Vox Populi – 3-25-2016

Hey Ad, what’s up?

I’m doing great. Are you really doing that?

And is the secret love child of ET and Mary Poppins?

Man, that really seems to be the case, doesn’t it.

Oh yeah, got to get that orange tint from somewhere. Maybe the child of Boehner and Ayn Rand!

I just can’t see Cruz getting any other woman to sleep with him. I’m not sure how he even found a wife. The guy is repugnant, in every way.

Now that seems more plausible!

Oops! Be right back!

Hey Ad–Have to agree with KT. As a woman, cruz is one of the most repellent men I’ve ever seen! Of course, IMO, trump runs a close second to being the last man I’d want near me!

Ad–true dat! I’ve heard every word spoken by the two sleazeballs, but can’t find much info on Bernie, or even Hillary, for that matter. Did see that Hillary was on Kimmel last night and he “mansplained” to her. It was pretty funny! But, Bernie? Is he taking a break? Is he giving speeches? Is he still alive? Who knows? But, as I say, I know what the two sleazeballs have to say about each other’s wives! Jesus H. Christ!

Ah, back now. Hey glenn, what’s shakin?

So you missed the Kimmel bit; I missed Bernie’s incident with the bird. What was it?

My daughter was at that rally!

Hey KT–not much shakin’ here; too many parts start wobblin’ when I do that!

Ha! That’s funny glenn!

Ad–so the Jewish guy makes the bird come alive on Good Friday! Now that’s symbolism!

KT–Did your daughter enjoy the rally?

Avian politics! That bird is a commie!

KT–Maybe a protester. After all, the bird did interrupt Bernie’s speech!

I haven’t spoken to her since she went. We’re going to talk about it tomorrow! Portland is very big on Bernie!

Ad–there a lot of things lost on the republicans!

#BlackbirdLivesMatter? Shame on me! All in fun!

KT–Hope Bernie wins more states.

KT–good one, but shouldn’t it be all #AllBirdsMatter? /s/

No doubt Ad. It’s not just Portland either.

glenn that’s just to silence the Blackbirds!

Ad–you know, we keep hearing about the repubs’ contested convention. Do you think the Dem convention will be a mess, too?

“sup Murph?

KT–Those damn blackbirds just won’t be silenced any more. Don’t they know that the lighter colored birds are better?

Did anybody see where two young women were arrested at a Sanders rally for going topless? I think it was some group called Free The Nipple, or something like that. Two funny!

So they think, glenn, so they think! I think the GOP bird would be a vulture!

Ad–so, I’m a little confused. If the super delegates can’t over rule the will of the voters, they will go with whoever won their state? So, you’re saying that super delegates won’t vote on their own?

Good Good Friday, Planetary Peeps! I see we have already covered the Birdie Sanders Sign From the Universe in Portland. Loved that!

HELLO ALL….I am just dropping by. We will see how it goes. We had a very mild winter and now we are paying the price. Pollen, fungi, mold….not killed off and back with avengeance….sinuses, head and throat are suffereing….so I may beh here for just abit.

KT–great pun! Two funny!

Hey Kes–how are you doing tonight?

Hey, Murph! I’m just here for a few minutes too.

Glenn and KT..double entendre!

Hey Murph! how’s it going!

Hey Homie!

Hey, glenn! Son just headed back to Madison after a spring break visit. I miss him already!

Hey, Homie! How’s everything?

I’m Baaaack!

Hey, PPO! How was the surgery?

Working the Duckworth campaign….Kirk is worried…so worried that he plans to meet with the Obama Scotus pick and he wants hearings…

Doing great kes. I hope the same for you!

Murph–my granddaughter is suffering from the pollen here, too. Poor thing has a red nose from blowing it so often! We had rain yesterday, so some relief, but sunny today.

Hi all, the surgery went sort of OK. Bigger zip this time on the other leg and slower to heal, but not too bad just now.

Doing OK here. Getting ready for Easter with the 93 year old Dad and the family.

Glenn…sunny, a bit cool and perfect weather for airborn misery.

Murph–even better–double entendre. You guys are very clever!

murph, is the Tammy Duckworth?

Good to hear it, PPO! Hope that recovery just gets better and better.

Hey Pink, how ya doin?

Hi, KT, OK just now

glad to hear it!

Ad, that’s it. a lot more soreness this time.

Kes–it’s hard when they really start growing up, isn’t it? On one hand, you want them to be independent adults; on the other hand, you want them to be your “babies” forever.

KT…it is tammy duckworth.

