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To put a lid on the national discourse trash that this week was, we offer you an important Baltimore Sun op ed read below.  Was it just a week or so ago that President Trump lashed out at Baltimore based Congressman Elijah Cummings’ district after old Elijah lashed out at Trump for all of the “caged” children at the border?  Was it just a week ago that we learned that “infested” is a racially charged word?

A pro Trump supporter and over 170 volunteers descended on West Baltimore to take out the trash.   Whether it was a publicity stunt or not, time will tell.  But what is so telling is the plight of the people in the blight of the rat infested neighborhoods.  What is also so telling is a newspaper writing that the poor people cannot keep their own neighborhood clean.  Does income have anything to do with cleanliness and pride?  Do drug dealers really have anything to do with keeping the trash in place?

Maybe next week will be better.  The weekend is here, everyone should take a deep breath at 5:00 pm today, pop open a beer at 5:01 pm, and chill the hell out until 8:00 am Monday.

The link to the quick read and amazingly telling, in so many ways, opinion piece is here.