WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT. 7 DAYS OF GENIUS--INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL. UNLEASH BLOODY HELL. "FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE FOR A CON ARTIST." --RUBIO. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, JOHN LEWIS-- "HERE IN AMERICA WE ARE ALL ONE HOUSE, ONE FAMILY---BLACKS, WHITES, ASIANS, HISPANICS, MUSLIMS, NATIVE AMERICANS, GAY, STRAIGHT, OLD, YOUNG, MALE, FEMALE . . . ALL ONE HOUSE." WE SURVIVED "SUPER BOWL TUESDAY!" AFTER FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, HILLARY CLINTON, GAVE HER SPEECH, LAST NIGHT, SEEING THE DIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE, STANDING BEHIND HER, AND HEARING, HER SAY, THAT WHAT WE NEED, IS TO TAKE DOWN BARRIERS, TO HAVE MORE "LOVE & KINDNESS" . . . I STARTED TO CRY, BECAUSE, SHE COULD NOT BE MORE RIGHT ON . . . AND WE, TRULY ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, BUT WE HAVE MILES TO GO BEFORE WE SLEEP! IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE LIFE GOOD FOR EVERYONE, IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT IT WILL TAKE THE COOPERATION, OF ALL OF US! I SEE SO MANY, REALLY GOOD THINGS GOING ON, IN COMMUNITIES, IN TOWNS, CITIES, STATES AND IN THE NATION. LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS. SEEING HILLARY, SMILING, POWERFUL, HAPPY, THIS SCRIPTURE CAME TO MIND . . . "HOW OFTEN, I WOULD GATHER YOU, LIKE A HEN, GATHERS HER CHICKS." I THOUGHT OF THE DIFFERENCES, BETWEEN THE MESSAGE OF CLINTON, AND DONALD TRUMPS, MOCK PRESS CONFERENCE, TRYING TO MAKE HIM LOOK, MORE PRESIDENTIAL, WITH FLAGS, BEHIND HIM, AND HAVING PEOPLE, ASK HIM QUESTIONS, AS IF, IN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM. I THINK, THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, IS FASCINATING . . . AS A FORMER STAFF ATTORNEY, FOR THE UTAH PROSECUTION COUNCIL, CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT DIVISION OF THE UTAH ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE, I THOUGHT BACK TO A CONFERENCE I ATTENDED, TRYING TO TEACH US, HOW TO SELECT A JURY, IF WE ARE THE PROSECUTION . . . THERE WAS A PANEL OF COPS AND PROSECUTORS, ON THE STAGE, AND THEY ASKED US, FIRST, WHO WE WOULD WANT IN OUR JURY? WE ALL TOOK OUR GUESSES, NONE OF US, SEEMINGLY, SATISFYING THE PANEL, WHO LET US RAMBLE ON . . . NO ATTORNEYS, IS ONE OF THE ONES, I LEARNED IN A CRIMINAL LAW CLASS, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE ONE THAT THESE REAL LIFE PROSECUTORS, WITH TONS OF EXPERIENCE FOUND TO BE TRUE. FINALLY AFTER WE FAILED TO HIT THE MARK, ONE OF THEM SAID: (1) YOU DON'T WANT A WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 65, BECAUSE, SHE SEES EVERY DEFENDANT AS HER GRAND DAUGHTER OR GRAND SON! AND THEY TEND TO GO EASY ON, WHAT THIS GROUP, WOULD CALL OFFENDERS; (2) YOU WANT, MEN OVER THE AGE OF 65, BECAUSE, THEY HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING! LOL! I THOUGHT, OF HILLARY, AGE 68, AND DONALD TRUMP, AGE 69, I THINK, AND HAD TO LAUGH. I TOLD THAT TO A GROUP OF SENIOR CITIZENS, THAT FACT, AND ONE OF THE LADIES IN THE GROUP, SAID, THAT IS INTERESTING, BECAUSE, SHE GOT, CALLED TO JURY DUTY, JUST THAT DAY IN THE MAIL, AND ON THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE, IT SAID, IF YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 65, YOU NEED NOT COME! LOL! TRUMP HAS BEEN APPEALING TO THE "ANGRY" CITIZENS, THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE "SCORCHED EARTH THEORY" AND YOU CAN SEE THAT, EVEN HIS DEMEANOR, AT LEAST FOR THE FIRST FEW MONTHS, WAS A SCOWL, A MEAN FACE. LOL! HE HAS SOFTEN A BIT. BUT, HILLARY'S FACE, HAS ALMOST LOOKED ANGELIC TO ME! LAST