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Greetings and Blessings! A few days ago, the President had the audacity to post at midnight when most normal people are sleeping, a very disturbing racist video of the Obama’s. Perhaps he had planned to put a stain on Black History Month but not so, he really amplified just how stupid and racist he is by every definition. Yes, it was appalling and more so, disgusting. So much so, that nearly every TV broadcasting station even the ones that support him were very reluctant to show it to the viewers. For once, Trump own party broke ranks, asking him to apologize. He stubbornly refused, said “He didn’t make a mistake.” However, I want Trump to know that we are better than that, I forgive, but really pity him and anyone who thinks that’s okay. Thankfully, I have plenty of good Mega friends that I respect, cherish and love, we agree to disagree but if you think that’s funny, it is not.

A quick check of your calendar reveals that Valentines Day is Saturday. I am reminding all of you husbands, and perhaps some boyfriends, that Saturday is Valentines Day and if you are not prepared you still have time to make plans to show that special woman in your life how much you love her. All you guys out there should know the three most important days of the year that you must remember are anniversary, birthday and Valentines Day. It is perfectly acceptable for her to forget you on one of those days, but you dare not forget her. While that might not be fair, it is just the way life is – especially married life.

Let me say that I got to speak with former President Jimmy Carter once in a while because during his administration I was the Editor of one of the newspapers he read religiously. While I never really considered him to be a great President, I always believed he was a good steward of money and something I read recently proved that I was correct. I’ve also always believed that Dolly Parton is just a good old Southern girl and fame and fortune never changed her. Well, by comparison, she is pretty frugal herself. I was reading some news on the Internet when a headline caught my eye. The headline read, “Celebrity Houses That Will Leave You Speechless.” Believe me, it did. Of course the information was not about what the homes cost but how luxurious they were. However, some of the price tags were reported and it was kind of amazing.

Saturday is Valentine’s Day, a day for those who are in love to demonstrate that love – mostly by purchasing cards, flowers, candy, and other gifts to shower upon those they deem worthy. Phooey. Valentine’s Day has never been all that great for me. Remember back in elementary school, how all the kids in the class would bring Valentine’s cards to give to everyone else? I did that, and I always had more than enough. Good thing, too, because sometimes I was the one who didn’t get very many. (It could have had something to do with the fact that I was always the class clown, and the other kids felt I already had enough friends – how little they knew.  But I’m just guessing.)

As we delve into celestial bodies identified in science fiction, one of the earliest characters was Buck Rogers. Long before the campy television series that aired in the late 1970s, Buck Rogers first appeared as a newspaper comic strip in 1929, originally written by Philip Francis Nowlan. This was the first science fiction comic strip and proved so popular that other competing science fiction and space travel comic strips soon followed. On January 22, 1930, Buck Rogers first climbed into a rocket ship and blasted into space in an episode titled Tiger Men from Mars. This newspaper comic strip story lasted until May 21, 1930, or in comic strip vernacular from Strips 327 to 429 as each strip was numbered.

• Feb. 15. On this day in 1961, Sabena Flight 548, a Boeing 707-329, having departed Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) is on approach to land at Brussels Airport, Belgium. A small airplane has not cleared the runway and Sabena Flight 548 was told to cancel the approach and land on a different runway. The second approach had to be aborted as well. At that point observers saw the pilots were having difficultly controlling the aircraft which circled the airport three times. It pitched up, had a near vertical bank angle, leveled the wings then spiraled nose-down into the ground less than two miles from the airport. There were 72 people on the aircraft and 61 died in the crash. Among the dead were the entire US figure skating team along with coaches and family members that were traveling to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague. The cause of the crash was never determined but thought to have been a failure in a flight control system. A memorial is located at the crash site.