— the Buddha
By Blue Bronc, a Trail Mix Contributor
What can we do outside of politics? Is everything political?
Sometimes I wonder about those questions. When I was young I thought the answers were always “a lot” and “no”. Now I see and live those are no longer the answers. The real answers are more grey than any other color. In the light world white is the reflection of everything and black is the absorption of it all. Are our political times this binary?
Right now I am building a Linux laptop computer. It started last year when it appears the Russian IC people broke my computer. That is a nice phrase for they hacked it and destroyed it. For many decades the Russians and I have had a less than kissy face life. So I spent a lot of time trying to isolate what happened and finally decided to trash the hard drive and build a new computer system. Out with the crap and in with the replacement.
So I tried rebuilding a Windows 10 machine. Forget that. MS has made it very difficult to recover, even with a backup copy.
Years ago, many decades now, I had IBM OS/2 V 4 WARP running for most of my computers. I also set up a Windows 95 computer for one son, the others were on Red Hat Linux. You might guess I am a computer person. We had the entire house wired for networks and multiple operating systems. No matter where you were in the house, you had Internet access and a computer.
Then Red Hat went enterprise only. IBM OS/2 went only commercial (and broke up with Microsoft) and the only game in town were some Linux systems and Microsoft Windows. Apple was not a player back then.
So by now you are asking “what the hell are you talking about?” Well, you have to understand a lot behind the technology which is in the media. Keep reading.
We are now around 2000ish. The importance of hardware finally catching up with software is finally here. Prior to this date software was always (actually it is always) ahead of the hardware (computers). Right around this time memory technology started to improve, and reach a point where it could support a lot of software. Prices of memory and processors started dropping. Technology was finally approaching what software could do.
This is when the first major “social media” appeared, MySpace. I still have my account. I am not including the AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve as background. Those were created in a limited Internet access a long time ago. Although very important for many of us, those were not on the “internet”.
The use of the Internet to affect actions was known from the beginnings. There is a tremendous body of work out there to explore that. What we want to consider it what the Soviet/Russian FSB/SVR/GRU (KGB) did to American voters. I will look at that over time.
What is important is that the influence of the Internet has changed as the ease of information access changed. The easier, and faster, the information arrives has changed what we live now.
From the 1980’s on, it was how CNN moved the news cycle to 24/7. Of course that is BS as it was more of one little piece of info was pulled, pounded and screwed to form “news” for more than an hour.
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bbronc, wonderful Buddha quote. ‘cepting it isn’t from Buddha according to some guy at fakebuddhaquotes . but what does he know. thanks anyway. beautiful thought whether from guatama’s lips or not and worth quoting to us. looks like you fit sjwny’s category
“Everyone who comments here is intelligent, thoughtful, capable of interesting, informative conversation.”
but as I pointed out to sjwny last of last thread, not EVERY one here, not quite qualifying to make that high bar I slipped in under the radar somehow….
the guardian: Woman who gave Trump the middle finger fired from her job
A woman whose picture went viral after she raised her middle finger at Donald Trump as his motorcade passed her on her bicycle has been fired from her job.
Juli Briskman was cycling in Virginia last month when she offered the gesture in a gut reaction to Trump’s policies, she said.
“He was passing by and my blood just started to boil,” she told the Huffington Post. “I’m thinking, Daca recipients are getting kicked out. He pulled ads for open enrollment in Obamacare. Only one third of Puerto Rico has power. I’m thinking, he’s at the damn golf course again.
“I flipped off the motorcade a number of times.”
A photographer traveling with the presidential motorcade snapped Briskman’s picture and the image quickly spread across news outlets and social media. Many hailed Briskman as a hero, with some saying she should run in the 2020 election. Late-night comedy hosts also picked up the story.
Briskman had been working as a marketing and communications specialist for a Virginia-based federal contractor, Akima, for six months. She thought it best to alert the HR department to the online fuss. Bosses then called her into a meeting, she said.
“They said, ‘We’re separating from you,’” Briskman told the Huffington Post. “‘Basically, you cannot have lewd or obscene things in your social media.’ So they were calling flipping him off obscene.”
She said the company was displeased she had used the image as her profile picture on Twitter and Facebook, and told her it violated social media policy and could hurt the company’s reputation as a government contractor.
Briskman said she pointed out that her social media pages do not mention her employer, and that the incident happened on her own time. She also said another employee had written a profane insult about someone on Facebook, but had been allowed to keep his job after deleting the post and being reprimanded.
