Is Clinton stupid, or...?

      I am not going to vote for Trump. To me he is at best an egotistical blowhard who lacks empathy and is almost certainly dishonest. He's so bad that despite believing that a Clinton presidency would be little more than a means for maintaining a status quo in which We The People are kept financially enslaved by the uberwealthy, I WAS actually considering voting for her. But what can one say about someone who, after being diagnosed with pneumonia, insists (as her campaign has claimed) upon not drinking water? That is either stupid, or arrogant to an extreme of ignoring wise council of capable advisors – both of which are unacceptable in a chief executive with their finger on the trigger of nuclear destruction. And calling half of your opponent's supporters deplorable?! When Romney did something similar in the last election, Democrats (rightly) chastised him. Even if she could support such an inflammatory, mud-slinging accusation, is it not stupid to so reinforce the reputation she knows she already has for unfeeling, arrogant divisiveness – stupid to alienate a quarter of those she will be called upon to lead if she should become president?

      Or maybe she's not stupid. Maybe... I have been saying for decades that the uberwealthy who really run things have been successfully finding ways to keep We The People divided among ourselves so that we will blame our problems on Blacks, or Whites, or Mexicans, or Jews, or Muslims, or welfare moms, or Republicans, or Democrats, or Progressives, or environmentalists, or gays, or rednecks, or Government... instead of on the one common enemy we all have – the uberwealthy who redistribute our wealth and power to themselves. We can't fight back against what they are doing as long as we are fighting among ourselves. Maybe THAT's what is behind the divisiveness being perpetrated by both trump and clinton.

      Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe she is stupid.

      Remember the hopeful days of the Bernie Sanders campaign when, despite apparent philosophical differences, he went to speak at Liberty University where, while acknowledging differences that some might inflame to be divisive, he focused instead on the issues which should unite us - and drew respect and applause. How many in the Liberty University community do you think would now applaud or respect Clinton?
To clinton supporters - if trump wins, don't blame me because I voted for Jill Stein. Blame Clinton. And blame the DNC and yourselves for insisting, even with the clear anti-establishment sentiment across the political spectrum, that the establishment candidate be the Democratic nominee despite all her other flaws.

Wearing my Kilt on Tartan Day - WHY?

It's April 6th - Happy Tartan Day. 
Here I am proudly wearing my Clan Davidson kilt and my bonnie blue bonnet with the white cockade. Clan Davidson is one of the oldest families in the world. One source suggests they trace their lineage back to the biblical David ("son of David"). I don't know about that, but I do know that the Davidsons were Picts. The Picts were the people living in what is now Scotland when The Roman empire first invaded Britain. The Romans never conquered the Picts.
The Blue Bonnet with a white cockade was worn by the "Jacobite" Highland Clansmen fighting alongside Bonnie Prince Charlie against the English Government in 1745-46. Clan Davidson was one of the Jacobite Clans in "the '45." The Prince wanted to restore the Stewarts to the Throne of Britain (which had been "illegally" taken from them by the english Parliament). The clansmen fighting alongside him were probably more interested in keeping Scotland (or maybe the highland clans) independent of an english political-financial system which threatened their more traditional way of life. To be fair, this english "economic feudalism" (which I think evolved into capitalism) had already changed the highlands. And some of the clan chiefs (the wealthier ones) decided to fight with the english against The Prince and his Blue Bonnets. After successfully threatening London, the Jacobites were chased back to Culloden outside Inverness where they were slaughtered by the english government forces. Once this resistance to their objectives was removed, the english government pursued a policy of cultural (and arguably physical) genocide against the highland clans, culminating in the forced removal of people from the land to make room for sheep herds - because sheep were more profitable. But Jacobite sympathizers remain. And the battle of "we the people" against "government for private profit" continues.