Bullet Monday: Strawberry heads forever?

Canada day: Steveston, Richmond

Flickr: Not actually Chuck

•Chuck continues to build his legendary saint status. On Canada day, he realized that he was to drive the two of us out to Steveston, Richmond or Surrey-Largely to get the 'Hintz' that evening for fireworks. This is approximately up to a one hour drive, and up to a two hour round trip.

•Does Chuck earlier in the day, drive his brothers to somewhere closer to Maple Ridge? No. no. no, this computerized genius takes his brothers way out to a boat in Richmond, brings them home, has dinner, then takes him and I back to Richmond for the Steveston, Canada Day, 150th Anniversary celebration.

•With all those hours of driving in the summer heat, no wonder, Saint Chuckles often looks like strawberry heads forever.

•This from Chuck, that when he visits here some weekends requires a huge pot of coffee to avoid getting sleepy by 10 pm.

•At the Steveston event, our group had fine seafood within a technically floating restaurant. Philosophy Man, Deaaannn, stated (paraphrased) his opinion that American evangelicals have sold themselves out supporting an ethically questionable President Trump. He also critiqued that with the Republican health care reforms, millions of Americans will be left without health care. This issue has been a documented concern on Facebook by another good friend of mine, Documentary Man.

•I did introduce Philosophy Man to Documentary Man back in 2002 when Documentary Man visited. Metropolitan Vancouver. Thankfully the universe did not implode.

•At the seafood dinner, I agreed with Deaaannn that President Trump was ethically questionable. I reason there are too many, for example, questionable tweets and instances where a President should 'turn the other cheek' and stick to government business.

•I am a moderate conservative, and I did state at the table that I am not a typical 'What would Jesus do?' commenter. But, being in Christ, I do not believe that the Biblical God would call Christians to support an ethical view where people are left without at least basic essential healthcare. I realize that more complex treatments may not always be covered by a government or insurance. This is the case here in British Columbia. On Thursday I have to spend $1450 on a custom wheelchair for the Boss. I also had to pay $500 to redo three rooms in order for the Boss to be set up in the living room.

•A problem with the very conservative view that 'stupid people' that waste their lives and do not insure selves properly, do not deserve health care is that sometimes these people have children and/or other dependents. I do not think the children should pay for the mistakes of their parents when it comes to health care. Nor should other dependents.

•My conservative, libertarian view on government spending is that all of the essentials. health care, infrastructure, security, mandated education and deemed essentials, should be fully covered before there are any funds available for secondary concerns. Especially politically charged political agendas!

•For balance, for my conservative friends, I do reason that President Trump, being a successful businessman can lead an administration which does at least, benefit the American economy by eliminating some unnecessary restrictions on business. I am not stating to forget about protecting the environment for the sake of economic growth.

•I have watched Fox News for a few months now. I do think it is mainstream media, it is just not the liberal mainstream media, it is the conservative mainstream media. There is a different theme, largely for entertainment purposes. See Hannity, especially. I do reason Tucker Carlson Tonight offers many good insights.