I SAW YOU
TRADER JOE'S: At Trader Joe's, day before Thanksgiving: What is it about a hot dad with a shopping list and a minivan that makes me all aflutter? You were rocking a beanie and green Patagonia puffy like a REI model. Your shopping cart filled with gourmet ingredients made you look like Tyler Florence crossed with a sexy lumberjack. Best shopping trip ever... same time next week?HE'S A TEN: I am not a sports fan, but local TV and print advertisements featuring a certain football player are getting my attention! Meow!
DOUBLE TAKE AT S HILL TARGET: Sunday 11/24 around 1 pm. We saw each other/exchanged looks twice. You: amazing looking blond that has not aged. Look as beautiful as you did many, many years ago. Wondered what happened to you — were you in town for Thanksgiving or live here, married, kids, career? Would like to hear from you even if it's just an update. Scott
WOODEN CITY HOTTIE: Saw you behind the bar at Wooden City — seems like you're pretty skilled at mixing drinks... but I bet you'd be even better at mixing conversation. Xoxo.
CHEERS
THANKFUL: As I walk the downtown streets of Spokane, I occasionally pass by a window that is decorated for Christmas, some of them looking as they did decades ago with ornaments from the old Crescent Store. I try not to notice the pungent odors as the loud drug addicts pass by on their way to their next crime or drug fix. Then, I take a walk on the beautiful Centennial Trail and notice the river as it flows gently. Sometimes, I have to look between tents that are now fortified with metal and wood for the winter. What a beauful sight! As I continue my walk, I'm careful to dodge the human and dog excrement so nicely arranged along the walking/running/biking trail. Ah....Spokane. What a beautiful city. No wonder so many people want to come and live here free of financial burden.
BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND: I just want to say cheers to my loving Girlfriend she does so much to make time for me I love her with all of my heart
SPOKANE RESTAURANTS OPEN ON HOLIDAYS: I have a request to the Inlander to publish a list of restaurants open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then it would be lovely if those restaurants would accept reservations from those seeking a meal on a holiday. My husband and I went out on Thanksgiving to a restaurant and discovered that there was a line of folks waiting outside that stretched all of the way around the building...and it was 34 degrees outside. Needless to say we were disappointed because we went home without turkey and stuffing. Please, please, please make holidays great again.
SO YOU THINK THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: Houses fold. / No person is just a number. / The Lady wins over Fate. / She is the law of probability, not inevitability. / But one does not depend on the Lady. / One depends on oneself, one's friends, family and community. // Home-- not house, is where the heart is, / & this angel is a sharp straight shot. / A good woman's voice is like an angel's / more powerful than the shallow siren songs wrecking men. / A good woman combines the fervent ecstasy of sacrifice & desire / the undying fire of her hearth, / because he nurtures the flame and they give each other life, / This light for each other can turn any place, maze, road or house, / through redemption and salvation, forgiveness, nurturing and love, / and faith into their home, both of them bettering each other. / There's nothing more powerful than love, not even death.
JEERS
COME ON ELON: The dictionary defines musk as a strong-smelling reddish brown substance, which is secreted by the male musk deer for scent-marking, and wow! How accurate that definition fits your political and cultural trajectory! Scent marking all over the American people with your narrow hate, small-mindedness, and censorship, while freak flying your Mars rocket as you kiss the ring of the Orange One. These shenanigans are boring intellectually, and your vast perch on which you manipulate information and limit resources based on your opinions, to the detriment of freedom for all humanity, has you on the short list of worst humans out now.
PLENTY OF SPACE BY THE FREEWAY: So in todays newspaper there is a story about a man feverishly working on paperwork for illegals to stay in the country—because of course Evil President Trump wants to send them back where they came from—very poor, non producing. Spokanites? You EVER read or hear about what is going on in "Sanctuary Cities" like New York where they all of a sudden changed their tune about people being shipped there from Texas? You should try coming out from under your rocks. BUT there is Always opportunity! Governor Abbott (Texas) would LOVE to ship Many thousands of border crossers to Spokane! They are SO overwhelmed cost wise that if we could come up with the money they could be here in a VERY short time. Not just a few but number appropriate as to the MILLIONS that have come into Texas—sat 15-20 thousand—as to the size of Spokane? Then you could say we were doing our part to REALLY show Trump what we are made of. Don't you think? After all how many millions were spent cleaning up those lots next to the freeway? Seems like space going to waste!
TO THOSE THAT REELECTED HIM: He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. He admires dictators and wants to be one himself. You can judge a person by the company they keep and who they admire.
RE: WHO VOTED FOR WHAT?: That's just what millions of European Jews did in the 1940s, "wait and see," unbelieving the horror at their door until too late. Your hysteric Nazi comments reflect the solidly tone-deaf ideology of zombie robot killers, trumping any thoughtful progression for fellow humans. Using woke as a derogatory term, jesting at awareness and justice for all highlights your dangerous small mind. You sound like a monger, evolve already.
REALTORS/LANDLORDS/MAYOR: Looking for one
RE: BOZO: That's the best description of the Biden/Harris administration yet! DEI hires galore as VP picks and press secretary, and for what?!? For one GD second out of the last four years, how are these people 'qualified'? You want to jump to conclusions about who is being picked for your next four years? Buckle up.
GROSS AND INHUMANE: I am so sick and tired of dogs in the store. Pooping on the floor, sitting in the cart, and being handled like a kid. You people need to stop... And leave your "kids" at home! They are NOT service animals.
RE: WHO VOTED FOR WHAT: You did not seriously just hit me with that "woke agenda" nonsense. There IS no woke agenda, but there IS Project 2025 — make massive cuts to education, public transportation, and health care, while installing Christian nationalism and further suppressing queer people, women, and anybody who isn't white. His plans on Day One include mass deportations and starting trade wars with Mexico and Canada. Without all the immigrants you want gone, food will become scarce and home construction will cease. The majority of the country DID NOT vote for him. He just received the winning number of votes while most stayed home. Believe it or not my sympathy for liars goes BELOW ground once they start using words they don't know the meanings to. "Woke" means "aware of systemic oppression," not "whatever I don't like." Better get off your butt and go to a farm, because those immigrants do more work in a day than you probably have IN, YOUR, LIFE!
WORLD STAGE: The difference between Christians and Muslims is the same difference between Catholic and Protestant. The difference is leadership of spiritual life which includes the rituals of prayer and marriage. Catholics believe in the authority of the Pope, while Protestants believe in salvation, redemption and deliverance. The division between Sunni Muslims 85% and Shia Muslims 15% dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. Since there was no successor, leadership was based on the traditions of the prophet, while a smaller group believed it should have stayed within the prophet's family bloodline. The historical divisions in the Middle East are playing out on the world stage with a distorted view of the history of the area, such as: Palestine is mostly Sunni, while Iran and Iraq are mostly Shia. ♦
