Marco Rubio says his family is on board for a White House campaign in 2016 http://t.co/8UCdmivJVr
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) January 11, 2015
… and he insists that no amount of money Jeb Bush raises will deter him from running…
Thank God! Rt @hughhewitt: @CarlyFiorina tells me she will not exit '16 GOP presidential race even if @MittRomney joins it.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 9, 2015
Is today day we vote on which former GOP Presidential Reality Show contestant we'd like to come back? Does Pat Buchanan count?
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 9, 2015
Watch out, Mitt! @Arianna8927: John Bolton 'may be next' to leave Fox News for 2016 bid – http://t.co/FkJxTGAa2J
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 10, 2015
Run Rudy run! RUN RUDY RUN! MT @BillKristol Mitt running? If 2008 candidates Mitt and Huck are credible why not Rudy? http://t.co/WGrlXIamUN
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) January 10, 2015
Just out of idle curiosity, has anyone asked @SenJohnMcCain if he's going to run for president in 2016?
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) January 10, 2015
Jeb, Romney, John Bolton, Santorum, Huckabee, Paul, Carly Fiorina — Newt's gotta just be wetting himself trying not to announce…
— Billmon (@billmon1) January 10, 2015
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Always room for one more in the Grift Klown Kar Kavalcade!
Cervantes
Shaping up nicely.
scav
‘Merka’s love of cheaply made retreads of movies they watched in their youth continues to be fed by the marketing machine. This isn’t Election 2016, this is Election 2014: The Cage Rematch, or Election 1984: The Empire Lives!
ruemara
Well that insane clown posse is coming together. Trying to decide on whether I’m retaining my apartment, looking for a room or packing my stuff, storing the necessities and trying a new city for a bit. I hate making plans this far out.
srv
Like the Charlie H guy last night, all I can think of is vomit.
Peale
Thank god. where does Ted cruz stand on the issues.
Hal
Carly Fiorina for President! She’ll do for America what she did for Hewlett Packard.
The only reason Rubio is even a Senator is because none of his opponents would drop out of the damn race in Florida.
Linkmeister
Here comes Huckleberry Graham on the outside!
James E Powell
I know that the 2012 Republican primary was rightly called a clown show. I know that nearly every one of these candidates, announced and yet-to-be announced, are corrupt & crazy.
But I do not wish to tempt fate or to invite the gods to amuse themselves. We should never laugh until the day after the election is called.
lamh36
So I finally saw Selma tonight. The theatre I was in was all people of color (although I do believe I saw one white young man with his girlfriend, who was Black). There was a lot of elderly men and women, who seemed of the correct age to have been living under Jim Crow South. Not as many young people as I would have wanted to see (I dragged my nephew to see it). compare that to when I saw Taken, the crowd was predom white, young and middle aged, with a sprinkling of people of color, most of which were young like my nephew.
So back to the film. From the shock of the opening sequence (even knowing what was gonna happen), to the scenes on the actual Edmund Pettis bridge (god bless John Lewis) and the final scenes in Montgomery, the entire audience was riveted. Powerful doesn’t even begin to describe it. I saw it over 5 hours ago and the movie is still on my mind.
I know we’ve talked a bit about the LBJ stuff here, and I don’t know if the audience I was with even knew about the controversy, but from the overheard conversations, the last thing on anyone’s mind was the portrayal of LBJ. At the end the majority of the people just stayed in their seats and there was essentially silence until people started leaving their seats.
I don’t have time for a full fledged review, but I can say if you are a movie goers like myself or if you decide you’d only go see a film that was worth the price of admission, then. RUN DON’T WALK to see Selma. it def more than a “Black” story or a “Southern” story, it’s truly an American story, and I’d like to think it def deserves as much of a diverse audience as it can get.
Good night BJ.
SatanicPanic
Carly Fiorina? What’s the old saying? If at first you don’t succeed, fail at something bigger
Suzanne
@lamh36: I definitely want to see it. It may be months before I actually do, as I get to see approximately one movie every three months, and I went two weeks ago, but I definitely will make an effort to see this one.
I absolutely cannot imagine why Romney would try AGAIN. The knock against him wax that he was craven and fake and sly, and this only makes him look even more so. I wonder if the LDS Church is putting him up to this. Their press has sucked as of late, now that they finally admitted that Joseph Smith was a polygamist. What a cult of personality they have going there.
