Thur

Lots to think about the past few days.  Boy, the temperatures have been in the upper 80s and lower 90s, with high humididity, too.  At times, it's been brutal.  But relief is on the way this weekend, at least for a little while.

It's almost a cliche that workers don't like their bosses; isn't it a part of the job?  I'm kidding, of course, but I find it interesting that many workers really do resent or even hate the owners of their companies.  Isn't it these owners who give the workers their money, their pay--or at least provide the means to earn the money?  Yet, these same workers often seem to worship the government, esp at the federal level.  Yep, this is the same government that takes up to 40% of the workers' money--and then often wastes/squanders it.  That one has me thinking......

For whatever reason, I was reading a piece on the sale of body parts.  People today, if not routinely, but at least it's no longer something completely out of the ordinary, have kidney, heart, and other organ transplants.  Obviously we don't have to think too much about someone trying to sell his/her heart to another needing a transplant.  But what about, say, kidneys?  Many people can function perfectly well with one kidney, allowing the other to be removed and donated.  If one voluntarily donates, for no cash, a kidney, we find that a heroic and humane gesture.  A live is being saved.  But why do we find it so abhorrent that a person might want to sell one of his kidneys to another (or a hospital, etc.)?  Won't a life also be saved?  Maybe I'm off-base here, but I've just started to think about it.

Now there are laws that prohibit the sale of body parts in the US, I think.  And I guess I understand why, at least initially.  But thinking about it, I wonder.  Is it really so bad for a person, who only needs one of his kidneys, to sell the other to one who needs it to live?  In some ways, isn't it arrogant for lawmakers (and those who support such laws) to force those with bad kidneys to undergo years of dialysis and its pain, expense, and inconvenience?  They don't have to endure the agony, do they?  And, in fact, how many lives might be saved if we open the organ market?  I wonder how many people die while waiting for available transplants, when a sale might save their lives.  Hmmm......

And I thought of this one, too.  We can turn this around a bit.  Those who favor abortions or, as they call themselves, "pro-choice," always tout the woman's right to do with her body as she chooses.  I have written before about that, that such supporters of abortion rights must also favor the legalization of  prostitution and the use of drugs.  After all, it a woman has a right to do with her body as she chooses......  What about this and the sale of organs?  Doesn't one who wants to sell his kidney also have a right to do with his body as he wishes?

How great that the head of the FBI fell on his sword has been attacked by Clinton!  Comer pretty much gave Loretta Lynch the green light to avoid any prosecution of Shrillary.  (BTW, a letter-to-the-editor in yesterday's newspaper from a former federal investigator of 22 years included this about Clinton and her e-mails, the whole episode, "Had I committed any one of these [Clinton's] acts, I would be writing this message to you from federal prison."  Yep, you and me, but not the Clintons.)  I know there is a growing movement in the Republican Party to dump Trump or at least derail his presumptive position as the party nominee.  OK, that's fine with me.  I haven't yet heard any Democrats voice the same sentiment about Clinton.  Hmmm......  Where's the "Dump Hillary" crowd among the Democrats?

This tells me a lot, some about the Republicans and some about the Democrats.  Let's focus on the Democrats.  They are perfectly willing to accept a candidate like Clinton (like they were before!) despite her record, her personality?  She's a pathological liar (as a number of pundits have noted).  She has always been a borderline felon, always escaping some prosecutor's indictments.  Didn't she lose her license to practice law?  At best, with her conduct as Sec of State, in Comer's words, she was "extremely careless."  Yet, there is not a single movement in the Dem Party to find another candidate?  To the Democrats, she is fine.  Yep, that tells me a lot about Democrats--most of which I already had figured out.