tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1838035408430357615..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Kleveland Klux KonventionKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-78109155431577747592016-07-21T04:28:37.183-04:002016-07-21T04:28:37.183-04:00Thanks for doing the telling reporting needed so d...Thanks for doing the telling reporting needed so dearly (direly?) at this time.<br /><br />As Valerie pointed out, no one even cared enough to correct the poor uneducated woman's bad grammar.<br /><br />But maybe that furthered the agenda?<br /><br /><i> Maybe, by the end of the day, the white supremacist dude will even overtake PlagiarGate in total views. But I doubt it. Because the awesome spectacle of Melania Trump copying Michelle Obama's own insipid and probably ghostwritten 2008 convention speech has captured the attention of Kardashian Nation.</i>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-46378331695186241222016-07-20T13:59:25.922-04:002016-07-20T13:59:25.922-04:00@Valerie
I find your thesis quite believable. Th...@Valerie<br /><br />I find your thesis quite believable. The powers that be, inside and outside the Republican Party, have intentionally raised a straw man. Whether Trump is in on the con is still not clear. Hillary and a lot of other people will gleefully knock down this straw man. That's the deal: more name recognition coming out of this for Donald; more of everything else for the elites.<br /><br />Thinking about it that way––i.e., that the Cleveland show is an inside joke––makes me feel better. America really isn't going crazy and dragging down the species; people at the top (and we thoughtful few) can still think effectively. Humanity is proving once again that it can, with a little additional fraud, become more successfully evil, but this time with a bit of revolting drollery tossed in as comic relief.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-80235044656385918922016-07-20T01:27:47.214-04:002016-07-20T01:27:47.214-04:00I know this might sound a bit petty, but as a teac...I know this might sound a bit petty, but as a teacher, I was appalled that someone didn't edit Melania's speech for grammatical errors. This woman WAS on national television, after all. Is the message that ignorance is great and erudite people are snobs who don't care about the working folk? All I could think about is the kinds of discussions Trump and his wife must have had throughout their marriage. At least Bill and Obama picked intelligent wives. Even Bush's wife was a librarian who had made a comment about HIS poor grammar on at least one occasion. Who are their speech writing staff? It wouldn't have been that hard to fix Melania's speech.<br /><br />I don't think the Republicans really want Trump to win. I think the two headed corporate party monster is merging into a one headed one. In order to make someone as repellent as Hillary "electable" . . . or at least give the impression our vote actually counts . . . they are putting forth a candidate that is such a clown, Republicans will jump ship. There are too many dissatisfied pro corporate, pro free traders who will be fine with Hillary.<br /><br />So our choices are evil clown and Cruella Deville. Jill Stein is so intelligent and civilized and reasonable in comparison. Valerie Long Tweedienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-35015228320017336132016-07-19T23:57:52.331-04:002016-07-19T23:57:52.331-04:00The University of Pennsylvania has broken its sile...The University of Pennsylvania has broken its silence on Trump, who frequently makes reference to his (UPenn) Wharton degree. <br /><br />"In her biannual meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian's editorial staff, Penn President Amy Gutmann was asked why the University still refuses to comment on Trump's proposal to ban Muslims, despite a Dec. 14 Philadelphia Inquirer article specifically mentioning the concern of Muslim students at Penn about Trump's remarks."<br /><br />"Her response, while not referring to Trump by name, indirectly criticized his plan to halt Muslim immigrants from entering the United States..."<br /><br />http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/01/penn-gutmann-breaks-donald-trump-silence<br /><br />Wharton students and alumni are more vocal: "Wharton students tell Donald Trump, 'You do not represent us'"<br /><br />"In the midst of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s presidential run, during which he has repeatedly invoked his Wharton degree, 3,116 Penn students, graduates, parents, partners and family members have signed a petition telling him: "You do not represent us.""<br /><br />http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/07/donald-trump-wharton-letter<br /><br />The online letter now shows 3,638 supporters, see, You Do Not Represent Us: An Open Letter to Donald Trump<br /><br />https://medium.com/@whartonopenletter/you-do-not-represent-us-an-open-letter-to-donald-trump-94cf73ce11d8#.8e40invd3<br /><br />Another source on Trump is Michael D'Antonio, author of "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success", see the CNN YouTube video "Who is the real Donald Trump?"<br /><br />https://youtu.be/1yRsHVx1MEY<br /><br />D'Antonio claims Trump’s first business activity was a Broadway play (Paris is Out). <br /><br />D'Antonio also claims Trump’s candidacy is a personal response to President Obama’s grilling of Trump April 30, 2011 at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, where Obama made Trump the butt of most of his jokes, and Trump had to sit there "painfully taking it", suffering, seething. D'Antonio speculates Trump decided that night to run for president, in order to take the keys to the Oval Office from Obama’s hand. <br /><br />Obama joked that no one is prouder to put the birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald, so he (Trump) can finally get back to focusing on issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing... The video of Obama and Trump is amazing. (sitting near Trump on the right is Fla. Gov. Rick Scott)Neilhttp://nosueorg.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-22805159527149595592016-07-19T23:51:05.755-04:002016-07-19T23:51:05.755-04:00The only part I saw last night was Rudy pumping hi...The only part I saw last night was Rudy pumping his fists and screaming "Murica!!!"<br /><br />Which I guess means he's learned a new word since his own failed Presidential campaign four years ago (or was it eight?). With all the grown-ups in the GOP lying low this year, the freaks have really come out to play. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856160423100846727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-64543915907385088292016-07-19T23:28:40.544-04:002016-07-19T23:28:40.544-04:00Elizabeth,
Yeah, the Republican Konvention is a l...Elizabeth,<br /><br />Yeah, the Republican Konvention is a lot like your typical Carnival Cruise gone bad. So much verbal diarrhea and projectile vomiting, they might as well give the audience their money's worth and spew the real thing.<br /><br />There was a nasty outbreak of norovirus in my hometown of New Paltz a year or so ago. Luckily, it was confined to our local resort hotel (Mohonk Mountain House, the other Stephen King's inspiration for the haunted hotel in "The Shining") then hosting a confab for elite private school administrators from throughout the Northeast. They were tweeting out their plutocratic outrage in between their frequent trips to the well-appointed johns. Apparently, the Help were not cleaning up their messes fast enough to suit them, because the Help were puking too. They were all were literally trapped in a prison of luxury for almost a week. Just like in a Stephen King novel! It was all so very sad.<br />Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-33940560311776004282016-07-19T18:07:24.935-04:002016-07-19T18:07:24.935-04:00The highly contagious norovirus could upstage them...The highly contagious norovirus could upstage them all.<br /><br />From the Mayo clinic:<br />Signs and symptoms of norovirus infection include:<br />•Nausea<br />•Vomiting<br />•Abdominal pain or cramps<br />•Watery or loose diarrhea<br />•Malaise<br />•Low-grade fever<br />•Muscle pain<br /><br />Signs and symptoms usually begin 24 to 48 hours after first exposure to the virus, and last one to three days. You may continue to shed virus in your feces for up to three days after recovery.<br /><br /><br />Some people with norovirus infection may show no signs or symptoms. However, they are still contagious and can spread the virus to others.Elizabeth Adamsnoreply@blogger.com