Wednesday December 23, 2020 (2 days til Christmas)
Election Day -50
29 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Seems my count to Jan 20th may be off a day or two. Oh well. We are getting so close that we can calculate it easily now. Should be 28, not 29.
Will adjust here:
28 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
There. Done.
Okay, about a week ago I hit the DVR up to look for my favorite Christmas movies. They are:
A Christmas Story,
A Child’s Christmas in Wales,
Truman Capote Christmas in Cape Cod.
I only found one, Jean Shepard’s “A Christmas Story” That’s the one about the Red Rider BBgun, Ralphie and Darren McGavin as the dad. I always liked Darren. He had a TV series called “Night Stalker” which apparently was a movie too. In it he played a guy that was chasing down vampires and killing them. No one believed him and he had a beat up old car. It was kind of The Rockford Files for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer crowd.
Jean Shepard I came to appreciate much later in life. I had a high school buddy who kept telling me to listen to his radio program every Sunday night. I never did. I’d ask Peter what it was about and he’d say Jean just talked. Man, do I regret not listening now. Besides A Christmas Story there is another movie about the 4th of July which is outstanding, and I think maybe another. He has a story called “Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories” which recounts his taking Wanda to the prom and he getting very drunk. Excellent stuff.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales – is a poem by Dylan Thomas. The movie has the poem being read (perhaps by Thomas?) and scenes re-enacted based on the poem. It’s lyrical as Dylan can be. Can’t find it on the DVR or Netflix. Will try Amazon Prime or whatever it’s called as soon as we locate that skinny remote.
Truman Capote Christmas in Cape Cod – is similar to A Child’s Christmas in Wales in that it is Capote recounting his spending the holiday on the Cape every Christmas as a kid. It’s lovely. Can’t find it either.
While looking for these I ran across another movie I’ve been looking for “Peppermint” starring Jennifer Garner. Garner is one of those actresses that can look really good or kind of washed out. I watched her in Alias a bit, but didn’t really connect. I think it was like listening to Jean Shepard on the radio. I didn’t give it enough time. Peppermint is a role I’ve never seen Garner play before – a kick ass MMA type fighter trained in weapons and everything else she needed to seek vengeance on the people who killed her family. It’s a large cast. Most of them are mobbed up or dirty – she kills them all. It takes place on December 21st and there’s a Christmas tree in her house. I guess that’s why it came up under Christmas films.
Moving on to White House Shenanigans – We all wonder, “Can it get worse?” And it always does. I am way past being shocked or outraged. I’m more in the acceptance phase and the hard core determination phase, much like Garner in Peppermint, I’m out for Justice. There’s a new ad out by The Lincoln Project. It is designed for one person, and I bet you can guess who! It says that on January 6th Mike Pence will preside over the official counting of ballots by the Electoral College and then The reign of Satan will be done for good. But will it?
Apparently, Satan has been having meetings with any crackpot who he can cage into his lair. The partially sane people who have enabled him all this time are all of a sudden are busy and in some cases out of the country. That nutty woman lawyer who was with Rudy at press conferences is now at The White House and rumors are circulating that Satan wants her to head up a special prosecutorial investigation of Hunter Biden. Of course, he can’t do that directly, he needs Barr to do it, but Barr leaves as of today and the new toadie coming in. Will he do it? God knows. Probably.
Also, there have been meetings at the White House that have some observers “concerned.” These seem to be twofold: Satan might try to overthrow the election and he might use the military to do it. Well, at least there isn’t talk of him going nuclear or starting a war – is there? Is there? Hello?
The latest bit of madness seems to involve Mike Pence and the idea of overturning the election via the Electoral College. What should happen on January 6th is the delegates of the Electoral College meet in Washington. I guess in the Senate Chamber. The Vice President presides. He asks for and counts the ballots cast for President. So if I got this correctly what Satan wants Mike to do is to not accept some of the official ballots from some of the swing states, declare them no good and accept ballots from Trump supporters. Easy-Peezy. So the question is would Mikey do it? We’ll have to wait and see. To not do what Satan wants and actually do his job as laid out in the Constitution would require some act of near courage. Something Pence is loath to demonstrate. He prefers to be the sneaky, lying, sanctimonious little putz he is. Stay tuned. I’m betting several news networks will show the counting live.
Meanwhile Trump is looking to see what else he can ruin. He’s fighting with McConnell, and has demonstrated a lack of interest in the Georgia Senate races. McConnell and Mnuchin have agreed to give the American people $600, and McConnell wants it done before the Georgia runoff. That way he’s hoping to say, “See we gave you something.” This is equivalent, in my humble opinion, to Soupy Sales doing the ads for 7UP where he splashes some of the soda on the table and serves it to White Fang by brushing it off the table onto the floor with the back of his hand.
But Satan says he may veto it! Just in time for Christmas, when everything runs out either the day after or the end of the month. Nice. He says he wants to give folks $1200 or maybe $2000. Why now? Who knows? Besides that was earlier in the week, maybe he’s changed his mind? If I were Nancy Pelosi, I’d pass an addendums so quick old Mitch wouldn’t be able to get his turtle head turned around*. Then the Senate could pass it or not, but it would take away any argument McConnell has that he’s looking out for folks, regardless of whether he brings it up for a vote. Think about it.
And when Satan hasn’t been having meetings with nut jobs, or trying to overturn the election, he’s been busy selling pardons. Well, more like tit-for-tat. What’s that called? Quid pro Quo. Got it.
Let’s see he’s pardoned the Blackwater murderers. The ones who at the suggestion of Eric Prince that they are just arabs (or not Christian?) and you should shoot them in the ass did so at a traffic circle killing 17 civilians: women and children.
He’s also pardoned corrupt Congressman. Insider trading? No problem. Campaign spending on plane tickets for your rabbit? Okay. And traveling to see your mistresses, all on your campaign funds? Cool. What they have in common is they were early supporters of Trump.
Then there’s the guy from Florida who carried out one of the largest Medicare frauds in history. Over a billion dollars. Bigger than Rick Scott’s? I guess. The fellow got 20 years. Scott became Governor then Senator. That is after he pleaded the Fifth like seventy times. But that guy? He got pardoned. Where’s Peppermint? We need justice.
PS Me in my Elvis/Hunter S. Thompson sunglasses.
* Did you hear? Someone put up “Turtle Crossing” signs near McConnell’s house in Kentucky. Me like-e.
Flick lives. Excelsior you fathead.
J. S.