Notes - MacBeth / how might it be?

      Mid-morning. Carol is at breakfast with her friends. You are sitting around relaxing in the quiet. - Amorella

       0932 hours. That's hardly worth mentioning.

       Your relaxing? Mentally relaxing is more specific. - Amorella

      

       0934 hours. I need a short nap before Carol returns.

       You had no nap. Jim the air conditioning specialist cleaned up your unit, took him about forty-five minutes. Meanwhile, Carol was out running errands. You had a late lunch at Penn Station having forgotten you were just there last Sunday; good sandwich and excellent fries though. Once home about three you heard a beep, beep on your watch and CNN flashed on with Trump. So, you both stopped what you were doing and turned first to MSNBC with Brian Williams then later to Fox to see what the right wing was saying. After an hour or so Carol decided it was time for a Graeter's and off you were for a late afternoon treat on another wonderful late Spring day. Craig and Alta left a message and coming back from Florida you are stopping at Jim and Jeanne's on a Saturday and the six of you are going to see the newly refurbished President Carter material in downtown Atlanta on Sunday then Monday moving on the Memphis for a couple of days and a couple more at Nashville before heading back to Cincinnati, at least that is your plan as of now. Presently, Carol is doing her walk and you are sitting in the full shade with Cline on the south side and Randall on your right, the north side in the west central region of Rose Hill Cemetery. - Amorella

       1844 hours. Life is always interesting. Trump really has no choice but to follow the dictates of what he said he was going to do if he won the election. It still looks like the building of a real life tragedy though, one Shakespeare more or less prophesized in MacBeth. Trump is no King Lear or Hamlet -- pride, ambition, arrogance and stubbornness rules his stage. Wheeling and dealing. In his speech he said he was going to negotiate with Paris. Within the hour of the speech those majors of the Paris Accord replied, 'no negotiations'.

       You are not here to write commentary on the political scene, boy. Leave that to the BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX among others worldwide. The press is still free. - Amorella

       1858 hours. I am thankful we are living in such a time. Carol has turned the corner and heading this way.

       Post when plausible. - Amorella

       You were listening to The Rachel Maddow Show and Jerry Brown was saying he is hoping to work with China, Mexico and Canada in keeping the Paris Accords.  You wonder if it is illegal for a state to act as its own foreign government. And you wonder that if it is legal or can be made legal that particular states that think like California might come together to legally join the Paris Accords even if the Federal government does not. This causes you to also wonder if the United States can legal break up and that the states can form their own separate 'United or Federated States'. How would it be if this could be done? How would it be if the West Coast States decided to join a major alliance with Mexico or Canada if this is what the voters wanted to do? What about the more liberal East Coast -- Massachusetts, Vermont, New York decided to break ranks and follow California (if they were successful) and join Canada or even Quebec or Ontario? - Amorella

       2208 hours. I think it is illegal for California to set up its own foreign policy. I do wonder though what could be legally enacted to split the United States into two separate independent countries? I am thinking here of fifty or a hundred years from now of this great divide of right and left wing politics continuing. Surely, we would have to do something economically or otherwise. Or, even if each of the fifty states decided to become an independent country. It doesn't sound plausible presently, but who knows what might become of the entire Western Hemisphere? (2214)

       Such speculation boy no doubt will come to pass if it has not already. People will eventually decide to do what works for the majority of the people at a particular time. We go back to Asimov's Foundation Series here. Sometimes things happen because necessity demands it. This can occur anywhere or any time because people are human beings. - Amorella

       2220 hours. I don't fully agree with you, Amorella. What appears as a necessity for one is not necessarily a necessity for another. People go their own way. If I remember right, during the time of the American Revolution, approximately one/third wanted to divorce England completely; one/third wanted to join Canada; and another third could not make up their minds what they wanted to do. To me that is more realistic. We are just that independent minded.

       Post. - Amorella

       2225 hours. I really worry about what is going to become of our nation. I worry that there is nothing we can do about it. Too many variables. Too many people have too much to lose.