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calimary's Journal
calimary's Journal
April 29, 2024

I still fantasize about a world without the donald.

Nowhere near reality, I’m sorry to say. He’ll have put his mark in the history books. Like a latter-day Nixon.

April 29, 2024

Hey, that's about the only on-camera stuff he DIDN'T do!

Howard Cosell.

Yup.

Decades ago, he started us down the road toward what we all know as “Saturday Night Live.” Only, in this case, it was a variety program known as “Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.” It lasted a few months on ABC. I never paid much attention to it and didn’t watch cuz it was on earlier in the evening.

But it evidently gave somebody over at rival NBC some ideas. What erupted out of that thinking eventually became what we all have known and loved for decades as “Saturday Night Live.”

Background details:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_with_Howard_Cosell

But for awhile there, you could not escape Howard Cosell. He was even in a Woody Allen movie!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas_(film)

April 29, 2024

Doing what we can in my little Indivisible group.

- Zoom call for planning and strategizing, every Monday evening
- Daily Call-to-Action email that we put together every weekend, for distribution on Tuesdays
- Busy intersection where we do an hour of signholding every Saturday
- Planning for walking neighborhoods and knocking on doors as campaign season heats up
- Discussing & planning Congressmember meetings
- Discussing what other local groups, both Indivisible and just regular Democratic Party folks, are planning and doing
- Discussion and assigning local Letters to the Editor and what subjects to write about
- Sharing a little gossip when available, and discussing if there’s some little thing in there that we can use. What we want to do with/for/if/about/against it, and if it seems like a good idea or is/is not worth it.

And more!

That’s just off the top of my head.

And I’m sure I’m forgetting something. But I know stuff will start heating up as THIS election year starts to suck all the oxygen out of the room.

April 29, 2024

Thanks, Pototan!

Thank you for checking in, and thank you also for keeping the faith, and the vigil, with us. It’s noticed and GREATLY appreciated!

April 28, 2024

Fuck her. I don't care what she's claiming in her damn book.

I WON’T EVER vote for a candidate like her. Besides, I just DO NOT vote for Republicans. PERIOD.

April 28, 2024

I don't care what her excuse is or what her explanation is.

I didn't like her before. Now I flat-out despise her. If there was NO ONE ELSE to vote for, I'd write in Lassie, Old Yeller, or Snoopy.

April 27, 2024

President Biden is truly a noble man.

We’re the lucky ones - to have him as our President.

April 27, 2024

Thanks for posting this.

I’m interested in hearing how many protests there are, about this issue.

I’m still stunned. “Banning books”????? Seriously? How Nazi have we become? “…land of the free and the home of the mentally and morally suppressed.”

April 27, 2024

Good point.

ANYTHING to sound “tough”.

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About calimary

Female. Retired. Wife-Mom-Grandma. Approx. 30 years in broadcasting, at least 20 of those in news biz. Taurus. Loves chocolate - preferably without nuts or cocoanut. Animal lover. Rock-hound from pre-school age. Proud Democrat for life. Ardent environmentalist and pro-choicer. Hoping to use my skills set for the greater good. Still married to the same guy for 40+ years. Probably because he's a proud Democrat, too. Penmanship absolutely stinks, so I'm glad I'm a fast typist! I will always love Hillary and she will always be my President.
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