P, Australia needs to let you have some medical wacky tobaccki.

Right, glenn. And he is so darned funny. I laugh all the time when he’s around!

Ad–do you think there’s a chance that Bernie will ever be ahead on elected delegates?

I thought I recognized the name. How’s she doing so far?

Kt, it’s here ok, just I don’t indulge. I’ve actually given up the smokes!

Ad…she is even more impressive in person…not a great orator but sharp in conversation and smart….was working on a PhD in PoliSci before being called up.

PPO–glad to have you here with us tonight. Hope your healing continues well.

Ad, got compression stocking for the swelling. Diong ok

Thanks glenn. It was a pisser being in hospital last week for all the fun

I’m trying to quit cigarettes myself. I’m wearing a nicotine patch right now. Too damned expensive and unhealthy.

KT, my mantra is a bit like AA. I may have one tomorrow, but not today.

PPO..I ave someone living with me now…a 76 year old recovering from hip surgery…I know compression stockings well…

Kes–aww, that’s so cool to hear about your son.

Hey Murph!

Homie, I quit quite a while ago, but I still look at the prices of cigarettes and they’re nearly $6 a pack now if I’m not mistaken!

There are always edibles. It does help with pain and inflamation.

Ad–so how is Bernie doing in CA?

Ad…..she does not back down but she also manages to be respectful….quite the feat.

Kes, try $AUD25 a pack!

I have a bit of artheritus in my right hip. It really helps with that.

Seriously, PPO!!!?? WOW!

8 days, Ad.

PPO–have to echo Ad, glad to hear you’re home.

Holy Jeebus P! I thought $7.50 was outrageous!

PPO–wow–eight days in hospital. That’s a long time!

thanks, glenn. Great to be with my pals online again. Missed it big time.

Kt, works out about $1 per stick

PPO….in the U.S. the insurance issues have resulted in releasing people back to home care way too early…..requiring lots of help on the home side of theings.

$7.50 Homie?! Wow… I am behind the times — thinking they were $6.

PPO–I always get cheered up on Friday nights on VOX. Hope it works the same for you, too.

That’s downright criminal!

Murph, yes, same here, but my doc said that I was to stay until I could walk on my own (with stick), so I did that

Murph–I was thinking the same thing about releasing people too early. And, then, the insurance companies won’t pay for the home care! Is that the still the case even with the ACA?

Cigarrettes in Mo…..”Decades” are $5 a pack..and that is really cheap!

You’re right on that, Murph! People being pitched out of the hospital way too early. If there’s not family available, there’s real trouble.

Ad–That’s pretty close, isn’t it?

glenn, It sure does brighten my saturday afternoon here ( 13.45 right now)

PPO…sounds like the denizens of Oz are more enlightened than we are.

PPO–oops–I “know” about the time/day difference; just “forget” it sometimes. Ahhh–the “joys” of senior citizenship!

Glenn…more peple are covered but how wide and long the coverage is remains too little for too short a time.

I saw a Bloomberg national poll that showed Bernie at 49% to Hillary’s 48%

Kes…that is why this man is rooming with me now. No family nearby.

He’s lucky to have you there, Murph.

Murph–since it is the insurance companies running things, that’s why coverage is too little; too short a time.

Murph, not really, just a different mindset where the actual Doctors and Petients know what’s best, and fuck the Insurance companies!

Can anyone believe we actually have two PRESIDENTIAL candidates that are attacking each other’s wives? What’s next, their mothers?

Murph–you are a good man, my friend!

Just when you think they’ve hit rock bottom, Homie…. Hey… I say that every single week! (The GOP candidates, that is.)

The roomig thing is part of an outreach from my church……

Kes–there is no rock bottom with republicans. They just keep digging the hole deeper.

hahahahaha GOP baggers hahahaha

They’re going to end up in China, glenn. Poor China.

Harleigh–how are you? Long time, no see!

Kes, saw PBO’s News with Gergin excoriating both Drumpf and Cruz! What pieces of work they both are

Damn I know Homie. It’s a bottomless pit. Hey Cruz, you’re mama’s so fat, that when she backs up, she emits a beeping sound!”

Hey, Harleigh!

PPO = still you all have system that begins with the docs and their patients…

Kes–I wish they would end up in China! Then we’d be rid of them!

Harleigh, what’s up?

I wonder if there’s any truth to the Cruz infidelity stories. There’s so much mud being slung, it’s hard to tell if anything’s true.

Been workig 7 days, just got up from my afternoon nap a couple hours ago in time to go to bed. LOL

brb…

Murph, it only works like that if you’re lucky to have private cover. Otherwise you’d have a long wait and then be bundled out asap.

