The Truth (and nothing but the truth)

 So, what fun, fun, fun events to I have planned for this sunny Tuesday morning?  A trip down to That Fish Place is on the agenda.  I need to buy something finny to swim around in the tank now installed in the living room.  Possibly some plants, too.  And, speaking of the plants purchased for Aquarium Co-op which were supposed to arrive yesterday... well, they didn't.  They're running late, according to the latest tracking information.  I sent them an email this morning.  Of the 3 other purchases I've made from this group, 2 arrived in two days, and the 3rd arrived on the third day.  They have been very timely.  This time, however, well the heat pack included has a 72 hour lifespan... and we're heading into 96 hours.

Blueberries are included in my diet, usually almost every day.  Before that, it was dried cherries.  I'm switching back to the dried cherries since I'm feeling more than a little berried out.  Oh, and here's a discovery!  I like Pom pomegranate juice, however it is pricey.  Now, however, there's an alternative.  Thanks a a coupon my friendly, neighborhood Giant supermarket emailed me, I've learned about Langer's 100% juice, no concentrate, at about half the cost.  No preservatives, either, which means once you open the bottle the timer starts ticking,

I understand they found Hilary Clinton's lost emails.  They were in a box down at Mar a Lago.

And while we here in America have beacoup de problems with Trump, check out life over in the UK with the very dishonest BoJo.  Shit.  One of the funniest things I read when news surfaced on how badly he and his cronies were breaking the Covid rules he, himself, had laid down for the country, was a comment by one of the Conservatives:  "Well, we've always known he was a liar, but never thought it would be to this extent."  Excuse me, but why would you expect a known liar to suddenly begin to tell the truth?

And, speaking of liars, Loser #45 has now criticized Joe Rogan, the failed comedian who thought it hilarious to use the 'N' word as part of a comedy routine, for apologizing.  Let's be truthful here, rarely a day goes by when his evil presence doesn't present another revolting face to the world.

It's the Virus, Stupid

I use a Lenovo tablet as an alarm clock... actually, I use it for a number of things but rather than set the alarm on my phone or an actual clock, I use the tablet.  Two days ago they did an update.  Two days ago they did an update... and every app was disabled.  Now it has facial recognition, but this morning my alarm didn't go off because... the update turned it off.  I do wish that information had been included in the notes.

I saw where the Federal Agents are being pulled out of Seattle.  I suppose the Idiot Jerk in the White House realized that his show of force wasn't doing a damn thing to improve in ratings in the polls.  He is so damn stupid.  In his tiny Republican mind he thinks he's going to be able to do something which will make America forget about Covid.  Wrong.  Back when Bill Clinton beat Bush the Elder, there was a popular catch phrase which drove the Conservatives bonkers.  "It's the Economy, Stupid."  Well, the same thing applies to the Idiot Jerk.  "It's the Virus, Stupid."  Everywhere people start dying where ever people begin to die.  Because those voters realize he's a lying sack of shit.  He and his spawn started pumping that lie about Hydroxi again and their ads got shot down.  At this point, there is nothing he can actually do to save his presidency and conservatives are pissed, they bet the bank on him and they're going to lose it all.

And now for a funny, ha ha.  Watch McConnell blame the administration for the insertion of a new FBI building in this latest relief bill:

He just threw someone under the bus.

And finally, another bit of Ha Ha.  If you took the 2020 census, you might remember on the race questions, there a list of nationalities considered to be white.  I posted about it back then since the federal government decided Egyptians were white.  I have no problem with that.  However, they didn't list Iranians, perhaps they believe they're Arabic.  With this is mind, which of these two gents is the Egyptian.

