Happy Easter In Pennsylvania

 Friday, April 22, 2022

My Dear America:

Easter Sunday has always been one of my favorite holidays.  

This year was no exception.

I got up early enough to take a shower and get ready to hit the road to Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where my wife and I were invited to visit two of our daughters, along with our youngest Granddaughter and my Temple University Sophomore student older Granddaughter.  Also in attendance at our Easter Dinner was My Son In Law, who cooked a fabulous meal and my future Son In Law who is also a Great Cook.

My Two Philly Area Daughters have been smart enough to recognize that although they have many other fine talents and interests, cooking has never been something that they were very much interested in.  So in their search for soul mates they have chosen wisely.

Both their Guys are Great Cooks.

The weather was cool but sunny on the way down and when we left to come back home we were on the road early enough to catch the last rays of a Beautiful Red  Easter Sundown.

It had been a Great Easter Day for us, we realized.

Early in the morning before we hit the road to Bryn Mawr, I had gotten a chance to watch a program on one of the Philly Stations about the upcoming Primary Elections in Pennsylvania.

Clearly the Republican Primary already had been and was going to continue to be a Shit Show (My Term, not that of the Philly Newsman)  

Donald Trump had just endorsed Mehmet Oz (Doctor Oz, to most of us) and all of the other Trump Ass kissing Senate Candidates in the Primary were pissed off and calling OZ a RINO (A Republican In Name Only)

OZ was not only a RINO but was also a Carpetbagger, who everyone knew lived in New Jersey and had not even had the decency to actually move to Pennsylvania to qualify to run for the Senate in our state. Doctor Oz's rather disgusting efforts to kiss up to Trump had worked.  He had received the much desired endorsement from the Monster From Mara Lago.

Trump had not endorsed anyone for Governor yet but Bill McSwain, who had worked for Trump as a U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania had received an Unendorsement from Trump because McSwain had apparently had the good sense to tell the truth about Trump's "Big Lie" that he had won the 2020 Election "By A Landslide."  McSwain had angered Trump because he had refused to spend money and time investigating the Voter Fraud that Never Was in Pennsylvania.

McSwain had called Trump's "Big Lie" a Lie and Trump didn't like it one bit.  Trump made it known to Pennsylvania Republicans that he would "NEVER, NEVER, NEVER' Support McSwain.

So far Democrats seemed to be faring better than Republicans in Pennsylvania.  At least Two Were.  

Those two were John Fetterman who was running for Senate 

and

Josh Shapiro who was running for Governor.

Fetterman and Shapiro seemed to be miles ahead of any other Democratic Candidates in their respective Primary Races.  

United States Congressman, Connor Lamb, had been moving up in the Senate race but his Campaign's blatant attempt in their TV Ads to tarnish Fetterman as a "Socialist" seemed to have backfired according to the talking heads on Philly's ABC Station. Although Republicans seemed to be Okay with ripping their opponents apart shark attack style Democrats did not care for Connor Lamb's unfairly trashing Fetterman and Fetterman, to his credit, did not trash talk Connor Lamb or any other Democratic Candidate. That appeared to be a wise move on Fetterman's part.

Although I was very pleased with how Easter had gone, so far, I was surprised and pleased to find out later in the evening that the Showtime TV Network was presenting the first episode of a Television Series that my wife and I had been looking forward to watching.

"The First Lady" was so outstanding that we watched it three times, back to back.

It was a First Class Production starring three well known Actresses playing three well known First Ladies.  

Eleanor Roosevelt was portrayed by Gillian Anderson

Betty Ford was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer

And 

Michelle Obama was Portrayed by Viola Davis

The constant switching from one time period to another was a bit annoying at first but I have to admit that the Producers and Director made what could have been distracting and hard to follow into plot lines that were a little hard to follow but in the end made sense. 

Although Keifer Sutherland does not sound like the best choice to portray Franklin Roosevelt, I have to admit that he did an incredible job playing Roosevelt.

Aaron Eckhart again does not at first seem to be the right guy to play Gerald Ford but like his castmate, Keifer Sutherland, he pulled it off with style and authenticity.

The gentleman who played Barack Obama was someone who was unknown to me and just as Sutherland and Eckhart didn't quite look the part this guy didn't look so much like Barack but his speech pattern stunningly was exactly like Obama's.  

The Actresses portraying the First Ladies played their respective First Ladies with skill and obvious empathy for their particular First Ladies.  They did an Awesome job.

Watching "The First Lady" was the perfect way to end a very special Easter Day.

I can't wait to see the next episode this coming Sunday.