I am frustrated. All I want in life is a clean house. I love my house, and put a not-insignificant amount of effort into organizing, selecting things (then getting them on sale), making my daughters’ rooms nice, and in general making it a comfortable, inviting, relaxing place to be. And yet I often feel alone in this effort. I work the most hours outside the home, and by the time I get home at night after work, it looks like shit. Then I spend my weekend picking it the fuck back up. Never getting to NEW improvement tasks. It’s always the same shit. I have hired cleaning people, which is great, but that doesn’t help the basic lack of PUTTING SHIT AWAY that I cannot seem to make happen.
First world problems, I know. But come on.
Tommy
When Carly Fiorina was at Lucent, before she went to HP, well my day-to-day contact at Lucent (I worked at one of their ad agencies) worked directly with her some. Not every day, but more than a handful of times. My client’s department was understaffed so I was kind of just an extension of her workforce. She would get me the call in number for high-end conference calls within Lucent’s management team (we also helped with PR, so we needed to know what was going on). Of course I just listened, never said anything.
Often Fiorina ran these calls when she was the #2 at Lucent.This is I around 1997/98. At the time Lucent had about 90% market share in the US for telephony switches, the bulk (along with services) of their revenue. A pretty high percentage worldwide as well, although Siemens was still a powerhouse in most of Europe.
I recall one time, while they were at a stock high of almost $200/share and the most owned stock in the country, she said on one of these calls:
The tech people were pushing to move ALL resources to develop Internet routers and of course the million dollar switches that would in fact, run the Internet as we know it today. They felt they should “own” the market, since a switch to run a phone isn’t that different (it is, but is isn’t) then what we are using today at our ISPs.
They felt that the AT&T, Sprint, Verison, Comcast that already bought only Lucent telephony would look to them for Internet infrastructure. If they had a product to buy, they’d buy it. But at this time, they didn’t really have any products to see to the ISPs.
She was true to her words and they didn’t spend any money and in a matter of less than 3 years Cisco, through their own spending and research, coupled with buying up ever start-up they could find, did in fact “own” the market. They still own it today and have made hundreds of billions in the process.
Lucent’s stock dropped to below $10/share, and was eventually sold (they called it a merger) for pennies on the dollar to Alcatel.
So whenever I hear the name Carly Fiorina I think of this and want to scream. The Internet is a fad! Yeah I want her as President of the United States, she has shown so much foresight in the past.
Violet
@Suzanne: Have you created penalties for not putting shit away that mean something to the people being penalized? At least you could do it for the kids.
Alternatively, tell them that everything that is on the floor when you get home is going into the trash and then do it. Take the trash bag to a dumpster. You won’t have to do that much before they get the message.
Some of it is just living with other people, though. They have different priorities and levels of tolerance for mess than you.
PurpleGirl
@Suzanne: I sympathize. I have a friend who complains about the same thing. She ends up having to all the cleaning up of things left on the floor, in the sink, etc. Unfortunately, I do not know the magic incantation that gets a husband and spawn(s) to kick in and help.
Violet
@Tommy: Too bad you didn’t record the call. Imagine how much you could sell that recording for to some oppo research team.
Suzanne
@PurpleGirl: Mr. Suzanne helps, but he works, too, so he can’t do it all, either.
@Violet: Yeah, I’ve done penalties and incentives, and it works to a degree, but Spawn the Younger is only four, so it doesn’t mean a whole lot yet. And Spawn the Elder is not a fan of picking up after her sister. Honestly, some of the problem is my mom, who came to live with us last summer. She has always been a clutterbug,
Violet
@PurpleGirl: I think it takes a change in how the family sees themselves, family meetings to set up responsibilities and a lot of follow through. Carrots and sticks.
Suzanne should not be working the most and then doing most of the work at home. That’s wrong. That needs to change. It’s going to take effort to set up a new structure but it will be worth it if she can.
Violet
@Suzanne: Oh, that’s hard. I’m sorry. Not sure how to navigate the mom issue. Maybe you can reward your older daughter if she cleans up after your mom or something.
Another Holocene Human
@lamh36: they did a shitty job promoting the film
i missed it this weekend, hopefully next weekend isn’t too late
Another Holocene Human
@Suzanne: I feel your pain, plus I have indoor allergies so I start feeling like everyone is trying to kill me.
Bubblegum Tate
@Tommy:
And then she moved on to do a bang-up job at HP!
There’s nothing more ‘Murrican than failing upward.
