Betcha By Golly Wow
07/12/17 09:01
It's just so weird. All these women coming out against men who have groped them in the past. Don't women know how to say "no" anymore? This was some years ago so that may explain why there are very few more recent examples of this behavior. Some say that if they (Democrats) can get the likes of Al Franken to step down from the Senate then they can go after Trump for all of his purported indiscretions with women. Franken will be speaking from the Senate floor today and it's anyone's guess as to whether he will be stepping down or not. The Democrats lost the moral high ground on the sexual abuse issue when any number of high profile democrats were charged by their accusers with crimes against women ranging from groping to out and out molestation.
There is an actual photo in circulation that shows Al Franken in his role as a comedian groping a woman's breasts who is asleep but fully clothed while sitting upright in her seat on air force flight returning from an engagement overseas. And then there is Judge Moore. He was the victim of a political hit job by the Democrats who decided that if they could cajole or pay enough women in the state of Alabama to say that Moore molested them then they could take just enough votes away from Moore to deprive him of a win on December 12th. A Moore loss to a Democrat would reduce the overall Republican advantage in the senate to just one seat. There is only one problem. The voters in Alabama are having none of it and Moore is likely to prevail yet faces any number of queries once in the Senate regarding the so-called allegations against him. In other words, Moore is likely to win the battle but the war is far from won.
I would wish for a little more consistency in my writing in this here journal but that seems to be my modus operandi when it comes to such things. It's just true of so many things in my life. I pick them up for a time only to drop them once again and then pick them up at a later date. It's true of my journal; it's true of my reading books; it's true in playing games such as Words with Friends; and the list goes on. Maybe it's like recharging my batteries or something like that. Bike riding, on the other hand, is a mainstay day in and day out and continues to be so even now in the month of December. As long as the roads are clear and temperatures remain above freezing I am good to go. Yeah, that's the ticket. It is a little less true when it comes to riding my bicycle. Going to the gym is different story.
Did I tell you that I bought a bird bath that keeps the water from freezing in the winter? I have to say, I think the birds are far more appreciative and desirous of having access to water than they are having access to food. By all accounts, the birds are likely to back up several deep on the birdbath during the winter months when access to water is almost non-existent. I'm delighted to provide such a refuge and a source of water and food for my fine feathered friends. The Hummingbirds are long gone but the hardier species like Bluebirds, Bluejays, Sparrows, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, etc are on site daily feeding at our feeders. Keeping the feeders filled can be a challenge but I embrace that challenge and do my best to stay on top of it.
I've been dragging my feet (pun intended) on doing business with Zappo's but finally bit the bullet after having little to no success in looking for a pair of shoes on my own. I was somewhat convinced that I knew what I was looking for having had some success over time with the Keen brand of sandals and hoping against hope that I could find similar success with their line of shoes. The stores I visited looking for same either had a poor selection of Keen's or a very good selection of Keen's making an appropriate determination more difficult than not. I would also note that my patience in such matters is not unlimited and it feeds into the stereotypical narrative about men and their natural disinclination to go shopping with the kind of ease demonstrated by women in a similar setting.
Nancy, on the other hand, uses Zappo's regularly and she finally convinced me to order a few pair of shoes which I did although somewhat reluctantly. Of the five pair that I ordered, I finally decided that the best of the lot were a pair of Dr Martens. The best I can say about any pair of shoes I would hope to own is that they are not too big, not too small, not too heavy, not too light, and just sturdy enough to hold up under what I might consider to be a light amount of ongoing abuse. Finally, while Dr Marten's are considered to be, or were once considered to be, worn by members of the counterculture, I am not now or have I ever been a member of that group. One or both of us have gone mainstream for better or worse.
There is an actual photo in circulation that shows Al Franken in his role as a comedian groping a woman's breasts who is asleep but fully clothed while sitting upright in her seat on air force flight returning from an engagement overseas. And then there is Judge Moore. He was the victim of a political hit job by the Democrats who decided that if they could cajole or pay enough women in the state of Alabama to say that Moore molested them then they could take just enough votes away from Moore to deprive him of a win on December 12th. A Moore loss to a Democrat would reduce the overall Republican advantage in the senate to just one seat. There is only one problem. The voters in Alabama are having none of it and Moore is likely to prevail yet faces any number of queries once in the Senate regarding the so-called allegations against him. In other words, Moore is likely to win the battle but the war is far from won.
I would wish for a little more consistency in my writing in this here journal but that seems to be my modus operandi when it comes to such things. It's just true of so many things in my life. I pick them up for a time only to drop them once again and then pick them up at a later date. It's true of my journal; it's true of my reading books; it's true in playing games such as Words with Friends; and the list goes on. Maybe it's like recharging my batteries or something like that. Bike riding, on the other hand, is a mainstay day in and day out and continues to be so even now in the month of December. As long as the roads are clear and temperatures remain above freezing I am good to go. Yeah, that's the ticket. It is a little less true when it comes to riding my bicycle. Going to the gym is different story.
Did I tell you that I bought a bird bath that keeps the water from freezing in the winter? I have to say, I think the birds are far more appreciative and desirous of having access to water than they are having access to food. By all accounts, the birds are likely to back up several deep on the birdbath during the winter months when access to water is almost non-existent. I'm delighted to provide such a refuge and a source of water and food for my fine feathered friends. The Hummingbirds are long gone but the hardier species like Bluebirds, Bluejays, Sparrows, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, etc are on site daily feeding at our feeders. Keeping the feeders filled can be a challenge but I embrace that challenge and do my best to stay on top of it.
I've been dragging my feet (pun intended) on doing business with Zappo's but finally bit the bullet after having little to no success in looking for a pair of shoes on my own. I was somewhat convinced that I knew what I was looking for having had some success over time with the Keen brand of sandals and hoping against hope that I could find similar success with their line of shoes. The stores I visited looking for same either had a poor selection of Keen's or a very good selection of Keen's making an appropriate determination more difficult than not. I would also note that my patience in such matters is not unlimited and it feeds into the stereotypical narrative about men and their natural disinclination to go shopping with the kind of ease demonstrated by women in a similar setting.
Nancy, on the other hand, uses Zappo's regularly and she finally convinced me to order a few pair of shoes which I did although somewhat reluctantly. Of the five pair that I ordered, I finally decided that the best of the lot were a pair of Dr Martens. The best I can say about any pair of shoes I would hope to own is that they are not too big, not too small, not too heavy, not too light, and just sturdy enough to hold up under what I might consider to be a light amount of ongoing abuse. Finally, while Dr Marten's are considered to be, or were once considered to be, worn by members of the counterculture, I am not now or have I ever been a member of that group. One or both of us have gone mainstream for better or worse.