Autographs

I saw the President on line in Louisiana viewing the hurricane damage--as he should have been.

But he was writing his autograph on blank pieces of paper and giving them out to people at a meeting, telling them, "you can get $10,000 for this on E-Bay."

I went on E-Bay for the first time in my life and saw that autographed copies of The Art of the Deal were selling for $500 "or best offer".

I know lying is part of his deal, but why would he tell people who could really use $10,000 that, when it wasn't true.

Lordy, Lordy.

I just don't get this guy....

 

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2800

This is my 2803rd post!

I never knew I thought that much!

I prefer to drift through life--reading books, cooking, walking the dog, talking with friends. (That last one is off the list for now.)

But obviously I am an opinionated man!

So here's an opinion: the DNC was about possibility and hope while the RNC was about gloom and doom.

Last night the president seemed to blame Joe Biden and the Democrats for all the bad things that have happened since he's been president....Pause and ponder that.

At the RNC it was like Covid-19 didn't really exist, that the economy isn't in tatters and that all the violence (very little when you consider the entire BLM movement) is Joe's fault.

Elect Joe, the message was, and the country is going to hell in a hand basket.

As if we aren't in hell already during the president's term.

Things are so strange--and what was really strange was over a thousand people at the president's speech with no social distance and few and far between masks.

What does that say to you?

"Every thing is fine...."

Everything is definitely NOT fine. We are in the midst of a group of crises brought on by this administration.

Already 4 Covid cases from the RNC. What will we know in a week or two about last night?

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The Storm

 I went to Stop and Shop for a few things this afternoon.

As soon as I got in the car it started to rain really, really hard.

I could hardly see on the mile drive back home.

I sat in the car listening to NPR for almost 20 minutes, waiting for it to slacken up.

It didn't.

So, I got soaked during the 15 foot walk from my car to my house.

My cell phone was getting notifications every three minutes or so about a tornado warning.

This is Connecticut, not Oklahoma! Why are we getting tornadoes? 

Global Warming is screwing everything up. And who is going to address that?

Our current President?

I think not. He thinks it's all a hoax!!!

The notifications told us to go to the basement or an 'interior room'--a room without windows.

The only rooms in our house without windows are our downstairs half-bath and our second bathroom upstairs.

I told Bern I'd take the downstairs one and she and Brigit could take the larger upstairs one.

But we didn't have to.

The worst is over in this storm.

But we HAVE to address Global Warning.

Which only Biden/Harris will do.

Mark the date and vote!

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Anti-abortionist Abby Johnson

She spoke at the RNC.

She used to work for Planned Parenthood but is now a rabid anti-abortionist.

She also has said several times that she supports 'head of household' voting.

That means only one vote for each married couple.

Effectively she wants to take the vote from women almost exactly a hundred years after the 19th Amendment gave women the vote.

She said, when confronted, 'imagine that, a wife and husband agreeing or a wife who honors her husband as the head of their home. Gasp! What a biblical concept."

That's who votes for the president (who will not be named here).

Disenfranchising women.

You want to vote with her?

Ponder that.

Then vote.

https://youtu.be/j-xNDlTxExs link to my youtube blob. All opinions here are mine and mine alone.

 

A joke by Mike Miano I just read on comments to my blog

A priest, a minister and a rabbit walk into a bar.

The rabbit says, "This must be a typo."

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The RNC

OK, here's the truth--I can only watch it for a few minutes at a time.

I hate to be lied to, misled and given false information. It insults my intelligence and makes me angry.

The fact checker for CNN was asked by Chris Cuomo, after a report of dozens of misleading statements and outright lies (Rep. Ganz said that Democrats would ask terrorists to move in next door to you!), "why didn't you fact check the Democratic Convention?"

The checker replied, "I did, right here, but it wasn't news because there were hardly any misinformation--maybe a few 'reaching too far', but no lies. The 4 days of the DNC didn't come anywhere near this first night of the RNC."

He does this for a living--but I know when I'm being misled, lied to and being intimidated with falsehoods.

And that's what it is.

And the president on every night? That's never happened at a Convention. He simply can't hear himself talk enough....

And Mike Pompeo speaking from a foreign country (Israel no less!) about domestic politics--which is not only against the Hatch Act but against his own State Department's clear rules. Give me a break!

And Don Jr.'s girlfriend screeching out untruths?

Alas and alack.

Dozens of former Republican office holders have endorsed Biden.

At least 4 Republican groups are making campaign ads against the President.

He has not only dismantled the country, he's dismantled the Republican Party, which I used to respect, if not vote for.

And oh, one other thing, one of the president's most vocal Evangelical supports--Liberty University's President, Jerry Falwell, Jr.--has resigned because it has come to light that he and his wife have had a long term sexual relationship with another man.

Alas and alack, I used to respect, if not agree with, Evangelicals--but no more, not given their blind devotion to the current President.

Hard times for me and our beloved country.

This has got to end.

 

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(all opinions in my blog are mine and mine alone. Jim)  

Another strange day

And not just because of the Republican Convention (I'll have much more about this week, beloved) but because I had another back ache night.

You might remember I wrote before about a backache a week ago now, that sent me to the emergency room and weirdly disappeared so they let me leave w/o seeing a doctor at 4:30 a.m.

Well, last night I woke up at 3:30 a.m. with the same pain--mid-back, excruciating. Nothing helped but sitting in an adirondack chair on our deck with my feet up. And even that only made it possible to wait until urgent care opened at 8 a.m.

(An aside about 'weirdly': that violates the old trope we all learned in grade school--'i before e except when following c or as sounded as a as in neighbor or weigh'. It took an English major 73 years to notice that!)

Anyway, Bern took me to urgent care and, true to fashion, the pain went away as I talked with the nurse. This time I wisely waited until an x-ray. The doctor said she couldn't see anything, but since they used a portable x-ray machine, which wasn't as clear as real ones, she told me to call my oncologist and tell her all about (almost all doctors I go to are women--even my urologist!) what urgent care found and have more tests.

Dr. Alsamari (I knew spell check wouldn't like that!) is on vacation until Monday but her assistants are getting the info from urgent care and will either call me or Dr. Alsamari and give me an appointment.

I can only pray (and ask you to) that I don't have another episode between now and then. Other than apendictis years ago, I've never had such bad pain any other time in my life.

After my appendix was removed, Bishop Smith visited me in the hospital. I woke up and saw him and holding out the little switch for my morphine drip and said, "hey, Bishop, want to try this?"

He never let me forget that.

More on the RNC later today. 

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