With Regard to Temperament...

Good holiday weekend eve, Friends,

In the midst of all the media tumult over the Ataturk Airport attack in Istanbul, all the hoohah over Bill Clinton's ill-advised secret meeting with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and all the other presidential race news, a little-noticed item slipped by yesterday.

Considering the sheer volume of coverage showered on its precipitating incident, the outcome of the story was delivered in a simple crawl across the bottom of the TV screen. Not a spoken word was uttered about it--perhaps because the ending to the story didn't fit the popular narrative.

Egyptair Flight 804 most likely did not fall out of the sky because of a bomb. Something caused an electrical fire in the plane's control system beneath the flight deck, causing the pilots to lose control and the plane to crash.

This is important for so many reasons, not the least of which is the impact on the huge international fleet of Airbus A320s. I expect that all of them will eventually be grounded, thoroughly inspected and any necessary repairs made.

I said it was a bomb that brought that plane down, and I don't care
what the evidence shows. It was a G-ddamn bomb!

But more importantly, one of the candidates for the world's most-powerful office jumped to the conclusion that Egyptair Flight 804 was brought down by a terrorist's bomb. He was wrong.

Donald Trump has proven something, at least to me.

He proved that he doesn't have what it takes to be Commander-in-Chief.

We're sitting on the cusp of World War III, Friends. Look around us.

In the past five years, we have seen almost a half million people slaughtered in Syria and elsewhere in the Levant, millions of refugees dispersed to virtually everywhere, and radical Islamist terrorism sweep the globe.

And I would be remiss not to mention the seeds of a new cold war with Russia, which seem to be germinating.

More than ever, we cannot afford to have a president who jumps to conclusions...especially when he's got unfettered access to the doomsday switch.

Sooner or later, some ambitious reporter will do a full-blown story on what actually happened to Egyptair Flight 804. The reporter may even ask Nubbs if he regretted drawing his quick conclusion.

Bet that Trump will find some way to double down on his original assertion.

At that instant, our true source of danger will be crystal clear.