104 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-19-16”

  1. Good morning. I’m pretty sure I have a sinus infection… I used to get them all the time, before I had sinus surgery in 1993, so I’m quite familiar with the symptoms…Fortunately, I have a full round of antibiotics that were too big for Lindsey to swallow, so I started taking them this morning…good thing about sinus infections is they usually respond quickly to antibiotics, so by tomorrow I should feel significantly better.

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  4. Met a new student today. They were supposed to be doing village living, but Dad got sick and had to be medevac’d, so the rest of the family came here. He is a very bright boy and they are thinking of putting him up a grade or two. It is not my decision, but I could see that he is all boy and needs time to play. I took the whole family over to school and showed them my classroom. Gave the mom lots of information about my class and the school. We will see. He is also only 5.

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  7. Art got home a little after six a.m. from his overnight sleep study. He said they had wires all over his head. The worst were those around his nose that tickled and itched. They did not tell him any results yet.

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  9. Jo, I hope they don’t push that boy too far along. I know of a family which did that because the boy was academically ready, but as he got older he seemed rather lost and did not have much drive in him. It’s better to pace it than to race it for the child’s sake.

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  10. My wife says I am the Forrest Gump of basketball. I have attended basketball games only twice in the last month. The first was the classic overtime game between the Thunder and the Warriors in OKC last month. Yesterday we drove back to OKC for an NCAA playoff double-header. The Aggies won game one and in the second game this happened:

    My conservative friend from Georgia says that maybe I should attend the Republican Convention.

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  11. Jo: Lindsey’s birthday is September 12–so she’s one of the oldest in her grade (cut off is September 1). She attended a private school for elementary. She was quite mature for her age and advanced academically. The school counselor recommended she skip fourth grade. She took the fourth grade Stanford and scored very well….so, they promoted her from third to fifth. She was fine academically but socially it was a disaster. When she transferred to public school, we had her repeat sixth grade, even though her grades were fine. Best decision we ever made. Worst one (thus far), was allowing her to skip in first place.

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  12. Ricky- Northern Iowa is where I got my master’s degree. They are a mid major, but play like a major. A few years ago, they went up against #1 seed Kansas in the NCAA tourney and beat them. My nephew, who rarely emails, sent one saying all Mizzou fans like UNI now.

    So now they knock off another Big 12 opponent in the Big Dance. Go Panthers!

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  14. No rain this morning!!!! Yesterday it stormed. The artist’s sales were down. Where we usually have close to 100 people for dinner on Friday night we only had 39 artists that I counted.
    I encountered one of the most disturbing people I have ever met last night. She has been hired by the art center to clean. She has taken a dislike to my friend. She criticized everything M did and told other people how wasteful M was with the food. She kept wanting to take food home with her. She was going to take it to feed some elderly woman she knew. She came back for seconds on her plate then later told some of us that she took food to this woman. Food safety is a major issue, especially when handling seafood and if anyone got sick from the food served at the art center M could lose her certifications and the center could be in trouble. This woman wasn’t quiet or shy about telling people how she feels about M. I finally spoke up to her and told her I had been helping M for a number of years and had been friends with her even longer to please stop saying the things she was saying.
    We had to hide food from this woman to keep her from taking it home. Shrimp is not something that is good leftover. I brought some home for Mr and Ms P, but any that isn’t eaten today will go in the trash tonight.

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  15. One of my boys was born in November. He’s tall and smart, so I asked the pre-school teacher about whether or not he should go to kindergarten (which at the time in CT he could). She said go ahead.

    He didn’t have any problems and gets along well socially but when it was time to move to HI, we had an opportunity to apply to a private prep-school. Their cutoff was June 30 for boys, December 30 for girls. He would have been five months younger than the boys in the class, the school took a handful of eighth grade transfers and 250 into seventh grade.

    Even though he was a straight A student in a GATE program, we held him to try to get a seventh grade slot.

    It was very hard for him. He gave thought to throwing the entrance exam and then thought better of it.

    Best decision we made, awkward though it was.

    He fit into Punahou School well and it set him up for life.

