Pen-pricks

• The United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned the United States for its economic embargo on Cuba that’s preventing trade, aid and open tourism. Cuba’s economy is really in the dumper. Things are so bad in Havana that if you throw a dog a bone, he has to signal for a fair catch.

• The Powerball lottery paid off a huge jackpot winner in Iowa. As the jackpot grows, we all fantasize about what we’d do if we won it. If you think President Trump acts like a prima donna know-it-all at his press conferences just wait till you see ME with $900 million.

• Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s home was targeted by anarchists who pounded on his front door. It’s been a violent week for reporters. There was almost a riot this morning at the Anger Management Clinic when CNN’s Jim Acosta pulled into Alec Baldwin’s parking space.

• Southern California had a bar shooting days after a Florida yoga class shoot-up, followed by the synagogue shoot-out and the package bomber. Chicago is starting to feel upstaged. A huge caravan was just spotted crossing the U.S. border headed south for Honduras to escape all the violence.

Argus Hamilton is the host comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and a speaker. His email address is argus@argushamilton.com.

I want to voice my opinion. I want you to picture yourself living across the street where farmers are growing their lettuce and they have this explosive device that sounds like a cannon when it goes on. It starts at dawn until dusk, every day, seven days a week. I would say that is disturbing the peace. There is a law against disturbing the peace. Why is it that farmers can get away from it and we cannot? What I don’t understand is why they keep this explosive device on when the lettuce sprouts and the lettuce turns green. The birds don’t eat the lettuce, they only eat the seeds. You farmers out there – can you explain this to me? Could you not find a more quiet device?

The events/happenings/occurrences (pick a word) we have seen in the two years since Donald Trump’s election demonstrate social behaviors that history clearly teaches us are destructive, no matter in what country they occur. For those who have been around for awhile (senior citizens if you will) and read, listen, think, reason, remember and compare the “then and now,” and aren’t concerned about our country, perhaps don’t really understand what we have lost, and continue to lose.

One could argue that it all began in the 30s when the Great Depression gave birth to social programs. These programs were intended to help those, through no fault of their own, were in poverty, but have morphed into an out of control welfare system (a huge burden on taxpayers) and something many politicians quickly figured they could use to get votes. In the process they have created the “entitlement” attitude that so many of our younger people seem to have.

The changes have been gradual. The increasing thirst for political power (do you wonder about that?) has played a major role, and that is more evident today than ever before. No political party is without some responsibility (both of them get their “marching orders” from sources that most of us — the ordinary folks — are oblivious to ) but what we can righteously call un-American — riots, unruly demonstrations, harassments etc. — have been perpetrated by far-left groups (like ANTIFA) and the Democrats have done little, if anything, to denounce and discourage these hoodlums.

With all that said, one needs no more proof of the corruption of our political system than what has happened during the midterm elections. Ladies and gentlemen, when our electoral procedures are violated/ compromised, and no one goes to fail, our representative republic will soon be gone.