Virginia, however, has “at will” employment laws, meaning private-sector employers can fire people for any reason.
Suddenly, the 50-year-old mother of two found herself looking for a new job.
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The sun rises on the internets. The trail is a sight (site) for sore eyes. The winos have been struggling through plumbing problems and internets outage. It must be election day in Virginia!
A beautiful morning glory to the trail.
A little edit is necessary. real or fake, it should read “the Buddha”.
BB, that’s fascinating. As a mere consumer who couldn’t write a line of code I am in awe of people who understand such things. My nephew programs and maintains inventory and accounting systems for a national rental company. He’s a lot smarter than I am.
BB, an interesting post on the evolution of tv and communications. I grew-up with a phone party line, there were still ‘operators’ and a long distance call was a life stopping event in many households. I also grew-up with the campfire tv. I remember humans used to stand outside of tv shops and watch the news as they did not own a tv. I lived in a black and white world until the sixties when color exploded onto tv. Then came satellite broadcasts over digital networks vs the old analog networks with multiplexers that had to move and amplify sound waves along the air miles. Humans before me had only radio. And today we are merging all technologies where humans carry their tv and vid replaces the old voice and soon typing. Abbreviated communication. Miniaturization, more bandwidth for digital global communication. And when it goes down? Despair. (one of my favorite comics from 1970)
bw, tech-wise, a chip in every brain next. no need to type or to talk… just think it. then, welcome chaos and anarchy.
BB: Love the quote, no matter who said it, it’s a beautiful sentiment. The internet hasn’t really brought us together as early adapters may have dreamed. The more I see of what’s out there, the more I realize that the internet has made spreading hate and evil far easier than spreading love and goodness. Just look at what happened in 2016!
I heard something recently relating the fact that Putin actually hates America. Seems to me that if Vladdy wanted to completely destroy and discredit the United States of America, he succeeded brilliantly. All he had to do was get a dysfunctional, clueless buffoon elected President. He didn’t even need to fire a shot! His weapon was the internet. The rest, as they say is/will be history!
well, always knew he was a blowhard, but not necessarily a hardnosed leaf blower
newser:
A lawyer for the neighbor accused of assaulting Sen. Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home says the “unfortunate occurrence” had nothing to do with the political beliefs of either man. “It was a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial,” says Matthew Baker, attorney for 59-year-old physician Rene Boucher. How trivial? Another neighbor tells CNN that Boucher and Paul have been “quibbling” for years over leaves and other yard waste blowing onto each other’s lawns in their gated community outside Bowling Green. The neighbor says he didn’t witness Friday’s altercation, so he can’t say if yard waste was the problem this time.
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bw, about those “plumbing problems”…. sure hope they’re external and not internal ones and that they’re fixed before they affect the innards.
Been trying to catch-up on posts. I found The Onion had the best headline regarding the texas church shooting —
Nation To Wait For More Facts On Texas Shooting Before Doing Absolutely Nothing About It
Craig, could you please point that assault weapon away from the trail!
patd, I advise all retirees to find a good plumber. Our plumber died during our first year of retirement and it has been trial and error, ever since. No exploding toilets, but despair about repair.
One of the nicest memories, Blonde Wino, is of the farmhouse where I grew up filled with Mennonite neighbors as they joined my family in watching Neil Armstrong take one small step for man. I was on the floor in front of the tv. Turning around, I saw the wonder in the faces of my neighbors who lived intentionally without electricity & modern amenities watching a man walk on the moon. I love this memory; it spans the ages. Technology as a moment of good.
‘Akin to the Cold War, we face a long-term challenge that has to be managed and mitigated. For as long as we use the Internet, adversaries like those in Putin’s Russia will seek to exploit it and us. The question now is our response. History will record that Donald Trump became president aided in some part by the most important and successful cyber attack to occur so far. Will history then also record that we did nothing about it?’
from Wired.
The war is on our ‘communicators’ along with the physical wars of bombs, guns, knives and poison. We are fighting wars on so many fronts. Exhausted citizens ducking the fire of guns and fake news. Most cling to their guns and religion…I am clinging to my humor and science.
Nice memory, sj and the dream of the global information highway became the internets with fast lanes, cops and robbers and spam sewers. The good stuff has to travel in the light of day to not become victim of the blind allies, hacks and fake doorways to crime. Avoid the internet ghettos at all costs. Never look a troll in the eye.
the runt paul takedown…doctors physically fighting over yard waste…like an episode of Judge Judy. Scary these guys handle your organs in their professional lives.
