Kobal2:
And it has been my privilege, madame . doffs hat
(too corny ? Fuck. I wish I was an Englishman sometimes, then I could do grandiloquent, charming obsequiousness right. Plus you’d all wonder if I was being overly respectful or scornfully condescending at all times.
Either of those suits me fine.
Not at all.
She’s a very googirl. I just gave her some ear skritches from you.
Maybe you could get a robot dog. “Loving a robot dog is about so much more than not cleaning up poop”
Kobal2
July 4, 2019, 7:54pm
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Good. This is good. You’re off the List. For now.
Kobal2
July 4, 2019, 8:25pm
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Sister, you don’t even know. Were it not for Trump keeping America GREAT… shakes impotent albeit angry and America-hating Yuropian fist
Kobal2
July 4, 2019, 8:29pm
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(no, but for serious and real and faggoty lovey-dovey and sincere for once, you’re the second person this month who’s told me I made them laugh, and it really warms this chronic depressive’s guy’s heart some. So, um, thanks, really, You. And your doggy, who I’m sure is the best doggy of them all, but that’s an easy assumption because they all are)
I’m waiting for Chump to blame those dastardly California Democrats for arranging an earthquake to spoil coverage of his Chump-o-mania celebration.
Go ahead and assume it. Works.
Kobal2:
(no, but for serious and real and faggoty lovey-dovey and sincere for once, you’re the second person this month who’s told me I made them laugh, and it really warms this chronic depressive’s guy’s heart some. So, um, thanks, really, You. And your doggy, who I’m sure is the best doggy of them all, but that’s an easy assumption because they all are)
Awwww. I like you too, if that helps. Also very envious of you for living in Paris.
If you ever want to swap homes sometime, I live in a very nice Brooklyn brownstone, easy subway access to opera, museums, concert halls, whores, and other NYC delights.
How many times in one day can a person’s mind be boggled before their head just explodes? Don’t answer that.
Trump’s undocumented former employees want to be spared deportation. So they’ve asked the president for a meeting.
More than 20 undocumented workers previously employed by President Trump’s company have requested a meeting with their former boss to discuss how to reform the country’s immigration system and to ask for protection from deportation.
The Wednesday letter to the White House — from former groundskeepers, maids and kitchen staff at the Trump Organization’s golf courses — also asks the president to recall their years of service and “do the right thing” for them and others in the country unlawfully.
“We are modest people who represent the dreams of the 11 million undocumented men, women and children who live and work in this country,” the group wrote in the letter, signed by 21 people and obtained by The Washington Post. “We love America and want to talk to you about helping to give us a chance to become legal.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.*
In the White House letter, the former employees stressed their many years of close personal service to the Trump family. Among those who signed the letter were maids at the Trump golf course in Bedminster, N.J., who cleaned Trump’s clothes and made his bed. Others worked personally for the president’s sons at their homes and a New York hunting lodge.
“You know many of us and will recall how hard we worked for you, your family and your golf clubs. . . .,” the undocumented workers wrote to Trump. “You know we are hard workers and that we are not criminals or seeking a free ride in America.
“We all pay our taxes, love our faith and our family, and simply want to find a place for ourselves to make America even better. . . .,” the letter added. “We believe you have a heart and will do the right thing to find a home for us here in America so that we can step out of the shadows and not deport us and our friends and family.”
My bold.
“We believe you have a heart…” Nannygate ,” (1993) when a career could be derailed because of employing an undocumented alien.
“Nannygate” is a popular term for the 1993 revelations that caused two of President Bill Clinton’s choices for United States Attorney General to become derailed.
In January 1993, Clinton’s nomination of corporate lawyer Zoë Baird for the position came under attack after it became known that she and her husband had broken federal law by employing ***two ***illegal immigrants from Peru as a nanny and chauffeur for their young child. They had also failed to pay Social Security taxes for the workers, the so-called “Nanny Tax”, until shortly before the disclosures. While the Clinton administration thought the matter was relatively unimportant, the news elicited a firestorm of public opinion, most of it against Baird. Within eight days, her nomination lost political support in the U.S. Congress and was withdrawn.
The following month, Clinton’s choice of federal judge Kimba Wood for the job was leaked to the press, but within a day it became known that she too had employed an undocumented immigrant to look after her child. Although Wood had done so at a time when this was legal, and had paid Social Security taxes for the worker, the disclosures were enough to cause the immediate withdrawal of Wood from consideration. The Clinton administration then said that the hiring practices for household help would be examined for all of the more than thousand presidential appointments under consideration, causing the whole process to slow down significantly. Determined to choose a woman for the Attorney General post, Clinton finally selected state prosecutor Janet Reno, who was confirmed and served through all eight years of the administration.
The Nannygate matter caused wealthy Americans to ask each other if they too had a “Zoë Baird problem”, as the hiring of illegal aliens and the paying of household help off the books were both commonplace. Two fault lines, gender and class, were exposed in the discussion over Nannygate: in the former, a double standard was seen wherein female appointees faced a greater risk of being questioned and disqualified based upon their childcare arrangements, while in the latter, affluent professional women who could afford live-in childcare arrangements were seen as trying to get away with an illegal act. Nannygate-type controversies have subsequently affected other political appointees both in the U.S. and in other countries.
My emphasis. Wikipedia (at the link) has a long article on this.
“We all pay our taxes…
They lost him right there.
Smapti
July 5, 2019, 3:08am
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From tonight’s speech;
In June of 1775 the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis at Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports , it did everything it had to do and at Ft. McHenry under the rocket’s red glare had nothing but victory. When dawn came, the star-spangled banner waved defiant.
I can’t say that I recall learning about the Battle of Dulles International in school.
I heard that Facepalm Corp. is months behind filing orders.
Monty
July 5, 2019, 3:24am
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Or even that it was an air battle. Who knew military aviation history was so hard?
I just asked about this in the July 4th thread. I wasn’t sure I heard it right and was seeing the comments.
Nitpick: The closest major airport to Fort McHenry would be Baltimore/Washington International, or Friendship International Airport, as it was originally known during the War of 1812.
Wow, history lesson time.
Glad to know the Continental Army of 1775 had nothing but victory in a battle that occurred during the War of 1812. Or that the star-spangled banner traveled back in time to rally the troops before they knew what it was.
Also glad to know the Continental Army was named for George Washington Lincoln Continental.
And that they took over the airports.
Oh, dopey me! I would have said that the Battle of Baltimore, where the fighting at Fort McHenry happened, and which inspired The Star Spangled Banner , happened in 1814 . :smack: But what do I know? Little Donnie Fail-Fail is a Very Stable Genius, and I’m just a regular genius. :smack: :smack: :smack:
Also, Fort McHenry wasn’t built until 1798. That “rockets red glare” stuff was from the War if 1812, not the Revolution. :smack:
Great_Antibob:
Wow, history lesson time.
Glad to know the Continental Army of 1775 had nothing but victory in a battle that occurred during the War of 1812. Or that the star-spangled banner traveled back in time to rally the troops before they knew what it was.
Also glad to know the Continental Army was named for George Washington Lincoln Continental.
And that they took over the airports.
No mention of the Confederate battalion who stopped Cuban missiles from hitting Pearl Harbor?
