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dixiegrrrrl

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January 20, 2018

Lots of good pics of march @ #WomensMarch2018 on twitter....

Lifted my spirits a lot.

January 19, 2018

" Trump's first year at Hogwarts will be his last....

because he will be impeached for treason and sent to Azkaban."

Seen on a twitter comment....

Azkaban sounds like a fair ending.

January 19, 2018

Our marvelous, handsome and giant hearted guy crossed over yesterday.

Galen was 12.5 years old this month, we knew he was dying, and after a bad 3 days this week, we managed to get thru the bitter cold, snow and ice to the vet's. He slipped away, looking me in the eye as I held him.

I know all of you guys understand why it is so damn hard to do the right thing. My heart is shattered.


January 18, 2018

Schadenfreude attack, @ Chris Christie. !!


Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The two-term Republican, who left office on Jan. 16, was blocked from a VIP entrance he had used for eight years, and directed to stand in Transportation Security Administration screening lines at Terminal B like anyone else, according to a person familiar with the incident.

The order came from police for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, according to the person, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about security matters. The Port Authority also operates the George Washington Bridge, the target of a plot by Christie aides and allies to tie up traffic for political punishment in 2013.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/mortal-again-christie-blocked-at-vip-entrance-to-newark-airport

No more depriving taxpayers of a day at the beach, either. Ha!
January 17, 2018

The Trump name is being scrubbed off skylines from New York to Toronto to Rio as the brand backfires


snip:


Any building that chooses to end its association with the Trump brand is likely motivated by financial reasons … [and] no doubt greatly influenced by beliefs about how the brand affects the building’s bottom line,” says Gabby Warshawer, director of research for CityRealty. All of which, she says, raises “questions about the viability of the Trump brand”.

Indeed, just down the road from where I’m standing, three other apartment buildings were also once known as Trump Place. Just eight days after the 2016 election, the rental buildings rebranded as 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Boulevard, after hundreds of the building’s residents petitioned the owner, Equity Residential, to “dump the Trump name”. The brand no longer signified premium, but prejudice, said residents: it had become an embarrassment.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/16/beginning-end-trump-real-estate-empire?CMP=share_btn_tw
January 17, 2018

It's snowing in SW Ala.!!! right now...

Was on the puter,, it's 11 pm, and realized it had gotten very very quiet outside. No noise whatsoever.., so looked outside.

have a nice blanket of white, and at 28 degrees and dropping, it will be here in the am.

This has been a winter for the record books..weeks of it and twice snow, this far south.

anyone else?

January 16, 2018

I am watching Cory Booker's statement from the hearing, he's making me cry.

He is less than 3 minutes in, and so profoundly moved, so honest and real, I had to grab Kleenex.
What a contrast to the lying plastic people in this Admin.

January 14, 2018

Shades of Nixon: Trump admits to WH tapes.


"Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters........"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/952525384242876416

In one of the books about Trump, it said he was able to listen in at any land line at Mar-Loco. That he enjoyed doing it.

Wondering how many areas of the WH are taped.
Thankfully Mueller will find out, then we will.

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Gender: Female
Hometown: Washington state, for half my life
Home country: USA
Current location: SW Alabama. for the rest of my life
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About dixiegrrrrl

Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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