December 17, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Hey, if that’s what it takes. . .
The rich of Dickens’ day were no more likely to share their wealth, no matter how much of it they had, than the rich of today. If scaring them into seeing the need around them and helping to alleviate it works, I’m for it. It’s preferable to some of the alternatives I can think of, but I doubt that Momma would appreciate it if I described them.
1I don’t believe it. Ronald Reagan, the Prophet, taught us that all it took for the rich to share their wealth was for them to stop paying taxes. That’ll do it. And who was Saint Ronnie’s muse? Bonzo of course.
2Somewhere out on the intertubes, a troll is making the #notallrichpeople argument with a straight face.
3Dicken’s tale is actually a ghost story. And who the hell believes in ghosts!
4IMHO, Dickens is a perfect light for illustrating how Drumpf himself is not upper class, although the argument is to be made that Ivanka has attained upper classness for herself and potentially for her children. Fred Drumpf never required his feral child develop those admirable character traits guaranteeing that would tame him, rather than become the Caligula-like monster Putin put in the White House.
5It won’t be ghosts that will convince the rich that selfishness is wrong, but the angry, homeless, hungry, and sick hordes of poor that storm the gates of their gated communities.
6Papa has said what I have always thought – either we ALL have equal opportunity / education / access to health care / safety, or NOBODY is safe (even in those gated communities).
7My favorite Holiday story. Although I always thought it was not so much about $$ but change. A quote I like , not aware of it’s origin but, ” We each have our place in time. And if we live right, we change that place and that time for the better”. This is what we should strive to do.
8The original “trickle down” was running down Scrooge’s leg.
9Donnie, Messy and those around them want to live like the Romanovs. Suggested Christmas gift for the lot of them: A Brief History of the Romanov Dynasty. (on audio of course, if Ivanka is too busy to read Donnie his bedtime story)
Notice the sudden “rise” in Messy’s poll numbers? Probably due to the media comparison with one of Dee Cee’s other loathsome couples, Steve Munchkin and his arm trophy.
Off to inscribe Bah Humbug on a pallet of pitchforks.
10Every year at this time I am reminded of Dickens’s story parallels the republican platform, especially the part about Tiny Tim. No CHIP for you kid!
11My favorite version of “A Christmas Carol” is the George C. Scott movie. We watch it every year, usually on Christmas eve. Frank Finlay, as Jacob Marley, is scary as hell but a real delight.
When he says–“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!”–it sends chills down my spine. Too bad the GOP doesn’t take the moral of the film to heart.
12TTPT, one of my favorite student bloopers was the one about Scrooge being visited by the ghost of Bob Marley. I can see that… “No woman, no cry… Hey, you look like you could use some ganja, mon….”
13Long ago I thought the Christmas Carol was the long lost gospel. Imagine! Scrooge experiences remorse, repentance, reunion (with his nephew), reparation (with the Crotchet family), and finally redemption. then lately I began to realize that all of the things start with the letter R. Nutz!
14I keep envisioning the White House on Christmas Eve with Richard Nixon in the role of Marley’s ghost.
15Ralph: Turtle McConnell has tweeted today about needing to fund CHIP. He’s rightly being slammed for his callous tardiness. I’m not sure what his game is.
I also love the George C Scott version of ACC. Powerful.
16to Papa:
Who knows? Perhaps Dickens did his bit to help assure that Britain’s move from plutocracy to democracy did not resemble that of France? After all, we’ll never know every single agency, action and reaction that created the two events.
What we do know is that the US set the example both those nations and several others followed. And today it seems to be saying it is sorry it started the whole ball rolling.
May we have A Christmas Carol get us back on track rather than a French Revolution. Please.
17two crows:
It’s time to send each Congress member a chunk of coal and reminder that Cooked Goose will be on their menu for November 2018.
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