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Arkansas Granny
Arkansas Granny's Journal
Arkansas Granny's Journal
October 25, 2024
I have received a New Product Test Invitation from Amazon.
According to the card, "You will not only get free product here but also commission for your time and effort!" Has anyone done this or know someone who has? I'm not sure what all is involved with this.
October 22, 2024
So I asked my daughter today if she would be ordering her usual Arnold Palmer the next time she went out to eat.
Her response: Oh, God, no!
October 21, 2024
I voted today. Blue all the way down the ballot.
I know it's a blue dot in our red state, but we have to start somewhere.
October 20, 2024
The only challenge here was limiting myself to 10 arguments against Donald Trump (and one good reason to vote for Kamala Harris). So, drum roll, working toward No. 1:
10: As president, he violated his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”
Ask Mike Pence, who forfeited his place as Trump’s ticket mate to Ohio Sen. JD Vance because Pence wouldn’t violate the Constitution; Vance would. Even after leaving office, Trump called for terminating parts of it so he could regain power. No one should think he’d keep the oath if given a second chance, especially when the Supreme Court that he packed has ruled that presidents are virtually immune from prosecution.
The top ten reasons not to vote for Donald Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-20/election-donald-trump-kamala-harrisThe only challenge here was limiting myself to 10 arguments against Donald Trump (and one good reason to vote for Kamala Harris). So, drum roll, working toward No. 1:
10: As president, he violated his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”
Ask Mike Pence, who forfeited his place as Trump’s ticket mate to Ohio Sen. JD Vance because Pence wouldn’t violate the Constitution; Vance would. Even after leaving office, Trump called for terminating parts of it so he could regain power. No one should think he’d keep the oath if given a second chance, especially when the Supreme Court that he packed has ruled that presidents are virtually immune from prosecution.
September 20, 2024
Let's play Clue - Version 2024
https://x.com/davematt88/status/1837249294270607842?t=-755TN_4CetmfVrYO0x6bg&s=19
September 13, 2024
I realize this is purely anecdotal, but I don't see Trump signs all over the place like I did in 2016 and 2020.
As I've been driving around town and in rural areas of this deep red state, I have been watching for campaign signs. I see a lot of signs for local and statewide candidates, but I can't recall the last Trump sign I've seen. In 2020, people around here were littering their yards with signs, driving around in trucks with multiple flags and stickers and wearing MAGA hats and t-shirts. This year, nada.
To be fair, I'm not seeing Harris/Walz signs either, so I don't know if this is a good sign or not, but it does seem like the enthusiasm for Trump is waning, at least in my neck of the woods.
September 9, 2024
I wonder if this will have any effect on the MAGAts. Sadly, I doubt it.
Scoop: Generals come to Harris' defense on Afghanistan
Ten generals and admirals are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from Republican attempts to tie her to the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Why it matters: The withdrawal has emerged as a major campaign issue in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate, with Harris coming under fire from former President Trump, House Republicans and parents of victims of the Abbey Gate suicide attack, which killed 13 American service members.
The push to defend Harris comes from retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, who has never previously endorsed a political candidate.
Some of the military officials are also fanning out on TV this week to defend Harris' record, two people familiar with the plans told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/generals-defend-harris-us-withdrawal-afghanistan?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
Why it matters: The withdrawal has emerged as a major campaign issue in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate, with Harris coming under fire from former President Trump, House Republicans and parents of victims of the Abbey Gate suicide attack, which killed 13 American service members.
The push to defend Harris comes from retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, who has never previously endorsed a political candidate.
Some of the military officials are also fanning out on TV this week to defend Harris' record, two people familiar with the plans told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/generals-defend-harris-us-withdrawal-afghanistan?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
I wonder if this will have any effect on the MAGAts. Sadly, I doubt it.
September 7, 2024
I don't go to that site very often, so I don't know how long that has been up. This statement is definitely worth the read.
Has anyone else been to the Penzey's Spices website and read this?
https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/
About Republicans
As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be a driving force for change. We live in a time calling out for change and for solutions to the very real problems our country and our planet face. There’s two very different futures ahead for us totally dependent on whether we solve these problems or not. With so much at stake we feel obligated to use the unique position spices hold in our lives to try to help promote the solutions to these problems as best we can.
Watching the slow decline of the Republican Party over the last half century, and the steep decline/bottom falling out over the last decade, it can be easy to see the nonsense that has overtaken the party as pretty much random. Once you start seriously looking at the problems America and the world face and who and what are standing in the way of solving those problems, it quickly becomes clear there is nothing random to what the Republicans are promoting.
I don't go to that site very often, so I don't know how long that has been up. This statement is definitely worth the read.
August 27, 2024
Mods: If this is not the correct forum, please delete.
What Qanon promised . . .
https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1828478695532638663Mods: If this is not the correct forum, please delete.
August 26, 2024
I told you last week about my friend and her daughter who are registering to vote
for the first time in years.
Now another friend tells me that she and her husband have made their first political donations ever to Harris/Walz.
I hope more people are doing the same. It would be great to see Arkansas go blue again.
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