The good and the bad

Holy Crap!  It's Monday... well, it is for me and I've got to work for 5 days in a row.  Every time I have one of these 4 day mini-vacas I realize how much I hate going back to work full time.  And I will have to deal with this crap for at least a year yet.  Once my car is paid off, who knows what will happen.
The Idiot Jerk in the White House gave his State of the Union speech last evening.  The MAGA heads went wild.  Some Republican lawmakers chanted 4 more years.  In case you didn't know, they are all about a white GOP dictatorship. And the Idiot Jerk, he knows exactly who is base voters are and he played directly to them.
Oh, and about that impeachment....  I don't know if any of you have seen the Idiot Jerk's approval rating, but it has gone up... to 49%  More Independent voters jumped on board his evil train.  Why?  Well guess.  A word to all of the firebrand Democratic freshman of the House, this is what happens let your anger run rampant.  The articles of impeachment were dead on arrival at the Republican held Senate.  I mean, did these firebrand freshmen really believe the Republican held Senate was going to shoot itself in the head?  No matter how powerful Adam Schiff's closing argument was, Independent voters did not see Crimes and Misdemeanors.  They saw a stupid old man doing something he should have been punished for, but they didn't think he should be fired.  The same thing happened at the Clinton impeachment.  The only better about this impeachment was that the Idiot Jerk's approval rating only hit 49%, Clinton's went up to 55%.  For those who don't remember, Bill Clinton was re-elected and the failed impeachment proceedings had a lot to do with that.
On the bright side, and I know many who are smiling broadly about this.... Pete Buttigieg won in Iowa.

This is evidently a hit to Bernie's campaign.  Bernie needs to deal with it.  He has to understand that in the scheme of things, no one really wants to be a Socialist.  Poor Uncle Joe Biden fared very poorly.  This is how life is.  An interesting point, I had breakfast with my brother yesterday and he, who loves his Christian Conservatives, brought up Buttigieg.  He said he thought Pete might have a real chance at winning,  He said he could 'get out the young vote.'  You have to remember, one of the things Buttigieg touts are his Christian beliefs.  That's important, he might be gay, but he isn't a scumbag.  We will have to wait and see how well he does in New Hampshire.

Looking forward

Well, here it is... Thursday and I get to go back to work for another 5 days.  I'm not excited.  Working is essential, not so much because of the money, rather we need to keep ourselves busy.  Doing nothing is boring as hell.  A long time ago, I went to a dentist in Hershey and I had the same dental assistant for years.  Two years before I changed dentists, she retired, and when I asked her what she planned on doing she said "sit on my porch and read."  That's it... nothing more. Shall we talk about what happens to muscles when you don't use them?  Or more important, your heart?  And though there are those who like to say that your brain is a muscle, it isn't, it's an organ, and sitting on a porch reading may keep it occupied, but it isn't making it work, it's not doing something it hasn't done for years and years and years.  Being occupied is not exercising, and while reading can be stimulating, I seriously suspect the books she preferred to read were not going to be much of a challenge. 
I dropped my Cannondale X6 off at World Cup Ski and Cycle in order for them to do a little work on it while I'm surgically impaired, like get rid of the purple electrical tape I wrapped around the handle bars.  That's right, it was purple, the only thing I had on hand when the black tape started to unravel.  They're also going to put in a new tube in the front tire and fit it as closely as possible to where it should be as far as fitting me.
And looking at all of the political viewpoints out there that are Centrist, Independent, and Liberal... and even some Conservative ones, the common consensus is that had anyone other than Hillary run, the Idiot Jerk in the White House would have lost.  One year after that defeat, they are still pointing their fingers at each other.  This needs to stop now.  We need a unifying voice.  Bernie needs to fade into the shadows where he can quietly advise.  Hillary needs to do the same, not publish a book that's main intent is to validate her campaign.  Donna Brazile has a 'tell all' book coming out because she needs to point her finger too.  Anyone who had anything to do with that campaign needs to take their curtain call and get off the damn stage.  As a party, we need to move on.  We need a neutralizing, level headed person who can be come our spokesperson... now, because time is ticking.  We need someone to take the helm whom everybody can get behind.  There was a lot of dirt in that campaign, the kind of dirt we've come to expect from Republicans.  We are better than that.