    I’m with Ann and Jo up above, boys need time and then they can blossom better–particularly with all those adept girls surrounding them and telling them what to do all the time. Sigh.

    My other kids were all spring babies and it never mattered.

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  16. Speaking of children, I’ve had a four adorable granddaughter sleepover. They’re all still sleeping, four in the queen sized guest bedroom. It’s a good thing Stargazer doesn’t return until tomorrow!

    They came in the afternoon before my husband got home (4 hour drive from San Jose; worst traffic ever) and were charmed we were dog sitting my boss’ Australian shepherd.

    When R came in, they were babbling to him: “Grandpa, did you know Grammy has a dog?”

    “Grandpa, did you know Grammy’s dog doesn’t have a tail?”

    He knew all that.

    They were so funny. “If he doesn’t have a tail, how do you know he’s happy?”

    Lots of fun.

    We have a whole routine now. Play, eat dinner, have dessert, go for a walk to the Little Library at the top of the hill, run all the way home (them), take a shower–lot of gleeful screaming followed my Grammy doing a load of wash–read books, watch a movie, go to bed.

    Fun is right.

    Last night, the final book was “Finding Winnie,” the Caldecott winner about the true story of Winnie the Pooh. I liked it so much, I bought a copy.

    Afterwards we watched an hour-long Disney Winnie the Pooh cartoon.

    I’d not seen this one before, but those four girls howled with laughter, climbed into my lap in the scary part (wherein I whispered the joke and they relaxed). Well, three climbed into my lap, there wasn’t room for the six year old.

    And then, after some whispering in the dark, they fell asleep.

    Pancakes, scrambled eggs, orange juice and strawberries up soon . . . when they arise.

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  18. I’m pretty sure that all four of my older brothers skipped a grade in their private school. One of my older brothers then took high school by correspondence (as I did) and finished in less than two-and-a-half years (as I did), and when he went off to college he was 16, not turning 17 until December. But Mom said when he went to college, someone at church said that he was “more mature than the other 18-year-olds” and she told them well, he wasn’t 18, but going on 17.

    Me, I knew of my older brothers’ skipping and wished I could. I was in public school, bored out of my mind with the academic material, with no friends in my grade anyway, and I hit puberty early so I was one of the tallest in my class in fourth and fifth grades. With a late June birthday, I was already one of the youngest in my class–in the youngest 10%. Skipping a grade would not have hurt me, and would likely have helped me. I can’t say which of my older brothers were helped and which were hurt (if any), but I do know that sometimes it can help. But then, three of my four older brothers are very well known in their own fields, all have had thirty-plus years of marriage, and they have otherwise been quite successful in life. (But in our case, we had older parents, and all but one of us had older siblings and were used to interacting with people older than us. And I was the fifth of us to marry, and the first who didn’t marry a firstborn–the brother who married the next year also married a firstborn, though my brother who lost his wife to cancer didn’t marry a firstborn the second time. So I don’t think we’re “normal,” but there are some exceptions to every rule, and it would seem that skipping a grade worked for our family.)

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  19. Michelle, you make me look forward to those days. (Actually, I’ve looked forward to those days ever since my then-suitor told me, “Whoever I marry will never be ‘mom’ to the girls–they had a mom–but will be grandmother to their children” and it was a precious thought that had never occurred to me–I missed my chance at being a mom, but I still might be a grandmother! Of course, doubly sweet is that I truly am a mom, after all!) But wow, that really sounds delightful. I hope you got some “sleeping” photos.

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  21. Our son skipped 4th grade – best decision socially for him, maybe not academically. He is very smart, but just wanted to play all the way through high school (skateboarding). He’s adjusted well to real life, however, and is now working hard.

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  22. And they should not start until they are between six (girls) and eight(boys). Then, school should be challenging and build character and confidence. None of that self esteem garbage though. So, by fifteen or sixteen, they are ready to get started in life. Some can go on to more education, others go off to work and life. And that is final.

