ThreadingWater

BlueGal is probably flirting with some handsome Canadian Mountie right about now, and that's a blessing.  The U.S. Senate just voted to construct a triple-layer fence along 370 miles of the US-Mexico border and I'm hoping she doesn't come across this quote while she's supposed to be relaxing:

Construction of the barrier would send "a signal that open-border days are over. … Good fences make good neighbors, fences don't make bad neighbors," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

My head is exploding.  Sessions, you batshit bonehead, do you know what a metaphor is?  Have you ever read the Robert Frost poem, Mending Wall?  It's the simple-minded neighbor who repeats the lines you've mangled.  Frost's reply is this:

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down. 

And about that "fences don't make bad neighbors" assertion – you might want to ask a few Germans how well that worked for them.

Like I said yesterday, poetry is everything.