Friday, April 26, 2019

Grandcat Heidi


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  1. To hear my mother tell it, Biden is all but moved into the White House. If she's a typical MSNBC viewer, that goddamned station is as dangerous as Fox News, producing their own brand of zombies.

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    1. Cat, as I see it Biden is for those who fear change. Bernie is for those who know we *must* change.

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    2. That's it exactly, Susan. Well said.

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  2. Published by Shaun King on FB: "Here's Joe's pitch. Listen, I know I was wrong on integration, mass incarceration, Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas, and the Iraq War - but I'm from Scranton, have folksy charm, and Obama likes me. Therefore trust me on the things I've been wrong about my whole political career."

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    1. "I was centrist on every issue that was before the country at the time. Many of those once-centrist positions are no longer considered acceptable, and I have moved with the times. I am similarly centrist on the issues we face today." Do we think history will be any kinder to these positions? But one thing for sure: Biden will not be leading us into the future.

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    2. You're right about that, Bill. What I'm afraid of now, though, is that the DNC will anoint him in this cycle, as it anointed HRC last cycle,and with the media hyping him nonstop, he will, one way or another get the nomination. If that happens, we'll see Trump winning in a landszlide.

      Bernie has to get out the message that, while he does stand for continuity in a certain sense, yet in another sense he represents the way forward. Hell, Bernie's the one who can make America great again by prodding her to fulfill her potential, not by empty promises to revive old and fading memories.

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    3. I was disappointed in Bernie's response at a recent televised town hall. A woman said her parents had been killed in socialist Russia, so how could she get behind Democratic Socialism. Bernie thanked her for the question, called it an important question, said he did not support Russian Socialism and hoped she didn't think his kind of socialism is the same as Russian. But he didn't explain the difference. He missed a golden opportunity! Instead, he just launched into his standard stump speech about the 1%. Sigh.

      I wish we could take Bernie's vision and Joe Biden's folksy way of talking with people and shake them up in a bag! Well, actually, I just wish Bernie came across on camera as interested and caring as he truly is in person.

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    4. Oh, gee. I didn't catch that, but it is a disappointment. Such questions were obviously coming, and he should have had a good response prepared long ago. Was the incident at the "She the People Presidential Forum?"

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  3. Still really tired today--the deposition in LA went on so long that I couldn't make my evening flight home and had to stay overnight--got up at 0330 hrs. But we got our new refrigerator (our old first refrigerator, demoted to secondary when we moved into our new house, croaked after only 35 years). Also had the cable installer show up, and he discovered that the guys we thought installed a cable 25 years ago just installed a conduit--no cable in it; so that needs to be fixed. We cut, cleaned and packaged 78 bags of mitsuba [Click] to share with others a get-together this weekend.

    IMO Mr. Biden is politically too long in the tooth as well as being a patent anachronism. I expect his campaign will fizzle. Bernie has been in politics as long, but is arguably a newcomer on the national scene, which is an advantage.

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  4. Oh, and your grandkitty is beautiful, listener!

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  5. The other day I saw a story quoted from the LA Times, and looked up the original. It said that Beto was going to visit California, and rather than just have the typical Hollywood and "Silicon Valley" rich nits fundraisers, he was going to visit cities in the Central Valley, generally treated as flyover territory by presidential candidates, and finishing up in San Diego. So I looked it up on his web site, and there was not a single stop scheduled anywhere in the Central Valley. So it seems that the folks at the LA Times do not know where California's Central Valley is located; such ignorance is not new, but would be roughly on a par with the folks as the Denver Post misplacing the Rocky Mountains.

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  6. Hi, Alan, glad you're home safe and sound.

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  7. Ditto that, Alan. Glad you made it back. Sounds grueling.

    Yes, Heidi kitty is just gorgeous. She spends most of her time upstairs in a bedroom now that they got a dog. Wow.

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    1. The deposition wasn't so bad, although it was longer than anticipated; it was my fifty-first. The attorney questioning me wasn't an unpleasant sort, and he has an ethical obligation to his client. Only rarely am I called to testify in court after having been deposed--most civil cases result in some sort of settlement.

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