Wanna Know What Scares Me?

 My grand-dog has derailed my ability to think. 

She's mad that Uncle Senior Son is not in residence at the moment. She depends on him for amusement. I, apparently, am not amusing.

I gotta go! RFN! I gotta go!

I, on the other hand, is a total meany because I insist she not attack wicker garbage baskets. Today, in an attempt to access used tissues, she figured out how to open my closet door behind which I had hidden the basket. Stupid she isn't. It's now on a shelf. 

Granted, she is used to having a fenced yard and lots of room to romp. However, in my house, she has to be walked and if she has her way, I would be walking her every half-hour from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. Oh, wait! I already am walking her every half hour. This dog poops more than a newborn. For a dog that is over 90 in dog years, as soon as the leash is attached, she's a toddler all over again. I'm lucky my arm is still in the socket.

Needless to say, I'm exhausted. But I love her to bits especially now that she has mastered which side of the bed is hers. 

Still, I  am unable to write a cogent sentence. 

Yeah, yeah....why is this night different from all other Monday nights?

In the past, I've been fixated on the Second Amendment. I know this and accept that I will never understand how anyone can possibly believe an automatic weapon is a hunting rifle unless you are hunting humans...adults and children alike...unsuspecting prey at best. I cannot understand how the pro-life movement can be pro AR-15s. These things are a mystery to me. 

But this week, I am fixated on a different amendment: the Fourteenth:

Amendment XIV

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4.

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Read Section 3. Now read it again. Now, notice the text in red. 

I am surprised no one has gone gaga over the last line. This is like a part A and part B quiz. 

And I heard some Iowa guy on the radio today who said something to the effect that the charges don't matter and if they convict him, that don't matter neither...once we have Congress back to red the way it should be, they can just get rid of any convictions.

Hello? Anybody home? The presumption is that Feckless will win the election and the majority of both houses will go red...thereby negating anything the courts have done. 

And, in effect, opening the door to overturning the Constitution. 

So if all of that is scary to you, you need to pull up your grownup undies and get out there to canvas and speak out FACTUALLY. Not in anger, not in hyperbole. But in simple, declarative facts. 

But wanna know what I'm really scared of?

What happens if Feckless gets the nomination and loses? Mull that over for a while. January 6th will look like a dress rehearsal. 

The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Day

Whining is an exhausting activity.

So is taking Savta for a drag around the block. 

My smart watch keep congratulating me on all my new exercise. 

I shall not disabuse it of that notion.

At least she stopped whining. 
Silence is a blessing.