Sooner or Later...

...everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences."  Who wrote that?  My guess is Robert Louis Stevenson.  I'm pretty sure it was; I could look it up, but I'm a bit lazy this AM.

I don't know if I believe that.  It seems to me some folks are immune to consequences, at least bad ones.  Ronald Reagan was called "The Teflon President" because nothing bad ever seemed to stick to him.  Bill Clinton, for all of the evil he's done, doesn't seem to have fared too badly because of it.  And his wife, maybe worse than Clinton, is riding high, despite her dishonest life.

I was reminded of a much more trivial instance of this earlier this summer.  Some of you know I was out there coaching Michael's team, 15-16 year olds, again.  A couple of kids actually got some hits, but they didn't know it.  Huh?  They hit the ball without seeing it.  I always find it funny to see some kid hit a foul ball behind the plate and take off running for first.  It's an indication to me that the kid just plain lucked out and hit the ball,  He never saw it.  And some kids did get hits that way.  Their heads were pulled, looking out into left field, while they hit the ball, purely by accident, out toward right field.  Back when I played on the Detroit sandlots, we had a kid who was notorious for that.  Oh, he had a great batting average, but time and time again, he hit the ball while staring down the third base line.  How did that happen?  Do the pitches just happen to hit the bats?  How aggravating to hit a ball like a rocket right at a fielder for an out while another lucks into another hit.

OK, my analogy with lucky baseball players isn't completely the same, but......  Will people be called to account?  Will they be held responsible, here or in an afterlife?  Look at LBJ and his lying and deceit with Vietnam.  How many lives, Americans and others, were lost because of his dishonesty, his vanity?  Has he really been held up to scrutiny?  If so, it certainly hasn't had the same play as that of Nixon.  And what was worse, the LBJ handling of Vietnam or Nixon's Watergate?  (This ignores, for the sake of a point, Nixon's handling of Vietnam.)  Nixon is usually rated a failure as a President, one of our half dozen worst.  LBJ, likely due to the Civil Rights legislation of '64 and '64, is rated in the top half.  C'mon!  And let's not leave it at Vietnam.  How about his Great Society?  It could well be argued that was an extremely deleterious policy/program, one that helped to destroy much of the social and economic fabric of society, at least parts of it.

How about Obama?  I've written about ObamaCare, the IRS and other federal agency scandals, and more.  What's this about the $400 million we handed over to Iran??????  Oh, it wasn't a payoff, a bribe or whatever.  Oh, no.  The White House said it wasn't.  Where are the LameStreams on this?  Heh Heh.  We know, don't we.

What time is dinner (the banquet)?