Finally, I ordered a pair of jeans from Amazon yesterday, Wranglers (sexy name), because I have a 29 inch inseam and the only jeans out there with that kind of inseam have boyish waistlines.  I'm getting another pair because one of the pairs I wear to work has a hole in the ass.  Now, if I was 25 years old that wouldn't bother me because back then my ass was shapely, not that's it's lost its shapeliness, it's just matured.  More importantly, I need to set a precedent at work.  No one wants to be thought of as the slutty old guy.

Boners in the GOP

Well, I did some bench presses this AM... (that's about all I can do as far as working out), and I also climbed on board the scale.  I've gained 5.1 pounds since the RIH showed up.  I did some cardio yesterday and felt it in the afternoon, so that's going to be out for probably another 4 weeks, and I won't be able to go back to the gym on a regular basis for another 6 weeks.
As I was responding to Bob's comment in regard to Hillary Clinton, I realized how very close to the truth I was.  For some time now I've thought that her, and her last name, were like a drug all conservatives were hooked on, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what kind of drug.  In a way she's like heroin to them, they keep shooting hatred for her into their veins, but that didn't seem quite right, and then I thought about that little blue pill.  Viagra.  That's it.  Hillary Clinton is Viagra for conservatives.  All you need to do is mention her name to get them all aroused.  It's sort of like waving a biscuit in front of a dog's nose, in no time flat he starts to drool, say 'Clinton' to a Republican and things instantly pop up.  What makes this so funny is that they admit it.  Without Hillary Clinton there would be no boners in the GOP.  Even Social Conservatives use her to stimulate themselves.
I also ordered my Warwick Rowers Calendar for 2018 this morning.  Nudity for Art's sake, you know? 

Nothing really erotic there, just innocent nakedness, and yes, you can be naked and innocent at the same time.  Unless, of course, you happen to be in the GOP, then all bets are off the table.  I've heard it said that a little bare skin, of either gender, is enough to give a Republican a wide stance.  But let's be honest here, attractive young men covering their bits and pieces with oars, and towels, and tea cups are no match for a Crooked Hillary song and dance by the Idiot Jerk in the White House.

The Truth about GOP Porn.

Okay, so the light didn't get completely installed in my kitchen yesterday.  It's big, about 16" square, and I have almost 10 foot ceilings which means I needed to use my 8 foot ladder to rest it on while I did the wiring.  You know, the 8 foot ladder I gave away a couple of years ago because I never thought I'd need it again.  I do have a 4 foot ladder, but this light is just a bit too big.  This means that tomorrow, before I leave work, I'll pick up another 8 foot ladder.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, there's a 'witch hunt' going on, at least that's what the Idiot in the White House is calling the "independent council."  Someone really needs to sit this loser down and remind him that every time there is a Democrat in the White the GOP is caught up in a continuous 'witch hunt.'  And they never let it go.  Here's a outstanding example:  this morning while looking at Facebook, I saw someone had posted a picture of Bill Clinton and brought up Vince Forster.  Yeah, that's right, conservatives are still peddling shit about something that happened what? Twenty four years ago?  Actually what they really need to do is to stop masturbating with this Clinton hate.  The Idiot played this at every rally and they oohed and aahed, and shrieked and moaned every time he said "lock her up," which is, I guess, about as close to verbal frotage as you can get.  They love it, you know, all of those neurotransmitters humping their little Clinton hate receptors.

I was going to use a GIF but realized it was too much like GOP porn

Anyway, since I can't finish hanging the kitchen light, I went out and did some yard work until it got to hot.  Right now it's around 92 F.  It was hot yesterday as well.  Next week it's supposed to be cooler.  Can't wait.

Dressing to the left

This is my last opening!
After today I will no longer have to get up at 0300 to open the store.  And, after today I will only have 2 more closings.  Isn't life grand.
Not if you're a Republican, however.
You see, the country is Centrist, no matter how much they hate that word.  They began lying to themselves years and years ago, when Reagan had the serendipitous re-election.  We are not a conservative country.  We are a Centrist country which leans either right or left.  Like men in boxers, sometimes we dress to the left, and sometimes to the right.  The GOP doesn't understand this.  A popular president can move the country to either the left or the right.  Reagan moved us a bit to the right, Clinton centered us again, W moved us a bit to the left with his failed policies, and Obama moved us a bit to the left.  We are, taking all voters into consideration, Centrist.