KT–hey trump–your mama must have small hands, too!

brb

kes I love the infidelity stories and they are probably true ala Gary Hart, John Edwards, Newtie etc

LOL! It wouldn’t surprise me. Nothing will, at this point!

Kes–it wouldn’t surprise me if the infidelity stories about cruz are true. But even if they are, with republicans nowadays, it may not hurt him. After all, he’s still not trump! That seems to be the defining characteristic now! Forget about policies; he’s just not trump!

Harleigh, I can’t imagine any woman wanting to have sex with Cruz. Even his wife.

KT–well, even cruz’s wife doesn’t want to kiss him in public!

KT LMAO… use Brylcreem instead of KY Jelly! eeeewwww

LOL Harleigh! A little dab will do ya!

They don’t kiss him because he eats buggers!

His daughter won’t let him kiss her.

KT and Harleigh–eeeewww to both of you!

My apologies, glenn.

yeah me too glenn

PPO…oh! Then it is like here….sad and bad.

KT and Harleigh–apologies accepted. But it was very funny!

Glenn…the not kissing thing is fundamentalist prudery I thinki

heh heh heh

I wonder if the GOP will try to dump Trump at the convention.

Murph–sounds good. But I thought you only couldn’t kiss before marriage. Aren’t they married?

Always appreciated!

I’m hoping for a brokered cornvention! Palin-Bachmann 2016 fer jebus! glory!

Glenn…public displays of affection are “demonstrations of lust”.

Harleigh …… and Golly!

KT–Didn’t read the article; but saw a headline that says that trump’s peeps are coming up with a “strategy” for that scenario. Wonder if it will involve a “second amendment remedy” since the repubs now want to allow guns at the convention. What could go wrong?

Oh Harleigh that would be comedy manna from heaven!

Murph–oh, okay. Whatever.

Yeah glenn. Trump made veiled threats about trouble could happen.

Glenn…just a wee bit up tight.

oh man, A GOP shootout. Well, they’ve all been shooting themselves in the foot.

Well….I am shutting down…just too tired. Good night all. Happy Easter!

Murph–yup! Or maybe they’re just stuck in the teenage years. I remember when our daughter was a teenager, she was appalled if her father and I held hands in public. It “embarrased” her.

Maybe they need to aim a little higher!

KT no shit mon but if I had told everyone what was going to happen a year ago you all would have told me I was delusional. Guns at a convention! I hope they aLL GET drunk and start blasting.

Later Murph!

‘NIte, Murph, sleep well.

Night murph

Back again. Just in time to say G’night to Murph.

Man, the irony would be priceless!

I’m just glad that KT and I are not in the Cleveland part of this state because that GOP convention is going to make Chicago 1968 look like a Sunday school picnic.

I can’t believe the past year of the baggers. LOL I’m glad Scalia died too.

All I have to say is you better not be a bearded man (or woman) at the repub convention or you’ll be classified as ISIS. After all, that’s their justification for carrying guns. What a bunch of fear-filled individuals!

It just might kes. I’m going nowhere near the place. I wouldn’t be able to keep from projectile vomiting.

Kes–oh yeah! And the media coverage will be “interesting” too.

Leave your rag hat, hijab and beanie at home too!

I’m staying in NW Ohio too. No Cleveland excursions for me!

Thank goodness for the internet.

This will be a media circus, glenn!

Kes and KT–glad to hear you’re both going to be far away! Of course, it will be in your living room every night no matter where you are!

I’ll be watching, for sure. I love violent meltdowns!

There’s no escape, glenn. But there’ll be a certain entertainment factor.

I can’t wait! Like their first debate circus. wow. I’m hyped

Kes–The entertainment factor will be like slowing down to watch the aftermath of a car wreck. Except this will be the wreck of our country!

Scott Walker thinks he’s going to get the nomination, instead of Trump. He has a worse chance than Trump does, of being president.

Cleveland is a blue town and they’re not afraid to get out in the streets so the GOPers had better behave themselves!

Na glenn. Hopefully just the GOP.

KT–Is that really true about Walker? Now, there’s another sleazeball!

That’s true Homie. They like a good fight.

Yeah glenn. I saw an article about it earlier today. It’s not going to happen though. If it does, I’d be really surprised.

Walker, Kasich and Paul Ryan are three people I cannot abide. Now Ryan is saying that he’s had a “come-to-Jesus” awakening regarding the fact that people might be poor for legit reasons. “They’re not all ‘takers’.” Too little too late, Paulie.