TIME HILLARY RAN FOR PRESIDENT, SHE WAS ROUGHLY 60, SINCE THEN, SHE HAS BECOME A GRANDMOTHER! SO THAT CIRCLE OF LOVE AND INFLUENCE, HAS EXPANDED TO, NOT ONLY CHELSEY, BUT, NOW TO HER GRANDCHILD. WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? I WOULD THINK SO. TRUMP IS HAVING HIS FIRST GRANDCHILD TOO. WILL IT SOFTEN HIM? MAYBE. IT IS FUN, THIS ELECTION CYCLE, WITH THE FIRST, FEMALE CONTENDER, FOR THE PRESIDENCY, TO SEE, WHAT, IF ANY DIFFERENCE, GENDER WILL PLAY. HILLARY IS ONE TOUGH COOKIE, NO PUSH OVER, AND KNOWS HER STUFF, BEING IN THE POLITICAL WORLD, FOR, THEY SAY, 25 YEARS, BUT REALLY, IS IT MORE LIKE, SINCE SHE WAS 18, AND THIS MAY SURPRISE MANY, BUT SHE ACTUALLY STARTED HER CAREER, IN POLITICS, CAMPAIGNING FOR A REPUBLICAN . . . THE REASON, SHE IS A MODERATE, PROGRESSIVE? INTERESTING STUFF . . . TRUMP SLAMMED HILLARY, FOR BEING AROUND FOR YEARS, SO WHY HAVEN'T THINKS CHANGED? THAT STATEMENT SHOWED HIS IGNORANCE, IN POLITICS . . . THIS IS NOT, LIKE THE PRESIDENT, IS A BOSS, AND CAN ORDER CONGRESS, STATES, OR HIS CABINET TO DO THIS OR THAT, LIKE YOU CAN IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HE, ACTED, AS IF, HE COULD GO OVER TO SYRIA AND DO THIS OR THAT . . . THINK AGAIN! EVEN IN CONGRESS, YOU HAVE, 100 SENATORS, YOU HAVE TO WRANGLE WITH, ON LEGISLATION, AND AFTER THAT, A BILL OR LAW, HAS TO PASS THROUGH, THE HOUSE, AND YOU ARE TRYING TO GET, NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE IN YOUR SAME PARTY, TO GO ALONG WITH YOU, BUT, YOU HAVE, WHAT, 400+ MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE, FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, SOME RURAL, SOME FROM LARGE CITIES, FACTIONS WITHIN YOUR OWN PARTY, LIKE I THE CASE OF THE TEA PARTY, AND MAIN STREAM REPUBLICANS . . . HEY, IT IS COMPLICATED! PEOPLE MAY FIND MORE COMMON GROUND, WITH A MODERATE DEMOCRAT, THAN THEY WOULD WITH PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN PARTY. LABELS DON'T MEAN A DAMN. MR. TRUMP, IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING! IT IS COMPLICATED! CONGRESS MAKE THE LAWS AND APPROPRIATES MONEY--HE IS NOT LIKE A BOSS, WHO CAN FIRE SOMEONE, BOSS THEM AROUND, TELLING THEM TO DO THIS OR THAT. THE GOVERNMENT MOVES SLOW, AND RIGHTLY SO, WE HAVE ALMOST 400 MILLION PEOPLE, WHO WILL BE AFFECTED BY WHAT CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT AND THE JUDICIARY DOES! I CAN NOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH, THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE! I SHAKE MY HEAD, HAVING WORKED IN GOVERNMENT, HAVING WORKED FOR AN ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT POSITION . . . I REMEMBER, READING THE PARTY PLATFORM OF BOTH THE DEMOCRATS AND THE REPUBLICANS, BACK IN THE REAGAN ERA, AND BEING SOMEWHAT DISENCHANTED WITH BOTH, THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY WAS NOT MUCH BETTER. MY HUSBAND, WAS A DEMOCRAT, MY PARENTS WERE REPUBLICANS, AND I FOUND MYSELF, IN "NO MAN'S LAND." I REMEMBER BEING, APPOINTED, UNDER A DEMOCRAT AS ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND I REMEMBER, THINKING, IF SHE IS A DEMOCRAT, THEN, I MUST BE A REPUBLICAN . . . BUT AS I ASSOCIATED WITH REPUBLICANS, I DIDN'T FIT THERE EITHER. I AM JUST KIND OF A LONE DUCK, OUT SWIMMING ON MY OWN, APPEARING TO BE TOO LIBERAL FOR MY CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS AND TOO CONSERVATIVE FOR MY LIBERAL FRIENDS! I GUESS YOU COULD SAY, THAT, I HAVE INTERNALIZED THE CONSTITUTION, SO DEEP IN MY SOUL AND PSYCHE, EVEN BEFORE GOING TO LAW SCHOOL, THAT, I ALWAYS FALLEN IN ON POLITICAL ISSUES, RIGHT WHERE, MY CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE ISSUES, LANDS, GENERALLY, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE . . . THE CONSTITUTION IS A COMPROMISE . . . 