Fasten Your Seatbelts

Boy, did we have a loud thunderstorm last evening.   The lightning was dazzling, not blinding.  This was the first storm that Howie took notice of, he slept through the others.  Last evening he sat up looking startled.  From what I could see, most of the lightning strikes were happening over in Harrisburg, and there were quite a few.  Today's high is supposed to be in the low 80s (F), but then for the rest of the week daily highs will be in the mid to upper 80s (F). 

Yesterday was sort of a meh day here.  I don't like having 5 days off in a row and though I do have things planned, yesterday I just frittered away the time.  To be honest, mostly I spent the time trying to make sense of Ad-sense.  One thing I learned is that if I'm approved adds will only show up on my current entries, the over 7000 posts that I've already made will be unaffected.  Maddie said a friend of hers signed up and thought the whole thing was a bust.  If that's the case, the ads will be gone fast.  

My neighbor's son works at the local AMC.  Unlike his mom, he's chatty and I've talked to him on several occasions.  For the past 2 years he's gone to Temple University in Philly.  When I went to see "The End of Oak Street," he told that this year he was going to be doing the "local college" thing.  I didn't ask if he meant Harrisburg Area Community College, or the Penn State Campus in Harrisburg, quite a lot of students attend that one.

After my workout this morning, I'm going to be pausing my Trainwell for 3 months.  We will have to see if I renew my subscription at the beginning of December.  I just feel as though I need a break right now.

We had a little bit of rain early yesterday afternoon and a friend of mine (Karen S.) took this picture of Harrisburg.  For those of you who don't know, the Susquehanna River is over a mile wide.

Franklin & Marshall a nearby liberal arts college that does lean somewhat Left released their latest political poll yesterday.  Their tabulations are not good for the Orange Anus, with him getting a very low 27% approval rating.  Accuracy is always questionable with polls, however a number of polls have now come out with his approval rating at less than 30%.  Keep in mind that these low numbers, even if sort of questionable, do demoralize his base.  This is a good thing.

In an interview Hillary had with Kara Swisher yesterday, she said one thing everybody truly needs to take to heart.  If the midterms go the way people are now suspecting they will go, the Orange Anus is going to rip off that last of what remains of his human mask and we will see the face of a Spawn of Satan.  Well, she didn't exactly say that, but I think most of you are getting the gist of her comments.  He will try and destroy as much of America as he can through Executive Orders.  Everything bad that he does now will be amplified by 1000%.  In doing so, he will obliterate the Republican Party, as well as the Evangelical Christian movement that helped to put him in power.  We may have some very serious protests.  So, fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy flight. 

Tkachuk

 It's cold this morning.  22 (F).  This afternoon, however, our temps will again be in the mid 50s (F), and tomorrow in the low 60s (F).  The snow is disappearing.  I have no problem with that.  Both Howie and I are ready for the yard work to commence.  

Yesterday was rather good.  I got a mini-workout in.  Edited 2 chapters of the book.  Ordered a dehumidifier for the basement, that was delivered last evening.  Played Expedition 33.  All in all, I'm pleased so much was accomplished.  And I think that today is going to be pretty much of the same thing.  

One thing I didn't do, which I need to do regularly, is fill the humidifier in the bedroom.  Now, how's that for a mini-paradox, a dehumidifier is going into the basement and a humidifier in the bedroom.  Over the past few years my sinuses have gotten drier and drier.  Every morning I wake up with a sinus headache, and then, about an hour after I'm up and about, the drainage begins, think Niagara Falls type drainage.

I pulled out the paperwork for my furnace from my filing cabinet so I can go in later this morning and see if I can check on the warranty.  In 2012 it was considered a top end model and I paid... are you ready for this?  $5480, and that figure includes the installation.  In the quotes I've been given, that figure is for a low end furnace.  The top line models today are almost triple that $$$ amount.  Now that's what I call inflation!

And speaking of inflation, though now people want to call it affordability, this is from Bloomberg.