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy: God damn, that is way freakier than “it’s not a big truck”. Just the context. My god. Failorina.
Suzanne
@Violet: I don’t really know what to do about it. She brought a house worth of stuff with her, which is in my garage, so I can’t park in there….and she hasn’t gone through any of it yet. She does laundry, then leaves the clean laundry in piles or bags, and they get slept on or peed on by the cats and have to be rewashed. She goes to put items away, then puts them on a nearby flat surface instead and forgets. Washes dishes then leaves them on the counter. Goes grocery shopping, and leaves groceries on the counter. Like….arrrrrgh. Fuck. She helps a lot, but also makes a lot of work.
And the four-year-old is a four-year-old, who can tear it up faster than I can clean it and can’t always put stuff away without a battle. I do not always have the energy for the battle.
I probably need to lower my expectations.
Tommy
@Violet: Don’t think that has not crossed my mind. When she ran for statewide office in CA a ton of people from HP, which she left the #2 position at Lucent to run, talked about how terrible she was. But most of it always centered on the fact she laid off about 40,000 workers after HP had that terrible, failed takeover of Compact.
Nobody ever seems to talk about the fact she has been wrong, wrong, wrong from a both a 10,000 foot (vision, forward thinking) management point-of-view as well as day-to-day.
When she got to HP it could be argued they made the best PC/Windows boxes in the world. It was also when phones that became smartphones and tablets were starting to take a foothold. HP then and even now makes so much money on their printers, she has basically an endless pit of money to spend on R&D. But today can you even buy a HP tablet much less a smartphone. NO FREAKING VISION. Well you can get an HP tablet. My brother got one almost exactly a year ago. It launched for like $400. Within two months he got on from Tiger Direct (a big online tech store) for $75. He stripped out the HP OS and put in Googles Jellybean OS and gave it to his 5-year-old. Figured if it was only $75 who cares if she broke it.
With all that said, say what you will about Meg Whitman, the former head of eBay and another Republican tech female in CA that has and I assume will again run for Governor, the Senate, or POTUS. She at least can say she ran eBay like a well-oiled machine. Had the foresight to buy PayPal.
Other than the titles Carly Fiorina has had, which are really impressive, I am not sure what she has actually ever done she could “hang her hat on.”
Anne Laurie
@Suzanne:
Some organizers succeed by making the messers pay a ‘fine’ to get back possessions not properly stored. Obviously this works better with toys / electronics / favorite items of clothing than with dirty dishes, but implementing the policy might get your family out of the primate mindset that whatever falls out of the tree simply vanishes, no mess no problem.
The Spousal Unit used to leave a trail of clothes on the floor behind him every night when he came home. Then we got our first puppy, and a half-dozen button-down shirts plus several pairs of jeans were sacrificed to sharp puppy teeth chewing off the buttons / rivets. Having to replace those items worked better to reform him than all my nagging… Many years later, he’d reverted to a degree, until “we” adopted an oriental-shorthair rescue cat who loves to chew fabric. And Rocket not only particularly loves to hang out in the room where the Spousal Unit stores his clothes, the little monster will work to squeeze into / pry open drawers, so now he can’t pitch his laundry in the general direction of the hamper & leave drawers half-open.
Suzanne
@Anne Laurie: I stepped on THREE point–up tacks and push pins within two weeks before finally losing my shit. To say nothing of Sharpie on my coffee table. Mind: blown.
Violet
@Suzanne: I would strongly consider hiring a professional organizer. The right one, especially someone who has experience with seniors, downsizing, etc. could help you work with your mom to offload some of her stuff and maybe develop strategies. Might not work but might also signal that your’e serious.
Also getting your mom checked out by a doctor might help. I think I remember you saying she suffered from depression, but some of that also sounds like ADHD stuff. Or, depending on her age, even memory problems. Maybe there’s a medication or some other strategy to help.
Tommy
@Another Holocene Human: It goes even deeper. I was in DC and I worked for the Federal (DoD/civilian) part of Lucent. At the time they had much more experience with the Internet via the DoD and of course providing hardware to the NSF (National Science Foundation — which of course, started what we call the Internet today).
The Federal division, through a contract with the Navy had developed their only high-end Internet related product at the time (was not up for commercial sales BTW). Called the Optical Wave Switch. It used colors on the color spectrum to transmit data, without wires, from ship to ship or ship to port. You can imagine both the need for something like this and also in 1998 how freaking cool that was. Faster than anything else on the market by multiple factors.
