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Monday, January 16, 2023

Martin Luther King day

The Monday holiday.  I still work this afternoon from 3 - 7.  Business should be slow. 

It is, however, and acronym holiday, mostly because Americans are lazy.  Instead of saying Martin Luther King day, we say MLK.  How much respect is in that?  Not much.  The holiday is for a great man, land it's been reduced to 3 letters.  That's it.  No more.  We no longer have a president, we have a POTUS.  Personally, I think that sounds like some sort of anal disorder.  Can't you picture someone turning the head askance, partially covering their lips, and whisper in a derogatory tone, "he has POTUS."   And believe me, while I don't like Amy Cony Barrett, I do believe she suffers from scotus, and am truly amazed how she manages to cover up all of her itching and scratching.

We had our associate Holiday Party last evening.  Ten 8 foot folding tables were put together end over end to make one 80 foot table.  For a store with 165 associates, around 55 showed up (some with friends, spouses, or other family members).  They bought food for 180.  I brought some home.  The dogs are getting meatballs.  When I go into work this afternoon, I'll have another bowl.  There were supposed to be decorations, it was supposed to be a holiday party, after all.  No decorations.  They had hired a DJ, but there really wasn't anywhere you could dance.  I don't like eating that late, but I did.  By 9:15 PM I was heading out the door since I like to go to bed around 10ish.  Morning person here, remember?

I don't know if it was because I ate so late, but I had a weird dream, sort of a Star Trek version of a Hindi ceremony that was so vivid I woke up repeating one sentence.  I wrote it down for you all to see.  "The one who is chosen is the one who choses to make the sacrifice."  Does anybody have any idea of what that means?

And since today is Martin Luther King day, here's a picture of him.  Give the man his due and say his full name.


For those who missed it, Ronnie Johnson was on the Chuck Todd show yesterday being very evasive.  When Chuck asked him why the GOP was focused solely on Hunter Biden's laptop and not Jared Kushner's $2 billion gift from the Saudi's, Ronnie avoided the issue completely.  He later posted a clip of his interview on line, and that section had been edited out.  Here's a link to the Rolling Stone article.  Ronnie was not a happy camper.  He evidently has chosen not to make the sacrifice.




12 comments:

  1. Yes I too have a pet peeve when people use abbreviations for everything these days. Drives me insane. How much more lazy and improper can we get? I agree with you it is insulting to abbreviate his name after all he's done and given.

    And I would swear I think Republicans should change their mascot from an elephant, which is very insulting the elephants to begin with, and change it to an ostrich. Because all they ever do is evade the truth and questions and put their head in the sand.

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    1. The problem is I like ostriches. Perhaps their mascot could be a shit stain on a pair of Trump's tidy whities.

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    2. And no doubt loose, saggy Hugh Hefner tidy whities!!!!

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  2. Once again, Ronnie's tinfoil hat was too tight.

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    1. And this was Chuck Todd, of all people, an individual not known for his astuteness.

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  3. Hate to be the one to say it but your dream sounds an awful lot like Old Testiment Bible stuff. Lots of being chosen to sacrifice in those stories. Now, is there currently any treatment for POTUS?

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    1. I don't know about the old Testament, there were too many Vulcans and Hindis around.

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  4. Ha!
    I also have weird dreams, but if they don't happen in the early hours of the morning, I forget them. And the Repugs are going all in with Hunter and the laptop. If I were Uncle Joe, I'd make Hunter read ALL THE BULLSHIT they publish about him. For real.
    And at least you got some meatballs out of that party!
    Happy Martin Luther King Day!!

    XOXO

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    1. The dogs got the meatballs, and even though it was a holiday, I had to work. Happy Martin Luther King day!

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  5. I've been offline again for a few days so I'm just now catching up. Years ago I worked for an Englishman whose last name was Luther. When I was giving this information over the phone to somebody (remember I was working in Switzerland), I said "Luther, like Martin Luther King" and he laughed and said I see we have a different culture. Have you never heard of the theologian Martin Luther? Oh well, that wasn't as bad as when my friend tried to book a table for four in a restaurant and gave her name as "Kennedy, like the President" and the young woman asked "which one"???

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    1. Yeah, I know about Martin Luther, he was very important in the reformation of Protestantism. It was because of him that Christianity began the great splintering, which continues to this day.

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  6. Isn't it a little late for a holiday party? Or does your store just celebrate MLK day :).

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