And I saw where Brady Tkachuk complained about an AI video the administration pushed out on TikTok in which he calls Canadians Fucking syrup eaters, or something like that.  At a moment in his life, in the lives of all of those on the men's hockey team who went to the White House, when they should be shining stars, they are discovering there's more to life than hockey and sex.   Someone who is as divisive as the Orange Anus will weaponize everything he can to hurt as many as possible.  Orangie doesn't like Canadians because they don't kiss his ass, so Brady became a tool in more ways than one.  The future prospects of Brady, and the others who chose cheeseburgers over anything else, have dimmed.  Brady got punched in the face last night by a Canadian hockey player during a game.  Ouch.  I'm suspecting he's learning how easy it is to hate Donald Trump.

And Hilary had her hearing yesterday.  From what I'm hearing, those stupid Republicans were unprepared, and she ripped them a new asshole.  Bill's up today.  He's is far more intelligent than anyone in the room, and he's is going to smoke them. 

I was stoned

 The temps are supposed to rise into the mid-50's today (F).  Rain is in the forecast for tomorrow.  With the temps warming up, I need to start thinking of my flower planting this year.  Two years ago I did bulbs and bunches of zinnias across the front.  Last year, some of the bulbs came up (no tulips) and very few of the zinnias, so this year I'm thinking of putting in a row of dahlias.  Now, won't that be nice?

My dental visit turned out to be mundane.  I had a filling I felt was beginning to crumble, and it was just my curious tongue imagining the worst.  The filling's fine.   My next appointment is scheduled in September.

However, while driving from my dentist to my neighborhood Giant, a dump truck turned on to East Penn Drive and a stone (rock) fell off.  The truck was approaching me at probably 20 mph, and I was heading towards the truck at 45 mph.  This is the stone (rock).  It's about 4 inches wide, 1.5 inches high, and 1.5 inches deep.

And that little sucker took out my left front parking light... completely.  I actually found the stone (rock0 sitting inside the car.

And, I'm waiting for the Insurance Adjustor to call.  I was told by my agent this type of damage is usually covered by comprehensive, but some adjustors will occasionally say this was a collision because I didn't brake.

On the lighter side of thing... I saw a Tweet last evening which said, "Fox News can't seem to stop talking about Hillary, so Trump must really be in trouble."  Maybe someone should tell Fox News they're beating a dead horse... of course, they're always looking for a dead horse to beat.  Hillary had the decency to accept her defeat in 2016.  Now, Fox News, in their desperate attempt to keep the Orange Anus from either going to jail or relocating to Russia is bringing up Hillary Clinton... again.  In fact, she is the 'go to' victim every time Republicans see that roiling tsunami of shit heading their way.

Think about it

Okay, so I ordered a pasta maker.  That's right, I do make my own pasta... and I'm tired of using a knife to cut it into noodles.  The one I'm getting comes supplied with  fettuccine and spaghetti blades, if I want linguine I'll need to purchase it separately.  It should be here this afternoon.  Sunday delivery.  Thank you Amazon.  No, I'm not buying one of those cute little drying trees.  I have a cooling rack I use for bread, that will do just fine.
Patty, who's been reading the rough draft of The Body in the Tower called Friday evening, most likely to tell me she had finished.  I didn't answer because... I had my phone on mute.  I tend to do that a lot.  On an average, I'll get 4 -5 telemarketing phone calls a day.  While they don't call early, they do call late.  Last night one of them called at 8:37 PM.  This is why I keep my phone on mute.  I work with her this today, so I'll probably find out then if she's finished her read through.
There was an interesting article in the Washington Post about about Biden, the Democratic Party, and the race for 2020.  For those who don't know, the party is not considered Liberal, rather, because of the large number of Democrats, we are considered Centrist Left.  Biden is pretty much seen as a bridge between old and new.  Even though old Bernie can rake in the money from the Far Left, if he were to somehow get the nomination vast sums of voters would stay home.  His Socialist Squawkings are just too frightening to them.  This one of the reasons we have the Idiot Jerk in the White House, those supporting Bernie refused to vote for Hillary.  He will do this again if he gets the chance.  For him, it's not about America, it's about Bernie.  While Biden might not get the nomination, his message is something Americans respond to, so the other wannabe candidates need to take notice.
And I've been digging into my picture archives again.  I've got lots of them, you know?  Old pictures.  Here's one of me with my Grandma Snyder.  She was the smart one, college educated, Kutztown University, 1927.  How many women can you name who graduated from college in 1927?

