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Jan. 12th, 2018 06:53 pm1. This podcast from SmartBitches basically says everything I've wanted to scream say to the romance genre nay sayers online and off.
Mom: You got me back into reading romance novels. I hadn't read them for years.
Me: I'm sorry -
Mom: No, No, I want to thank you. You really helped me -- those romance novels got me through the move, your father's memory issues...and this really hard time. They gave me the escape and the peace I needed. Thank you so much for that.
I wish they had the transcript -- then I could repost bits from it. I suck at transcribing. And I'm not really audibly inclined. I'm visual. I tend to get bored listening to stuff and have troubles listening.
2. So the Doofus, being the Doofus, said something proving he was one or more of the following:
a) racist
b) anti-semitic
c) misogynistic
d) sexist
e) homophobic
f) xenophobic
asshole, again. He does this on a weekly basis (if we're lucky), often it's daily. This was a good week -- he only did it two or three times that I'm aware of.
I keep praying someone will impeach him. Either that or he'll get swept away by some massive storm. I honestly don't care what happens to the Doofus, I just want him to go away, along with all the people who support him. Parallel universe, pocket universe, distant galaxy, island, whatever. Personally, I think the odds of me winning the lottery and moving to New Zealand are better -- considering that I'm not currently playing the lottery...
3. There are some odd things in that GOP Tax Bill from Hell...apparently the tax on alimony has switched from the payee to the payer. The person who pays the alimony is taxed, as opposed to the person who receives it. Why the Doofus agreed to that I don't know, considering he pays alimony. Maybe he didn't read the tax bill? Hee Hee Hee.
I found this out from an old college pal who practices Family Law and read the tax bill. (Honestly I think the public knows more about what's in it than the idiots who voted for it.)
Co-workers are worried about it -- and want to know when it will go into effect. NY State has decided to sue the Federal Government regarding it. (Hmmm, so far NY State is suing the Federal Government for ending Net Neutrality, the Tax Bill, and the Immigration Ban. I am rather proud of my state. Go NY. )
Co-worker: So are you from Kansas?
Me: Let's see, I lived in Kansas 17 years, and New York more than 20. I'm from New York.
Co-worker: Yeah, pretty much.
New York has also decided to enact various laws to protect New Yorkers from Federal legislation. Such as:
* Paid Family Medical Leave
* You can pay your property taxes for 2018 and 2017 in 2017 with your state taxes. (Which only works if you have an extra $12,000 lying about. Very happy I'm renting.)
There's others, but I can't remember them at the moment.
NY by the way isn't the only state suing the Federal Government at the moment. This administration will go down in history as the one with the most class action lawsuits against it -- mostly from State Governments.
What we're seeing here is an on-going battle between the States and the Federal Government. It's a peaceful one, so far. Twenty-fifty years from now -- historians will have a field day with this stuff. But right now? It's painful to watch, and honestly? I just want to bury my head under a pillow and ignore it.
4. While we all can agree that the weather is wonky, we can't agree on why it is wonky. Some people think it is just solar flares and sunspots, other's climate change, other's ...it's always been this way and people are over-reacting.
Honestly? I don't understand why people are so resistant to the climate change argument. So you have to recycle more, stop using fossil fuels, and buy a hybrid car -- how is this a problem? Make the world cleaner. Does it really frigging matter if the scientists are right or wrong about climate change? If you don't use gas and oil, the air is cleaner, people are healthier, and we are less reliant on the nasty countries selling it. If you don't put in a gas pipeline, you don't pollute groundwater. Cleaner drinking water. Less cancer.
I mean it's just common sense really. But no..."I can't live without my gas-guzzling Speedster. Or coal burning stove!" I honestly think these people deserve to be hit by bombcyclones.
5. Meanwhile, we have about three supermoons this month, and a blue moon/lunar eclispe/super moon. Which is the first time in 35 years. (Is it just me or have people been saying (astrological miracle of some sort - lunar eclispe/solar eclispe/Planetary alignment, meteor shower) for the first time in 20-30 years or see it now before it goes for ____ years) every month? I mean, I feel like there's been a supermoon, lunar eclispe or blue moon every single month or every other month.
Oh, and we're in the 50s and 60s today, with lots of rain and fog, about to drop back down to the 20s over the weekend. Hopefully this will not result in another vertigo attack or a bombcyclone.
6. The Doofus apparently made friends with a reporter on the campaign trail, and invited him into the White House. The reporter said, he'd just be a fly on the wall and it would give him a great opportunity to write a book about the inner workings of the White House and the Doofus' administration. (BWAHAHAH!)
Apparently, the Doofus didn't talk to Robert Murdoch first (which would have been the intelligent and smart thing to do) since this reporter did the exact same thing to Murdoch.
Mother: I don't know why he didn't talk to Murdoch about the guy.
Me: Well, he is the Doofus.
Anyhow...about a year or so later, out comes the book Fire and the Fury by Michael Wolf.
And the Doofus discovers, hmmm, this was so not the book I had agreed to or was expecting. How did this happen? So, he tries to stop it and inadvertently starts a National Book Club. Actually, I think it is a Global Book Club now. The book sold out in all outlets in under a week and is on back-order, oh and so did another book that had the same title that people mistakenly bought thinking it was the same book. (LOL!) The content is only really surprising to the people who haven't been paying attention.
