Lighter side of the news

In case you are wondering why I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks (I flatter myself), it is because I was on an Orange detox. Not orange, the fruit (I am allergic and would be decomposing instead of detoxifying) but Orange, the fruitcake.

Listening to President Laranja Tinto, was slowly beginning to numb my brain cells, so I took a break to recharge them. Shame that the tweeting tangerine did not do the same. I know what you're thinking - not too many brain cells to recharge there.

In one of his many, many recent tweets, Trump tweeted just one word, 'OBAMAGATE'. I guess he thinks that adding the word 'gate' at the end of a name, magically turns it into a scandal.

It did work to an extent because his followers, the Trumpets and Trumpettes, immediately started blowing their wind instruments (otherwise known as their mouths) making a whole lot of noise, while the rest of the world put their hands up to cover their ears.

To make matters worse, his son, reminiscent of the class dunce who thinks that they have something intelligent to say, tweeted this:



I see that the apple doesn't fall far from the orange tree.

Anyway, even Obama appears to have lost his patience and has spoken his mind privately, in his own Obama way. 

Unlike his successor, who appears to have no filter between his thoughts and his mouth, Obama has refined double filters in place and takes measured pauses before voicing his thoughts. 

You could easily sneak in 40 winks between the articulation of each thought but it is well worth the wait. A class act, one might say except Mitch McConnell would beg to differ.

The man who sent out a search party in 1972 to look for his upper lip, appeared outraged and asked Obama to keep his mouth shut (could've been mouth envy).

He suggested that it was 'classless to critique an administration that comes after you.' 

One might wish to remind him of the saying, 'People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones....' or as Eric Trump would say, 'People in glass houses are better than two birds in a bush'.

Meanwhile here in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested that it wasn't necessary for us to stay home, so we could go to work but only if we couldn't work from home, although he would like us to continue staying at home, if possible but if we couldn't than we shouldn't, however it would be nice if we could comply.

The above crystal clear guidelines were accompanied by a change in the slogan, from 'stay home' to 'stay alert'. 

Once again easy enough to interpret. Stay very still and when you sense the presence of those spiky invisible coronas, whack them with your invisible fly swat.

I feel so reassured and so much better now.

Until next time, stay safe.