Thank you trail for letting me catch-up on comments….you may ‘flush’ my comments as you like! Many days without internet communications here and it shows!
BW, in my book plumbing ranks second only to drywall finishing as odious home repair tasks.
Love the Onion headline – if only it were a gag.
We’ll attribute that fine quote to our own inner Buddha — that site, PatD, is interesting, this real quote could be our motto:
BB went and reminded me of the Compuserve Group I belonged to strangely enough named “The Village Elders”. They were for the most part very literate and as equally funny and inventive as here. Just to give you a taste, we all worshiped at The Church of the Mobile Bunny and when the annual March into March was held, I was the bagpipe playing koala astride the very plaid horse of many colors.
how does one know for sure what the Buddha did NOT say?
On the technology front it was very much a mixed bag. One aunt with an RFD address had a wall mounted party line phone. Another aunt was married to an AirResearch engineer with a round screen & magnifier in the living room in 1947. My first adult job was as a phone operator in 1961 when we were still doing “ring downs” of party lines in the hills above Covina, CA and connecting to Long Distance operators.
Julie Briskman is certainly getting a lot of friendly attention on Twitter https://twitter.com/julibriskman
BBronc… I’m still scratching my head…. and I read every word 🙂
Plumbing is one of the few things Rick hates to tackle. If it’s a simple fix… he’ll do it… but otherwise he calls our reliable, although way too busy, plumber. BlondeW… good luck!
Yeah… I’ve been online since the 80s… lots and lots of changes since then.
BB
Great post. My computer/online life was put together by a young friend (son of a friend) and I immediately stayed up all night playing games..he said it would help me!
BB, your post got me thinking about one of my favorite books of all time — “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Thanks for reminding me. You could update it as “Computer Maintenance”
I think an important element of being a thoughtful trail hand is being able and willing to defend one’s strident opinions. An example would be my disdain of Bernie both as a politician and as a human being.
The enduring memory I have of my early online days was discovering AOL chat rooms. It always fascinated me that just about any topic of interest I had could be enjoyed with other enthusiasts in real time, either in partial or total anonymity.
That evolution progressed from those early chat rooms to blogging. But somehow I never moved that through to MySpace or Facebook or Twitter.
For me, I think that my stunted online presence in mediums like those is because I don’t necessarily want to argue or dispute in real time. And that so often seems to be what being active online is about – arguing and disputing. I’m not good at it. Rather I prefer putting a thought out, seeing what if any response there is to it, then thinking through whether and how to respond.
And most times I’m entirely satisfied by reading what others contribute, because I find that it’s really all been said, and said much better than I could say it. I feel like that makes me a bit of an internet coward, but I’m OK with that. I can walk away without being chased, as it were.
As to plumbing – OY! My Lady and I have been dealing with a balky shower head. We’re fortunate that our lovely next door neighbor has a grandson who is a brilliant young journeyman plumber. He’s done a lot for us around the Travis and Pam abode, including the kitchen sink!
One last thing – I second BW. Let’s get that AR-15 pointed somewhere else.
Cheers!
Understand that the human we know as the Buddha was a spoiled individual raised in a privileged environment. Through trials and tribulations he discovered and implemented his holy virtues. Quite simply, he followed the Middle Path.
Ha, RR — Blue Bronc’s post is what I call creative mystification. I appreciate this style of writing because it makes the reader think, perhaps in entirely different directions than the writer intends, which makes it more fun.
I recently achieved a minor plumbing victory. Replaced a toilet flap with no trouble (yes OK, it’s probably the easiest plumbing task there is).
Plumbing problems inevitably occur in places that are inaccessible or damn near inaccessible, put you under a waste pipe dripping things you really don’t want dripping on you, or just won’t frigging stop dripping. I may change my mind and say that I’d rather finish drywall.
The internet, and computers, are tools. You can easily hurt yourself with tools; sometimes, they turn on you. But use them correctly, and you can build wonders.
I remind myself of that whenever I run afoul of something or someone on the internet . . . that I have met and befriended terrific people; that I have found my terriers because of relationships made on internet dog lists. Reminders are necessary because if you can make a friend online, you can make an enemy. It’s good to know when to step away for a while and shut the computer down for a while.
And, of course, I have those dogs to walk.
Poobah, I love Zen and the Art… Pirsig did a wonderful job with that book. I read it a couple of times back in the late 70s – That was back in my days as a counselor so I was more in tune to the mental health issues in the book and the relationship between Phaedrus and his son, but I was still interested in philosophy having just finished up undergrad school so I appreciated the contrast between Phaedrus and his motorcycling friend. Prolly should read it again – I would probably appreciate the philosophical slants more now.
There is a world out there.
What the Hell Just Happened in Saudi Arabia
Speaking of the bizarre (I know we weren’t)
Watch a Donna Brazile interview on CBS this morning. Boy was she ever back peddling from her book exerpt on politico.
Like a fickle lover assuring you that last nights escapade with your best friend really didn’t mean anything.
Go Donna lol, popcorn please
Jack
BB,
I did my most profitable work programming in basic for my Radio Shack notebook computer. The year was probably 1985. In the early ’80s the computing choices were Apple, Commodore and Radio Shack. I disliked programming on the Apple(2) intensely. I really liked my Commodore 64 and the little Radio Shack. I did productive programming on both those pre-IBM machines.
I can do just bout any plumbing, but since it usually involves either nasty liquids or getting down on my back under the sink wishing I had a third hand and an extra joint in my arm. Any more I put it just above roofing as my least favorite construction task. I put auto repair (something I used to not mind doing) right down there too.
Being a slow adapter I got my first computer and got on line in 1998.
I was an AOL baby,
So I witnessed the miracle of the google search engine and watched success destroy it. Am now waiting for someone to creat a better replacement. It is needed. Up until Win 10 I was satisfied with MS but now I’m looking for something better for my computer. All most all of my online experience is on my laptop. I sometimes use the phone but it is a poor substitute imo.
Jack
Melania’s exotic wardrobe on this trip must rival cost of fuel for Air Force One.
Did she have a bowl of garnets for breakfast
Many people are saying she is using her first lady budget on her clothes.
And like Suckabee she is so lovely and a wonderful representative of the US Can’t wait to see her back on QVC
travis, re blogworld, am with you almost verbatim about “arguing and disputing. I’m not good at it. Rather I prefer putting a thought out, seeing what if any response there is to it, then thinking through whether and how to respond.”
possibility ponderings with partners can be fun. online wandering around the wonders of the world and wondering about wanderers of the world. as broadening to the soul as soul food is broadening to the butt. sorta why I love the trail and the mix of trailhands here. never know what golden nugget or rattlesnake you’ll step on next.
Pogo, was just reading up on Pirsig and so sorry to learn he died just last April at 88 after a long illness. Wish I had known and taken note of it. With one book he fired the imaginations of so many, not a bad legacy.
Jack, you nailed plumbing beautifully – it was just that under the sink work I had to do Sunday night that raised the issue. The only thing missing is the cabinet door that opens the wrong way keeping you from reaching into the sink base with the other arm without trying to wedge into a 22″ cabinet door opening.
Poobah, I didn’t realize Pirsig died. Sorry to hear it.
jack, my question re purge by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, wha’ happens to the Wahhabis?
are they still in on the running of all things evil backed by the kingdom?
KC,
Your sarcasm is dripping like the nasty liquids Jack mentioned. LOL
Talks are dead…disney NOT buying rupert’s empire. The president’s channel is not budging on percentages of power.
As for the house of cards? A writer’s dream — impeachment followed by suicide.
bw, claire or melanoma spiking the tea?
mel’s body double, patd.
Maybe it is nostalgia with the recent pompeo release of the jfk assassination files…seeing the ‘hats’ with police power in texas during the small town shooting? A throw back to the 1960’s for me. Just like dallas and the cops that let ruby kill oswald.
perhaps donald and francis, together hand in hand (or on other body part), ride off into the sunset
patd…more like an earth-set on the moon.
BTW, hawking is back at it. Send machines into space, I say in response to his tirade. Human bags of water are too heavy to travel. Send machines like the voyagers.
“Our physical resources are being drained at an alarming rate,” he said. “We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change. Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation and decimation of animal species. We can be an ignorant, unthinking lot.
“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth.”
Bags of water are hard to get off of the planet…I prefer to stay and jetison the repugs to the moon, a-la-kramden style.
nbcnews: Carter Page Coordinated Russia Trip With Top Trump Campaign Officials
also from nytimes:
A former Trump campaign adviser told Congress he had a private conversation with a Russian deputy prime minister during the 2016 presidential campaign and that at least two members of the president’s team were aware, providing more details to what is publicly known about Moscow’s access to President Trump’s circle, according to a congressional transcript released late Monday.
