Years from now, when we look back, nobody’s going to remember Nancy’s cheap theatrics, like wearing a black dress while claiming the moment to be
somber as she announced the impeachment of the President of the United States, or using gold tipped and autographed pens delivered on a silver platter spending $100,000 in taxpayer money for those golden pens she stole from the government and gave away as souvenirs to sign over to the Senate the articles of impeachment, they will remember though how President Trump brought the Chinese to the bargaining table and delivered achievements few ever thought were possible.
They will remember that Trump continued to lead even though they unfairly tried to take him and the U.S out !
President Trump’s Approval Hits a New High as Senate Trial Begins On Thursday – the day after Democrats delivered impeachment articles to the Senate – Donald Trump’s Presidential Approval Index rating turned positive for the first time in nine months, Rasmussen Reports’ Daily Presidential Tracking Poll results show.
Overall, Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters either “somewhat” or “strongly” approve of President Trump’s job performance, while 47% somewhat or strongly disapprove.
Not since December 5, 2019 – the day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Democrats would formally proceed with impeachment – have so few voters disapproved of Trump’s performance. As CNSNews.com reported at the time, Trump’s approval spiked to 52% and disapproval fell to 47%.
President Donald Trump has expressed that he wants a “swift” impeachment trial, but given the effects it has been having this far he ought not to.
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I think it would be so cool that the owners of this site organized an annual party/gathering at a specific world location for all of us to get together for a weekend... Maybe at a big hotel’s convention area… Or having the whole place for us?... I wonder how it would be... Music, food, drinks… You would have to provide your user name and password to be able to get in (obviously, you have to be the person in your profile pictures) and nigerian scammers would have their own special area in the parking lot, jajajajajajajaajjaja… That´s one party I would love to attend!...
P.S. Hope I am not breaking any rules with this post, because I really think it would be a hell of a party!!!
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Ok... So I was contacted by a guy, here... Wanted to know my name and email and get to know me better...
I told him my name and gave my email... He sent me two messages and when he asked me if I had liked his pictures, I said to him that even though physically he wasn´t my type at all, I didn´t mind us being friends... This is what I just got from him:
"Do not reach me, contact me - if you think that I am ugly, too bad for you - really!!
at 48 Years old, you shall be ashamed!!
Too bad and I am not going to be mean or rude!!"
I wonder what exactly should I be ashamed of at my age... Being honest?... That won´t happen any time soon...
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I have seen so many profiles that say Match Location: Anywhere
And I can´t help but wonder if people here, would really do whatever they had to do to be “face to face” with the object of their love…
I have asked potential partners if they wouldn´t have it easier by looking for a nice lady where they live… And I keep getting the same answer: That it wouldn´t be me… One person said: “Do you think you are that average that I can find just as good anywhere?”
I wonder if love really can break the barrier of distance…
I think it takes two very special souls to be able to unite and form a bond so strong to break down any obstacles they face in their road to being together forever…
Would love to read what you, ladies and gentlemen, think…
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I know... I am a disaster... But an ultra cute, one... Jajajajajajajaja...
Have you been in a solemn ceremony or circumstance and you just have this terrible urge to laugh?...
I have... And I swear, I start thinking of the most horrible and sad things, but most of the time, it just doesn´t work... Jajajajajajajajja...
My Mom was the kind of person that would be sitting with me and would say: "What if an orangutan just came here and sat on your lap?"... "What would you do?"...
Maybe I just inherited all that crazyness... Jajajajajajajaja...
If you and I were attending any kind of ceremony... Yes, those that are very boring and seem to last forever, chances are I would be the one making a terribly funny comment in a whisper or the one that just has the hardest time trying not to laugh...
Have this happened to you?... I sooo want to read what you have to say!...
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I have a neighbor… He comes from a family of criminals… Yep… They are on the web… Killers, robbers, drug sellers… But… He seems to want to do things “right” in his own way… And he is absolutely adorable with me… I have not a single complaint to make about him… He told me he loved lasagna, once… I asked him his birth date and said to him: “That day, we are going to eat lasagna… You and I”…
That day he was all dressed up… I said “Happy Birthday!!!”, hugged him and we started walking… I said: “Let´s stop at the bakery… A “pit stop”, jajajajajajajaja… He laughed and I told him to wait for me outside… I bought everything I thought he would enjoy eating… When I came out, we walked to a park and sat… I started taking all the stuff out and he was shocked… We had pizza, a huge piece of a very yummy cheese, sodas, ranch dressing… At one point, his eyes were teary and he said: “Elena, I will never forget this day”… I said: “Well, that´s my intention… To make it unforgettable”… At that moment, I saw a 56 year old man, with the face of a seven year old on Christmas Eve… My heart smiled… BIG… He saved some of the food for his youngest boy at home… He has TEN kids… All of them almost grown up, now… But they grew up under very hard conditions… We kept walking to our main destination and stopped for his birthday piece of cake… He picked the chocolate one and I picked the “Tres leches”… I had all the people there sing “Happy Birthday” and again, he had teary eyes… I bought another piece of cake for him to take home and after that, we couldn't eat anything else, but I bought him that lasagna anyways and he took it home… He hugged me and said “Thank you so much… I love you”…
A few days after, he knocked on my door and told me I had forgotten to turn my external lights off... I said: "Thank you so much for being so sweet to me"... He said: "You are the most wonderful neighbor, anyone can have, beautiful... Anything you need, just let me know"...
I believe kindness is contagious... I have seen it...