98% OF US, HERE IN AMERICA, FALL, EITHER, ON THE RIGHT OR LEFT OF CENTER, WITH SOME EXTREMISTS, ANARCHISTS, AND A FEW GROUPS, FALLING WAY OUTSIDE THE NORM, IN THEIR BELIEFS. INTERESTING STUFF, AND WE HAVE MANY, WHO HAVE SWITCHED FROM ONE PARTY TO THE OTHER . . . INTERESTING STUFF. I READ A GREAT QUOTE ON POLITICS, YOU HAVE A GROUP OF VERY SMART PEOPLE ON ONE SIDE OF THE ISLE, PUSHING BACK OR UP AGAINST ANOTHER GROUP, OF REALLY SMART PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLE. IF THE PROCESS WORKS, YOU WILL MOST LIKELY END UP RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, WITH LAWS, THAT MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY AND UNHAPPY, IN A TRUE COMPROMISE! FUN STUFF . . . I WAS GLUED TO THE TV FOR THE LAST 4 DAYS! I DIG THE ELECTIONS, LOVE THE PUNDITS, AND THE PROCESS! I ALWAYS GO THROUGH 6 MONTHS OF WITHDRAWAL AFTER THE ELECTIONS. I WOULD, LIKE TO SAY, ONE THING, THOUGH, AND I KNOW NEWS PROGRAMS, NEED TO CONSIDER RATINGS, BUT, I BELIEVE, THIS TIME, WITH TRUMP, I DON'T THINK, THIS SPLIT IN THE PARTY, COULD HAVE GONE THIS FAR, OR THE PHENOMENA OF THE "TRUMPSTER" HAD THE NEWS CHANNELS, NOT GIVE TRUMP SUCH OVER-EXPOSURE AND A MONOPOLY ON COVERAGE . . . I THINK, THINGS STARTED TO CHANGE, AS THE NEWS CHANNELS, STARTED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION, TO OTHER CANDIDATES, BUT THEY HAD TO LOWER THEMSELVES TO TRUMP'S LEVEL, TO GET SOME COVERAGE! THIS MORNING, WHILE I WAS WATCHING, MSNBC, AND I WATCH ALL OF THE NEWS CHANNELS, DURING THE ELECTIONS, TO MAKE SURE, I GET ALL SIDES OF WHATEVER, CANDIDATE OR ISSUE, TO REALLY BE FAIR AND BALANCED . . . AND THIS MORNING, ON THE "MORNING JOE" SHOW, MISHA, WHO I DIG, THINK SHE IS ALWAYS TRYING TO BE FAIR, SAID, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED, AND SHE, KIND OF LOWERED HER HEAD, AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED, BUT DIDN'T MENTION IT . . . I HAD TO WONDER, IF, THE NEWS CASTERS, ARE TAKING SOME RESPONSIBILITY, FOR THE TRUMPSTER, DO TO OVER COVERAGE, GIVING HIM, TOTAL ATTENTION, FOR THE LAST REALLY 8 MONTHS . . . PLEASE BE FAIR, THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT, AND LIKE KIDS, PEOPLE WILL OFTEN, DO WHAT GETS THEM NOTICED . . . ALTHOUGH, I ENJOYED THE ROE BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUBIO, THE WORLD IS WATCHING US, AND WHO WE ELECT, INFLUENCES THE WORLD! I HATE FORCING PEOPLE TO USE QUOTAS OR KEEP A LEGER, TO BE FAIR . . . JUST A GOAL TO MAKE IT AS FAIR AS YOU CAN! TRUMP, WHO COULD AFFORD TO PAY FOR COVERAGE THE MOST, HAD TO PAY THE LEAST--AND THEN BRAGGED ABOUT BEING SELF FUNDING?, WHILE OTHER CANDIDATES HAD TO USE TONS OF RESOURCES TO EVEN GET 1/4TH OF THE COVERAGE ON TV! FACE TIME MATTERS! GOOD JOB, THOUGH, ON THE ELECTION RESULTS, THANKS . . . AND THANKS TO ALL THE CANDIDATES, WILLING TO SERVE! CAMPAIGNING LOOKS LIKE A NIGHTMARE TO ME! ONE COOL THING, I SAW ON THE NEWS, DURING AN ADVERTISEMENT, IS A FUN THING, "CHICK-FIL-A" IS DOING, TO ENCOURAGE, FAMILIES TO EAT TOGETHER, GET OFF THEIR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND TALK TO EACH OTHER . . . GOOD PUBLIC POLICY, BUT IF YOU GO TO THEIR RESTAURANT AND GET DINNER, AND PUT AWAY YOUR CELL PHONE AND IPADS, ETC., AND MAKE IT THROUGH THE WHOLE MEAL, CHICK-FIL-A WILL GIVE THE WHOLE FAMILY FREE ICE CREAM, AFTER DINNER! FAMILIES, SHOULD DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO EAT AT LEAST ONE MEAL TOGETHER . . . FAMILIES THAT EAT TOGETHER, STAY TOGETHER! IMPORTANT TIME TOGETHER . . . THIS IS HOW, EACH ONE OF US, IN OUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! WAY COOL! THANKS!