An unpopular president will do the opposite.  Look at Nixon, a president whom today we would call conservative... he moved the country to the left a bit.  Now we have DT and the GOP and they, without understanding how the majority works, want to forcibly turn us to the right.  We are comfortable dressing to the left.  They want to reach in a grab us and shove us down the right side.  Well, it ain't gonna work.  Never has.  No matter how much they hate the word, we are a democracy.  And in their stupidity, they will moves even farther to the left.  This is life.

Other things and... the plug

At this point around 74% of Americans are accepting the fact that Donald Trump is our 45th president - that doesn't mean they like that fact, just that they are accepting it.  As time has passed since that fateful night more information has been made apparent.  This is a good article from the Chicago Tribune.  She won the popular vote, but by less than 1/10th of a percent, if you look at all votes cast.  The Clintons like to do what they want, even if it might be questionable, and they don't seem to understand that if it's questionable their opposition can easily hammer it into a negative perception.  Her private server is a perfect example.
And then there's Trump who played his hand well.  Millions believed every word he said... except....
Now the "Wall" may not be built.  We may get something that has a similar effect, which is probably going to be more boarder patrols.  Evangelicals voted for him a big way.  He got more white Evangelical votes than George W. Bush.  On the campaign trail he was the most socially conservative candidate in history... except... he wants Rudy Giuliani as his AG and Giuliani is... Pro Choice.  Oops.  And Trump has never been as stringently anti-gay, what were they thinking?  They needed to look at the way he's treated contractors, signed contracts and then reneged, and filed for bankruptcy to get out of paying just about anything he didn't want to pay.  He told them what they wanted to hear.  They haven't hit their WTF moment yet... but it's approaching.
And then there's the plug.  That new lamp I bought?  Well, it has a rubber plug on it.  Not plastic, rubber and Big Seig thinks he has to chew it.  Twice so far.  Last night I got home from work and he had pushed the table and my Morris chair out of the way to get to it.  The cord was still attached to the lamp, however I found the plug on the sofa.  He got yelled at, and a swat on his butt, which, when you're a 108 pound Boxer is nothing.

And he looked at me with the big brown eyes and even though he can't talk I knew he was saying "oh I am so so sorry and I promise never ever ever to do it again," all the while his little stub of a tail wagged back and forth ever so slowly.  So, of course, I had to forgive him.  Am I easy or what?

When not to share

Of course there is some buzz out there about the new (most likely old) emails of Hillary Clinton.  There's also a lot of speculation about the timing of FBI Director Comey's letter, whether it was politically motivated.  What seems to be most apparent, however, is the fact that these new emails will have little or no bearing upon the election; that they're one more dead horse for the Republicans to beat.  What does surprise me more than anything is that Huma Abedin, with her close involvement in Clinton politics, would share a laptop with her husband, Anthony Weiner, or any husband for that matter.  I would have thought she'd have gone to Best Buy and bought herself a work computer.  There not that expensive so I'm sure she could afford it.  Why would they share a laptop?  I have a laptop, a PC, a phone and a tablet.  I mean, if I were working for Clinton and married to a perv like Weiner, I'd tell him to keep his fingers off the laptop.  I'd tell him to keep his pervy stuff on his own computer.  Evidently this is not what happened.  Is it just me, or do these people seem rather stupid sometimes?

Or maybe they're just clueless.  If I were Hillary, I'd hit her upside the head with a brick, or maybe wear a lapel pin "stupid me."  Sure, Abedin is married to Weiner and maybe he was a whiny Weiner and they shared a laptop to shut him up.  Or maybe she totally forgot about his history as a perv and decided it would be okay for them to share a laptop.  Or perhaps she decided it might be fun to access her email account from as many laptops, PC's and phones as possible.  But I suspect, more than anything else, she's just just too special to worry about having her email account hacked.