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  24. Mumsee, I highly agree with the all-boys’ or all-girls’ school. It may not matter much for the girls, but it matters a great deal to boys. The typical classroom is pretty much “how not to get the best from your boys.” (Now, my brother who went to college in another state at 16 told me that growing up, they moved a lot, and each time at the new school he found out who was top of the class, and she–he pointed out it was always a girl–became his competition, and he worked to get ahead of her and always did. So for some boys it works, but they’re the minority, I think.)

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  25. Re the cardinal shot: that is looking out my front window. Whenever that tree has snow on it, I watch for a cardinal, but they tend to hide back inside the tree when it has snow on it. I do have a pretty decent shot of a female cardinal on it when there’s snow on it, but she’s not on the same branch as the snow. Those shots aren’t as easy to get as their prevalence on Christmas cards might indicate. 🙂

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  26. I woke up and see that I didn’t miss Christmas after all!

    Oh wait. It’s really March. Barely time to get those taxes filed …

    Janice, I’d guess that Art didn’t sleep very well for that sleep test. 🙄

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  29. Yeah, it’s a keeper. We were all horrified when the fire occurred, so glad they were able to salvage most of it.

    Aussies are the best dogs (next to border collies). With their bob tails, the just have to wiggle their whole butt when they’re happy.

    If you get another dog, michelle, you should consider one. 🙂 They’re happy, bouncy dogs — and gorgeous.

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  30. Guess the fire was in the later 1980s — I remember it now because I’d broken up with my boyfriend and we always liked going down there.

    When we we were talking once around that time, a few years after parting ways & both of us feeling sad I suppose by the breakup after so many years together, I remember telling him, “Yeah, and even ‘our’ library burned down.” 😦

    I also used to go there in the summer sometimes to study if I was taking a summer school class in college. I just loved the beautiful murals, ornate walls and floors, and the charming, old polished wooden desks and chairs that creaked …

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  32. I started reading at around age five and excelled in the schoolwork my mother gave me to do. I remember being so proud that I had done two grades in one year – I think it was 3rd and 4th. It would have been good for me to continue on in academic grades in high school, not just because it would have been easier to get to college if I had a high school diploma. It would have provided some steadiness in my dark years of adolescence; an item of sanity in the middle of my near insanity. As it was, the graded system of my musical studies provided that. Having to prepare each year for another exam – or three or four when I began to study both violin and piano, plus music theory and history – gave me something to work on and keep my mind occupied.

    I would always have done poorly in social skills had I attended school. Even now, having traveled the world, I find it difficult to interact with people casually; it creates a high level of anxiety. However, that is a family characteristic on my mother’s side; she herself, although she attended public school and high school, was too shy to go to the store to shop for herself when she was 16. All of my aunts and uncles on that side attended public school, yet most of them limit their social interactions to what they can stand, as do quite a few of my cousins, most of whom attended public school too. Two of my siblings are stay at home moms and have no desire to do anything else, my other sibling works from home. We all find the modern workforce highly stressful and hate the politics of it all. We aren’t lazy as we can work all day if necessary at almost any job (I have been a waitress, a produce stand attendant, a teacher in a preschool, a music teacher and musician, a caregiver, and of course, a nurse), it is just overwhelming to deal with people. All through my training, I suffered physical symptoms of stress. It was a relief when my stomach finally stopped hurting when I finished school.

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  34. Many studies show that girls are okay starting first grade at 6 years old, but boys do better waiting another year at least. If we did that, there would be fewer failing the 7th and 8th grades.

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  35. From last night: JaniceG “Across the way for the whole day I have heard Hispanic/Mexican music playing.”

    donna j “I love mariachi music, it’s a staple out here.”

    I hope Donna knows there are many more kinds of Mexican music than mariachi. That would be like saying all American music is Country or popular style.

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  36. Peter, when my father and I went, ten years ago now (Yikes! now I feel old!), to northern Mexico, he came back with a CD set titled Los Poetas de la Guitarra. He loves to listen to it – to the point where my mother and I look resignedly at one another when he puts it on. It is the kind of guitar playing one might imagine hearing on a tropical evening, certainly very different than mariachi. He also has some treasured old records of the Baja Marimba Band and Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

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  40. Regarding school discussion: I had the good fortune to attend an all-girls boarding school my junior and senior year. I absolutely loved it!