She taught school in Pine Grove, a small town of around 5500.  During World War II the citizens of Pine Grove were so worried about the Germans they set up a surveillance team, a squad of citizens who would stand watch in the stone water tower behind the high school.  At night, they would climb the ladder to the top of the water tower with binoculars and scan the skies for German aircraft.  I'm proud to say that my Grandma was a member of that squad.  Amazing!  When I was in high school, she started doing Yoga... think about it.  Her name was Gertrude.

Think

Today is not the end of my work week.
The above statement is aimed at all those people who feel the need to post some sort of dancing gif to celebrate the end of their work week totally clueless about the millions and millions of others who will be working this weekend.  If you're off this weekend and you go to a restaurant, think about your host and server and your busboy who don't work a standard five day week, or you go the mall.  Or you get sick and have to go the Emergency Room, or your house catches fire, or a tornado blows your house to pieces... think about all those people who are there to help you, who are working on the weekend, and maybe reconsider posting your little dancing gif.
The House passed an Anti-Hate bill yesterday because... a freshman senator spoke without thinking.  Her words gave the Crazy Christians ammunition.  I don't care how strongly you might feel she was in the right, this early in her political career she needs to censor what she says in public.  She is a Muslim, and as such needs to understand there is a large swath of Americans, those Crazy Christians who bow to the Idiot Jerk in the White House, who see her as the enemy.  This entire administration is virally anti-Muslim.  The meek shall inherit the Earth, not the loud mouths.
There's a lot of shrieking going on out there over the fact that another strongly anti -LGBT judge.  For everyone who is complaining, you had better be able to say with a clear conscience that you voted in 2016 for Hillary.  A vote for Bernie hurt her at the polls.  If you were one of those who stayed home and didn't vote because you thought she had it in the bag... well, think about what your choice to stay home has cost America.  In fact, you should be thinking about that daily.  Your regret should be constantly sticking you in the back.  In case you didn't know, McConnell and the other members of the Republican hate group have changes the rules so they can confirm even more Crazy Christian judges.  For those of you who didn't vote?  Think about all the damage that is being done to America.
Finally, there's a new exhibit opening at the Museum of Natural History in New York about raptors.  Among them is the updated version of the world's most favorite dino killer... the T-Rex.  Thanks to science, we now have a much better pictures of what this 18,000 lb killing and eating machine looked like, and like us, he had 3D vision.  He could virtually smell the blood pumping through your veins, and if he was hungry... you... were lunch.  Oh, and to make him even more terrifying... they now know he had feathers.

Think about that chasing your ass through the jungle.

The stuff of shadows

So, here it is... Tuesday, and my first day off after working 6 days.  Ain't it sweet?  Pretty much, so.  Around 10 I'm going to get measured for my new bike.  I did spend a bit of time on the trainer this AM since the hernia limits what I can do.  Cycling is okay. as long as I don't lean forward too much.  I can't wait until the damn thing is fixed.
Is the Idiot Jerk speaking at the UN today?  I think I read that somewhere.  Now that's embarrassing, especially since he and the rest of the GOP spent so much hate time criticizing it.  But then that's what they always do, attack what they can't control.
There was an interesting article in Bloomberg this AM about the Russkies and their hacking the election.  Sounds to me we should go back to paper ballots, that would show them, wouldn't it.  Counting ballots takes a lot longer, and politicians and political parties would loose that instant rush of gratification their winners get 5 seconds after the polls closed, but wouldn't that be better?  Let's be honest here, no matter what kind of safeguards our election software has, those damn Russkies are always going to try and hack it.  They're just like the GOP and the Evangelicals when it comes to control... and manipulation, and lies.
And I saw somewhere that Hillary is thinking of contesting the presidential election.  Not a good thing.  And evidently she and Bernie are having some sort of spitting match.  That too is not a good thing.  She needs to pull that stick of bitterness out of her ass and move to the sidelines.  Even though we all hate it, the Idiot Jerk won the electoral college.  Our number one priority right now must be to unite into one mighty group in order to move his shit stained ass out of the White House.  Both she and Bernie need to shut up.  They need to put on their wizened, sage robes and sit quietly giving advice when someone asks for it.  Their egos need to be taken off of the burner.  They need to put the country ahead of their own personal wants and desires.  They both lost.  They need to understand this.  America and the party must come first.  No matter how strongly they feel about certain subjects, they must both realize that now they are the stuff of shadows.