Kes–I really do worry that protesters in Cleveland will not be safe. As you say, it seems to be shaping up as a repeat of the 1968 Dem convention.

The timing is abit suspicious Homie.

It could get nasty, glenn. Seriously.

The BLM movement has some very legit grievances and I don’t think they’re in the mood to take any crap in Cleveland.

Kes–poor little Paulie. Speaker of the House, and no one hardly mentions his name.

LOL Lyin Ryan and Walker the Wanker. Now there’s a ticket from heaven!

Harleigh–but do the liar and the wanker beat the half-wit and the twit?

The two of them together don’t have one soul, Harl.

Kes–nor a full brain!

Right, AdLib. Their loyalty is to Trump. Not the party.

Kes their top 10 have no soul.

‘Zactly!

Harleigh–just for clarification–the half-wit and the twit are palin and bachman. So which pair is the “better” dream team?

That’s because they weren’t conceived, they just grew, like mold!

KT–good one!

Thanks glenn, I try!

I have to admit, though, that the more I see of Hillary and Bill, the less impressed I am. I really is starting to feel like a shotgun wedding with them and the base of the Dem Party.

Okay, folks, my turn to say good night. Early soccer game tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great weekend, and a Happy Easter, if you celebrate that.

“It” not “I”

night glenn, as always, it’s been fun

G’night, glenn! Enjoy the game and Happy Easter!

I have been pitching Palin – Bachmann since 2007 when mcain lost to some black guy!! Got me kicked off of the old Huffington post for a couple hours.

Hillary is having a fund-raiser tonight. Some of the tickets are $325,400. I saw that someone calculated that it would take a min. wage worker 5 years, working 24 hours/day to make that much money.

Well folks, I think I’m out too. Take care and remember the secret to a happy life! Don’t eat anything bigger than your head!

And don’t eat anything that Ted Cruz would eat! G’night, Homie!

I think I’d better call it a day too. Have a great weekend and Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

I gotta go to folks! have a great weekend. Remember that jebus died for the worlds sins so if you are not sinning then he died for nothing. nite!

howdy vox!! Im am mad at some Americans!!

hey ad! went away!

I miss coming here Ad

I have been going through some health issues,and don’t feel inclined to engage sometimes,I do read your stuff always Ad,you are one clever dude! and I have known a few

The fact is Ad,about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with COPD,It flipped my world upside down,changed me forever.I have since gotten IBS,it is a bitch of a thing because it is not easily treated,Sress is involved.I have a bad case,but am working on the stress part

Even the things I have read say “it’s a chicken and an egg thing” so frustrating! There’s the rub,I have to relax more

You have been a consistent pleasure to listen to Ad.Clever,FUNNY,and prolific.You often say what what I am thinking,but don’t have the ability to put it down in words the way you do.I do Okay for a grade 10 graduate.Streetwise,and always currious

for sure Ad,when I was a child I always wanted to figure out how things work

The english language is perfect for wordmiths too Ad.George Carlin,The late great Gary Shandling!

What are your thoughts on addiction Ad? Can you speak to that?

What do you generally think about it,

I like to know how non addicts see addiction Ad,it helps me

Weakness? How is an illness weakness? That is the way sober people see it usually,as if to say “suck it up and just quit!” The evidence points more to genetics,IMO,I come from a line of addicts

I get that Ad,but do really think it is weakness? Upbringing too has a lot to do with it.I just learned recently that my great grandfather was a pedophile! It explained a lot about my familes dysfunction.The drinking,drugs,and stunted feelings.The worst part was that I found out that my oldest brother was a victim of that bastard! That threw me for a loop.I just want to give you one perspective Ad,Thanks for letting me vent

Yes,in our way,he is about to turn 65.I have not asked him about it,I learned it through an elderly relative’s book.The truth is I am an addict also.But Bob had real anger issues that he never talked about. He did some acting and got a Major in English! He taught for a while until his demons ended that

I do NOT want to come on as whiney Ad.I just want to be honest,that is my key to sobriety,I am not there yet,but I will never give up trying.It’s coming

I am one of the survivors so far Ad,I have lost several friends to early death,some from booze,a lot by cancer. I am not a believer in a god,but I do believe in spirituality. And in my life,I have met several people who have changed me for the good.And I believe that I have met the people I have for a reason.Sometimes I change their life! Even you Ad,you and a lot of people I have met on the interwebs.Mostly American! You and guys like KT,girls like Kes,you are all so interesting!

Seems you are gone Ad,see ya bud!

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