    Becca started kindergarten at five at a small classical school. At semester break, they told us she’d need to repeat kindergarten…We moved after her kindergarten year and she started public school kindergarten at six. It was a good call. I can’t imagine her starting junior high in the Fall…

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  42. My son has a February birthday and began kinder at 6 1/2. Great decision for him.
    This boy also is a missionary kid and will be going home on furlough where he will have to adjust to an entirely different school situation.

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  43. Wow Michelle, finally some common sense.

    They’re gonna get such a hate fest of this. It destroys several of the left and gay lobby’s talking points and assertions. They will not like this at all.

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  44. They pull no punches, especially with the last one, calling it what it is. Child abuse.

    “2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.

    3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V). The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.”

    “8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures that they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.”

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  45. Indeed there is, Ricky 🙂 As a music history student, I had to study your classical composers, such as:
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Charles Ives
    Aaron Copeland
    Leonard Bernstein
    Philip Glass, etc.
    This would be my favorite piece by an American classical composer, Thomas Canning; and it in itself is a tribute to one of most well known of your colonial era shape-note singing masters, Justin Morgan – though he is perhaps better known as the originator of the American horse breed, the Morgan:

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  48. Oh, Ricky, I know you’re not serious. Besides what Roscuro mentioned, there is Bluegrass, zydeco, various other kinds of jazz, blues, and the list goes on and on.

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  50. There are so many factors determining school readiness. It is a difficult thing to decide. Our son was not big for his age and with his asthma he was behind physically in comparison with other guys his age. Academically he was well past the others on reading level. All but one teacher/school director said send him on, don’t repeat. But we really did not truly repeat the same program because I sent him (and my friend Karen sent her daughter) to a totally different K program that was full day instead of half day like the first K program they attended. Both kindergartens were in excellent church school programs and because they both were doing it together, that made it easier. Another family with a girl about their age went over to the Catholic school (I believe) and did K again there. It was a different K program than the first. Her dad was the reluctant one until he heard about the scholarship potential consideration in the future.

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  52. My brother had a late birthday and he ended up skipping senior year and going to the local junior college for joint enrollment. He was in accelerated classes all the way through school. I kept being shifted around which became a terrible experience for me. At first, being younger than everyone, I was put in the slow class. Then that year, 1st grade, they determined I should be moved up to the middle of the road student’s class. Then for 4th and 5th grade the put me in accelerated, and for 6th and 7th I got moved back to the middle. It was like constantly moving because I was always with different children who did not want to accept someone from the other groups. It was really awful. I was also having to deal with my father being gone for sea duty with the Navy. My world was shaky. I hate to see the system treat some children so poorly.

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  53. Ricky @ 5:19 is mostly correct. Country became popular when a Yankee from NY discovered A.P. Carter, Sarah, his wife and (more important) Mother Maybell (SIL). Descendants of that family were popular for a couple of generations. One of their daughters, Anita, is my all time favorite female singer. The women carried the burden of the music.

    Almost at the same time, Jimmy Rodgers, a Texan, came out with the Western genre. The two are celebrated together, but not the same.

    That was a major contribution to “American” music. But sometime around 1930, a pianist named George Gershwin came out with something they call “Jazz”. Young people today wouldn’t call it “jazz”, but it was different then.

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  55. Chas, George Gershwin didn’t invent jazz. The inventor of jazz will probably never be known. It grew, one might say out of the cultural mix that is found in the Gulf of Mexico, from its unofficial cultural centre, New Orleans. Gershwin is considered a classical composer. The classical composer takes what is good of the indigenous music of the culture in which they grow up and adds it to their classical training. Gershwin used jazz, but with a classical technique and rendered the form into respectable and mainstream genre.

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  56. Here is a song that was featured in the movie: The Long Riders. It is a song that was sung and played by my ancestors in between battles during the War and is appropriately named “Waiting for the Federals”.

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  59. Ricky, do you live in Fort Worth?
    When I was there, nobody ever went TO Dallas. They went THROUGH Dallas if they had to.
    They didn’t get along in those days.
    They had two airports, Dallas had Love Field, Fort Worth had Amon Carter Field.