Assange the Ass

Julian Assange is pretty much an asshole.  He talks about transparency yet hides in an embassy to keep from revealing the truth.  He claims that the charges against him are false and the investigation wouldn't be fair when he, himself, using Wikileaks, wants to decide what's fair.  He is more about damage than transparency.  Supposedly his organization is going after Clinton because of her stand on Snowden.  This defines his purpose as one of revenge rather than transparency.  From what I've read most tech people agree that the Clinton emails Wikileaks has been dropping were hacked by the Russians.... Julian, you're an asshole.  You're a puppet.  You have devolved into something totally lacking transparency.  The Ecuadorian cut off his Internet access because his organization was trying to influence American Politics, doing as much damage to the Democratic ticket as they possibly could.  They didn't go after the RNC since, according to them, Trump's doing enough damage by himself.  That's what they're saying, you know?  Damage.  Not transparency.  This whole thing is about damage.

Asshole

This is also about Julian Assange passing judgement.  He doesn't really care about people.  He wants to choose who right and who is wrong, what is fair and what isn't.  He obviously hates America.  Perhaps that's because we are a democracy.  We may get sidetracked to the right or to the left ever now and then, but we always manage to come back to the center.  He doesn't like that.  Like Donald Trump, Assange wants to call the shots.  He is an asshole extraordinaire.  The fact that all of these email dumps are failing to have their intended effect is funny since they not only prove he's an asshole, but a failure as well.

The problem with pneumonia

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia.

Of course everybody already knows that.  I have had friends who've been diagnosed with pneumonia.  They take their medication and they're healed.  They do have to take it easy for a while.  The problem with Hillary's pneumonia is that she kept it secret.  With all of the shit being thrown at her concerning her health, she probably thought this was a good idea.  Wrong.  What she did do was pour a lot of gasoline onto that fire.  Of course Trump hasn't released his health info to the public.  He's 70.  I'll bet he has things he doesn't want the public to know.  However there is a difference.  Most people don't think he's sick, just nuts.  People think Hillary is sick.  She has a problem.  She created this problem by not being honest with the voters, and, unfortunately for her, a lot of voters view her as being very dishonest.  Someone really needs to sit her down and say "honey, you have a problem."  And it isn't going to go away.  Should she win the election, it's going to be hanging right on her ass.  Talk about a millstone round your neck.

I like Bill and Hillary, however, they need to take a step outside of Clintonland and take a good look at the real world.  The Republicans have been slinging shit their way for years and , whether they like it or not, that shit started sticking a while back.  Instead of dealing with a minor health crisis, they're dealing with videos of her stumbling and being helped into a van.  And all of those Trumplodites and Republican haters are out there pointing their fingers shrieking "see!  she's sick!  she's sicker than you think!"  And Trump doesn't have to do anything.

I see how Lauer fails.

Well, they shot those fiery lasers into my right eye yesterday... ho... hum.  Not so bad.  The laser gun made noise, loud noise, bang, bang, bang.  All I could see was the aiming laser, which was red, I like red.  The entire procedure took about... a minute and a half.  There was some discomfort, but nothing excruciating, in fact the discomfort was rather mild.  The only problem I had was with the waiting... holy crap.  I got there early and learned they were running behind: a half hour before they took me back to check my eye pressure.  After that was done, they used several eye drops to numb my eye and shrink the size of my pupil.  And then I had another half an hour wait... until they moved me to a smaller waiting room closer to the laser, where I sat and waited.  When the doctor had finally holstered his laser, I was sent to wait again, for an hour.  I left home at 1010 and got home at 1400.  I hate waiting.  I'm one of those 'snap your fingers' and get it done it done people.

Supposedly there's a little hole in my iris... I can't see it.  I looked last night.  Had my magnifying glass, you know?  Nothing.  As long as it works, I don't care.

