Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread
Tuesday Date-11/21/17
Charles Manson dead; the basketball players; John Conyers; Charlie Rose
All of them assholes of the highest order.
————————— Yesterday Charles Manson died and how well I remember the Manson murders. They all went to jail and Manson lived many more years than he deserved because California banned the death penalty during his vacation in jail.
As you read now, Manson burns in hell.
I have no sympathy for him.
Those three nitwits took a trip to China and like I’m betting they do at home, they helped themselves to a lot of free stuff at a local store.
They got themselves locked up but President Trump got them out.
The three boys thanked Trump publicly but LiAngelo’s father flips the President the bird and declares shoplifting to be not such a big deal.
No wonder Li Angelo got himself arrested. With a father figure like that, Li Angelo will end up in jail soon enough.
Someone needs to tell Mr. Ball that Otto Warmbier only tore a flyer off of a wall and he suffered until death brought him peace.
Wednesday Date-11/22/17
Sean Hannity’s Awful Interview of Donna Brazille; AT&T.
Sean Hannity interviewed Donna “my book” Brazille on his radio show and there has been no more horrible interview on talk radio…..ever.
The first horror was Donna insisting that it was the Republicans who first hired the group that was behind the uranium scandal.
It was not. I know it and Donna “my book” Brazille knows it. Pay no attention to her book over in this corner, Donna will lie when required.
Then there was Sean, a sweet soul, but he wants to be loved by everybody, including Charles Manson and Lucifer himself.
So Sean spent about two hours and 45 minutes telling Donna how much he loves her and how much she should love him.
It was just so awful.
Forgive my snort.
Back in the day, late 60’s, AT&T owned all the telephone companies in America, Bell labs which designed all the phones, and Western Electric, that made all the phones.
For the phone company of that era could not have eleventy five million little companies putting up poles and putting cable under the ocean.
Then Ronald Reagan got elected and I got a job at Western Electric. We made the phones of the era, including the cords, curly and straight, the little plastic clips and all the frou-frou to hook the country via telephone.
For there were no cell phones at that time. You needed a cord to carry the voice.
I worked at Western Electric for 15 years until AT&T was finally broken up and now….well don’t I have to laugh?
AT&T is IN TROUBLE AGAIN!!!!
But folks, in all of America’s history, no company has ever succeeded like AT&T, now working on its SECOND monopoly breakup.
Friday Date-11/24/17
So John McCain’s daughter, Megan, pundit for Fox news, got married?
Scuttlebutt is that she hurried up and made wedding plans as her father, who has brain cancer, is not expected to be around much longer.
Here’s wishing Megan happiness and a hope that she will talk her father into not ending his life by spitting in the face of those who once voted for him.
We hear Ivanka and Tiffany both wore extremely short skirts to some events in China. A pic of Ivanka’s suit with the short skirt below.
I’ve seen way shorter but it’s not something I’d wear in such a public setting. One big gust of wind and….
….but she looks great, as she always does.
It’s Thanksgiving week and not much going on at Capitol Hill. Women keep coming out with lurid stories of Al Franken, go to hell, that guy is such a huge zero he takes up all of Minnesota with his zero-hood.
What gets into a man’s head that he should be allowed to grab a woman’s behind whenever the chance arises? Does Al Franken the biggest nothing-burger on the planet, think the women are so in love with his zero-ness that they can’t wait to feel his hand on their private parts?
Also, President Trump hints that Time magazine, a publication that no longer even exists, might name him Person of the Year.
Trump says no thanks but Time says no offer made.
Time and Newsweek…..nobody buys paper magazines any more. Who do they think they think they’re fooling.
Great stuff fish lots of great topic there.
On a personal note……
….Last week, on this thread of those dates, I posted names and a tale of a father-in-law who plunged his hand up my skirt one night after driving me home and parking his car in the driveway of the house that his son and I shared.
Of course I was startled beyond belief. THIS WAS MY FATHER-IN-LAW! I jumped out of the car and ended whatever was going on. What? His son was not home at the time, which was the reason he was driving me home. Did he want to rape me in that little red Valiant? Did he want to come in and do the deed in the bedroom his son and I shared?
Understand that was the end of it. He never did anything untoward again but a couple of friends of mine told me he gave them the creeps. Not that he did anything to them, just idle chatter I pass along. I do believe this guy had wandering hands. At least he was very handsome and personable.
His wife was, of course, my mother-in-law. She was a very sweet woman and I admired her very much. Bear in mind at the time I was about 22 years old, quite pretty, but that don’t mean any man who wants gets to shove his hands under your clothing. My mother-in-law, who I revealed last week wrote a book titled “The Road to Widowhood”.
I bought the book, and read it.
My mother-in-law, Romaine Presnell, let’s not be coy, she wrote a book with her name all over it, was at first an elementary school teacher then became a psychotherapist at Phipps clinic at Johns Hopkins.
So I read the book and, indeed, Edward Presnell did die, quite young, in fact.
I got to one chapter in the book that had me drop everything and step outside to have a good sob.
She tells the story of a friend who came over to visit her during a day of grief. She tells how he grabbed her, pulled her to him, how he groped her, shoved his tongue down her throat….
…..Folks, you can’t make this up.
Her son, my first husband and love, left me around the time of the groping incident, breaking my heart like it’s never been broke, then and even now, some 50 years later. I DID tell him about his father’s hands but he didn’t care. He had a new female in his life and was ready to dump me.
So I read this chapter about Romaine’s friend groping and forcing her to fight. I read how she resented his intrusion, how he disappointed her….
….again….you can’t make this stuff up.
Did she not have a clue about her husband of the wandering hands? Do the wives of any of these gropers know what their spouses are doing?
Anyway…..heh….I read the book.
She’s a pretty good writer, frankly.
Here’s another one we don’t want to forget about Hillary and John McCains newest wardrobe addition:the boot!
Seems McCain is having a tough time “trying to figure out which leg hurts the most”,right or left!!
In a desperate attempt to cover up what is most likely a GPS ankle bracelet that he and Hillary and who knows how many other criminals got some days ago McCain comes up with an all time whopper about why he had to “change legs for his boot.”
No one lies like these people.
Yeah, I heard that and was thinking that they should sign off and go get a room.
Ya gotta admit; Pretty chintzy looking wedding...for the daughter of a corrupt zillionaire.