Adventure 454: The Story of George. 31

February 23, 2018

Real time found George looking sharp, feeling fine, and marked absent during pill taking class. He went from taking both A.M. and P.M. yesterday to none taken last night and this morning. Here's the kicker. "Did you take your pills, George," we ask. "Yes, I did." he replies.  The pill box tells another story. So, we've decided that we need to be regular with our checking time: 7:30 A.M./4:30 P.M. George reminds me of teaching seventh graders. Seventh graders, who sometimes do moronic things like ask to visit a teacher for help during home room, but fail to show up (The moron part being trying to play this trick). I'd say, "Yes." However, in short order, I'd email the teacher to see if the kid arrived. It's not that I didn't trust the kid; rather, it's just that I liked to check and verify. This is where we are with George. It's not that he can't be trusted, nor is he really a moron. He wants to do the right thing, but he's a little like a politician in that respect. He's forgotten what the right thing is. So do the moron check.

Speaking of morons. I must rant for a minute. I can't think of anything more moronic that arming teachers in the classroom. If the logic is that arming teachers would act as a deterrent, it would make just as much sense to arm everyone. Arm the teachers, the administrators, the custodians, the cooks, the kids, the parents, the pedestrians walking by, those in cars driving by. And why stop at high school? Arm the kindergartners, too! Absurd. But what can we expect when our American value system is so entrenched in a military paradigm. Take, for example, America's budget. When Mr. Trump came into office, military spending amounted to 54% of the discretionary spending, or roughly 650 Billion dollars. Mr. Trump's new budget proposes to increase that amount to 61%, or roughly 750 Billion dollars. Most of us operate on some kind of budget. That budget reflects the various things we value. Our values are measured in direct proportion to what we decide to spend our money on. If we accept that premise, then America values war and war mongering at a significant rate. This begs the question: Does our national security truly require this expenditure? It's no wonder that we Americans, bathed as we are in the second amendment, comforted by our role as righteous nation builders, and motivated it seems, by unfathomable greed, continue to kick the can into newly opened graves. Absurd.

Caveat: Judy in no way has colluded with this opinion.

 Sure,

 I took 

 my pills.