Morning AB, All.
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Below is the compilation of my last week’s political updates just to remind all what took place. If it’s kind of long, and boring, please just scroll on by.
Be sure to read my “personal note” as I expose for the world to see my utter humiliation yesterday at church.
Bigger issue, I am somewhat guilty.
Tuesday-date- 3/14/17 Daily Update
Yesterday President Trump held a cabinet meeting but four slots were empty. This is because the congress is still holding back approving Trump’s choices.
I hope when a Democrat gets elected next time the Republicans do the same thing.
Mostly now it’s all about the “repeal and replace” although I have yet to hear any particulars.
I hear there will be a tax “credit” instead of a deduction. I hear medicaid will expand for a while then will contract.
Whatever that means.
We’re on it guys but nothing any congress critter, Republican or Democrat, is making any sense.
Wednesday-date-3/15/17
Daily Update
Because it’s always about the teachers….never about the kids.
At least to those horrible teacher unions.
Heh. So we learn that the British spy on America and America “borrows” what they learn? We then share what our spying of the British brings up and we share it with them?
So it was the BRITISH who provided President Obama with info on the Trump entourage?
Who knows but now we are to understand we not only have 17 intelligence agencies, we have every country inj the world also spying on me.
And Rachel Maddow, an MSNBC lesbian liberal with nothing between her ears allegedly, heh, found Trump’s taxes right there in her mailbox!
She fell for it hook, line and sinker…..heh.
Thursday-date-3/16/17
Daily Update
Yesterday the creepy Democrat senator, Adam Schiff, and Senator Nunes, a Republican from California, held a press conference to announce that there was no evidence to indicate that the Obama administration in any way “spied” on Donald Trump or his campaign.
Heh. No evidence.
EVERYTHING is “no evidence” any more! This is most likely that how much evidence you going to find to prove you spoke to somebody?
Unless, of course, you have audio tapes or some such.
That press conference was such a joke.
We hear that within the next week information on this alleged wiretapping of Trump will be coming forth.
Friday-date-3/17/17 Daily Update
The meme of the day recently has been the release of Trump’s tax returns.
Turns out the man paid 38 million in taxes. Bet that’s more than most people paid.
Also, Trump released a new immigration ban and once again, a single solitary judge, a communist obviously, slaps a restraining order on it.
Seriously , are Americans going to take this sitting down….this nonsense where one unelected person controls the United States of America?
I want to see Trump flip this Hawaiian nothing-burger zero head the finger and enact this extreme vetting before allowing that judge’s relatives to come in and kill us all.
Finally, next week Trump is due to release proof that Obama wire-tapped Trump tower.
This should be interesting.
Saturday-date-3/18/17 Daily Update
So Merkel, President of Germany, hereby wins my award for the WORST haircut in the world!
What’s the deal with those awful bangs? Seems to me she’s trying to look like a German toddler.
So Germany only pays 1% of its GDP for NATO though by agreement it should pay 2%. We are now to understand that in 2024 Germany will begin paying the 2%.
I’m learning a lot about these countries and the “dues” they don’t pay. Many are supposed to be contributing to the UN, an organization that’s a waste of time.
Many are not and many do not pay what they promised.
I am also learning, sadly, that these are sneaky ways for these politicos to ignore American laws and deal with these people on the sly.
What the hell, they just leave these things laying around that anyone can see?
Further, did you know it took the SS fifteen minutes to catch that guy who climbed the White House Fence with a can of mace and bad intentions.
I’m half crippled and could have done better than that.
On a personal note
I go with my friend Diane Feinstein and I did yesterday. Feinstein (that’s not her name but she looks EXACTLY like Diana Feinstein) likes to sit in the back of the church by a window while I want an aisle seat that I get there early to get. I have another friend, named Iris, who will often sit with me at that mass. We are both usually seated by 4:15 and yes we whisper and catch up on things. Feinstein was there but was at the back of the church by the window.
So Iris asks me about the Guatamalans and be advised that most of my church friends know the story of my daughter and I have been mightily blessed by these people.
Well I guess we got a little loud but bear in mind, it was a full fifteen minutes before mass was to begin.
Suddenly I hear this….big, booming male voice “Will you two shut up!”
I mean, it wasn’t like soft or anything. Than the man continued to mock. I was so shocked I immediately said I was sorry and I did not say another word until after mass. You can believe come the time we are to wish peace and give a handshake to those around us I had my back solidly to that jackass.
Lookit, he couldn’t have tapped one of us on the shoulder, asked us to tone it down without the need to humiliate us so?
Bear in mind, again, this was a full fifteen minutes before the mass. There was not a priest or cantor in sight.
Well that’s it. I sobbed and hurt all night. Everyone in that church heard this exchange.
Give me credit, I didn’t shout and fight back. I avoided all sarcastic responses. I prayed to the man on the cross at the front of the church to keep me quiet.
I give myself credit for that at any rate.
After church Iris, me and Diane Feinstein caught up and we complained about the asshole but it’s done now.
I am absolutely sure Father Flowers is going to hear about this incident.
Should I say anything to him first or just get over it? Being so publicly humiliated is not fun.
Always beat the offending party and tell your side first, albeit, pray in advance God gives you a good meeting with His best out comes.
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"So a secret service agent had a laptop stolen. A laptop containing maps of Trump Tower and various other secret kind of stuff. What the hell, they just leave these things laying around that anyone can see?"
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http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2017/03/laptopgate-why-does-trump-protector.html
A Secret Service agent apparently forgot the general rule of never leaving anything in a parked car, and had her backpack stolen from her vehicle in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, Thursday morning. It contained an agency-issued laptop with “highly sensitive” information, a police source told the New York Daily News. The laptop is encrypted, but reportedly contained some serious national-security information, including floor and evacuation plans for Trump Tower. It also weirdly contained some “important files” on Pope Francis, and, ironically, some details about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Some sensitive documents were also stolen, reports CBS, along with the agent’s lapel pins that gave her access to details for the United Nations, Donald Trump, Clinton, and the pope, says CNN.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/secret-service-laptop-with-trump-tower-info-stolen-from-car.html
We don't know why pedophila intel is on the laptop of the secret service gal or how it "just happened to be laying there rather easy to take" for just the right person who may have been working for all the wrong people for all we know. Little happens out of coincidence I think we can all agree.
Some people like quiet to pray before Mass, so always remember them. (I’m not one of those, except for a few times.) But obviously this man was not even close to obtaining the peace of prayer, however, no matter how quiet it got. We can learn that from his behavior, and maybe by his seeing your humility, he will learn too.
It’s good you kept yourself from responding, and even better you asked Jesus to help you. That’s turning the other cheek. You may have felt humiliated at the time, but you’re NOT in God’s eyes, and probably not in those who were truly at prayer having God in their midst.
And thanks for today’s commentary!
It's over. Just let it go. That's how I treat traffic altercations, anyway.