My Journal

I certainly hope FB and Twitter are clogged with users who are imploring Electorates to Vote Their Conscious.

I watch The Rachel Maddow Show. She's thorough about getting to the bottom of it all. Watch Thursday's show and you'll see exactly what Trump is up to in his great money grab.

Yes, he's using Putin's Playbook. Yes, Putin absolutely hacked our election. YES, Trump should be SHUT DOWN before January 20th.

It's easy to see, what's NOT easy to see is why the government, meaning the conservative controlled government, can justify continuing this farce believing a Trump presidency will be a just presidency for the PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY!

Christmas This Year:



Christmas Next Year:

How could I not? The first month is free I assume in an attempt to lure those who HAVE to watch Gilmore Girls to continue to subscribe. And I went through one list and found quite a number of things I might go ahead and watch.

( Spoilers Under Here )

I've been binge watching a couple of series that I can't seem to catch when they're on regularly. Good Behavior with Michelle Dockery is really good. And Search Party, which I was wavering on, but also turned REALLY good at the last episode. The writers took a bold step in how real life gets real to inept Millennials. Alia Shawkat nails her part and the supporting cast is what you'd expect from the self-absorbed trio.

ETA: I ran out of time this morning to finally get my hair cut short - I love it and think it will help keep it on my head.

What I wanted to say this morning is that Search Party is a group of four Millennials, a couple and roommates, one gay, the other a blonde actress who is, okay, she's vacuous. Alia Shawkat, who I first saw as Ellen Page's character's best friend in the movie Whip It, and liked her a lot. She's got one of those unforgettable faces, full of character and in this role as Dorie she 'acts' much the same. In other words, she's the brightest one in a group of self-absorbed, too immature for their age, struggling, someone's idea of what a Millennial is.

The story line is that she's out to find a missing friend who everyone has presumed is dead but she's SEEN her alive, that she went to school with, but hasn't talked to or seen for six years, but you know it doesn't matter because of social media, right? Anyway, she gets deeper into her hunt and with help from her friends she eventually does hunt down the missing girl. And that's all I'm going to say except that the last episode doesn't forget that sometimes it's the brightest who very soberingly pays for her and others' mistakes.

I will watch the next 'season'. Seasons are weird now since they showed us 10 episodes bunched in two's and all aired over a short couple of weeks. Progress (and on demand TV).

By Garrison Keillor, November 9 at 8:39 AM via The Washington Post

Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.

So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president. We are so exhausted from thinking about this election, millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. We liberal elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good time, waving their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters, chanting “Lock her up” — we elitists just stood and clapped. Nobody chanted “Stronger Together.” It just doesn’t chant.

The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and that’s their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls. It was pleasure enough for them just to know that they were driving us wild with dismay — by “us,” I mean librarians, children’s authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians, bird-watchers, people who make their own pasta, opera-goers, the grammar police, people who keep books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers exulted in knowing we were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a bratty kid who knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at the mouth.

Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens next.

To all the patronizing B.S. we’ve read about Trump expressing the white working-class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, “Feh!” — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress’s kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.

We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long , brisk walk and smell the roses.

I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of them, drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It was fun. I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people. When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal elitism.

Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true. We all experienced cruelty back in our playground days — boys who beat up on the timid, girls who made fun of the homely and naive — and most of us, to our shame, went along with it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them. But by your 20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is for political pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his noise, even his own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely disliked president since Herbert Hoover. His children will carry the burden of his name. He will never be happy in his own skin. But the damage he will do to our country — who knows? His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they going to get it.

Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran into my gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a landing craft at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about it back then, just made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I saw my biology teacher Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War, still going bird-watching in his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I am studying both of them now. They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of politics has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future is scary. Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more attention to teachers.

And not even anxious one bit for my ballot to arrive in the mail since the media and DNP has already declared a winner.

If you really want to be disillusioned watch how Adam Ruins Voting.

The time has come.