If you follow Politics I can't see how you will be disappointed by "The First Lady"

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

Living In A World With Monsters In The Backyard

 Saturday, April 16th, 2022

My Dear America:

There was a long gone Racist Governor of Alabama and sometime Presidential Candidate named George Wallace who often used to say the following catch phrase:

"These are the kind of people that I'm Sick and Tired Of"

Suffice it to say that there were a lot of people on that list of individuals who George Wallace was sick and tired of.

These days I find myself with a long list of people who I am sick and tired of also.

First up on my list of people who I am sick and tired of is Vladimir Putin. 

What we are observing daily on Non Traitorous Television these days is the constant Senseless Torturing, Raping and Murdering of innocent Civilian Ukrainians who have unfortunately not been able to get out of their country in time to save their lives. 

Why the hell has Putin the Audacity to feel as though he has the right to send Russian Troops, Tanks and Missles across the Russian border into Ukraine in the first place to destroy what had been up to this point a rather settled Democratic Society where, unlike Russia, most Ukrainian Citizens seemed to be content with their Lives and their Government.   

Putin just couldn't stand the fact that Ukraine was doing well on their own without Russian interference and in his sick despicable mind he thought that the only response that he felt was right about Ukraine was to bomb that country back into the Stone Age.  While the world looks on in disbelief Putin's army has shown itself to be as Monstrous as its leader.  While innocent people are destroyed in mass numbers Russian Television personalities boldly threaten to have their country once again interfere with American Elections and back Putin's American Puppet, Donald Trump, if he runs again in 2024

Putin is the Worst of the Worst but Putin is not the only Heartless Monster running Amok on Planet Earth these days.  He is only the most visible Monster we can see senselessly killing his fellow human beings indiscriminately at the present time.

Today on April 12th, 2022 a train car full of New Yorkers on their way to work or school or somewhere else in their City were surprised to find out that they were unlucky enough to be traveling in a Subway Car with a Monster.  This Monster who was traveling with them on the New York Subway System was carrying a bag that contained a cannister and a Glock Pistol.  The Monster set off the cannister which quickly filled the train car with smoke choking the passengers and then the Monster started firing the Glock Pistol at his fellow passengers.  Luckily for most of the passengers the gun jammed and only 10 people were shot and as of my writing this none of the 10 have died but some are in critical condition.

Unfortunately, the Subway Monster escaped but he was caught soon after his shootout on the New York City Subway System.

Another Monster of Epic Proportions that deserves some mention when we are discussing Monsters is The Monster From Mara Lago.  His name is Donald Trump and one of his most Monstrous Acts is his continuing lying insistence that he won the 2020 Election for President of the United States.  There is no evidence, whatsoever that there is any truth to Trump's Claim but despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary he continues to rake in money from unsuspecting supporters who unfortunately believe his false claims.

Certainly there are no shortage of Monsters living inside the Republican Party these days.  I would certainly put Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy on the list, along with Madison Cawthorn, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar.

There are quite a few Monsters on Television at Fox News these days, not the least of which is Tucker Carlson.  OAN and NEWSMAX have their share of TV Monsters, as well.

But by far Vladimir Putin is in a class by himself when it comes to being a Monster.  Ukraine is not the first country he has devastated with little or no concern about recklessly destroying the lives of human beings.  Like the Psychopath that he is he is he seems to genuinely relish destroying human lives.

He has had plenty of practice killing people in Chechnya and Syria, as well as elsewhere.

To say that Vladimir Putin is Evil is too light a term to describe his reprehensible nature and what he is capable of.  

It is a shame that we are living in a world where someone like Vladimir Putin can move up the ladder in his country by destroying everything and everyone in his path and by so doing not only destroy his own country and that of his neighbors but he seems to be hellbent on destroying democracies everywhere.

Putin's clearly defined interference in the 2016 Election certainly helped to put Donald Trump into the American White House and Donald Trump, Putin's American Patsy and Puppet did the rest to weaken and corrupt our American Democracy and in particular the Republican Party.  

The fact is that the Republican Party seems to have at least some of its leaders if not on Putin's side at least not criticizing Putin for his dreadful senselessly brutal Invasion of his Ukrainian Neighbors.

Unfortunately, since we really don't want to give Putin a reason to launch a Nuclear attack on the United States, we can't really do much to rid the world of Putin.  We are helping Ukraine in its fight for its Democratic Life in those ways that we can but it is tremendously depressing to watch the Country of Ukraine viciously destroyed by the terrible Monster who lives in Ukraine's backyard.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher