A no-Trump no-Hillary day
Well, not really. You can discuss him or her or both or neither in the comments section of this post, if you like.
But I thought I’d give Trump and Hillary a well-deserved rest today—at least, a rest from being discussed on this blog by me. Ah, would that neither was a nominee, and we could rest from discussing them permanently, because they’d be retired from public life and enjoying their grandchildren.
Ooops—did I just discuss them? Seems I no sooner got on the wagon than I slipped off of it. Well, the road on which the wagon is riding is awfully bumpy these days.
So let’s all have a nice weekend. It’s summer. Go out with your families, enjoy the scenery, go to the ocean, go to the lake, stay home and veg out in front of the TV, whatever suits your fancy.
California has its problems; but, one thing the state and communities have done well is set aside space for parks and recreation. Within a mile of home I can be on a walking/biking trail that makes its way from suburban sprawl into the mountains. Although it is surprising how many people are out before six AM–especially on weekends– during the week there is often the opportunity for valued solitude. After a walk of thirty minutes, it can seem that civilization with its distractions are left behind.
My wife and I got a meal at a local breakfast place here in Houston, enjoyed talking with a Tennessee transplant who was marveling at the portion sizes (they are huge), sat outside on this rare low-humidity day, talked with our daughter in Michigan.
Yes, so much more to life than politics! Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from commenting incessantly on one of Neo’s other threads 🙂
Our son flew into town. Yaay. Too long since our last visit. Outta here.
Grand-daughter sleep-over last night while Brother was out camping with Dad. Princess Parties rock! And we’ve been watching a kids ballet video so she can practice, so we’ll look at the Swan Lake post together later.
Nice break from the heat and humidity here in Iowa. The morning started with a short lived thunderstorm around 5AM. Its 70 and breezy now with a cool night ahead. We often get a few days of autumn in August as a tease before the late summer heat returns.
Our garden beds are providing tomatoes, green beans, greens, eggplants, and potatoes. We picked 3 pints of raspberries in our backyard patch. We will visit the local orchard later for the first crop of apples. Life is bountiful.
Difficult to enjoy the weekend when I sign on to AOL.COM today to read my email only to see a banner headline about the NYT (“major bombshell”) just-released study of Trump’s business dealings – which turns out to be a major nothing-burger. I could ignore that and move on except that, in addition to the written Democratic propaganda there is an annoying voice-over plugin decrying the racial discrimination of Donald Trump (or is it religious discrimination? Or both?) which I cannot turn off using my Task Manager so I must go off-line and on again to get rid of it. I have, of course, emailed them and complained. If they don’t stop (I don’t think they will) then I will have to change my email which I have maintained with aol since dial-up days. What is the matter with tech companies? Don’t they know that half of their customers do not share their political views?
I have read about similar activities of other tech companies and I know about yahoo.com, but is this universal?
parker: you are making me jealous. Not just the grocery stores, even the farmer’s markets around here have tomatoes that taste like wet cardboard.
notherbob2,
Pretty much seems to be. Offhand, I can’t think of a tech company that touts it’s conservatism. Proof that otherwise intelligent people possess their fair share of stupidity.
As of this afternoon I am more than halfway done with the imovie video I am creating for the Rehearsal Dinner we will host in San Francisco for our son and his fiancĂ©e this November. I’ve never done one before and it has been challenging but enjoyable.
At first I thought this would be a 3rd party thread …
Summer is gone so soon, but I love autumn, too.
Believe it or not, I’ve never seen The Untouchables. I just got the DVD the other day, so I think I’ll pour a glass of good Italian wine and watch it.
well didn’t aol, buy the huffington post, and was like the proverbial scorpion hitching a ride on a frog,
Opinions
Jerry Falwell Jr.: Trump is the Churchillian leader we need
Oldflyer,
California is a stunningly beautiful state. Last summer, my teenage son and I did the Highway One drive through Big Sur, then detoured to Yosemite (all the while listening to the Eagles and California classic rock). It was the ultimate summer road trip (and a special time with my youngest child, who will head off to college soon).
I realize why people put up with the wildfires, earthquakes, mudslides not to mention California’s myriad other problems to live there. The natural beauty is incredible.
I heard back from aol:
“Hello there,
Thank you for the comment and we appreciate your passion. Our editors work very hard to provide news that is beyond left and right and is free of bias in any direction. We want the AOL community to be a place where Americans from all political viewpoints feel welcome, and we hope that you will continue to share yours with our community in the comments sections of articles with which you disagree.
Regards,
Lucian
Customer Care Specialist”
Lucian later at the water cooler (do they still have those? Better make it the coffee maker): “Got six more bitches about the “GoDems” program from the old white dial-up tranche today. Your labeling the autoreply button “Old Wacko” is way deal. Huh, as if those a**holes would ever be welcomed here.”
I went flying.
“Jerry Falwell Jr.: Trump is the Churchillian leader we need”
OMG LOL
BTW Jr doesn’t appear to be a historian and is not a minister or pastor. Just sayin.
OM:
Nor is he a historian.
However, sometimes I fear that Trump is the “Churchillian leader” we deserve. He’s certainly the one a lot of people—although far from a majority—seem to have been asking for.
Neo:
Sorry, this was supposed to be “a happy occasion” – a no-Trump no-Hillary Sunday.
So a low-brow link, Sir Lancelot at the wedding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jO1EOhGkY0
This is nice. Let’s have no political threads for the next three years and five months.
I never read a political thread from about 2009 to 2013. Oh, the blogs I read, wrote them up, but I either ignored them or summarized with a very short reply.
As elections weren’t going to solve the issues I was researching.
What is the matter with tech companies? Don’t they know that half of their customers do not share their political views?
I have read about similar activities of other tech companies and I know about yahoo.com, but is this universal?
Those companies don’t like to hire anyone over 30-35 years old. So most of them are college graduates, thus Leftists more or less.
It’s like journalism. Journalism is what it is in the US, an arm of the Democrat party, because the only way to become a journalist is to become “credentialed”. The degree and credential, is controlled by Leftists.
Yahoo and Google love big government, since they easily share information with the feds for all kinds of reasons.