The tech staff kept saying they needed to build off of this. Carly Fiorina would have none of it.
They might have been onto something because that core product became one of the most amazing pieces of hardware you can buy today. Wavestar OLS:
Ponder what the division I was working for was trying to do almost two decades ago and it boggles the mind nobody in management, Fiorina at the top of the list, would listen to them.
Anne Laurie
@Suzanne:
I seem to remember she has some other neuro-issues, but that’s why my husband takes ritalin for his ‘inattentive’ ADD. And the garage full of stuff she can’t deal with is why I once took 200mg a day of Prozac to get over a period of full-blown OCD. Is there a way you can ask her doctors to investigate these possibilities?
Violet
@Anne Laurie: I see we’re thinking the same things. That may mean it’s worth suzanne looking into. When several people have the same impression it sometimes is a clue.
@Suzanne: FWIW, a friend who has legal responsibility for a parent due to the parent’s illness and loss of abilities is also overwhelmed. When she hired an organizer it really helped her make a dent in the pack rat mess that had accumulated.
Tommy
@Anne Laurie: I have bad news. I am somewhat OCD. I got this thing against clutter. I am an organizational freak. People are amazed in a five bedroom house I might know where everything I own, down to the smallest item, where it is exactly. When something isn’t where it is supposed to be, I hate to admit, I kind of freak out and can’t focus on anything else until I locate said item. I think I even put a label on my label maker saying “Label Maker” :)!
My parents sound like you mom. They are rich. Live in a freaking house with an elevator. They have nice stuff. But the level of clutter and disorganization is such I find it hard to be in their house for an extended period of time. When they come to my house, like they did for 4-5 around X-mas, they leave my house an utter wreck.
I kid you not before they are out of the driveway I am putting stuff back in its “rightful” place.
I say this because (1) I feel and have felt your pain and (2) Not sure you can change you mother. I know I have tried and not even been remotely successful. In fact they are getting worse.
Suzanne
@Violet: She had encephalitis, which has caused some mental decline which is unlikely to improve. She also is depressed, but is on a mood stabilizer, which is helping. But even when she was healthier, she was a pack rat and fairly messy. As for her stuff in my garage — I will not touch that task with a ten-foot pole. There is so much emotional baggage there, and we’ve already rehashed the same fight multiple times over the years because I don’t want to keep many items and I won’t do it again. I. Am. Done.
Suzanne
@Violet: I suggested that she have her brother help her, but she declined. I may go the organizer route, but I am doubtful that she’d do it. She has so many family items that she had attachment to.
piratedan
don’t worry America, it doesn’t matter who the hell the GOP trots out there, be they foaming at the mouth, wearing a tinfoil ensemble or dressed like a mannequin; our media will treat them with all seriousness and never question anything that pops out of their mouths because they need to be taken seriously. Because an opinion from a political office seeker has merit in its own right, unless something drops out of the mouth of a Democratic candidate. I cannot wait for newspapers and cable to die their inevitable death and perhaps we can retire this generation of story spinners and water carriers.
Tommy
@Suzanne: Not sure the kind of things your mother has but Wal-mart (yeah I know the store sucks) but they have an area with plastic bins.* From the small size of like a foot by six inches all the way up to the huge plastic tubs. One of the hardest things for me to keep organized, but those bins/tubs work for anything, is all my computer, gaming, and electronics cords, cables, adaptors, you name it. I have so much stuff my dad jokes the Space Station can see the electronic signal of my house.
Just try to lay out the tubs, label them, and start putting stuff into them. They are pretty darn cheap. Modular in all kinds of sizes. They stack well to conserve space.
I know it is easy to give advice on my end not really understanding your situation in enough detail to be really helpful, but from what I’ve read I’d try to start here.
*The Container Store and Bed Bath & Beyond have them as well, but much more expensive. Target doesn’t have as many, just a handful.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@Another Holocene Human:
Really? The ads are freakin’ nonstop where I am. Of course, I’m in Los Angeles and theyr’e going after the Academy and Actors Guild voters, but I feel barraged with “Selma” ads right now. I even get them in between solitaire games on my phone.
Anne Laurie
@Suzanne:
Is there a chance she’d react better to working with a professional than with “another nagging relative”?