I did read that everybody is jumping all over Matt Lauer for being a candy ass in his Trump Q & A.  Lauer's okay as long as his questions are written down.  His mind is not 'quick like a bunny' when he needs to suddenly delve, or pry, or query.  He is a safe moderator.  His best tactical questions seem to happen when he's chatting up some celebrity, not trying to show that he's politically astute.  He was not there to challenge the veracity of either Trump or Clinton.  His sole purpose was to ask questions.  Of course, a four year old could have done the same thing.... except a four year could have used the 'age' excuse.

Trump's Mormon Problem

This is kind of funny.  While Trump was speaking to a group of pastors and religious leaders down in Florida he started whining about Utah.  Evidently the conservative Mormons are not buying his rhetoric, most likely, I suspect, because he turns their stomachs, in fact, as far as they're concerned he was the GOP's worst choice among that whole hoard of candidates on the slate.  Maybe it's because the Republican Party has turned from a conservative party to a hate party.  Perhaps they realize that as a minority religious group Trump might single them out, should he ever become president.  As we've all seen, if your a minority group you're fair game to Trump, we've all heard or read him talk about minorities "you know, they just don't get, you know, you know, you know what I mean, they just don't get it," except in regard to Mormons he'd be speaking about the Christian thing.  He doesn't care if the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion because... well, he just doesn't care.

Which is why he brought up Utah, and the Mormons, while speaking to a group of evangelicals.  He needs to get the evangelical base out to vote for him since it now seems possible that red Utah may turn blue.  This is why he's speaking to the Christian base, pretty much telling them that the Mormon's might possibly swing the election.  If he's treating the Mormons this way now, practically writing them off, what's he going to do if he ever becomes president?

Politics and our current religious war

In this election year both the politician and the businessman are saying they will defeat those Krazy Muslim Extremists.  I wonder how they're planning on doing that.  Neither gives details.  The truth is that is just verbiage Americans want to hear, specifics are not required, they just want someone to tell them "hey, I'm going to kill those mothers."  In campaigns, people say a lot of things.  What they don't say is several things will need to happen in order to take out those extremists.
One of those things is putting troops on the ground.  No one wants to say that.  No one wants to hear that.  Bombing alone creates a lot of damage, buildings get destroyed, people die, and anger grows towards those bombing.  The US carpet bombed the hell out of Vietnam and achieved... nothing.
More important is getting those people on our side.  This means you're going to need to cut back on the anti-Muslim rhetoric, which is where Clinton succeeds and Trump is a total failure.  Republicans completely fail here, mostly because they've got that big Evangelical foot up their ass.  Islam is the enemy.  In other words, if we end up with a Republican president this war will go on for years.. and years... and years.

And if Trump wins he just might start throwing nukes all over the place because he doesn't really understand nuclear weapons, or the damage they do, or the amount of radiation they produce,or how using them is the ultimate failure.  

Whether you like it or not, Islam is here to stay, so make nice with them.  This means our troops can't call them ragheads, or what ever the current derogatory slang is for Muslims.  This is how the world is and we may be a super power, but we don't rule the world.

Ch..ch..ch..changes

What an interesting Monday, yesterday was, evidently Hillary received a big... big bump because of her well run convention, and I found out I'm being moved to manage another department.
The problem with the Trump convention was that neither he, nor the Republicans could manage to pull themselves out of that cesspool of negativity the seem to love.  Everything is terrible in this country.  Everything is bad.  And Trump, a man who's mental health is now beginning to be questioned, a man who can be baited with a simple tweet, tell the world he's the only one who can save America.  Well, that's pretty much horseshit.
Warren Buffett baited Trump on his taxes.  Trump called Clinton the devil... well, that was to be expected, he has to throw a couple of bones to the evangelical crazies on the right.
And, of course, Hillary did get a big bump... 8% seems to the average when you tally all of the results.  This means we all need to get our shit boots ready because Trump and his horde of Trumplodites are going to go ballistic.  He has already started spouting idiocies about the election being rigged.  He is totally incapable of understanding there are millions, and millions, and millions of people who are totally unimpressed by his own self anointed greatness.  Let's just hope our boots are high enough.

