Can It Be

Seems our search for truth should often not be found at the White House these days. This week the chief exec claimed “the coronavirus will go away without a vaccine” and “scientists have come up with the AIDS vaccine”.  Currently there is no proof that the coronavirus will just disappear and that there is no existence of an AIDS vaccine. Where does he get this stuff? He must think that his MAGA hat wearers buy whatever he says.  The rest of us don’t.

Meantime an anti-Trump GOP group, The Lincoln Project, claims the Oval Office occupant is “shaky, weak, has trouble speaking and points out he appeared to struggle when lifting a glass of water during a West Point speech. Then as the event concluded he took a long time walking down a ramp.

Thanks to my long-time friend Tom, we experienced a wonderful documentary this week on the great Nat “King” Cole. As I have mentioned previously, he was at the top of the favorite celebs I was fortunate to meet during my broadcasting years. A consummate jazz pianist......His vocals forever remain superb. He was one of a kind. It was a genuine tragedy that he was taken from us by cancer in his middle forties. A great artist, a wonderful person for whom the word “class” was invented.

Dame Vera Lynn has left us at 103. The British singer, songwriter and actress gained her popularity during WW2 and was known as “the Forces’ Sweetheart”, entertaining troops all over the world.. Best known for singing “We’ll Meet Again”, my friend and excellent long time broadcaster Sherm Strickhouser used that song as his theme each day. “We’ll meet again, don’t know where don’t know when, but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day, keep smiling through just like you always do, ‘til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away”.

The ill- conceived Trump rally being held in Tulsa this week is crowding 19,000 people into an enclosed space and is total madness. Requiring those attending to sign releases that exempts the chief exec and his people from any culpability regarding contracting the caronavirus is not only thoughtless but no surprise.

The CNN coverage of the early arrival people at the Tulsa rally was lowlighted by one clown remaining in back of the reporter so the world could take in in his “fake news” sign. The taunts of others were heard throughout the coverage. What we could expect....no sense, no class.

The chances of seeing any shred of a Major League Baseball season this year grows slimmer with each passing day. Ah, yes, greed is a wonderful thing.