Welcome to paradise. As rain dampened spirits in Washington, Joe Biden this week flew with family to St Croix in the US Virgin Islands to ring in 2024. Its lush landscape, turquoise water and humid air provided some welcome respite for a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Biden has fought numerous elections for the Senate and White House, but next year he faces possibly the toughest campaign of his career.
This is a subject of considerable debate these days. Some argue that if Trump can just be sidelined — say, by being kept off the ballot because he promoted an insurrection — then the GOP, lacking a charismatic leader, will revert to a Mitt Romney normalcy. It’s a cogitable argument. https://hartmannreport.com/
1. Don’t give up alcohol – experiment with drinking differently
Dr Richard Piper, CEO of Alcohol Change UK
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I spoke to a friend in Istanbul about my boundless horror, and while I can’t remember the exact words she said in response, they amounted to “Welcome to my world.” I told her about all the protests breaking out, and she gently warned me not to get my hopes up. She’d also demonstrated against Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, she said, but eventually those protests had died out, and ours would too.
If Trump is re-elected, he’d be America’s 47th president, so he’s named the plans for his second term “Agenda 47.” At best, it’s a dystopian nightmare: at worst it means ending our current system of American government; aligning the US with Russia and other autocratic nations; and the USA leading the charge against democracy and in favor of authoritarian, strong-man forms of government across the world.
Over at his website, Trump lays out the details of his governing agenda, complete with short videos promoting each of the steps he plans to take. They, and his many statements about future plans, include:
On the day before my sister Julie died, I lay down on her bed and held her gingerly in my arms, afraid that any pressure would hurt her. She had lost so much weight that she looked like a stick figure I might have drawn when we were kids. As her body had wasted, her tumors had grown — now several of them bigger than baseballs. Her abdomen looked like the lunar landscape, with protrusions everywhere, the sources of her pain plainly visible.
Two and a half months earlier, her oncologist explained that these tumors might soon block the liver’s ability to drain properly, resulting in liver failure, usually a fast and painless death. “It will be as though you’re going to sleep,” I remember him telling us on a Zoom call.
I’ve traveled around the world and it took me a long time to get the courage to visit India. I love the culture shock of third-world countries, but India isn’t another country, it’s another planet. I’m sure that having only lived in New York, LA, and Miami that Alabama would feel like another planet to me too, however, while I only had one person willing to go to India with me, I had zero willing to go to Alabama.
CHECK FOR ALZHEIMER'S - PRETTY AMAZINGThe following was developed as a mental age assessment by theSchool of Psychiatry at Harvard University . Take your time and see ifyou can read each line aloud without a mistake.The average person over 60 years of age cannot do it!1. This is this cat.2. This is is cat.3. This is how cat.4. This is to cat.5. This is keep cat.6. This is an cat.7. This is old cat.8. This is fart cat.9. This is busy cat.10. This is for cat.11. This is forty cat.12. This is seconds cat.Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top downand I bet you can't resist passing it on.........
Teaching English:A Priest was about to finish his tour of duty, and was leaving his Mission in the jungle where he has spent years teaching the natives when he realized that the one thing he never taught them was how to speak English. ...
So he takes the chief for a walk in the forest.
He points to a tree and says to the chief, "This is a tree."
The chief looks at the tree and grunts, "Tree."
The Priest is pleased with the response.They walk a little further and he points to a rock and says, "This is a rock."
Hearing this, the chief looks and grunts, "Rock."
The Priest was really getting enthusiastic about the results when he
heard rustling in the bushes. As they peek over the top, he sees a couple of natives in the midst of heavy sexual activity.
The Priest is really flustered and quickly responds, "Man riding a bike."
The chief looks at the couple briefly, pulls out his blowgun and kills them both...
The Priest goes ballistic and yells at the chief that he has spent years
teaching the tribe how to be civilized and be kind to each other, so how
could he kill these people in cold blood that way?
The chief replied,
"My bike."
So now cocaine is legal in Oregon, but straws aren't. That must be frustrating.
Still trying to get my head around the fact that 'Take Out' can mean food, dating, or murder.
Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers. If you do find one, what's your plan?
The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just scream to start their day.
Being popular on Facebook is like sitting at the 'cool table' in the cafeteria of a mental hospital.
You know you're over 50 when you have 'upstairs ibuprofen' and 'downstairs ibuprofen'.
How did doctors come to the conclusion that exercise prolongs life, when....the rabbit is always jumping but only lives for around two years, and...the turtle that doesn't exercise at all, lives over 200 years. So, rest, chill, eat, drink, and enjoy life!
I too was once a male trapped in a female body...but then my mother gave birth.
If only vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
When I lost the fingers on my right hand in a freak accident, I asked the doctor if I would still be able to write with it. He said, "Probably, but I wouldn't count on it.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise. But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Anyone who says their wedding was the best day of their life has clearly never had two candy bars fall-down at once from a vending machine.
The biggest joke on mankind is that computers have begun asking humans to prove they aren't a robot. (Yeah, irks me too!)
When a kid says "Daddy, I want Mommy" that's the kid version of "I'd like to speak to your supervisor".
It's weird being the same age as old people.
Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say: "CLOSE ENOUGH".
Last night the internet stopped working so I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like good people.
We celebrated last night with a couple of adult beverages ...... Metamucil and Ensure.
You know you are getting old when friends with benefits means having someone who can drive at night. (This is me)
Weight loss goal: To be able to clip my toenails and breathe at the same time.
Some of my friends exercise every day. Meanwhile I am watching a show I don't like because the remote fell on the floor.
For those of you that don't want Alexa or Siri listening in on your conversation, they are making a male version...it doesn't listen to anything.
I just got a present labeled, 'From Mom and Dad', and I know darn well Dad has no idea what's inside.
Someone said, "Nothing rhymes with orange." I said, "No, it doesn't."
There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. Only a fraction of people will find this funny.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
I have many hidden talents. I just wish I could remember where I hid them.
My idea of a Super Bowl is a toilet that cleans itself.
Apparently, exercise helps you with decision-making. It's true. I went for a run this morning and decided I'm never going again
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