Saturday, August 8, 2015

My First Amendment rights protect one's "twisted logic.".

.....The French Consul Brunet awarded the Legion of Honor, the French government’s highest medal, to eight veterans because of their contribution to the liberation of France in WWII. Only a small number of Legion of Honor medals are awarded each year in the United States and much care is taken to recognize only those with the most distinguished records. (Brunet was or is now the Consul General or France)
 

.....and the Legion of Honor medal was awarded to me in a ceremony last November. However, the bottle of wine they gave to me was appreciated more than the medal, although neighbors helped RH+ to imbibe it on the catwalk  on New Year's Eve while I slept!
  
.....Well we have arrived at the wonderful...perhaps despised would be a better word--(what the hell is wrong with me?) Is old age catching up with me...perhaps elderly would be a better word.The Presidential election era is the time when we hear about it on the TV, and we get phone calls from the candidates, and we see them on Utube, and we hear about it in the newspaper, and we learn about their ratings on the polls and etcetera, etcetera. I feel like the king of Siam, etcetera.  At any rate, it's a real pain. It's like taking pills each day.  We even have a comedian alleviating our stress in The Donald. Gee, I'm glad he's a real T-Party Republican.  And, by the way did you hear that Lebron James sold his palatial  home for $19,000,000 and he only paid $13,000,000 when he bought it. (You can tell that I love zeros).  Apparently we live on a different planet. 

.....We've been to a plethora of MDs recently--mine: Dental Hygienist, Pulmonologist, Internist, Psychologist, etc. RH+: Internist, Gastroenterologist, & Cardiologist & a few more that I can't remember.  These are the Golden Years? And worst of all, I hate when they call me "mister."
.....There is supposed to be a hurricane here tonite.  The weather guys call it "Erica", so if it does come, with it already named, it's like a baby's birth without the possibility of an abortion--which should make quite a few politicians very happy to religiously interfere with a woman's choice. It's much like many people in the south refusing to acknowledge that the Civil War is over and that they lost, and that Lincoln did not really release the slaves, and that waving the confederate flag gives them the opportunity to express their racist views. The Confederacy was "aborted" you know.



 

2 comments:

  1. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 5, 2015 at 4:08 PM
    Yes, Baron dear, old age isn't fun, and I sympathise with your problems. But you're not the first and you won't be the last. I suggest that you concentrate on what you can still do, rather than what you no longer can.

    French Legion d L'Honneur - posh stuff! Cuz Ruth
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  2. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 6, 2015 at 9:17 AM
    My brain is back in gear now I've rested - I was pretty zonked yesterday following a ghastly journey, both Rhodes and Manchester airports were hell.
    Don't knock your abortion laws, Baron! Abortion is one of the UK's largest "invisible exports." Women from all sorts of illiberal jurisdictions (some of the states of the USA, Ireland etc.) flock here to get one! Similarly, the Tunisian atrocity has done the Greek tourist industry no end of good. Yes, it's an ill wind, etc. But certainly it would be good if we could abort natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. And also man-made horrors like what happened in Tunisia.
    Itm, I think we should call the new hurricane "Ericane." This is not only highly amusing (anyone want to argue with that? Thought not) but it also kicks off the biz of naming hurricanes more imaginatively, a development long overdue IMHO. Cuzzin Ruth

























 
 
 

5 comments:

  1. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 5, 2015 at 4:08 PM

    Yes, Baron dear, old age isn't fun, and I sympathise with your problems. But you're not the first and you won't be the last. I suggest that you concentrate on what you can still do, rather than what you no longer can.

    French Legion d L'Honneur - posh stuff! Cuz Ruth

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  2. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 6, 2015 at 9:17 AM

    My brain is back in gear now I've rested - I was pretty zonked yesterday following a ghastly journey, both Rhodes and Manchester airports were hell.
    Don't knock your abortion laws, Baron! Abortion is one of the UK's largest "invisible exports." Women from all sorts of illiberal jurisdictions (some of the states of the USA, Ireland etc.) flock here to get one! Similarly, the Tunisian atrocity has done the Greek tourist industry no end of good. Yes, it's an ill wind, etc. But certainly it would be good if we could abort natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. And also man-made horrors like what happened in Tunisia.
    Itm, I think we should call the new hurricane "Ericane." This is not only highly amusing (anyone want to argue with that? Thought not) but it also kicks off the biz of naming hurricanes more imaginatively, a development long overdue IMHO. Cuzzin Ruth

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  3. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 11, 2015 at 4:17 PM

    Well, one tries, Cuz Bonny! Dig that English self-deprecation? And sincerely, thanks for the compliment! Cuz R

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  4. ruth.grimsley@virgin.netSeptember 11, 2015 at 4:18 PM

    Well, one tries, Cuz Bonny! Dig that English self-deprecation? And sincerely, thanks for the compliment! Cuz R

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