Re Olympics: What am I doing wrong?

Much has changed at the games over the years; I still miss seeing the judges lifting their score cards (there's now a whole generation that doesn't get it when one of us quips, "8.7 from the Russian judge". Also, the viewing guide says Swimming but what's showing is Tennis. Then, the Diving is completed but they switch to another event before giving the results. Seriously, the broadcast flipping mid-event to another and then to yet another has me reaching for the dramamine. And call me silly, but what I really miss are the medals ceremonies. After showing the very exciting Gymnastics the camera had a wide shot of the venue, and it looked like they were setting up the podiums; then they switched to swimming. A bit later, while waiting for another event to start, they did a bit of chitchat with pics of athletes holding medals, then cut away from that for commentators exchanging inanities. No, I don't have a streaming service, and cranky computer doesn't much care for video activity. I'm actually getting a bit nostalgic for the grainy black and white that let us see the competitions, the judges, and the smiles of our athletes as they received their medals.

Gritch off. Also, sigh...........


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Ew factor

Yikes

Just a little light reading

I want this shirt.

eenie, meenie, mynie, moe . . .

A damned unwelcome deja vu

We were all rightly horrified when Trump made his assertion about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue and not losing any voters. In essence, he was saying that his voters were stupid and would do what they were told.

Well, we ain’t on Fifth Avenue, but some of our “leaders” are taking aim at the President that WE voted for. Apparently they think that we’re stupid and will follow their example. Has it not occurred to them that we also voted THEM into office?

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Ad lib, kinda sorta

Needed a break from the convention lunacy, so I switched over to HGTV for a while. During a commercial I switched to MSNBC to find that they, too, were in a commercial break, but in order to maintain visual continuity they were running a split screen: on the right, there was Don Jr holding forth from the podium, on the left was an ad for treating toenail fungus complete with groty pic. I confess that I giggled. Sometimes we just have to take perfection where we find it, yes?


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Throwback

Back in '08, after McCain chose Palin as his running mate, I made a few dozen buttons and took them to our local Obama campaign office. They were gone in a few minutes, and I was pleased that they asked for more. A couple of the youngest workers asked what the picture was about, and our answer was "Have a seat, let's talk."

Well, you just never know...part 2

part 1 here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219163700

Surprised to find this in my mailbox just now (and, yes, it's Sticker Mule):

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As if.


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