's the deal?  There was a wedding rehearsal and Meghan was in some mindset that this was a 'secret' ceremony and they were married at this event, and not three days later at the real event.  

Yeah, it's pretty crazy, and it just makes you wonder if she was on some medication and 'out-of-it'.