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  60. Chas, I actually live in Tarrant County, northwest of Fort Worth. The feud with Dallas has sort of died down. However, Tarrant County folks know that when we visit our eastern neighbor, we will experience New York traffic, New York accents and New York prices. Nevertheless, our women demand to be taken over there for special occasions so they can dress up and hear that pretty music that Roscuro posted.

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  61. Ricky, there is a definite Celtic (Irish/Scottish) musical influence in ‘Waiting for the Federals’. By the way, I came across a John Wayne film, a 1942 sea epic directed by Cecile De Mille called Reap the Wild Wind. It is unusual to see Wayne acting in something that is not a Western or a war film.

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  63. I like Reap the Wild Wind. When John Wayne was younger, he played more of a variety of roles and generally had better directors than in his last 15 years. I hope you get the chance to see The Quiet Man. It is set in Ireland. Wayne, John Ford and Maureen O’Hara worked for a decade to persuade a studio to let them make it.

    Janice, We did have some pretty big hail (baseball size) in Fort Worth this week. One of my clients cancelled a meeting because hail smashed his windshield (while he was driving). That is legitimate. We didn’t call him a wimp.

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  64. 1942 would be a downright contemporary film in Ricky’s book

    Frustrating day at the library which — like all of downtown LA — is just not handicap friendly. We finally wound up at the Goldwyn Hollywood branch that Carol normally goes to. Not the same ambience with all the homeless inside and out. But they have at least painted out the ‘black lives matter’ on the rickety elevator. There were a couple of lapd officers hiding in the children’s section, peering over the top of the shelves watching the homeless on all the library computers

    And my own beloved laptop has died, trying to connect with our photo editor’s high school son who may be able to fix it

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  66. And going from one library to another, we got the tour of the Scientology campus, a block-long, brick-paved road (L. Ron Hubbard Way) lined with multi-story, periwinkle blue buildings with lots of overly trim, identically dressed (in black and white) people. Open house today, but they’re always having an open house

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  72. Weighing in on the school discussion. I think in general boys do better starting later. Obviously every child is different. Also in general, most children shouldn’t skip grades even if academically advanced. As far as MKs skipping grades? Many could, but why do that to them? They are already “weird” when they go home for furloughs. Why make them really weird?!

    That being said…When I was in high school I attended a Christian ACE school so everything was self paced. The school had a policy against allowing students to graduate before the middle of their senior year, so I had no incentive to push myself. I was working at a slightly faster pace and hoped to take some community college classes in the spring of my senior year. In March of my junior year, my parents started talking about moving that summer. The thought of changing schools for my senior year was appalling. I went to the school principal and begged him to request an exception or change to the school policy. He worked out what I needed to do to get the credits for graduation and agreed to make the request. I had a year’s worth of work to do in 2 1/2 months! I kicked on the after burners and got to work. The school changed the policy and I finished all my requirements before graduation. I graduated at 16. Turned 17 a couple weeks later and went off to college in the fall. At that stage of my life, moving forward quickly was good for me. High school was a nightmare, but I loved college!

    My niece was a gifted child who could have skipped grades but didn’t. Her parents made sure that she had all kinds of challenging projects and learning experiences available to her. She also had some peers who were also gifted and the public school they attended provided a gifted and talented pull out program to keep them challenged. Much depends on the school’s or teacher’s willingness to provide some different activities for a academically advanced child. That same niece now has a gifted child of her own. She and her husband have chosen to home school.

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  73. I saw Reap the Wild Wind when it first came out.
    I think that’s the won where most of the action takes place in Charleston.
    I forgot that John Wayne was in it.

    Today the sun crosses the equator coming this way.
    I don’t know when.,

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  75. Hey Jo. Good morning, everyone else. Becca and I are going to see Miracles from Heaven this afternoon. She really wants to see it, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it more than the other movie she wants to see, Zootopia.

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  77. My sinus infection is much improved this morning…oh how grateful I am for antibiotics!
    Have I mentioned that my sister will be home for Easter? They are finally selling their home in Kerrville (after being in Africa for five years). They are planning to buy a much smaller home in Texas so their A&M son can maintain his residency status.

