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June 13th, 2017

Travel in Spain - I

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So I yielded, like the good subbie I aspire to be, and have joined my dominant Joanne in a long-planned tour of northern Spain by car. A rental car, loose in Europe, my idea of good times -- I've indulged in it often over the past three decades, almost always with my control-freak significant other.

We'd been all over central Spain and the south (even Morocco, by ferry from Alicante) several times in the 90s, We also like Switzerland and Italy by road, but more and more fall into her beloved cruising, Me, I still love the "open road" -- a loose itinerary suits my casual nature.

This time, since I fondly recall Spain's unique system of "paradores" (literally "stopping places" -- historic castles, monasteries, etc. that were falling into ruin back in the Franco era, almost fifty of which became elegant hotels), I talked her into booking some -- though I prefer NOT having rigid reservations. Paradores are often 50 kilometers apart, and otherwise you chance not getting in...

Anyhow I flew to Barcelona (via Dublin) Sunday. Having already done 3 weeks* intense touring in Italy, she met me, taking me to a posh hotel in the old "Gothic quarter". We had a great afternoon and evening, wandering and eating/drinking wonderfully.

Next morning we got our Hertz car -- not easily, however. Spanish slapdash overcame the manic Anerican car-rental efficiency, and it took us a crazy hour to get our damned car -- actually a zingy Spanish-made "Leon" (pronounced "LAY-on," not like the first-name "LEE-on").

Headed west on the A-2 (not the toll-road, as cabbies usefully told us), stopping for an unusual prix-fix lunch -- in a roadside place filled with non-tourists, namely workmen enjoying a paid-lunch perk. (I liked the octopus stew; Joanne not so much the grilled -- and greasy --shortribs. The "primo" of garbanzo/chorizo soup was great.)

We then followed the Ebro River south, our destination the castle/parador at Alcaniz. It looms on a hill above the town -- google it, you'll be inpressed.

Tomorrow a quick visit to the cathedral at Zaragoza, then on another hundred km to the next parador.


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* I've learned better than to do TWO months' travel with her; I get sick of seeing the same suitcase (and of being too much under her thumb, especially with no sex being her rule) -- a month is all I can do...

June 8th, 2017

Senator John McCain is one of my heroes, even if his failed Presidential campaign SUCKED from begining to end -- as it truly did. Trump's gratuitous attack on him was the LOWEST point in a Presidential campaign EVER.

McCain's statement this afternoon SHOULD convince every thinking Republican -- and there ARE some -- that Ttumpsky is the single WORST thing to have happened in politics EVER!
From a commenter on the liberal "Daily KOS" named Amy Sullivsn:

"Never mind Mike Pence's dinner rule -- every member of the administration needs a 'never dine alone with the president' rule."

Amy, you rock!


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Some readers may not know my "tags game." To wit (or not to wit, that is the...) --
I set up a BUNCH of tags under the old LJ "the more the merrier" rule (AND before they began charging for them). A year or so ago, I discovered the old ones all still can be accessed. And it's fun to see what oddball ones might apply to a NEW posting, such as THIS one. So I started choosing about four to apply to posts such ss this.

So, friends, take a leap back into my past, learning perhaps more than you EVER wanted to know about Yours Truly!

The NEW low point in home entertainment -- challenging both "Gsme of Thrones" and picking out one's own belly-button lint.

I MEAN, "EEEEW!"

June 7th, 2017

Letter to a dear friend

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A sweet Tumblr friend of mine reblogged a photo of two sexy girls sleeping -- one with her hand on the other's pussy. The caption, perhaps NOT written by my friend, said something about "grabbing them by the pussy..," That "sign of the times" prompted me to write her a short note:

"Well, I'm not AT ALL sure we want to give The Donald and his coarseness any more space in our lives than he already demands.

"You and I haven't talked of him here [on Tumblr], nor do I want to [waste our time on such as him]. But'Resistance' -- opposing his malfeasance and the sheer insanity he brings to our public life -- is the watchword today.

"I honestly don't know where you stand -- but I suspect you rightly fear what he's doing to the country your children, all our children, will inherit.

"Sorry to inject those unkind thoughts into your workday. I hope the week is a happy one, and that your kids are doing the wonderful kid things of summer. Camp, maybe. A bit of travel, perhaps.

