Happy Easter
The picture I chose is from St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today Christians will go to Easter mass and will have a family meal. The White House will have its traditional Easter egg roll. To others it is just another Sunday. Vladimir Putin declared an Easter cease-fire in the Ukraine war, though it may not be more than an empty gesture.
For those in Boston it is also the celebration of Paul Revere's ride (250 years ago) and the battle that followed. Tomorrow is the nerdy Boston Marathon. It is also the start of another school vacation week.
It might be time to stand back and do a little reflecting. I knew someone who I disagreed with on just about everything. We were in no way friends and we really had some cut-throat battles. About three years ago there was a discussion in which I disclosed something stupid I did when I was young and the deep regrets I had about it. In a very decent gesture, he told me not to carry it around and reminded me that we were all young once. It was kind of a rare moment for him and I. For some reason I never forgot it. I heard he passed away Friday. I think we can all tone it down on the politics a bit.
That is my Easter message.
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To some it is the last day of Passover.
Point well taken.
The White House will have its traditional Easter egg roll. To others it is just another Sunday.
Not exactly traditional
The White House is for the first time soliciting corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll event to be held Monday on the South Lawn. This comes as billionaire tech executives have faced growing criticism for cozying up to the Trump administration.
CNN first reported earlier this month that the White House had begun courting sponsors for the typically apolitical family gathering, at between $75,000 to $200,000.
White House solicits corporate sponsors for Easter Egg Roll : NPR
So it seems that Trump and the corporate cronies are looking for goodies as much as the children will be at this easter egg roll
Let me try to understand. As someone who lived in the US over the past four years, what concerns you is "billionaire tech executives?"
No idiots of all political persuasions worry me - I had nothing nice to say about the Biden administration, I openly stated that Harris would be a terrible president.
But as of this date Trump has done nothing except create chaos, hopelessly divide the nation and do his best to ruin the economy.
He appointed a hopelessly unqualified band to the cabinet so that he could be the smartest guy in the clown car and that barely worked.
Even the things he has accomplished that I agree with are failures for the manner in which he carried them out.
Trump pretty much had sewn up the worst president in history after his first term, but now there will be no doubt - rather than being talked about in the same breath as Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and a few others he is talked about in the same breath with Hitler, Mussolini, Putin and Stalin.
I vehemently disagree with that. What did he do wrong in his first term and don't tell us that he didn't act quickly enough with covid, when he got a vaccine developed in 10 months (Which Dr Fauci said was impossible.)
All I said was "Happy Easter."
Come on, JR. Vic said this in his article: "I think we can all tone it down on the politics a bit." He did not initiate anything political, but only responded to you and Robert's ignoring his request. I also thought Vic's words about Kavika were honest and sincere. Criticize what requires criticism and he'll tell you I criticize him plenty, but give credit where credit is due.
Come on what? I didnt say anything about Vic, I posted Trump's "Easter message" to the nation.
Do you not understand my comment? I didn't accuse you of saying anything about Vic, I said you did NOT follow his request that Easter NOT be a political issue.
You're asking for miracles. Reading through the comments, it didn't get past comment #2 before the pathetic "but Trruuummmmppppp!!!!" whining and crying started. Why would 3 be any better?
Buona Pasqua
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