KEY WEST LOU / THE RAIN IS WELCOME

For the first time in the 30 years I have been in Key West, I welcome the rain. I was always hungry for the sun. However after the heat spell we suffered, the rain is welcomed big time.

It is pouring at the moment as I write this blog. It is 6:30 am. Wonderful! Hope it continues all day.

I had a session yesterday at Select Physiotherapy. Tiffany worked me. Brutal. Left me tired. Good, however.

A discussion arose among some of the other therapists and people such as me who were being treated. We were in total unison that the rain was welcome!

Bess Levin has a terrific article regarding North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson in Vanity Fair. From my perspective, Robinson is another “flipped out” candidate this year. He wants to “go back to the America where women couldn’t vote.”

Among other things, Robinson says a number of additional bad things about women, feminism, the Holocaust, Muslims, and the LGBTQ+ community. He is a “conspiracy theorist” who says he “wouldn’t be surprised” if 9/11 turned out to be an inside job or the 1969 moon landing faked, and is “seriously skeptical ” John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

He is supported by Donald Trump. What else would you expect! Trump in March said re Robinson who is black: “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”

Robert F. Kennedy is an independent Presidential candidate. He is not his father Robert F. Kennedy nor his uncle John F. Kennedy. I have written such in the past.

His mind works differently. Consistently a bit off base.

He has repeatedly claimed he has appeared on enough statewide ballots to qualify for the first Presidential Debate. Those in charge of the Debate say he has not met the number of state ballots required.

He threatens to sue CNN for preventing him from appearing on the stage.

Respectfully, Robert F. Kennedy is a loose cannon. His history proves the same. For example, he is anti-vaccine. Something I do not understand about those who are so.

I would describe Kennedy as a “disjointed Donald Trump.”

Baseball great Willie Mays died yesterday at 95. Considered by many to have been the greatest player in major league history. Even better than Babe Ruth.

Lefbeth the great white shark has returned to New England waters. Weighs 2,400 pounds, is 14 feet long.

Fishermen whose boats have been circled by Lefbeth claim the experience is “petrifying.”

How an epidemic can be brought to an area and spread. On this day in 1865, the bard Adventure arrived in Key West in distress. Four crewmen were sick with yellow fever. They were sent to Marine Hospital for treatment.

The disease spread to Army troops on the island and resulted in an epidemic that caused 331 cases. The 331 cases included 71 dying among military personnel. An unknown number of civilians also became infected with some dying.

Today marks “Juneteenth.” A day celebrated since 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news the Civil War was over and all remaining slaves in Texas were free.

Still pouring.

Enjoy your day!

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