Observations

Here are a few short cranky observations that have come to me as a result of all the societal roiling that is now taking place:

- Is nothing sacred anymore? After the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, Valarie Jarrett had the White House bathed in the rainbow colored lights of the homosexual community. Perhaps next we might put the head of a penis atop the Washington Monument?

- Mexico, it is felt, has designs on reacquiring much of the Southwest United States that it lost in the Mexican-American War. This movement even has a name,  the Reconquista Movement ... see: Wikipedia Entry. The simple strategy that Mexico is using is to flood this region with Mexicans ... and then have them, by sheer strength of numbers, vote for U.S. succession and to rejoin Mexico. My candid thoughts on this possibility is first to allow Mexico to re-acquire California ... just as long as it also assumes all of its crushing debts and entitlement obligations ... and grants Mexican citizenship to Governor Jerry Brown. After a bit, it might then have second thoughts about this brand of imperialism.

- Macy's has just stopped carrying all products that sport the Donald Trump name ... because of his comments on illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico. Yes, I can understand this wimpy-form of political correctness on Macy's part. But, if Macy customers were going to buy fewer Trump products because of this man's recent comments, they are obviously going to buy even fewer of them now that Macy' is no longer stocking them.

- Cuba and the United States are reopening embassies in each other's countries. However, Cuba says that it will not re-establish diplomatic relations until the United States cedes back Guantanamo and also stops broadcasting Radio Marte (like the old Radio Free Europe) into Cuba ... see: Breitbart Story. My question is ... who is going to populate these embassies if we don't have mutual diplomatic relations? Or does this mean that President Obama has already caved to Cuba on these two issues?