Al Had A Point

“A crook is a crook,” Capone said, “and there’s something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But a guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician, who gives about half his time to covering up so that no one will know he’s a thief.”

Al Capone

Photographer Unknown

Before the arrest of Donald Trump

Within the hour he is about to become the first former President to be booked and charged with a crime.

After the arrest of Donald Trump

Donald Trump did not have to take the traditional “Perp Walk ” but fact is- the Former President of The United States DID take a Perp Walk and by the look on his face it was a very long walk.

There goes the neighborhood.

It’s pretty clear, I loathe and despise Donald Trump. He IS a despicable human being.

However, I get no pleasure in seeing a Former President of The United States sitting hunched over and slack jawed while being charged with 34 Felony Counts in a court of law.

On the other hand, I do take great pleasure in seeing Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States, Patron of White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists sitting in a court of law and being charged with breaking the law.

Lots of them.

 

Here Kitty, Kitty Kitty ,Hyenas and Rhinos Too

Daily Writing Prompts: What animals make the best/worst pets?

I have reached down deep to answer this question: What animals make the best/worst pets and the answer surprised me.

It’s not that I would want to make a pet out of the prehistoric animals, like the ones that our ancestors painted on the cave walls in Grotte de Lascaux, near the village of Montignac in France- but I would have liked to have seen these animals the way the artists did.

When these people painted these pictures on the walls in this cave, they had to bring the light in with them and when they left these animals were plunged into  absolute darkness.

Why would they do that, you might ask yourself. I  asked myself this question and this is the answer I came up with:

If  I just quiet my brain and imagine those animals on those walls in that cave- I can almost hear them breathing, I am pretty sure I can hear them whispering to

each other and I’m positive that I can even hear them moving.

The relationship between these people and these animals  was unique. I would really like know what these ancient people and these ancient  animals thought of each other and I think I’d like to have been part of that.

Cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) painting
Chauvet Cave

A group of rhinos
Chauvet Cave

Replica of paintings in the Chauvet Cave

The famous shaft scene of Lascaux: a man with a bird head and a bison.

Megaloceros with line of dots