Greetings Readers,
By this time the world has heard the mightiest nation on the globe, the United States of America, has had a governmental shutdown. They use to say in my office and in the field under stressful pressure: “This too will come to pass”. And it will.
But what concerns me more that this political exercise, in a speech last Friday by Secretary of Defense Mathis, he stated, and I quote from several sources: ‘The Secretary of Defense unveiled a new defense strategy with the primary focus on China and Russia. Now that the threat of ISIS armies and terrorism has declined great power competition is the top priority’. I thought that was nicely put, but a little alarming don’t you think? We always seem to have an enemy and two is better for redirecting our attention Two.
When I was a young seaman in Asia during the mid-1950s we often stopped at Singapore, it was then I had the opportunity to see the most popular American singing group of the decade on tour, The Platters. Their most popular hit at the time was ‘Oh Yes, I’m the Great Pretender’. Shortly after I viewed them, I had an epiphany. I dreamed I saw Donald Trump as a child in short pants and curly blonde hair, and on awakening I said to myself “That boy, that boy has great potential will be a multi-billionaire some day, and possibly even a president of the U.S.A. Then I fast forwarded my thoughts to today, and I imagined Donald singing the Platter’s hit song:
Oh yes I’m the great Divider
Pretending that I’m doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I am lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes I’m the great Divider
Adrift in a world all my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You folks have left me to dream all alone
Oh yes, yes I’m the great Divider
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I am not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending the Alt-Rights are around
Pretending my voters are around
Pretending Steve Bannon’s around
Pretending you’re all, all still around.
Actually Trump has got a pretty good singing voice.
All the Best to you.
Ron Miller
