Jeny wrapping up a Rummikub game
The Birthday Celebration. As many of you know, one of my parents’ rules (or suggestions) was to never visit for over three days. The old saw was that company are like fish and start to smell after three days.
My cousin and her family from Oklahoma came to Jeny’s cottage in Gulf Shores. They were worried about staying over three days. Jeny very much wanted them to stay to Saturday and be at her birthday party. They did and they smelled just fine.
We were joined by other family and friends. Jeny had enough people to play a lot of her favorite games and have good fun.
Thanks to everyone who reached out in support of Jeny. The week was great and your expressions of love meant a lot to Jeny.
The family from Oklahoma are big OU and Thunder fans. The Thunder leading until the final .03 seconds in Game 1 of the NBA finals was a very tough loss. OU women losing in softball in the semifinals was another downer—especially bad was losing to Texas. Then, Texas won the women’s softball national championship and completed a bad week of sports viewing for our family from Oklahoma.
My only regret is—I ate too much!
I have seen the enemy. The following is my paraphrase of an interview with Jaime Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of banking giant JPMorgan Chase. He gave the interview at the Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley.
He doubled down on a strong stance that he’s “not afraid” of America’s seemingly fastest-growing adversary, China.
“I’m not afraid of them… China,” Dimon said in an exclusive interview on Mornings with Maria. “First of all, they’re not afraid of us either.”
Noting after a recent visit to China: “Going over there, you get the distinct impression that they are doing their thing, they’re putting a lot of money into AI, cars, robotics. They’re going to be 30 or 40% of new pharmaceuticals, sometime shortly. They’re going their way, but they have weaknesses.”
He does not view China as America’s top economic or military competitor.
“I’m not as worried about China. China is a potential adversary. They’re doing a lot of things well; they have a lot of problems. But what I really worry about is us. Can we get our own act together, our own values, our own capability, our own management?”
I share his concern. We are breaking into tribes and the results of tribal fighting is not good whether it is in other countries or on a smaller scale in the gang warfare on our own streets. Revenge and violence are not the answers to building ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
Unfortunately Pogo the comic strip character said it very well, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Models for violence. I am not surprised by so many of our young people being violent when I read some of our leaders’ suggestions for solving problems.
“Gavin Newsome should be tarred and feathered,” Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House.
“I can beat the hell out of both of them.” former president Joe Biden said, referring to Tapper and Thompson.
In response to the George Floyd riots Trump said he wanted police to “beat the f***” out of the protesters, according to Bender, saying “just shoot them” on multiple occasions. When he received pushback from staffers, Trump said, “Well, shoot them in the leg — or maybe the foot. But be hard on them!”
“This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand,” Democratic Rep. Kweisi Mfume.
Moving from the Senate to Governor. Senator Tommy Tuberville is likely to be the next Governor of Alabama. He is a former football coach. I think he adds to the division in our country, but in an understandable way.
His whole approach to life has been about being on the winning side. He fights for his team and diminishes the opponent. He has never had to think “we” beyond his own team.
Thus, his view is to believe the 75,000,000 that voted Republican should be single minded in supporting the team. He sees the other 75,000,000 that voted Democrat as the opponent, the enemy.
We need leadership to see us as 150,000,000 Americans and to work for one nation. United we stand, divided we fall.
I only wish Tuberville understood Pogo.
This and That
Impact. The more than 1.1 million international students who studied in the United States last year contributed nearly $44 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 school year, according to the nonpartisan think tank National Foundation for American Policy – from $10 million in Alaska to more than $6 billion in California – and supported more than 378,000 jobs.
https://reader.mobilepressregister.com/0529-isimpact/content.html
More Wisdom from John Wooden. Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
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Peace
Jerry
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