Do you agree with me?... Would you like to share your thoughts on this subject?...
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A pair of related downsides of rank free markets. But in the latter case, new depths, apparently. "Micro work". Home based computer contract work, often at less than USD 1.00 per hour, if payment actually ever happens. Busy beavers might very rarely hit over USD 5 hourly, for 14 hour days. Boring work, on personal medical, product choice, lifestyle and other records data, gathered by the likes of facebook. Seems like it gets used to develop more 'human' AI. Was where expected, in dirt poor (Venezuela workers' paradise) countries. Now in the richer West. Nice. Check out the ethnicities of the rich suits behind this disgrace. Facebook, others.
Thank you for the responses on the last blog. I can't find a way of answering individuals but I left a comment for the Kiwi Gentleman about which camera for motorsports. I think if anyone has a question, I will answer it in the next blog.
In the last blog I showed an earl drawing called "Ugly Man." It was indeed modeled on an oil painting by another artist, which confused some people but others figured out.
In this blog the drawing will indicate why I use the name 17th Lancer. I served in the 17th/21st Lancers. This drawing was based on a print by the late Harry Payne. I did the drawing first, then later did it as a watercolour. I used paint in tubes, rather than the blocks of watercolour paint you can buy, but if you don't secure the cap properly, the paint in the tube will go solid. I wanted a more opaque finish which is why I used the tubes of paint.
So there are two images attached. The drawing and the watercolour. Someone couldn't open the image in the last blog. I've no idea why. It's a bit annoying I can't just upload the images from the computer. I'm putting links to one of three on line stores I have. This one is still under construction as it's taking time to upload all my work, but I have closed my Adobe account and uninstalled Photoshop (Adobe gave you a portfolio page). The reason being, I'm fed up paying a monthly subscription for something that no longer works well on the Windows 8 system I still have. In fact without Windows 10, I can't get the latest upgrades I'm paying for. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50 and it's mine. If I want different upgrades, I can buy packages. It's much better in my opinion. I also use Coral Painter, a combination of the two allows me to produce a variety of digital art which is where I began as an artist.
Please feel free to comment and I will answer in the next blog.
I have finally ditched Adobe Photoshop. I'm still using Windows 8 but unless you are on Windows 10, you can't update either Photoshop or Lightroom, but you are still expected to pay the same never ending subscription. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50. That's it, it's mine and in 5 months will have paid for itself. It is as good, if not better than Photoshop. Much of it works in a similar way, so if you're fed up with Adobe, get Affinity.
From The New York Times;
In response to:
Published Jan. 14, 2020
Updated Jan. 15, 2020, 7:22 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — New details emerged on Tuesday of President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, intensifying demands on Senate Republicans on the eve of a historic impeachment trial to include witness testimony and additional documents in the proceeding.
The dozens of pages of notes, text messages and other records lay out work conducted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and his associate Lev Parnas on behalf of the president. They include handwritten notes scrawled on a sheet of hotel paper at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Vienna that mention getting President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to announce an investigation of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son.
House Democrats released the records even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a Wednesday vote to name House prosecutors and send the articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump to the Senate to begin the trial. The material undergirds the accusations against Mr. Trump, and highlights how much is still to be learned about the scope of a scheme that the impeachment charges call a blatant effort to solicit foreign help in the 2020 election.
The documents, provided by Mr. Parnas, contain a series of exchanges between him and a Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who was helping Mr. Giuliani unearth damaging information about the Bidens.
In one of the exchanges, from March 2019, Mr. Lutsenko messaged Mr. Parnas on the WhatsApp messaging service to complain that the Trump administration had not yet ousted the United States ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch. Mr. Lutsenko, who had clashed with Ms. Yovanovitch and wanted her gone, appeared to link her removal to his assistance in attacking the Bidens.
“It’s just that if you don’t make a decision about Madam — you are bringing into question all my allegations. Including about B,” he wrote to Mr. Parnas, in apparent references to Ms. Yovanovitch and Mr. Biden.
Mr. Lutsenko added: “And here you can’t even get rid of one fool,” an apparent reference to Ms. Yovanovitch. He also inserted a frowning emoji.
“She’s not a simple fool trust me,” Mr. Parnas responded. “But she’s not getting away.” The president, with Mr. Giuliani’s encouragement, recalled Ms. Yovanovitch from her post in late April.
The Parnas documents also include a May 2019 letter from Mr. Giuliani requesting a meeting with Mr. Zelensky in which he said Mr. Trump had “knowledge and consent” of his actions. It is the first document to be made public to say as much.
Mr. Parnas, who is under federal indictment, has only recently been cleared to hand over the material to Congress, and an official involved in the inquiry indicated more was likely to be made public soon.
Senior Democrats who led the House impeachment inquiry said the new records underscored the need for senators to demand additional evidence at trial. The new documents, they said in a statement, “demonstrate that there is more evidence relevant to the president’s scheme, but they have been concealed by the president himself.”
“There cannot be a full and fair trial in the Senate without the documents that President Trump is refusing to provide to Congress,” they said.
Ms. Pelosi said she would announce the names of her impeachment managers at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and a vote to formally name them and send the articles was scheduled for early afternoon. “The American people deserve the truth, and the Constitution demands a trial,” she said.
In the Senate, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, indicated that senators would be ready to receive the charges on Wednesday and take sworn oaths to render “impartial justice” in the trial shortly thereafter, if not the following day.
(continued in my first comment below)