Saturday, September 5, 2015 was Bonnie and my 23rd wedding anniversary. We went to the Wisconsin Scottish Games to celebrate--and I wore the kilt I was married in! You could have gotten good odds betting that our marriage would last more than five years, and equally good odds betting that I'd still be alive for this one. A lot of folks would have bet against either one. Last time I was at these games was in 2013; I was pulling an O2 tank.
At the Scottish Games a dog the woman said was a Carolina Dingo came over and was nuzzling my leg. Sweet pooch--I leaned over and petted him, then noticed the vest that said, "Service Dog" and apologized. "That's okay," she said, "He came to you. Do you have blood sugar issues?" I replied that I was diabetic from steroids due to my lung transplant. "That's why he came to you," she said. "I'm a diabetic and he's a diabetic alert dog. He could tell that you were."
The games featured the usual Clan tents, food sellers and venders of Scottish kilts and other goods, athletic, dance and piping competition, Scottish dogs, herding demos, archery, a pub tent with folk singers, weapons demos and jousting--which is hot work in 90+ degrees.
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This is really getting crazy over in Europe . Syria used to have a population of about 23 million. There are something like 2 million of them in Turkey now, and another couple million or more spread all other places in the Middle East . They are great majority Muslim, and not people who want to go to a Western nation to assimilate. Is Europe supposed to absorb a million people because of a war in the Middle East ? Interestingly, after WW2 the millions of then called DP (Displaced Persons) of whom many were Jewish refugees, were not cheerfully accepted by other nations, and in fact the Jews in particular were not handled especially nicely, and even when they were just trying to leave Europe to get to Palestine , they were blocked and harassed. But now all kinds of people see pictures of drowned kids and get worked up and want to somehow be generous to these refugees from a war. So politicians start saying they'll volunteer their country to take in thousands, and they want other nations to also take "their share". I had to laugh, the president of Macedonia , with a population of 2 million, where they have already taken in thousands of refugees, pointedly asked just what other, prosperous nations thought they could demand of a poor, small nation in taking in people. There are people in the USA who think we should be ashamed because we're not volunteering to take in thousands. Well, we have taken in a bunch of refugees in the past, notably the Somalis, who have not assimilated very well and have caused various difficulties. I'm sorry, I would be happy if we sent money, food, medicine, tents, maybe weapons to defend themselves, to set up decent camps for them until the war ends and they can all go home. But I don't feel any need to welcome thousands of people here who come only to get to a land of safety and welfare for immigrants, not because they believe in and want to take part in the American Dream. I think the Germans will live to regret their generosity, and that those who say it's a really bad idea to encourage refugee flight to Europe are right. --Del
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Congratulations on your 23rd anniversary! I'm the knight on the horse at the Scottish Highland games. I've been following your blog for a few months now and I love it. From one vet to another, here's to you and Bonnie! May you celebrate many more!
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