In December, 2009 I was coming home from an Alaskan disaster deployment and rode with another couple to their home before being taken south to Mt. Angel in the airport shuttle. The couple asked me what I did (I always cringed since FEMA was not popular, never has been). But they asked where I'd been and when I told them they asked how is Alaska? I answered, "Alaska is melting".

If this article is true and we've tipped past the no return point, we should begin to see articles on the Tundra dying, the ecological system of Alaska (and all our northern hemisphere). Once this begins the ozone layer will only grow bigger and there is no way to stop it, nor mend it.

As a species we're sure in a goddamned hurry to destroy ourselves and everything else on the planet. Now what's this about the sanctity of human life? I don't get it.

if you gentlemen would sit down, relax for the next 4 years, and let the women handle the world, I believe you'll find us all not the worse for wear. A woman in charge will not be worse, possibly not better, just different.

So far as I can tell the only thing wrong with women in politics is that, either by accident or design, they become politicians. I believe it's going to be up to We, The People Women to make sure the leader of the free world knows how we feel, and it will either be in support or struggle. The hope here is that with either one good things will happen anyway.

And finally, there's nothing like a good point well made:

(which reminds me to call the clerks office again and make them send me a voter registration card with my correct address)

Since I've plopped myself back down in the conservative county of my youth I've worked on keeping my political views to myself, something my conservative neighbors and folks in general can't seem to do.

I allow my Dad to bluster until I hear him rant about something he's read or heard that is just simply runny cow dung and then attempt to convince him it's runny cow dung.

When he was very ill I found myself keeping his closest friends updated on how he was doing. Unfortunately I'm in their email contacts. What this means is that I too am being covered in runny cow dung. Here's the latest:

SAVE THE DATE!
Democrat Convention Schedule
Monday, July 25, 2016
11:15 AM Free lunch, medical marijuana, and bus ride to the Convention
1:30 PM Forms distributed for Food Stamp enrollment.

3:15 PM Group Voter Registration for Illegal Immigrants.

4:30 PM Address on "Being the Real You" - Rachel Dolezal, former Head of the Seattle NAACP and Caitlyn Jenner

4:45 PM "How to Bank $200 Million as a Public Servant and claim to be broke", Hillary Clinton

5:00 PM How to have a successful career without ever having a job, and still avoid paying taxes! A Seminar moderated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson

5:30 PM Medal of Freedom presentation to Army deserter Bo Bergdahl for serving with Honor and Distinction, National Security Advisor Susan Rice

6:30 PM Invitation-only Autograph Session Souvenir photographs of Hillary and Chelsea dodging Sniper Fire in Bosnia

7:30 PM General vote on praising Baltimore rioters, and on using the terminology "Alternative Shoppers" instead of Looters"

8:30 PM Breakout session with Bill Clinton for women on avoiding the upcoming draft

9:00 PM The White House "Semantics Committee" Meeting General vote on re-branding "Muslim Terrorism" as "Random Acts of Islamic Over-Exuberance"

9:15 PM "Liberal Bias in Media How we can make it work for you! Tutorial sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, The Washington Post and the New York Times
With Guest Speaker, Brian Williams

9:45 PM Tribute Film to the Brave Freedom Fighters Still incarcerated at GITMO, Michael Moore

11:00 PM Personal Finance Seminar - "Businesses Don't Create Jobs", Special guest Pocahontas aka Elizabeth Warren

11:30 PM Short film, "Setting Up Your Own Illegal Email Server While Serving in a Cabinet Post and How to Pretend It's No Big Deal", Hosted by Hillary Clinton

Official Nomination of Hillary, Bill Maher and Chris Matthews

~~sigh I wish conservatives would make it easier to respect, or even like them. I see it's mostly about narrowing the typical conservative's world (9:15), and spewing a constant barrage of lies over and over.

Although I'm not getting near as many email spam in my spam folder the ones I get are doozies. Outside those that want to help me grow something I don't have till it's huge, this one made me chuckle:

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - SCAMMED VICTIM COMPEBSATION

I had no idea the FBI could compebsate me for getting scammed! How do they know I'm getting scammed? Just who is scamming who here! Just exactly who is it that can't spell that's picked me to scam?!

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