Yesterday was a tragic day in our Country. In Minnesota a white police officer mistakenly shot a black man and then his girlfriend posted him dying on Facebook. While a senseless tragedy that probably wouldn’t have happened if the victim was white, posting this on line set off events that ended with 5 police officers killed in Dallas. A black man who said he hated all white people and wanted to kill white cops, decided to take a rifle and act as a sniper and kill white police officers at a peaceful protest in Dallas over the shooting in Minnesota. As we saw, it only takes one nutjob. Now of course, the Pres goes straight to the guns and decries our gun laws even though he has no idea what type of gun was used, who did the shooting, although we know it was a black man, and how he obtained his weapon. In the famous words of this administration, never miss an opportunity to exploit a tragedy for political purposes. However the common denominator is not the weapon but the anarchy in the heart of the person. That though won’t stop the democrats as I’m sure they’ll be acting like 5 year olds again in Congress for political purposes. By the way, the Orlando shooter was a registered democrat, hmm. In any case, there will be more blacks that hate white people and you won’t change their mind, no matter what. To be honest, black people have been treated unfairly and yes there still is racism in our Country but you don’t see white people running around ambushing black people. What should have happened here is the the law should have been allowed to been played out. The officer in Minnesota should be investigated and if he was wrong, should be charged. We cannot take the law into our own hands. Unfortunately now the majority of white people are going to look twice at black people, and that’s too bad.
So now to yesterday. It was Aunt Ally’s birthday! Sorry I didn’t post it yesterday but I totally forgot it. I did call her and I think Lori, when she arrived home from work at 10:30, did post something on Facebook. Thankfully my brother, eloquently reminded me via text, thanks. Hope it as a good day!
Up here, the boys all went to town. The day was crazy for me as we discovered yesterday morning that we were burglarized at our office in Seattle the night before last. Apparently the suspects had been sleeping on the roof for a few days and came down through a roof vent. They stole computers, blank checks, passports (of one of my partners), and W2’s of employees, and of course a bunch of wine, full cases and even empty bottles. They did leave a large hunting knife right in the middle of the floor, hmm. The police were there all day and this of course caused us a bunch of issues we’re still dealing with, not good.
We finished up the day with the boys all playing soccer at Solaris which is in the heart of Vail. We have a circular field with artificial turf in the summer and it’s an ice rink in the winter. All sorts of kids play there and ours, along with kids from visitors all played for hours. Today Jagger is going up on top of the mountain to Adventure Ridge which is everything from zip lines to a ropes course and other outdoor activities. Ty and Jack, who were up until 2, we’ll let sleep. I’m waiting to hear if my wine, that we flew in yesterday from Italy, has cleared customs at the airport. If so, I’m headed to the airport. I probably will run down anyhow as James reserved a truck for us to rent to bring all our stuff up from our storage until in Denver to our storage unit up here. He’ll be doing that on Sunday.
So just another day, right? As Lori says, it’s so sad. Hopefully we can somehow get passed the hate as a people but I’m afraid that won’t happen until we have a change in leadership that will be a uniter rather than a divider. And by the way, then State Department has reopened an investigation into whether Hillary mishandled classified material as she lied under oath according to the Director of the FBI. Also important to note, this is a democratic State Dept and administration. Not sure what they’ll do as they can’t blame this one on the republicans. What a crazy World, God Bless.
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