Say what you will about the Doofus, he certainly gives comedians plenty of material. I mean honestly, at this point the jokes write themselves. You just have to deliver them.
Mom: You got me back into reading romance novels. I hadn't read them for years.
Me: I'm sorry -
Mom: No, No, I want to thank you. You really helped me -- those romance novels got me through the move, your father's memory issues...and this really hard time. They gave me the escape and the peace I needed. Thank you so much for that.
I wish they had the transcript -- then I could repost bits from it. I suck at transcribing. And I'm not really audibly inclined. I'm visual. I tend to get bored listening to stuff and have troubles listening.
2. So the Doofus, being the Doofus, said something proving he was one or more of the following:
a) racist
b) anti-semitic
c) misogynistic
d) sexist
e) homophobic
f) xenophobic
asshole, again. He does this on a weekly basis (if we're lucky), often it's daily. This was a good week -- he only did it two or three times that I'm aware of.
I keep praying someone will impeach him. Either that or he'll get swept away by some massive storm. I honestly don't care what happens to the Doofus, I just want him to go away, along with all the people who support him. Parallel universe, pocket universe, distant galaxy, island, whatever. Personally, I think the odds of me winning the lottery and moving to New Zealand are better -- considering that I'm not currently playing the lottery...
3. There are some odd things in that GOP Tax Bill from Hell...apparently the tax on alimony has switched from the payee to the payer. The person who pays the alimony is taxed, as opposed to the person who receives it. Why the Doofus agreed to that I don't know, considering he pays alimony. Maybe he didn't read the tax bill? Hee Hee Hee.
I found this out from an old college pal who practices Family Law and read the tax bill. (Honestly I think the public knows more about what's in it than the idiots who voted for it.)
Co-workers are worried about it -- and want to know when it will go into effect. NY State has decided to sue the Federal Government regarding it. (Hmmm, so far NY State is suing the Federal Government for ending Net Neutrality, the Tax Bill, and the Immigration Ban. I am rather proud of my state. Go NY. )
Co-worker: So are you from Kansas?
Me: Let's see, I lived in Kansas 17 years, and New York more than 20. I'm from New York.
Co-worker: Yeah, pretty much.
New York has also decided to enact various laws to protect New Yorkers from Federal legislation. Such as:
* Paid Family Medical Leave
* You can pay your property taxes for 2018 and 2017 in 2017 with your state taxes. (Which only works if you have an extra $12,000 lying about. Very happy I'm renting.)
There's others, but I can't remember them at the moment.
NY by the way isn't the only state suing the Federal Government at the moment. This administration will go down in history as the one with the most class action lawsuits against it -- mostly from State Governments.
What we're seeing here is an on-going battle between the States and the Federal Government. It's a peaceful one, so far. Twenty-fifty years from now -- historians will have a field day with this stuff. But right now? It's painful to watch, and honestly? I just want to bury my head under a pillow and ignore it.
4. While we all can agree that the weather is wonky, we can't agree on why it is wonky. Some people think it is just solar flares and sunspots, other's climate change, other's ...it's always been this way and people are over-reacting.
Honestly? I don't understand why people are so resistant to the climate change argument. So you have to recycle more, stop using fossil fuels, and buy a hybrid car -- how is this a problem? Make the world cleaner. Does it really frigging matter if the scientists are right or wrong about climate change? If you don't use gas and oil, the air is cleaner, people are healthier, and we are less reliant on the nasty countries selling it. If you don't put in a gas pipeline, you don't pollute groundwater. Cleaner drinking water. Less cancer.
I mean it's just common sense really. But no..."I can't live without my gas-guzzling Speedster. Or coal burning stove!" I honestly think these people deserve to be hit by bombcyclones.
5. Meanwhile, we have about three supermoons this month, and a blue moon/lunar eclispe/super moon. Which is the first time in 35 years. (Is it just me or have people been saying (astrological miracle of some sort - lunar eclispe/solar eclispe/Planetary alignment, meteor shower) for the first time in 20-30 years or see it now before it goes for ____ years) every month? I mean, I feel like there's been a supermoon, lunar eclispe or blue moon every single month or every other month.
Oh, and we're in the 50s and 60s today, with lots of rain and fog, about to drop back down to the 20s over the weekend. Hopefully this will not result in another vertigo attack or a bombcyclone.
6. The Doofus apparently made friends with a reporter on the campaign trail, and invited him into the White House. The reporter said, he'd just be a fly on the wall and it would give him a great opportunity to write a book about the inner workings of the White House and the Doofus' administration. (BWAHAHAH!)
Apparently, the Doofus didn't talk to Robert Murdoch first (which would have been the intelligent and smart thing to do) since this reporter did the exact same thing to Murdoch.
Mother: I don't know why he didn't talk to Murdoch about the guy.
Me: Well, he is the Doofus.
Anyhow...about a year or so later, out comes the book Fire and the Fury by Michael Wolf.
And the Doofus discovers, hmmm, this was so not the book I had agreed to or was expecting. How did this happen? So, he tries to stop it and inadvertently starts a National Book Club. Actually, I think it is a Global Book Club now. The book sold out in all outlets in under a week and is on back-order, oh and so did another book that had the same title that people mistakenly bought thinking it was the same book. (LOL!) The content is only really surprising to the people who haven't been paying attention.
Say what you will about the Doofus, he certainly gives comedians plenty of material. I mean honestly, at this point the jokes write themselves. You just have to deliver them.