And I had a nice conversation with my store manager yesterday... I'm no longer going to be managing the paint department.  This means there are not going to be anymore bad paint customer stories.  Nope.  In a few days, I will be taking over the reins at the Front End, managing over 40 cashiers, plus the lot attendants and the Pro-Loaders.  This will mean no more 'overnights.'  No more hoisting around 60 lb buckets of paint.  I will now have a schedule which will be similar to the one I worked when I was in accounting.  I might actually give up gaming and start watching TV again.... nah.

Aaannnd, they're off

Last night I was supposed to work an overnight, I didn't.  The night before I condensed 8 skids of 5 gallon buckets down to two skids, putting about 30 buckets out on the floor, and all of that weight stretched my arthritic back a bit too much.  Yesterday I was real sore.  So, I took off last night.  I watched Hillary's speech.  She's a good speaker, not great.  She gets her point across with out adding any frills. Some people like the frills, I don't.  Be plain spoken, be brief, and get it done.  She did a fine job at attacking Trump.  I got a big laugh from the line about baiting him with a Tweet.  I suspect that will be one of the avenues of attack.  They are going to bait him incessantly.  I can already hear her, during one of their debates, calling him Don.  How fast would that knock him off point?
As the camera panned over the crowd to focus in on Bernie Sanders I could only wonder why no one had told him he needed to pull that bitter stick out of his ass.  He is one angry old man.

And speaking of Hillary, she's going to be in Harrisburg tonight.  In fact, as the crow flies, she's going to be about 2 miles away from my house.  I'm not going.  Eight years ago I went downtown to see Barack Obama speak from the steps of the state capital.  Believe me when I tell you that was a magic moment.  Not that tonight isn't going to be magic.  I'm just older and don't want to deal with all of the traffic.

On an lighter note, I saw where Melamia Trump's website was taken down.  Evidently she has a lot of veracity issues, especially regarding her academic background.

On an even lighter note, Donny Trump, Jr, complained that Obama had plagiarized some of his father's speech.  Evidently he didn't realize Obama has been using that phrase for years.... hhhmm, obviously this egg didn't hatch far from the nest.

And for poll watchers, now you can start to watch them, but always take them with a grain of salt.  Remember, Republican polls showed Mitt Romney winning big.

The RDC, Clinton vs Trump

So, where have I been for the past 2 days?  At the RDC (Regional Distribution Center).  Training.  Yep, I've been learning all about Dealing with Conflict in regards to unruly and irate associates and customers.  There were also classes in Team Building and Taking Charge of Your Development, all of which were preparing us for a promotion to a higher pay grade.  Crap.  I'll be honest, the money would be nice, but Crap.  I'd have to give up even more of my life.  Anyway, the RDC distributes most of the product we sell in our stores to around 275 stores in the region, which means it's a hopping place.  Here it is:

Left side

And here, also:

Right side

I have pics I took in the class, but they're... boring.

As a result of driving there and back on Thursday and Friday, I'm a little off in the politics department.  I did, however, see on Facebook where a friend of mine shared a bit about Trump and Clinton.  Evidently there was some article posted somewhere which said many people thought Clinton was going to win in the General Election.  Let me tell you, the Trumplodite comments were hysterical.  For many of them, spelling seems to be some sort of elusive art.  English isn't like German where there are 7 different ways to say 'the.' (you know?  der, dem, den, des, das, and so on and so forth).  These people have lapped up the vilification of Clinton by the Republican party their worlds are going to shatter when Trump loses the election.  They are going to be so disenfranchised with politics they will never, ever vote again.

Goody for the normal people in the United States.

