Play the Cards You’re Dealt

Recently I had a bicycle accident. I hit a deer. That’s probably enough for you to think you might want to skip the rest of this post, but read on.

I broke 7 ribs and dislocated a shoulder, leaving me in a sling for an indefinite period. I play the drums a bit and searched for “one armed drummer”. I found two interesting results, one for Rich Allen of Def Leppard and another called “How I set up my drum kit with 5 fingers”. The second was a link to a YouTube video from a young woman named Abby who was born with a limb difference. Her right arm stops a few inches between her elbow and her wrist, meaning she has no right hand. Her YouTube channel is full of “things you can do with 5 fingers”.

I know a few people who have suffered tragic losses in life or have been born with some differences. My observation is that they travel one of two major roads. For some the loss is so severe that they withdraw, they get depressed, they feel some amount of self-pity, or they become bitter. I hope I don’t sound judgmental or overly critical here. I’ve had it pretty easy in life and don’t know how I would respond under these circumstances.

The other path is to Play the Cards You’re Dealt. That’s what Abby seems to have done. She is one of the most upbeat can-do persons around. Her videos are well worth seeing even if you have ten fingers.

To extend this metaphor a bit, in some card games you get to replace some of the cards. Those who take the first path sometimes don’t do this or do it poorly. It’s easy for us who have been dealt good hands to be critical here and I know I have been guilty of this, so I try to remember to Walk a Mile in their Shoes.

Likely New Kamala Harris Slurs from the GOP

While we are the Bozosphere have not heard from our inside contacts within the Trumposphere, we’re speculating here on what they will soon be saying about Kamala Harris. Feel free to comment on some rumors you may have heard.

• Kamala Harris led a Communist Youth group in Kindergarten at Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley CA..
• She is a Hindu princess, thus of royalty and not subject to the jurisdiction of the US laws and thus not eligible to be president.
• Have you ever seen Kamala’s birth certificate? Has anyone?
• She was born in Oakland CA., a hotbed of radicalism, the so-called People’s Republic of Oakland, thus not part of the US.
• Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, “There’s no there there.” How can a place with no there be part of anywhere, especially the U.S.A.
• She’s “nasty”. We have no room for nastiness in our politics, except for the President and his enablers.
• She’s not the descendent of slaves. Her father was Jamaican and the Africans came there for the resorts and beaches. They would have been far happier in Mar-a-Lago which is the best resort in the world.
• If she loves America as she claims, why did she choose to go to high school in Canada? By the way, in the 2nd Trump term, we’re building a beautiful wall to keep Canadians out and Americans from leaving.
• President Trump went to an Ivy League school. Where did Kamala go to college?
• If she’s such a terrific person, how come she didn’t get married until she was 50 years old? What does that tell you about her.