A Bob's Life: Monday Musings

Monday, May 26, 2025

Monday Musings - May 26, 2025

Memorial Day 2025

“If words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and to final sacrifice.” —Ronald Reagan

Decorated House
Tequesta, FL
May 25, 2025

1. Welcome to the final Monday of May 2025. There are 31 Mondays remaining in the year.

2. In an amazing finish, the Orioles are on a two game winning streak and split the four-game series against the Red Sox in Fenway. We have to enjoy the victories when they happen. Who knows, they may even get to 20 victories soon!

3. As I rode my bike around Tequesta yesterday, I was pleased to note how many houses were decorated, tastefully, for Memorial Day. There were many and that meant going above and beyond just having the flag on a pole. So many people add small flags around their gardens and the street.

4. Well, the Big Beautiful Bill has gone onto the Senate. Wow. I am hopeful that the senators will put some fiscal sense into the bill. I am very concerned that the administration wants to cut funds to care for Americans in order to deport immigrants. That seems upside down to me. And then there is the huge tax cut for the wealthy while actually increasing the costs of living for the lower earners. I am hard-pressed to find an upside in the bill with the exception of increasing defense expenditures.

5. Today in History. On May 26, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signs into law the Immigration Act of 1924, the most stringent U.S. immigration policy up to that time in the nation’s history.

The new law—also known as the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act—reflected the desire of Americans to isolate themselves from the world after fighting World War I in Europe, which exacerbated growing fears of the spread of communist ideas. It also reflected the pervasiveness of racial discrimination in American society at the time. Many Americans saw the enormous influx of largely unskilled, uneducated immigrants during the early 1900s as causing unfair competition for jobs and land.