Trump's Red Dress

Well, there's another debate tonight.  Will I watch it?  No.  I don't watch debates.  And tonight?  Well, I'm going to bed early.  I get to open the store tomorrow, so I'll be up at 0300.  I get to open it again on Tuesday, yippee skippy.
Even though I won't be watching the debate I will bet that millions of others will be glued to their TV sets.  They want to see Trump squirm in the hot seat.  They will want to see just how low he's going to go; failing by what degree.  If he mentions Bill Clinton, he fails.  If he tries to justify his scumbag behavior by comparing himself to Bill it will be a terrible mistake.  The only way he can even hope to stop the hemorrhaging of his campaign is to pull a Scarlett O'Hara.  "Gone with the Wind," you know?  After Scarlett is caught with Ashley Wilkes, Rhett forces her to go to Melanie's party wearing a red, velvet dress.  That's right, Trump's got to go to this debate wearing that red velvet dress.  For him to be even partially successful, he's got to rise out of the gutter.

The only parachute he has available is made of velvet, and lace, and sequins, and ostrich feathers, and it is a brilliant scarlet red.  For him to even come close to saving his political career, he's going to need to prove that even a pig of a human being like himself has some small semblance of dignity.

It just might happen.....

Nah, she's going to bait him to hell and back.

The VP waste of time

Didn't watch the debate... never do.  But I suspect, from what I've been reading, the LA Times sums it up best.  Pence failed to defend Trump's lies and Kaine needled.  If you watched it, well, that's 90 minutes of your life you'll never get back.  Who's it going to help?  Neither will benefit - you don't vote for President hoping they'll be incapacitated and you get someone closer to you liking in the White House.
The next debate is going to be a Town Hall.  The only time Trump is good at that format is when he's the only one on stage... or if he's dealing with the rest of the clown parade.  I suspect Hillary is going to put her vehicle in reverse and back over him again, and again, and again.
Anyway. my new xbox slim arrives tomorrow.  Can't wait.  But I'm also having new windows installed so I probably will only be able to unpack it and not really explore it's functionality.
I did watch "Westworld."  Thought it interesting.  I don't pay for HBO and have a funny feeling that's not going to be enough of a reason for me to start.  Sure, there's a lot of nudity, but most of it was female, lots of tits, you know?
Heading off to work, and since I always like to include a picture in the post I'll leave you with:

an older picture of Chris Evans,  I think this is from the first Fantastic Four movie, where he ran around in a towel because hid hotness burned off all of his clothing.

Paint, politics, and Elton John

I'm on the 2nd day of a 4 day vacation, well, make that 2 vacation days and 2 days I requested off.  I'm painting the living room.  The chandelier arrived yesterday, chrome and crystal (real crystal) and really, really shiny.  I like it.
Monday I get to go back to work and deal with our new scheduling system.  It's shit.  Full-Time hourly associates not have a fixed schedule, being either opener, mid, or closer, and while I'm not supposed to be used a filler... you guessed it, I'm the filler.  This means my schedule is... shit.  When the opener has days off, I open, same thing with the mid and the closer.  According to SOP this is not supposed to happen.
On the political side, the debates are Monday night.  I'm not watching them.  I never watch debates.  They're expecting the largest audience of all time, mostly because a lot of people will be tuning in to watch some sort of political blood sport.  Trumplodites are praying for Don to figuratively slap the shit out of Hillary, and they will be upset if that doesn't happen.  The same thing goes for the Hillary supporters, they want her to smack him down over and over again.  People want to see a grudge match where punches are thrown and blood splatters way outside the ring.  The only thing missing is the bell... wait, they may actually have a bell to announce the end of the round.
On a lighter note, I'm going to see Elton John this evening.