Hillary nabs, Trump stabs, & bats

Well, Hillary evidently has clinched the nomination and Bernie's Bitter Burn face is showing.  The only thing he's clinched is his jaw as he blamed the Media.  He only became a Democrat to run for president, so I now suspect he will now stop being a Democrat.  Sadly, if he does this people will know just how big a phony he is - no loyalty from him.
And I saw this on Bloomburg before I went to bed.  In case anybody is wonder, here we have the real Donald Trump, the angry megalomaniac who wants to be present so the country can celebrate his... idiocy? Just because he has money doesn't mean he isn't a loser, and this whole Trump U thing shows just how big a scam artist he is.  He thinks he's smart.  He's not.  Lucky yes, but now smart.  He doesn't understand he's swimming in a cesspool of bad karma.  And he's going to go down, in a very public way.
And finally, before I head off to work (oh, the idiot who screwed up the paint order was written up) there is this.

I had just climbed into bed last night and was reaching to turn off the light when... something swooped over my head.  The dogs, of course, made a bee line out into the hallway where they stood and watched as I dealt with... a bat.  And a real bat, not some guy in a costume.  I don't kill things, except in video games, so I had to figure a way to get him out of the house safely.  He flew onto the draperies on the side window, so I got a box, and, well, pretty much let him climb into it.  Once inside, I put the lid on and took him downstairs and out onto the front porch from whence he flew away.

Funny, it took the dogs about a half hour before they thought the bedroom safe again.

And their heads will explode

I got a text from my brother this morning which read:  "Hillary and Trump will be the nominees.  Hillary will be the next president since there's no way he can win the General Election."  I sent him back a smiley face, not so much because I was happy, but more so in that I agreed with him.  We now know who the nominees for the 2016 Presidential race will because we already know that if Trump isn't on the GOP ticket there will be riots in Cleveland.

A riot is a very ugly thing, und I think it's about time we had one!

And, of course, with Hillary running the Republican pundits who've been pissing on the Clinton name for years will go into a feeding frenzy.  Trump will run the dirtiest campaign in history, which is probably a good reason for her to be the candidate - her minions will shove it right back in his face.  Remember Cuba Gooding, Jr and "show me the money?"  You're going to hear over and over and over again "show us your taxes!"  We will get to watch Rush Limbaugh collapse with apoplexy, and Ann Coulter's peroxide roots incinerate.  Breitbart will initiate a chain reaction, neurally transmitted, self-detonating, Molotov cocktail of such hatred their eyes will turn into laser beams as all of their heads explode.

Well, maybe not laser beams, but let's be honest here, the GOP has been inbreeding their hatred for the name Clinton for so long their own self-immolation is pretty much a far gone conclusion.  And in the end all that will remain will be the ashes of a party that lost its way, and gave into the dark side.

Candidates Kids

For those of you who didn't see the news flash, Bristol Palin dropped her second 'cow' (child outta wedlock) just before Christmas, and while mamma Palin wishes people would be sayin' "holy cow," most of America is saying "look, another cracker."
Anyway, I thought I'd write about children in politics since Ted Cruz made some tiny headlines complaining about a cartoon drawn by a cartoonist who publishes with the conservative Washington Post.  His two daughters were depicted as trained monkeys and, of course, he started shrieking about the liberal media since that's red meat to conservative Republicans.  First of all, the cartoonist got it wrong, they're not trained monkeys, they're more like little animatronic robots silently waving at the the crowd.  Secondly, Cruz immediately prostituted the image by asking for $1 million dollars to fight the "liberal Media," but then that's how he works.  Thirdly, while many, many politicians parade their kids on stage, I can't remember a single one of them capable of doing tricks.  You would have thought that when Palin pushed all of her brood out they might have been able to do at least one barrel roll.  Nope, they all just stood there and waved.  Even Chelsea Clinton stood there and waved.  And, of course, I've never been to a Cruz rally so maybe his little girls do tricks to please the crowd, maybe a somersault or two, but I doubt it.
In fact, the only time I can ever remember giving a candidate's kids a second glance was when Romeny's boys walked out on stage.

That was when I realized what Conservative Preppie Porn was, all T-shirts and flannel.  But even they didn't do tricks, all they did was stand there looking like they were waiting for 'Vogue' to start playing, and, unfortunately for Mitt, it never did.  I can't even imagine what kind of crowd pleaser that would have been.