Here he is...my honorary great-grandson!
And the proud
Grandma...Nicole.
Passed around like champagne on a holiday!
"Hey buddy...you wouldn't know who is in charge here, would you?"
Even Aiden held him.
Perfect..handsome and looking just like Dad already!
This week's amazing movie
A bittersweet film about growing up in a poor but loving family with an alcoholic father...and mostly about coming to terms with what life throws you and unfulfilled dreams.
Excellent film, and cannot wait to read the book!
Finished my Summer TBR Pile with
Pieces of Happiness by
Annie Ostby.
Which I thought was going to be a light
"beach book" but turned out to be so much more.
Five childhood friends grown estranged through the long years...all in their 60's now...abandoning their unfinished lives to live their last years out together on a Fijian Cocoa Plantation which is owned by one of their group (Kat).
It deals with insecurity and vanity, widowhood and love, adult children who fail to launch and those who hover, betrayal within their group, Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer, Death and Loss...
and so much more.
Not light reading at all.
It does,however, spotlight overcoming adversity, and deciding to make the
REST of your life the
BEST of your life.
As well as a detailed description of the group's foray into making chocolate from raw bean which they later market as
Kat's Chocolate: Little Pieces of Happiness.
Actually, the book led to a
future project for me.
I have never attempted making chocolate from Raw Bean through the Conching Process...but I
AM soon!
So there is that.
Of course, assuming you haven't been locked in a closet since last weekend, you have undoubtedly heard about
The Mango Marauder’s completely unhinged tweet-storm concerning
The NFL and
#Takeaknee.
Personally...I still think the great thing about being an American is living in a Country where you are
(suppose to be) free to Take a Knee or Stand...
without your intent or patriotism questioned.
I served. It wasn't for some piece of cloth or an anthem. It was for The Constitution For what America STANDS.
For FREEDOM.
Of course,
Dimwit Donnie whipped his base into a frothing at the mouth frenzy. Calling taking the knee tantamount to treason.
Wrapping himself so tightly in the flag it is amazing he doesn't have Stars and Bars on his ass. Angry...so angry.
And
YOU need to be angry as well..he says.
Funny thing....The Internet.
It seems that everything you have ever written (or in this case tweeted) stays forever. And can be found.
Please note the date on this tweet...when Donnie John apparently felt a little bit differently about our flag.
For what it is worth
and to those who have chided me with we should be taking a knee for those who died
(referring to the military)
I fully agree.
We should be taking a knee for the dead.
Military and otherwise.
I believe that is how the whole #takeaknee business started...last year.
And, somebody finally clued the
Howling Hitler-Wanna-Be into the fact that Puerto Ricans are
AMERICANS.
It only took almost 2 weeks.
~sigh~
The governor is brilliant, though...letting everyone know that if he doesn't start getting some
real help...they will have to start evacuating everyone to the American Mainland.
"...they aren't refugees,sir, they're Americans...yes sir...you have to let them in..."
Miz Cleo has a new prediction...well a couple actually.
1. They will do
whatever it takes to keep the whole evacuation to the Mainland from happening....lol!
2. The insane tweet-storm
(which had not happened since John Kelly came onboard) signifies that John may not be long for this Administration.
The man is a well-decorated General in the Marines. He does not suffer fools lightly.
I predict him being fired or resigning...soon.
I think he needs to do it before becoming forever fouled by the decaying stench of Trump, myself.
The last Kelly sighting was Alabama where Trump trotted him onstage...
a human military prop...
and he said nothing.
We will see.
About decaying stench...
It looks as though the 3rd attempt at
Repeal and Replace: Graham-Cassidy has flatlined....again....
No pre-cordial thump is going to bring this baby back.
Hopefully anyway.
Trump has lashed out at the members of his own party who
sunk his healthcare battleship...especially war hero
John McCain.
Because he has
soooo much respect for our Vets, you see...
unless they happen to vote their conscience instead of walking the party line.
The Zombie Bill will be back, though. Mitch realized today he didn't have the votes and shelved the damned thing.
So it will be back.
We need to be ready for it.
Miz Cleo thinks that we better stand together at the
Midterm Elections 2018 and help take the
Senate Majority back..
.and here is WHY...
Right now...they are having
Enlightened Self Interest Moments before the election. They know that they can't piss us off too badly or
BOOM they are out of a job.
But after the midterms...yeah...they don't even have to pretend they care any more. True Story.
Jaded?
Too Cynical?
No.
"Experienced"
Keep Resisting.
More Anon...
