Got the truck back from the shop last night and the thing is raring to go. I haven’t seen this kind of performance out of it for months. I have a huge smile on my face as this is written.
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Investor’s Business Daily has a wonderful piece [2] yesterday on Bernie Sanders, which fills in a lot of the blanks.
It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.
“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington. . . .
Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”
Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.
The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”
Ok, having gone through all of that, let’s compare.
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Let’s see here.
No ambition, check.
Very little measurable talent, check. Been living off the efforts of others all his life, check.
Same input, same output. If you have limited talent and absolutely no ambition, you generally want somebody else’s money.
Yeah, this guy needs to be in the White House…not.
Oh, and as for my comments of yesterday as regards Donald Trump deciding he doesn’t want to go through the process of debating the other candidates, I think the best critic of the Donald on the matter is himself. Observe, if you will, The Donald calling others cowards [4] for not debating.
That said, there’s one other idea that seems to be coming up that I am investigating. It appears that at least some of the objection from the Trump camp is because the RNC has approved illegal aliens, a radical Muslim activist, a Bernie Sanders supporter, a Black Lives Matter supporter and a Mexican illegal immigrant to the debate to confront Donald Trump. And, one presumes, Ted Cruz.
I guess an ISIS member wan’t available.huh?
First of all, why would we care what anti-american types think? That said, obviously, this is to skew things towards Rubio, the establishment’s last great hope.
And you know, under those conditions it’s my view that Ted Cruz should probably walk as well.
But of course the question arises, if that was the biggest issue, why in the hell didn’t Donald Trump say so in the first place as opposed to pointing the finger at Meg Kelly? There’s a number of things about this don’t add up and I’m looking into it.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.