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calimary's JournalWow - nice big forehead there.
Nothing behind it, but the surface is nice and smooth.
But... but... but... where's Scott Baio? And Ted Nugent?
Why isn't ol' Nuge giving a concert? Present your teabag for free admission!
They ALL should.
There shouldn't be ANY Dems there.
I was disappointed to hear that Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter were attending. That's a shame. Also disappointed that the Clintons will be there. I suppose perhaps it's a decision Hillary made to show some sort of good sportsmanship or something. I think she has every right to skip the damn thing - and the same for Bill, too.
If I were in Congress, I'd skip it, too. LOTS better things to do with my time than salute the coronation of the sexual predator/king of conflict of interest/Manchurian candidate and Putin puppet. By attending, you are giving de facto approval and validation of it. I wouldn't be able to face myself in the mirror in the morning if I attended.
That time can be much better spent working on ways to defeat his agenda and invalidate his ill-gotten gain.
And it's about damn time the Dems are pushing the issue!
It's about damn TIME they "jumped all over the plan to gut the congressional ethics office"!!!
It's ABOUT DAMN TIME.
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It's about damn time.
I like that - conservatards!
GOOD one!
Emphasis on the "CON" part, because all they ever offer is a CON JOB!
Welome to DU, MountainFool!
I wasn't going to be as polite as BeyondGeography was in the first reply.
I read the story and thought: "IDIOT! Raise the minimum wage and people have MORE MONEY TO SPEND!!! NO DUH!!!!
Your forgiveness please - sometimes I just lose all patience and turn rude and crude. But Honest to Pete, sometimes...
Reminds me of the woman who agrees to marry the man in whom she finds many flaws.
She insists: "I can change him."
And as the years go by, she MAY finally realize that she can't. And all the nagging and bitching and arguing and fighting in the world won't do any good at all. He WON'T change unless HE wants to.
And trump has NO REASON WHATSOEVER to change. trump's had this behavior reinforced all his life. So why should he change now?
Welcome to DU, El Mimbreno!
When I look at Mike Pence, I have to start laughing (before the grimacing starts, of course).
My first impression of him, when trump chose him as a running mate, was "WOW, now there's a human dog-whistle. trump is so adamant, sneaky, and devious, at signaling, subliminal messaging, and telegraphing what he means. What I interpreted about that choice in particular was trump telegraphing to all his brainless bots was - "there won't be ANY of those (cough!) Black people in the White House! And I can PROVE it! Look here: I've even found the whitest white guy on the planet as my #2 (that number chosen as MY OWN telegraphing, btw). Couldn't 't find any albinos but this guy Pence is as close as you can get! Central casting and all that!"
Then, as I watch Pence, especially when he and trump are together, I can't help but notice the eyebrow thing. Ever notice how he cocks his head (kinda like the coquettish Jodyanne Jerkmeoff - OOPS, I meant Kellyanne Conway - that's what my husband calls her and it's kinda become a habit 
)? First off, that's body language for disarming you. You don't look at someone straight on. You cock your head at an angle to signal, with cuteness: "awwww... little ol' MEEEE????? Awwww... I'm HARMLESS!!!"
Not like this:
| (- head)
| (- neck)
Like this:
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| (- neck)
Kellyanne does that head-cock thing on camera to look cute, coquettish, almost flirty, and definitely disarming. "See, I'm just a cute little thing! I won't hurt a flea! Go ahead and come hither!"
But when Pence does it, especially when he's with trump, he cocks his head toward trump and gazes at him with almost moony dreamy eyes. As though he's got a big fat man-crush on trump. And therein lies the eyebrow thing.
Like this:
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o o
(hmmm... trying to use that reverse slash punctuation mark and it won't show here. But it slants the opposite way toward the backslash. So the effect: )
^
o o (not just over one eye as it shows here. I was trying to make it so that the symbol is in the middle above the eyes. The idea being - the eyebrows go up in the middle, as opposed to going down in the middle, as a frown.)
Reagan used to do this. It's a way to signal, among other things, harmlessness. Innocence. Wide-eyed innocence and guilelessness. Sincerity - phony or MAYBE otherwise. Kindly old Uncle Dutch - amiable and harmless as all-get-out. Wouldn't hurt a flea! And BOOM! You're disarmed. You no longer are suspicious and cautious. This guy's a sweetheart! See? He wouldn't do anything to hurt you! Utterly harmless! Such a sweet, dear old man! And you drop your guard. And then he goes ahead with what he was gonna do in the first place, that WILL hurt you and there'll be no "sweetheart" about how it adversely affects you and your family and your community.
Mike Pence strikes that same sickly-sweet, nauseating, saccharine, phony-ass facial expression whenever he's around trump when he directs his gaze toward his "lord" and "master". You could see it in their appearances during the campaign, their sit-down interviews together, any time they're together, next to each other or near each other. Whenever he looks over at trump, Pence looks like he's in love with the guy. That moony, almost love-lorn look takes over his face. Eyebrows up, a love-lorn longing in his eyes. Nauseating. It's a new kind of "worshipful gaze," which Nancy Reagan made famous when she'd gaze at her husband while they were standing together or she was seated near him while he made some speech. It used to be written about - that moony-eyed, love-lorn "worshipful gaze" almost to the point of ridiculousness. Eventually she eased up on it because it became "a thing," and people smirked and snickered about it and it became a joke.
Now we have Mike "Nancy Reagan" Pence. I bet trump - um - "excites" him even more than his wife does. 
(Sorry about all the edits. I could not figure out how to get the symbols/punctuation marks to work.)
That poor little thing. I'm so glad Cinnamon has a safe and loving place now.
We have a little old lady cat who's 17, and as skinny as a rail. But man, she can come bounding up the stairs to our bedroom, and she's still spry enough to jump up onto the bed. She gets around pretty well for an old gal. She and our other two cats and our dog coexist nicely. We call it our "Peaceable Kingdom."
Welcome to DU, AJT!
You may be right. I've learned to expect whatever is the worse option to be the one that succeeds.
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