Thursday, May 19, 2016

Got Tools?


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  1. Crummy cold day, Boo. Hiss.

    Plus--Beau's been walking around with a broken collar for I don't know how long. When I went to hook him up last night, I nearly couldn't. Let him out twice today, and *then* remembered to check it. *Both* rivets that hold the buckle and d-ring had broken through the leather. It was just staying closed by custom. Got a rough repair done, and have ordered, on next day delivery, a new collar. Due Friday. Whew!

    AND I want to know where everything went when I wasn't looking??? I used to have some very thin strong wire that would have worked much better than the elastic I did use. And tools. And. . . oh, well.

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  2. I bought a new weed eater on Monday. Just got around to assembling it yesterday and it turns out you need four hands to put it together. My brother and I both had to have hands on to get the shaft snapped together. Little sucker is heavy too, so I guess I'll be building up some arm muscles. Just got tired of trimming the weeds with one of those hand-operated shears. The weeds around the trees and sump pump pipe are pretty much out of control. I did hire a local guy to cut just the back yard two times a month. It takes me two and a half hours to do it myself and I just don't have that kind of energy any more. I still do the front, but I'll admit I like staying in the house and watching the guy zip around on his riding mower finishing the whole back yard in a small fraction of the time it would take me.

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  3. Wow, those are both excellent tools stories for this thread. Hoping the new collar arrives before the elastic gives out. I love your phrase about it staying "by custom." :-)

    I hear you about the weeds and grasses issues, Susan. Mah*Sweetie mows along the gardens with the push mower, bag attached, to keep the grasses from infiltrating the gardens. Then he does most of the rest with the rider mower. The gas-powered weed eaters are incredibly heavy. I don't think I could do it. But I've used shears, too, and I can't do much more of that myself.

    Ah, Spring.

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    1. Oh, I got an electric one. They're quieter and you don't have to go get $2.42 a gallon gas for them. I figure I use a cord for my vacuum, my mixer, my hairdryer, my lawnmower, so I'm used to wrangling the cord and I don't mind it.

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    2. Ever the wise woman.
      They still are a lot to wield. Let it be therapeutic. ;-)

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  4. So! Sophie wrote me back this morning!! As suspected, she needs to send me on to someone else, but she sent me their phone number, so I'll have to try to call next week, since I'm working tomorrow. The reason she can't help me is that my message as to do with the campaign and (OF COURSE!) the Senate folks are required to keep their work completely separate from the campaign. Duh! I knew that from my time volunteering with data entry at Campaign HQ.

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  5. Oh, I really wish Bernie would run an Independent campaign. After all, he's always been an Independent and after the way the Democratic party has treated him so unfairly and so horribly I don't feel he owes them one ounce of loyalty. Hillary is already announcing it's a done deal that she'll be the nominee. And then Joe Biden came out and is headlining a fund-raiser for that b**ch Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I'm so disgusted with the Democratic Party I can hardly breathe. Just rotten to the core they are.

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  6. On Point Radio asked: What do Bernie Sanders supporters want?
    Bernie Sanders supporters on how they see his candidacy, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the future now.
    Here’s the link: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/05/19/what-bernie-sanders-supporters-want

    On their Facebook page, tonight, I wrote:

    I was at an appt at 10am, so I'll comment here. I was a Democrat most of my life, until I saw the way the Party treated its own in Iowa in 2004. I care about the election process. I work at the polls in my town, have volunteered for various candidates and have even run for office. But since 2004 I have been an Independent, and as a Vermonter I know I want Bernie Sanders as my President; in fact, I feel strongly that I cannot vote for the other two candidates. The Democratic Party has shown partiality this whole campaign season, and I refuse to “get on board” when I do not trust Hillary Clinton (and have not since long before she became a candidate).

    Bernie Sanders has shown profound courage, spoken truth to power, and somehow manages, in the midst of a grueling schedule and lifestyle, to speak straight to the heart of a matter without getting waylaid by rhetoric and emotion in the room. We need him so much as our leader, and the world sees this too. I do hope, deeply, that the broken political system’s failure of leadership won’t result in the wrong person being elected. If that does happens, we are going to need true leadership all the more.

    Two wise Sanders supporters, older even than I, one in California and the other in Chicago, posted last night on a very small political blog which I frequent, asking if, should (heaven forbid) Bernie Sanders not get the nomination, he might be willing to establish a new organization analogous to Dean’s Democracy for America or Obama's Organizing for America, but perhaps more active and created for the purposes of furthering real progressive action and encouraging and supporting progressive candidates.

    First things first, of course. It would certainly help this nation’s discernment were the the FBI to complete its investigation before the Democratic Convention. Yet, either way, delegates need to recognise that Sanders polls far better against the Republican candidate than Clinton does. It is incredibly frustrating to see the Democratic Party’s power plays while there is an honest, caring, brilliant and consistent candidate worth voting for. If the broken system reigns and Hillary Clinton becomes the nominee, we will need Bernie Sanders to help us keep on keeping on. Otherwise, I feel certain many people, young and us older folks as well, will give up on the political process altogether.

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  7. IMNSHO: If Hillary gets to be the nominee, the ONLY thing the Dem Party can do to bring any semblance of Unity is for HRC to invite Bernie to be the VP. He would be an awesome Presider of the Senate. If I were him I'd say stuff it. How about if we give that to HRC and have Bernie as President? She's going to lose anyway, and if Voldemort becomes President, then it's on the heads of the leaders of the Dem Party.

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  8. Gee, listener--longer but in the same vein as what I wrote to Barbara Boxer! Here are a couple of links, and now I must get back to work, having had dinner. --Alan

    Should Progressives Unify with the Democratic Party Establishment? Hell No! by Jeff Cohen [Click]
    Seems pretty level-headed to me; I think Noam Chomsky (as quoted) has it right.

    What Will Local Control Hypocrisy Cost The GOP in North Carolina? [Click] Maybe a whole lot…

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    1. Yes, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to unify the Party and guarantee that Trump is not only defeated but utterly quashed is for HRC, if she is coronated, er, nominated, to pick Bernie as her running mate. She needs his supporters. If she doesn't know that, then she doesn't live in a cocoon, she lives in bloody interstellar space.

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    2. But would Bernie accept the Vice Presidency if offered? Would we really want him to? With Bill as First Spouse, the VP would almost certainly be the powerless symbol he has been for most of American history. I think Alan previously posted an article on that.

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    3. No, I would lose all respect for Bernie if he accepted. Not that I think Hillary will seriously offer. The ONLY reason she would is as a ploy hoping to win his supporter's votes. That would not work. The Party has exposed its corruption for all to see. I don't want to see them unified. I want to see them destroyed.

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    1. I've signed up for their emails and given an initial contribution. Although I think they are a little too strongly anti-incumbent. Many incumbents would probably come on board once they are convinced it is the right thing to do.

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    2. I did, too, Bill. They do say that Congress members already in agreement with Bernie's platform would be fine.

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  10. Listener, you said on the last thread that at sixty it's hard to have to wait another four or eight years. You may not see the change you hope and work for in your lifetime. Perhaps then you can have empathy for my mother. She is seventy-seven and in none-too-good health. She says she wants to see a female president. I can get that. I don't agree with it, but I can understand where she's coming from. And that combined with her utter and complete indoctrination into the HRC inevitability cult, and I doubt if anything short of HRC being caught on video drowning a litter of newborn kittens will shake her out of it.

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    1. One can see the other's view and even empathize with the person, yet not agree with that view. ♥

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