“I’ll send you guys a readout soon regarding some incredible insights and outreach I’ve received from a few Russian legislators and senior members of the Presidential administration here,” the former adviser, Carter Page, wrote in a July 8, 2016, email to campaign staff members after he spoke with Arkady Dvorkovich, the deputy prime minister.
The New York Times first reported the fact that Mr. Page notified campaign officials about his meetings in Moscow, but the transcript, which is over 200 pages long, discloses the names of those advisers — Tera Dahl and J.D. Gordon — and the identity of the Russian official, Mr. Dvorkovich. Mr. Page’s testimony also revealed that more campaign staff members were aware of his July 2016 trip to Russia than had previously been disclosed, including Jeff Sessions, who is now the attorney general.
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Travis
Truly miss your thoughtful writings on your blog. The folks you attracted were almost equally intelligent and interesting conversationalists. Anything that ranges from dancing to military history can’t be all bad.
I leave the trail with a sky view from a couple of months ago…cloud hair cut.
As a life long researcher, I adore Google even though it is getting harder to navigate with all the paid up front content and advertising. Even its translator is easily usable if a little deficient in colloquialisms.
That being said for those engaged in multiple language encounters and the global trekkers amongst us, there will soon be the PILOT from Waverly Labs to translate in real time.
Pogo
Not sarcasm, something I learned from Doodlesdogs ..the language of Trumpspeak or alternativefacts
KGC…. I don’t care what you call it… I call it damn funny!
Ms. Graham Cracker and I are on the same Orwellian, and not Carter, page.
For instance, makes no difference to me what fashion Mrs. Trompe l’oeil is wearing. It could be an Alexander McQueen, Kathie Lee Gifford or Moon Maid’s strapless bodysuit. Nope. She can spare the expense. Because I merely see her loveliness, evident in those naked shots she from her early modeling days. You know, when she was first landed here on her green card.
And she does wear the humiliation of being married to *45 well.
Jamie,
Sometimes I miss blogging. Or rather, I should probably say that I miss having something that inspires me enough to share it out in the bloggosphere. It took me about 10 years to say pretty much all I had to say about life, the universe, and everything.
I did enjoy the core group. You’re right. They were (are still I suspect), some pretty smart folk. I’m most definitely glad to have met you out there, because you brought me here.
Mrs. Trompe l’oeil
Wow, that is fabulous!
kgc, well done!
on that same faux art note a ms. whitney kimbel posted this Saturday:
Is Melania Holding Donald’s Hand?
I’ve been staring at this photo for 20 minutes now. Are his fingers interlocking from the top? Is this a polyhedron in three dimensions stellated to form n dimensions a la M. C. Escher? A trompe l’oeil in which the skin has merged into a color field with fingernails sticking out? Or does her entire fist fit all the way around his baby-sized fingers?
In any case, today FLOTUS or her body double was once again trotted out to another official appearance, possibly because Melania is the most popular Trump right now. (It’s not a contest, but the Trump team sent an email poll anyway to make sure that that wasn’t fake news.) Today, the Trumps made a “very moving” trip to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She hugged a child; they went on a boat; a large crowd bade them “aloha” with colorful signs.
Her fist obscured his, and from the back, they appeared affectionate.
Thsnks Pat but the credit is to Doodlesdogs
bravo, mr doodlesdog! and thank you kgc for reposting it for us to savor.
the twit is indeed an illusion…. and delusional.
btw, “trump oily” is a genre in the non art world of deals meaning slick and sleazy
Saw Donna Brazile on the View…..She looked like Black George Washington.
Plumber’s gotta know just 3 things:
Shit flows downhill,
Payday’s on Friday,
and Dont chew your fingernails.
It’s nice down here under the radar.
Imus played Sir Douglas Quintet’s “She’s About a Mover” this morning….they’s some memories in that one……Doug Sahm…..we thought they were just another English white band, turned out they was Texas, and Doug played steel onstage with Hank Williams during what would turn out to be Hank’s last performance.
“Lay it on me, Augie.”
BW
We are already spreading the junk around space.
Oh Susana! Quack…lame duck gov wastes more money on veto power. The repugs and the cosmetics of explaining failure.
How does the Buddha order his hot dog?
“Make me one with everything.”
I thought B-da took everything with one!
Code pink protester freed from laughing charge…she was facing six months in jail.
Doug and Augie visit Hef
Travis
Even if you have given up on daily something to say in a blog, I hope you will continue to drop in here regularly with something to add.
