Posted on 01/08/2015 1:14:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"................McConnell took the Senate on the low road. He stood still at his desk, lips pursed, clearing his throat often, and reading a grim message. “Moment of great anxiety . . . lost faith in their government . . . no longer trust Washington . . . losing health plans after being told otherwise . . . rising medical costs . . . difficult just to get by . . . world filled with chaos . . . autocrats scoffing at a superpower that doesn’t seem to have a real plan.”
“Confidence in the American dream has plunged,” McConnell said, pointing an index finger downward. “Anxiety about the type of country we leave to the next generation is widespread.” He declared the government “uninterested or incapable” of addressing Americans’ concerns and “working for itself instead of them.” Wiping his nose with a handkerchief, he went on to decry a bureaucracy that tries “to muzzle political opponents and ignore the needs of veterans.”
There’s nothing like a fresh start to bring out that patriotic spirit. And Democrats responded in kind: Minority Leader Harry Reid, injured in an exercise accident, had his lieutenant, Sen. Dick Durbin, read out a statement after McConnell’s speech, saying Democrats wouldn’t repeat Republicans’ “gratuitous obstruction and wanton filibustering.”.....
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LOL, I don’t even know what that is!
From a time when we left doors unlocked.
In case you really don't know what that was it is a card that you placed in your screen door so the Ice Man knew how much ice to chip of the big block and place in your Ice Box. No one needed to be present for that to happen. Happier times for me in those days, when an ice chip was almost as good as ice cream.
My dad worked on a two man horse drawn ice wagon in Norfolk, Virginia from the time he was 15 until he was 19 and went to work for Texaco Oil. He got strong as a bull swinging that ice around. He was born in 1909.
Thought you might like to know.
But the thing I didn’t know about was 400 thread count linen. It was not about the card you placed in your screen door for the ice man.
Go back and read the posts.
Hi. I’m working on a massive update of “Harry: Money Mob and Influence”. More crooked than can be imagined.
Four Hundred Thread count linen is just a step above burlap to me. Twelve Hundred Thread Count is minimum for me. [:-)
Actually I use Sheeks, sheets they are spandex.
Let me check right quick and get back to you.
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