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  78. I cam to -gasp–admit it was 7 am on a Sunday morning and I had already been to WalMart but then I started listening to some really good music that I was not familiar with and got distracted.
    Thank you Roscuro and Ricky.

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  79. To my Canadian Friends:
    The other day I picked up a book called Wicked Mobile. I bought it because it had stories I grew up hearing from my father about the man who proclaimed his innocence and told that a mighty oak tree would grow out of his heart when he was buried (he was hung) to prove his innocence. It has the story of the Copeland Gang –I inherited several books on them.
    What I am doing now is reading the stories I didn’t know like the Louisiana Governor Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac who upon viewing his new colony after his arrival on Dauphin Island proclaimed them to be ” a mass of rapscallions from Canada, a cutthroat set with no respect for religion, and abandoned in vice to Indian women. They know nothing of cultivating silk, tobacco, or indigo, but only corn and vegetables. He described the 100 men who made up the infantry as the “dregs of Canada”.

    😉 History can be quite entertaining if you only read the right books. LOL. I am only 14 pages in and smiling….we can’t all have descended from upstanding clergy and royalty.

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  80. Coincidentally, My son and I are taking our wives to Dallas to the Auto Show after church today. I think we know what to expect, but Hank Hill’s attitude toward Dallas is what you get in most of small town Texas:

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  81. I’ve been hit with a cold, it came in rather suddenly at bedtime last night, so I’m staying home from church. Interesting because the librarian who checked Carol out yesterday mentioned that ‘everyone’ was getting sick, lots of books ordered for ‘holds’ either weren’t coming in or getting picked up and turned in on time as a result

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  82. The New Spirit-Filled Life Bible (NLT) is on sale for 4.99 for Kindle at Amazon and for other devices at other locations. This is the Jack Hayford Bible. I believe his church is where Stormie Omartian attends.

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  85. Kim, when I lived in the city, the pastor at the church I attended came from the Southern U.S., but he was a Cajun. He liked to say he had just come back home 🙂 The Cajuns are known as Acadians in Nova Scotia, from the early French colony of Acadia there, and of course, you all know that after the British captured Acadia, worried about the loyalty of the Acadians, they shipped them down to Louisiana. Most of them, anyway; not all went, and some returned eventually – there are still Acadian communities in Nova Scotia. Among my ancestors is a mercenary soldier from the Low Country who fought with the British General Wolfe in the decisive Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in which the French were defeated. Afterwards, he married an Acadian woman, and they settled in Nova Scotia. Thus do the little people help to make peace after the big people fight their wars.

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  86. We had one daughter do her last two years of high school at the local junior college. It was a good choice for her.

    We had another who did reading with a higher class. She had a friend who did it with her, so she was not alone. We were asked to skip her up to that class, but after one conference with the higher class teacher, we declined. I also changed back to our closest elementary school for both daughters when the younger one would have had this teacher. (We had switched to accommodate the district.) We found out later this teacher had serious problems and was abusive in a few different districts. Some people were quite critical about it at the time, but realized later how right we were.

    Each child is different, as is each district and teacher. Parents need to advocate for there children. Get lots of advice, but go with your intuition.

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  87. Michelle, Thanks for posting the message from The American College of Pediatrics yesterday. That is a very encouraging statement. I was too busy watching basketball to read it until now.

    Peter, I rooted for your Northern Iowans the other night, but I’ve got to pull for the Aggies tonight. Hopefully it will be a good game.

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  92. Well, Ricky, if things keep going the way the are, your Aggies will be going home tonight. Go Panthers! (I wish I could watch the game, but I don’t get Trutv, and our internet service is too slow for live stream.

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  93. My cousin just shared a thing on Facebook that says. . .

    “We The People Are With
    TRUMP
    All In – Total Commitment
    To make America safe and great again!”

    Is it just me, or isn’t that line – “All In – Total Commitment” – a little much? Kinda scary?

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  104. Chas: Click the “Watch on Youtube” link.

    The full court press is one way to win a game, especially if the opposition is not used to it.

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