Trump doesn’t want “extreme vetting” for American-born mass killers.
trump was never vetted.
Oy, missing the mooch — the mooch and the miracle in the desert. trump’s biggest mistake was getting rid of this guy.
“I couldn’t be more excited to see for myself how this ‘miracle in the desert’ continues to flourish, lead and innovate,” Scaramucci said in a statement. “My investments are all about belief in markets and Israel is one of the most compelling markets in the world. ” He called Israel “a beacon of democracy, an incubator for innovation.”
Scaramucci recently came under fire after posting an online quiz about the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. He later apologized for the post and pledged to donate $25,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Doug, Augie, Flaco Jimenez, and Freddy Fender…….
jamie…in 1990’s, my friend worked here in NM for NASA at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center in LC. He used to track space junk via a telescope (on Ted Turner’s property). I have seen the telescope as it was horizontal grid and my friend told me that because of our drier air here, the scope was put in NM. I have trespassed onto Turner’s land when he was in the process of buying the land. He was still married to Jane Fonda. I need to go through some old photos and post them. Turner bought the Armendaris Land Tract from the old time Spanish land grant days. It used to be on the old maps of NM. Just a lovely slice of history and space and time. Turner was a Civil War enthusiast and the Valverde site (I have photos) is located here in NM.
More Oy, the not so secret plan to get Iran. trump’s only power consolidates in the ME. He is an Asian failure.
24 hours news. It was a good idea, it just didn’t work.
CNN’s Turner…his ranch in NM. I know Craig was in the green room with Turner…I would have loved that moment. Just to talk with him about the ranch as I have been there. Used to be a rail stop for bat guano mining to SoCal citrus industry. Rope lava and bats…plus a USGS site for the old timer topographic maps. Just incredible history.
Sturge good stuff
Then there is my favorite Texas Tornado song
https://youtu.be/ZIW2Teg4F6k
Just when I thought youtube’s algorithm had shot craps, it picks this gem out of the muck.
Tejanos, doing Hank
https://youtu.be/lZsdvn2uJH0
With Sir David Letterman….song starts around 7:40
This fool is going to get us all killed.
Frustrated Trump Scrubs Surprize Visit to DMZ
Another gem, cute kids
Time for celebration!!
Democrats win governors race in VA and New Jersey.
The Wapo had this
Makes me smile.
Jack
45…..pacing in the wings……flop sweat damp…….the scene is set…..they’re all around him, getting wet, telling him he can do it, he can do it…….get out there and Speech…..but read the damned Prompter!
When democrats win……the GOP begins to lie and cheat harder.
Next viral video and meme fodder:
Walking down the aisle after his Korean speech, accepting the kudos of one and all without ever once noticing or acknowledging that Melania was there……must be kinda tough to be a Mrs Trump.
Sturg, I thought Sir Douglas Quintet was British, too – but never cared for their hit. It drags a bit for my taste.
We played the hell out of it cause it was catchy, and most of all, because it was easy enough for a bunch of musical illiterates to get away with…..that was very important back then.
bw, ted did get around. always will be grateful for his bison project. here’s a bit about his florida property
from an old 2003 clipping in sptimes:
With his personal secretary in tow Monday, media mogul Ted Turner walked into the Jefferson County Tax Collector’s Office to get his Florida driver’s license.
“Of course, my computer went down,” said Key, recalling Thursday how the routine transaction in tiny Monticello turned into a 20-minute ordeal. So the deputy clerk and the flamboyant billionaire began to chat.
Key let on that her cousins work at Turner’s 22,000-acre plantation in nearby Capps, a wide spot in the road along U.S. 27, east of Tallahassee. Turner remarked that it’s a small world.
“He was getting kind of restless, but he was a nice guy,” said Key, who registered her customer under his legal name, Robert Edward Turner III.
That the pioneer of cable television, a long-time Atlanta resident, would want a Florida driver’s license was not terribly big news. Turner had owned the plantation, a hunting preserve called Avalon, since 1984. Locals had glimpsed him over the years, eating in restaurants, hosting fundraisers with former wife Jane Fonda, shopping for sporting goods, paddling down the Wacissa River.
It was a clue, however, to an announcement two days later that would stun the business world. Turner, 64, said Wednesday that he was quitting as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner’s board to pursue personal and philanthropic interests and that he was moving his legal residence to Florida.
A spokeswoman said Turner was making the move for tax reasons, …..
sunglass bespectacled jane and ted were now and then spotted enjoying afternoon movies in tallahassee