**************************
I hope some of you stayed up late to watch the USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter.
WOW - DJ and I literally did not say a word for one and a half hours. This was a magnificent documentary. The one we all have been waiting for for 5 years. Segueing back and forth from current day searching for the Indy in 3 mile deep water to what was happening in 1945.
OUTSTANDING and I still have goosebumps. Many family members around the States had tears in their eyes. The U.S. Navy was so crooked and needed a scapegoat which was the Captain who took his life 23 years later after constant never ending hate mail. COMPLETELY innocent.
The one thing that caught my attention was that the "strong" were the ones that did not survive in the water. Most of the sailors could not swim - it was not a requirement to know how to swim in the Navy and the Kapoc life vests were only good for 2 days.
The ones that survived were the boys who were ignorant to how much danger they were actually in.
Mel said for 5 days all he thought about was getting 2 weeks off after he was rescued. HOPE was what kept the survivors alive. It was easy to die, hard to live. They baked and were blinded in daytime and froze and fought hyperthermia at night.
ANYWAY - this should be required watching.
Stream the show here!
*****************************
In a few days Season Three comes out of Victoria. This is a show about Queen Victoria and is an adult fairy docudrama about one of the best monarchs EVER. The Victorian Age an all that.
Queen Victoria reigned from the age of 18 all the way to 82 and was said she was one of the most beautiful woman in the land. NOTE - Queen Victoria was 5'0" tall.
She was also one of the most prolific writers in her day. It is estimated she wrote over 56 million words in her daily journals so historians have a LOT to draw on.
The show is just gorgeous and the opening credits are simple but one of my favorite in it's simplicity. In 30 seconds she goes from a teenager to a Queen so so subtlety.
Being a mans man (or pretending to be) I was reluctant to watch this "chick flick" but caved in and OMG - this is so well done and fascinating about this amazing woman.
Season one trailer - she is SUCH a firecracker!!
******************
OK OK - the Trump "address"
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
---By Charles Pierce
WHAT an amazing waste of time - all Trump wanted is the spotlight back on HIM and for media to stop talking about the Democrats. Nothing more. He's an attention whore that constantly needs to be stroked by his followers.
I'm embarrassed for any that still listen to his constant lies.
and don't get me started on the media - buffoons all for even showing this deplorable waste of skin on TV. EVERYBODY knew he had absolutely nothing relevant to say. Just a rehash of old lies and fear mongering.
Nuff said. Bring back the REAL GOP and dump the cowards now in office.
*************************
Weather - continuing to look far ahead weather-wize. It's getting harder with NOAA basically shut down.
Lot's of clouds in the next 10 days but temps well above average (the reason for clouds or because of the clouds) with no "all clear" days . . anywhere. Storm after storm will scoot by south of Wisconsin and all we will get are clouds.
Long range Feb/Mar/Apr look to be above normal wit normal precip and far far out it's looking like a typical summer - not warmer not colder . . . but it's a ways off so . . .
**************
We were at Menards yesterday and as we were looking for a parking spot there was this WTF moment
Seems some army guy was in a big hurry to get to the store and forgot about putting his SUV in PARK and it rolled into another SUV. SOMEBODY was in for a surprise. We told Menards - they did nothing, announced nothing.
Carry on.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.