"Not to go all sentimental on you. No, it's a busy day. But when you have a moment, maybe you'll share your mood with me. Just know I care about YOU, dear _____"

June 5th, 2017

Resistance!

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From today's WPost: "...History will judge poorly business leaders who retain positions on Trump administration advisory boards because they hope to be in a position to cut favorable deals. Elon Musk of Tesla and Robert Iger of Disney have taken the correct and principled stand by resigning their presidential appointments. More should follow..."

Same case should be put to Republicans on the Hill.

I was in a highpowered and VERY frustrated "inside the Beltway" meeting on Saturday. Several of our uber-liberal members argued, in effect, "disentitled" white men needed love, too; having voted for a narcissist idiot was a cry for help. One old (and prominent) lawyer reared up and said, "no, now we need ONE thing -- RESISTANCE!

As a lawyer, he predicted that the White House would cite executive privilege and stop Comey from testifying before the Senate on Thursday. The public will see Trumpsky as another Nixon (albeit an uneducable one), and impeachment will be a big step closer...

June 1st, 2017

The American news shows tonight have not grasped how badly Trumpsky has betrayed us -- as he stupidly pulled the plug today on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

It is TELLING thst BBC's US-based nightly news show gave a lot of time to a tough interview with former Secretary of State John Kerry. He spoke bitterly and acutely about what has happened. He painfully outlined the fateful flailing of Trumpsky* -- the maniac who bizarrely leads (it hurts me even to say the word) our saddened nation -- and how it will harm us all.

Kerry, a stalwart example of responsibile stewardship, was stricken; he could barely believe what he had to tell us. He used serious words, "a grotesque abdication of leadership," to try to categorize the unimaginable. As he says, NOT dealing with what is scientifically unchallengable is so far from reason as to beggar our very sanity.

Kerry looked and sounded defeated-- a general who must tell the troops that the very capital of our country hss FALLEN to an internal enemy.

Now, immediately, we must move to RID ourselves of this Russian "agent provocsteur" who cannot look beyond his nsrrow personsl interests. The madman in the White House has today proven every bit as awful as his eminent and thoughtful detractors have told us for years.

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* I am loathe to claim any special insight. However, last summer as the first reports of his Kremlin ties came to light, I began flagging his huge conflict of interest -- by dubbing him "Trumpsky". I will continue to call him that until he is driven from office!
So Trumpsky, the ignominious Russian secret sgent, takes us out of the Paris Agreement!

Fuck him, his family, and ANYONE who facilitates his misbegotten life!

Stick him on a melting iceberg, and see how HE likes it!

May 30th, 2017

In those 50 succinct words (see preceding post), today's admittedly liberal "Daily KOS" -- no, afraid I don't know what it stands for, sorry -- casually CREATED the word that will destroy* His Trumpiness...

KremlinGate...


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* What, you don't think the word "Watergate" helped destroy Nixon??
"The Trump White House is flailing like a beached whale right now as Kremlin Gate looms like a tsunami in the distance. They can hear it roaring and it's only a question of time before it arrives, smashing them down, engulfing them and splintering their soon-to-be-lost dreams of glory..."

Elegant, hmmm?

May 29th, 2017

Today's Washington Post has ample assessments of how BADLY The Don did in Europe, as well as the damage Jaded (really "Jared," but I'm going to leave the perhaps-Freudian slip!) -- well, Sonny for short. That outrageous meet with Russia's ambassador laat December, asking for a private communications channel to Moscow for the Trumpies -- well, fuck him, THAT is plain old high treason!

But, today, the broken crockery in Europe: Angela Merkel said in a campaign speech that, as one op-ed headlined, "For Europe everything has changed." Her speech was headlined on the front page, "Merkel: Europe must go it alone."

As the Post summed it up, "it was the toughest review yet of Trump's trip to Europe, which inflamed tensions rather than healed them...the remarks were a clear repudiation of Trump's troubled few days with European leaders...[now] filled with fresh worry."

And, finally, conservative Bill Kristoll averred "Merkel's remarks today are a reminder that Trump's failures are...also America's failure...[they] DAMAGE America." (Emphasis MINE)
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