One thing about obsessive-compulsive disorder (hoarding subvariety), it’s a category of anxiety, and it’s really stressful to live in that mode. It was helpful, for me, just to know that my doctor was taking it seriously — he didn’t roll his eyes & act like it was just an amusing quirk. (As Good As It Gets had problems as a work of art, but the Nicholson character telling his adopted dog “Don’t be like me! You don’t ever wanna be like me!” was heartbreakingly accurate.)
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@Suzanne:
There’s been some interesting research lately that ADHD can be worsened or even triggered by menopause, so it may be worth getting it looked into with your mom. There definitely seem to be some problems with what they call “executive function” (basically, moving the “I should do that” thought to the part of your brain that actually does it).
As far as talking to her about it, I literally (as of half an hour ago) just finished reading a really great book called “Crucial Conversations” (the 2nd edition). It’s only $9 on Kindle or you can buy it used. It basically walks you through how to have difficult conversations with people without making yourself bonkers. Steeplejack said he used to use it to talk to IT employees with poor communication skills, so there’s a second reccomend.
Keith P
This just happened – one of my cats, apparently pissed that a couple of neighborhood cats came in through an open window, decided to pee in a cat bed in my bedroom. Then, he got his claw stuck in it, which freaked him out, so he ran down the hallway, dragging this piss-soaked bed with him. Now, I’ve got about 15 feet of cat piss streaked down my hallway that I have to mop up before I can go back to bed.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
Also, too, it’s probably not a good idea to have Spawn the Elder pick up after her sister, who needs to learn to pick up after herself, but can you offer her a boost in her allowance if she helps Grandma finish her tasks?
mai naem
Jindal,Rubio,Christie, Walker, Carson, Fiorina, Huckster, Bush III, Paul,Cruz,Bolton,Santorum,Romney,Perry,Pataki, We’re up to 15 and I’m not even counting Kasich and Nikki Haley.
Nemo_N
Have a laugh with the #FoxNewsFacts hashtag.
Tommy
@mai naem: No matter how you look at, this isn’t going to end well for the Republican party … and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Mike G
I’m sick of the presidential election already.
If this turns into a Bush-Clinton rerun it will generate all the excitement of giving your wife socks on your anniversary.
fuckwit
@Mike G: Reruns are usually not good for Democratic energy. I remember when 2004 somehow turned into a rerun of (and referendum on!) the Vietnam War, which was beyond ridiculous since there was a real current war underway (badly) during the whole election! Instead all we heard about was Swift Boats and kerning on memos, but that’s what having a race between Lt. Bush (ANG) vs Lt. Kerry (USN) bought us.
So if we end up with Bush III vs Clinton II then we get to revisit a bunch of shit I hope we never have to revisit again. And if you think the media won’t get 100% fixated on whatever meaningless idiotic nostalgia distractions from 10-20 years ago they can retch up, then I have a bridge to sell you.
NotMax
By the end of the month, it will take up less space to type up a list of those who have not announced that they are planning or exploring a run.
kc
John Bolton? BAHAHAHAHAHA!
bemused
@Suzanne:
Can you convince your mom to store her stuff in your garage in a storage rental unit so you can actually use it to park your car?
Southern Beale
Bob Dole is still alive, isn’t he?
Snarki, child of Loki
Waddle, Christie! Waddle like the wind!
Elizabelle
@Suzanne: Good luck with the home front issues.
You’re a good person to bring your mom into your already busy home.
I hope you find a way to take some of the duties and stress off you, because you have enough already. Women who do too much. (My sister is one of those types as well.)
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@mai naem: Carson, Fiorina and Bolton have never even been elected to dog-catcher. It’s ridiculous for the chattering classes to be pushing memes that they’re serious candidates for President.
They’re no Eisenhower. (Neither is Petraeus, or Clark for that matter.)
It’s just silly.
But, it’s unreasonable to expect less from the Republican political class these days.
(sigh).
Cheers,
Scott.
SRW1
@mai naem:
No Ryan?
In any case, the elephant needs not only a primary, but also preliminaries.
Jeffro
So…what is the complete list of contenders and pretenders, then?
– Carly Fiorina
– Bobby Jindal
– Rand Paul
– Ted Cruz
– Marco Rubio
– Mike Huckabee
– Jeb Bush
– Mitt Romney
– Rick Santorum
– ?
