There is a great new show on tv about a cabinet officer taking over as President after the whole government is killed in a terrorists attack .Lots of treachery, evil right wingers, ill fated love etc
HOWEVER it almost seems tame considering what we are now getting into with The Donald as President .Already he is plagued by the scandal of getting help from Putin , some republicans don't like his pick of war monger /right winger John Bolton as ass't secretary of State,and the Donald balancing being president &his business dealings are more & more controversial .
President Trump is going to be a non stop circus .
At this point Hillary leads trump in the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.Thanks to the outdated electoral college system Trump is still the incoming president .Crazy .
He has not even been sworn in and already lots of controversy .The next 4 years are going to be insane , a political version of the JERRY SPRINGER SHOW.
Trump has not done anything legal to separate himself from his business empire which many commentators & politicians have said should be done .It creates the chance he can use his job as President to make himself even richer.Also creates room for innuendo & scandal .
Adding fuel to the fire Trump says his children will handle the business empire but at the same time will be White House Advisors.
Lots of questions about Trump's relations with Russia . Now the CIA says the Russians helped him with computer hacking , the congress is going to investigate .Trump also never released tax information that could show money coming from deals in Russia . The nominee for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has business ties with Russia and wa seven given a medal by Putin .
Several billionaires in picked for Trump's cabinet , How do they know how we little people live ?
The national security advisor ex General Flynn is an out in the open Muslim hater and was fired as they had of the Defense Department spy agency .
The world will be getting quite a show ! Hope the country can survive.
BF is a new national holiday in all but name .A huger then huge event where mobs of people descend on stores all hyper to spend money .
Since I have until recently worked afternoons wud always see the mobs of people lined up outside stores when I went home at 12-1AM .Since it's cold saw some wrapped in blankets.Since it is the day after Thanksgiving the stores waited till 2-5AM to open .I figured so there staff could have Thanksgiving dinner and.they wudn't have to pay OT , and since the customers wud be celebrating Thanksgiving .
No more.Now we have stores opening up for business at 5-6PM with crowds waiting to get in .
Shoppers can get emotional, every year the tv news shows people mainly women screaming at . hitting each other over things they want to buy .I say half joking since we are such a gun crazy ation it's only a matter of time before we have our first Black Friday shoot out .
I don't do it , have a short shopping list so can take care of everything in my off hours.
Europeans :please don't let Black Friday USA style happen to you !!!!!
Tomorrow .My favorite holiday . A simple get together to be thankful for what you have .No presents are required .None of the circus atmosphere that comes after with shopping mania that dominates December & NYE fanfare and not loud with lots of fireworks & shooting like the 4th of July .Mostly a family function but friends can be invited.
Anything like it in the UK ?
The main course is always turkey , other foods include stuffing , potatoes , pies with pumpkin pies being the most favorite .Some people their are ethnic touches , some Chinese immigrants I know have a turkey but it's mainly Chinese food, another family who have roots in Italy add lasagna & antipasto salad to the menu .All fine with me Parades in the morning all over the country & on tv . Football games on tv in the afternoon , often leads to all the man in one room watching the game and the women congregating around the dinner table talking .
They tell you in school that the tradition began way back in the 1600's in Massachusetts when the Indians invited Puritan settlers to an annual feast .Others say it became popular in 1864 when President Lincoln declared a national day of thanksgiving since the Union was finally beating the south in the civil war . Think that's more likely but it really doesn't matter since this is the here & now.
I will be joining some of my out of town co-works here at the conference center for dinner . The kitchen crew are all Mexicans so it will be interesting to hear their opinion about the holiday /food . A good introduction to USA culture for them too.
I haven't seen Designated Survivor and didn't watch Indian Summers either, do you watch Peaky Blinders in the US Moi, I love it too and looking forward to the next series, found the last series a bit disappointing, all that Russian drama, lets get back to violence, swearing and more, I loved to see Thomas Shelby riding his white stallion through the streets, cars are not so sexy.
We get PEAKY BLINDERS on NETFLIX . An interesting show , I like it .They certainly show Winston Churchill in a whole different light then you hear about in school
Have been watching the British series INDIAN SUMMERS , ends soon .Lost interest in most of the plots but I kept coming back since the acting is so good and the scenery is gorgeous .
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR , a new US show I hope you get over there .About a lowly about to be fired cabinet official who accidentally becomes President after the elected President & 1,000 others are killed in terrorist attack . He has all the politicians & an obnoxious general after him . And the plotters behind the killing of the original President are still up to trouble . The star is Kiefer Sutherland who was in the something like it show 24 and while playing the President of the USA is a Canadian
The show also fits into the new bizarre Trump era we are entering ..........
I read this yesterday and is is quite alarming - her success rate is about 85% if I remember right??
My biggest problem with Hillary Clinton is her reaction to her husband's misdemeanors. I would have been out the door so fast and I definitely would not have continued to be First Lady and forgiven him. They point the finger at Trump but they don't look at themselves first. Wonder how much dosh Monica Lewinski got in return for her "work" for Bill Clinton???
The Clintons are said to have an open marriage with both having extra marital fun .
Clinton is a known dogg so Monica was business as usual for Hilary .
Ultra ambitious people like them are in a world of their own .Too much for me !