All the News Repeats itself

That’s a verse in the song “Hello in There” and with the news these past couple of weeks it is happening to us.

We went through the scare of nuclear fallout and nuclear power plant meltdowns with the cold war and Three Mile Island. It seems strange to see the lack of knowledge in the general public again.  I suppose that is a good thing—at least our kids didn’t grow up in fear of a nuclear attack happening at any moment.

Now there is all the controversy about what the President can and can’t do with the military without consulting Congress.  We’ve had this question debated since Vietnam.  Whenever our forces were committed from Granada and Panama through Lebanon Bosnia and Afghanistan our Presidents always want to push the limits of their powers.  It’s disappointing and embarrassing  to see how our current President is handling the Libyan issue.

Each time a president steps over the line and takes more power than the constitution gives him, the war powers act  is modified to assure it won’t be done that way again.  Then a few years pass and a new situation occurs and once again the news repeats itself.

On a separate topic I may not have any more kitty updates to give.  No cats have shown up here since we’ve been back from California.  Well except for Meredith on the 2nd night back.  Since then there has been silence out there each night.  I’m hoping writing about it will make them show up just to spite me.