Suzanne
@Tommy: If plastic bins could fix this, I would have bought her loads years ago. The problem is essentially that no matter how she organizes, she has to let go of some of it. It cannot all stay. I don’t have the space, and I can’t afford to rent her a storage space–or more accurately, I won’t, because the shit is literally falling apart. This isn’t an organizational issue, it’s an emotional issue, and we have already fought about it multiple times. I don’t want to be a dick, but I just don’t have the same level of emotional attachment to objects. She wants to give stuff away because she doesn’t want to be burdened with it, but I don’t want to keep it, and neither do our other relatives. So she keeps it.
I need a bomb to hit my garage.
Origuy
I was at Compaq when the merger happened. I came from Tandem Computers, which were bought by Compaq a few years previously. Despite hearing all of the terrible things about Carly, we were happy about the merger because Compaq didn’t know much about big systems and tried to enforce a Texas attitude on Bay Area developers.
Happy about her leaving, though. Her replacement wasn’t much better from my viewpoint though. The TouchPad tablet was something of a fiasco; I don’t think it was really ready for release. I bought one, it’s running KitKat now, but a lot of people had hardware problems.
I’m still at HP. Meg Whitman has been a big improvement over her predecessors. I don’t think she intends to run for office again. She’s made several comment in internal presentations to make me think that. I think she enjoys running HP.
VOR
@Origuy: I’ve shared this story before but I always get a kick out of it. When Carly was running for Senate, one of the cable news talking heads pontificated about how her core support was in Silicon Valley. It made me laugh because I have yet to encounter anyone working in the IT industry at that time who has a positive view of her tenure at HP.
Touchpad was a fiasco but I don’t blame Meg for that as Leo was still CEO. They released a product with a limited number of apps and an immature OS into a market with a clear, mature leader (Apple iPad). And yet they expected to be able to price at parity and immediately ramp to volume. The product certainly could have succeeded, but it needed patience. Instead they threw in the towel after only seven weeks.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Suzanne: Since there is an emotional attachment to the stuff, maybe you could set up a video camera and get her to talk about the things while she’s holding them and showing them to the camera. Then when she wants to reminisce about it, you can just drag out the video tape or MPEG file.
(Of course, that would take time and may not solve the problem, but at least it would be a different way to address her concerns.)
And it would be a bit of family history for down the road.
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Quaker in a Basement
Japery is one of my favorite things.
Another Holocene Human
@VOR: IT for Carly is exactly like New England for Mitt Romney. There are donors, but no votes. In fact, not enough votes anywhere.
Another Holocene Human
@Suzanne: Sounds like classic intergenerational hoarding family dynamics. You may need to get professional help because the behavior is a nexus of both behavioral/temperment issues and straight up cognitive problems. Unfortunately there is no quick fix. If your mom is willing to do the video or scrapbook thing with some of the hoard you’re ahead of the game. Of course, who has time to devote to do that with her? She wants the attention, no doubt about it. Maybe the kids?
If you can afford it I would recommend a clinical psychologist who specializes in dealing with patients with disordered thinking. Your mother may also need screening for early stage dementia and there is some medication available for that.
eta: if your mother is ALSO depressed, a psychiatrist who can get her on the right anti-depressant will help too
Another Holocene Human
@Southern Beale: Yeah, but Bob Dole is Sick Of Your Shit.
He’d go over with GOP voters like a fart in church.
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): I live in the South, where are the damn ads? One shitty trailer when I saw a movie. Nothing on my computer or outside or anything. Of course you’re seeing them, it was released in order to get an award and they pretty much relied on Black social media to get enough people out there to make their distro money back. IDK, the whole thing is just so weird. The actor is the guy from Red Tails and he was about the only good thing about Red Tails so I do want to see it … had to catch that movie in Ocala, la di da, and pretty much a mostly Black audience there although there were some white geriatrics out to see the wawah movie. Had to see Belle at the Villages. The Villages!!! It was a good movie, too. WTF.
I think they promote shitty Wayans Bros movies harder. And you couldn’t escape “The Help”, gag me with the fricking spoon.
SWMBO
@Suzanne: If she wants to give it away, maybe she could be persuaded to give it to Women in Distress or Kids in Distress. Most of these people have to leave a domestic violence situation with nothing that they can call home. If she thinks it is going to someone who will treasure it because it is the bestest thing to happen to them in a very bad time, she might give up some of it with less fuss. If she is religious, she might think that giving it to a church for some purpose would be a good thing. I understand the packrat issues and if it is emotional attachment, perhaps seeing it go to someone who *needs* this treasure would help.
If she would let it go to relatives, maybe they could take it and then “dispose” of it this way for you.
celticdragonchick
fun for today
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