We're sitting in Section E, Row 19, seats 1 and 2, which should be pretty good seats.  I checked the pricing out on Ticketmaster Wednesday and, should I want to sell the tickets, I could get about $400 a piece.  Not selling them.  I've seen Elton John 4 other times, including the Philadelphia show in 1976 where he came on stage dressed like the Statue of Liberty.  Those were the good old days, weren't they?

Gone home to Jesus

Yesterday was one of the ho-hum days at work.  I had to open the store, which I hate.  We are starting a new scheduling system and hopefully that will happen only on very rare occasions.
I did see that one of Trump's brats is getting a lot of crap because of his plagiarizing and photo from Twitter, one that was taken by a refugee and posted some years back.  One of the many problems with the Trumps is that they are used to doing what ever they want with absolutely no accountability.  They do what they want, they say what they want, and no one has ever said "hey, stop being an asshole."  They don't realize they're assholes, they just think they're special.
And from what I've been gleaning from the Internet, Hillary seems to have turned the corner and is once again slowly moving a head of Trump.  I suspect his putting a stake in the heart of his Birther lies has something to do with that.  He pushed that for years because he wanted to, I mean, why would he, Donald Trump be concerned that it was a lie.  He says what he wants because he thinks he's special.
And finally, yesterday morning I got called back to one of the pre-fabricated shower stalls.  Something had  been found.  Crap.  Anyway, when I got there found several people gathered, staring downward.  This is what they were looking at.

That's right, we had a squirrel in the building.  He had, unfortunately, already gone home to Jesus, so all we could do was pop him into a box and put him in the dumpster.  Someone suggested that might be a hazmat issue, but when you stop and think about all the garbage coming out of our lunchroom I somehow doubt that.  We think he tried to jump to one of the steel girders making up our roof and couldn't grab hold and... well, fell to his death.  Sometimes this is how life ends, dramatically, with a fall.

Feeding the hate with Republican propaganda

Well, the vacation is over.  I'm going back to work this morning, moving into a new position where I'l be trading the overnights and heavy lifting for Front End Drama.  Things will be fine.  I didn't get as much accomplished last week as I had planned, this is almost always the case, though after last week, because of the all of the rain, my 'to do' list is still rather long.  Oh, well, it will get done in time.
One of my friends on Facebook is an old Navy buddy of mine and quite the conservative.  As a result we 'tit for tat' back and forth, mostly he poses Republican propaganda as truth and I, very politely, run it through the wood chipper of truth.  Right now, for example, or maybe it was last week, I can't remember exactly when because they pump out so much propaganda, they were pushing some phoniness about Hillary losing $6 billion while she was Secretary of State, and of course my friend piped in as though this was gospel.  So, I did about 10 minutes research.  There's pretty much on the Internet, almost all on "conservative" websites and all anti-Hillary, except for Slate.  They actually provided a link to the actual documents: a report from 2014 from the OIG that went back 6 years contracts that were missing documentation.  That's right, 2014.  The one day that pops out is from May of that year, when George W. Bush was in the White House and Condoleeza Rice was Secretary of State.

A number of these contract issues were with the WPPS, and some of the dates listed go back to 2007.  Of course, that type of honest is not going to appeal to the Republican Party.  They're going to throw as much shit on the wall as they can because they know eventually something is going to stick, a least for a few minutes.  Feeding the hate, you know, they're all about feeding the hate.

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.

