cyclonefence
cyclonefence's JournalThe most bizarre thing
happened last night while I was posting to DU. Our TV turned itself on--my husband had gone to bed 20 minutes earlier, and the cat was with him--and what was on was totally hard-core porn. I mean, everything. In the corner of the screen it said "for coyotes only" or it might have been "cougars" but these ladies were too young to be cougars.
I ran upstairs to tell my husband, and he said "just turn it off" and went back to sleep.
I tried to check the screen that tells you what channel you're watching, but that screen wouldn't come up--just more fucking and sucking. I tried pushing the "record" button but that didn't work, either.
We don't subscribe to any porn channels (that I know of!), and besides, if we did, it would show on the menu screen, right?
A wonderful Christmas present, I guess.
Yesterday I got a thank-you postcard
from John Fetterman--a printed note thanking donors for their help. I really appreciated it, and I don't think I've ever received such a thank-you before from someone running in an important race.
I also got a thank-you note from a local guy who lost, which I also was grateful for.
These guys, by a simple act of good manners, have assured my support in future elections. Like Grannie said, "thank you notes mean more presents next time."
I've stopped watching cable news
ever since I had a conversation with this guy who's helping me with the yard who is a conservative and who I suspect voted for Trump. He says these things that I know are not true, and when I ask him how he knows these "facts," it always comes back to Faux News. But then, I thought well I tend to take what I hear on CNN or MSNBC at face value, so it's not really fair for me to accuse him of letting someone else tell him what to believe.
So I've been watching C-Span, which shows a lot of legislative activity, so I can honestly tell him my opinions are absolutely my own.
As a side-effect, I've seen some pretty interesting things. This Senator Scott, an African American Republican from SC was inveighing against scams perpetrated against the elderly, saying that older Americans are cheated out of millions of dollars every year by phony telephone calls from "Social Security" or "Microsoft" or someone telling them a nephew is in trouble and needs $5000 wired to this number right away.
I think there is a fair number of old folks posting here, and often such scams are mentioned. Every time, someone here knows what's going on and tells us to beware. So I was eager to hear what Senator Scott was proposing to protect us senior citizens. The answer, of course, is nothing.
He was proud to remind everyone of the federal scam hotline, which has a telephone number that doesn't spell NO_SCAMS or something so you could remember it--has anyone here ever heard of such a hotline? I sure haven't. So here we go again: it's up to the victim to solve the problem. I was hoping to hear that the FCC was cracking down on the spoofed caller IDs, the misleading pitches--the outright lies--that trick so many old folks into sending money where we shouldn't. Why can't there be some branch of a government agency to pro-actively go after this multi-million dollar problem--why are the victims responsible for reporting these crimes. Well, it just pissed me off.
My husband and I are working on rapprochement with Trumpers in the family
Cousin Claire is the biggest offender, and she was uninvited to Thanksgiving anyway because she refuses to be vaccinated. But Claire's absence means no Cousin Susan or Nephew Ronnie (a child preacher grown up (!) who likes to sing hymns, and I do, too, so I really miss Ronnie). My brilliant husband took his sister and brother up to see Claire and Susan the day after Thanksgiving with two dozen raw oysters. The sisters were giddy with joy; I don't know if it was seeing someone in the family or getting the oysters.
This was my husband's idea, and everyone else was waiting here with bated breath, afraid he would lose his temper and ruin the whole expedition. My husband's telling Cousin Claire she was stupid for supporting Trump was the breaking point, and this was a nice was to start to heal that wound. But he controlled himself right up to when Claire started telling him about cars that could run on water, but they can't be manufactured because everyone who tries to get a patent is murdered. My husband stood up and said "Well, Happy Thanksgiving," and he and his siblings left. A close call.
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