Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2025

What's happening now.

" The problem with Democracy is that everyone is allowed to vote." unknown.

Daddy, preferred his older brother until he went wrong. He still preferred him after the brother died. So Daddy had only given him 40 millions at graduation, read that as kicked out of the house. Do you think you could make a profit if you started with $40,000,000.00?

In a vain effort to make himself look cool, this shameless self-promoter spent that 40 millions and promptly went bankrupt. Well his businesses did, at least *6 times. Because our boy had protected himself by hiring the man who taught him how to promote properly, Roy Cohn.

Roy Cohn, who served as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the "Communist witch hunt" of the 1950s, later became a lawyer and mentor for Donald Trump. 

Cohen  taught him to tell a lie so many times that people begin to believe it. He taught him to threaten to counter sue so may times that his contractors finally gave up hope of ever collecting what he owed them.

The Newspapers and glossy mags laughed at him. The more he spent to look cool, the louder they laughed. 

Women laughed at him, one or two must have chortled at mushroom boy.

Most importantly, President Obama and the Washington Press Corps laughed at him in a very public manner.

He'd show them, He'd show them all.

Indeed he did and against all odds became the President. The problem was it was the folks he saw as idiots & losers who voted for him.

In his first run as President, the World laughed at him and many people hated him. The people he gave high offices to help him, stopped him whenever he went too far. Too far for them, not for him.

So facing age and nearing the end of life, his mission became that before he died he would destroy the Country who had treated him so badly.


*6 Trump business bankruptcies:

Trump Taj Mahal (1991): The Atlantic City casino declared bankruptcy due to over $3 billion in debt, mostly from high-interest junk bonds.

Trump Castle (1992): This Atlantic City casino, his "weakest gambling hall," filed for a prepackaged bankruptcy plan.

Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992): Facing more than $250 million in debt, this casino filed for prepackaged bankruptcy at the same time as the Trump Castle.

Plaza Hotel (1992): The New York hotel had accumulated over $550 million in debt. In the restructuring, Trump gave up a 49% stake.

Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts (2004): This filing involved three Atlantic City casinos and a riverboat casino in Indiana. Trump's ownership stake was reduced in the restructuring.

Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009): The company, which was formerly Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts, filed for bankruptcy after missing a bond interest payment. 



Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Theodore Geisel



It rained all day long, all that gloomy long day
My mother said we couldn't go out and play
The rain dripped on windows, and covered the lawn
And we knew this day would be one big yawn

So we played in the basement and under the beds
But nothing interesting popped into our heads
The TV was boring and then we got fed
And while we were eating our mother said

Go up into my room and take a good look
If you look in the right place you'll find a book
Then sit on the couch like good children should
And we'll read it together and it will be good

We were so bored that we just didn't care
So we all ran together, ran up the stairs
And we poked and jiggled and took a good look
And that's when we found a great big red book

And we ran down to Mother, just imagine that
She gathered us up on the couch where we sat
And listened and giggled without even a spat
And that's when we learned about the Cat in the Hat

Still in these long years we remember that book
And I've read it so often you might say I'm hooked
So whenever I need to chase away the blues
I'll pick up a something by dear Dr Seuss