Painting, Hillary, Trump, and the Turner Idiots

Well, I had two consecutive days off in a row and accomplished much: yard work, and cleaning, and taking the dogs for a walk in the park (until it started to rain), and painting.  That's right.  I'm painting my bedroom - it's going from brick red to dusty olive.
In those two days lots of things have happened:  Hillary is now the presumptive candidate, Bernie is acquiescing, and Donald read from a teleprompter.  Donald also, evidently, told the RNC there was no need for him to raise $1 billion dollars to finance his campaign since he gets a lot of free publicity.  He has absolutely no idea what's coming.  The attacks have just started.  I suspect that by the time the election rolls around in November he's going to want to build a wall around himself.
There's a lot of ugliness on the Internet about Brock Turner and his idiot father.  Now, I'm not defending him, but he was drunk as a skunk and no where, in any of the complaints about his sentencing, do I see alcohol being mentioned.  This guy is a bad drunk.  Am I the only one who thinks this is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with?  Sure, he's going to be registered as a sex offender, but is anything being done to limit his access to booze?  I would think that would be a top priority.  Is someone going to sit him down and say "hey, Brock, you can't drink anymore because when you drink, one beer leads to two, and two lead three, and when you're drunk you do terrible things."  Jail time is fine for penalizing him, but is anything being done with the root issue?  I doubt it.
Anyway, as I said, I'm painting.  I hate painting.  I've been doing a wall a day, which is about all I can stand.  This will give you an idea of the change taking place:

The old color

Above is what it looked.  The painting is something my grandmother commissioned.. it's not bad for a pastoral scene.

The new color

Nice, huh?

Republican ammosexual gun slaves

Yesterday something terrible happened in San Bernardino, 14 people were murdered by pseudo terrorists, one of them born and raised in the good old USA.  Oh, and these two killers bought their guns legally.  Not surprisingly, all those Republican wanna be presidents all sent a lot of "thoughts and prayers" to the victims.  Of course, they couldn't really do anything else, could they?  The NRA sends them lots of legal donations to keep silent.  Mum's the word every time there's a mass murder.  No outrage, no sign of anger what so ever, just bowed heads diligently praying that all those Ammosexuals out there will continue to fill the Republican coffers.  Innocent people get mowed down by bullets and the Republican reaction is always the same.  True, they do wear their dismal little frowns and shake their heads silently, but there's no real empathy ever put on display.  Were they to do that, perchance, some of their gun totting base might not vote, they might stay home because their representatives seem to have gone a little soft on guns.  And every vote counts.

Now you might think that because they are so muted by mass murders they are not be a very excitable breed, these Republican Presidential wanna be's, but that's not true at all.  Drop the word Benghazi into the conversation and see just how violently they react.  If only they could channel just a teeny, weensy bit of that rage, and demonstrate just a modicum of concern over this multitude of mass murders, well, they might just surprise you by saying "this is not normal".... oh, wait, that was Hillary, wasn't it?

A Spoiled Brat Republican Ha Ha Moment

The Republicans are having another one of their 'ha-ha' moments, just in case you hadn't heard.  This one is over both a documentary and an intended mini-series on Hillary Clinton.  Ha - Ha.  Looks like we're going to have temper tantrum time from the spoiled brats club.  Just wait, any minute now they're going to throw themselves on the floor en masse and start pounding their hands and kicking their feet.  Their base loves this, you know whom I'm talking about, those 20 - 22% of Americans who will actually admit to being Republicans.  Personally, I think it's about time they started growing up and tried acting like mature adults.   Ha - Ha.  Like that will happen any time soon.  What is so really funny about this is that if Hillary Clinton just (and I know this is really preposterous) happened to be a Republican, the RNC wouldn't just be dancing around gleefully, they'd be jabbing with their pointy little swords and stomping with their hobnailed boots to insure no Democrat was left standing.  Remember those Swift Boat Commercials?  No wound can be too deep.  Now, it sounds as though their party is on the verge of drowning itself in crocodile tears.

Any body got a tissue?

They've voted to boycott any debate on CNN and NBC.  Do they really think that type of posturing is going to make the look wise?  Are they demonstrating how they expect their next president to act?  I think we already know the answer to that question.  Remember the Great Recession?  How George W demonstrated his compassion for all the suffering Americans by staying out of sight.  Every time somebody asked me where Bush was, I always gave them the same answer:  probably bowling in the basement.  Ha - Ha.  You would think the RNC would realize every time they pull one of these stunts to rouse their base, more and more disaffected, centrist Republicans wonder away.  They do not seem to understand that as a political party they are beginning to look a bit like a train wreck.  But if you've ever talked to a spoiled brat, they believe their atrocious behavior is perfectly normal.