Come Heller high water…
- MSNBC “called” the Wisconsin primary for Cruz and Bernie (sounds like a specialty foods store at the
mall – Cruz & Bernie’s) at 8:30 EST with only 3 percent of the precincts counted and while some people were still in line to vote. They got it right, of course, Cruz and Bernie won. But it’s still irritating. This is one of those “there oughta be a law” moments, or at least it should be an unwritten rule in media: “No calling elections until each and every vote is counted.” If for no other reason than out of respect for voters. - So how’d they do it? Exit polls and math wizardry is what they said. So, OK, if they’re such geniuses and can call elections with only 3 percent counted, why do we need to vote at all? Why not elect candidates by survey?
- I vote Democrat, yes, but I can’t fathom why anybody votes for Cruz. He’s such a slicked-back creepster. I’m sorry, he is. He looks and sounds like the stereotype of a used car salesman. Or a televangelist. Or Voldemort. Or a funeral home director who likes his job just a little bit too much. Or one of those guys who sells timeshares in Florida. Or that one uncle. Know what I mean? Maybe it’s just me, but when he grimaced at the camera yesterday and said, “Hillary, we’re coming for you,” I got the willies and thought “And your little dog, too.”
- If I keep saying it, one of these decades I’m going to start believing it: “I love Michigan weather, I love Michigan weather, I love ….”
- Friday, I’ll be wearing long johns, a parka, a stocking cap, gloves, a scarf, boots and heavy socks. Which naturally means I’m going to the Tigers’ home opener. That muffled thumping you hear will be clapping. That other sound will be knees knocking.
- Yes, you have to endure my annual and always incorrect prediction for my beloved Tigers. Deal with it. Here goes: The Tigers will win the Central easily if: 1) Their old guys somehow don’t get injured, 2) K-Rod doesn’t turn out to be Joe Nathan-Rod, and 3) If whoever takes Anibel Sanchez place in the rotation after his inevitable injury is a huge, good surprise.
- President Obama called Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border “half-baked.” Huh. I didn’t even know Trump smoked pot.
- Trump also wants to intercept money that illegal immigrants here send home to Mexico, which would mean the government would have to inspect everybody’s mail and all electronic transfers, would it not? Tell me again how Republicans are the ones who want less government and less intrusion into our private lives?
- Comedian Amy Schumer is mad at Glamour magazine for putting her in their all-plus-size issue without permission. Can’t say I blame her. If you call women plus-size, you’re essentially saying they’re abnormal. And who decides what normal is? The fashion industry, of course, which for some reason thinks most women should be ashamed of themselves, despite the industry’s fake new “celebration” of plus-size women.
- Kroger is investing $180 million investment in its Michigan stores and adding 1,000 new jobs, which is great. Go, Kroger. I hope 500 of those jobs are for check-out clerks. It’s always baffled me why grocery stores have 25 check-out lanes but only five of them are open at any one time. I hope the other 500 jobs are parking lot grocery cart wranglers. No, check that. I want them to be teenagers who carry your groceries out to your car for you, like they used to.
- I also want full-serve gas stations to come back. I’m a dreamer, what can I say?
- “It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.” – Democritus.
After K Rods performance last night I am scared. The guy looked horrible. Hopefully that was first regular season game jitters.
I completely agree! I hope it was just 1st regular game jitters!
Re: Cruz. Televangelist was my thought when I heard him speak this morning. He has his national pulpit and his cadence is perfect for those who eat up that slimy, snake-oil (not offense intended to snakes) type of rhetoric.
Right on, Andrew!. In some ways Cruz scares me more than Trump. I don’t understand why John Kasich can’t get any traction. Congrats to Kroger. Now if they would just put a store in the Kalamazooo area. Don’t you hate people who are too stupid or lazy to take their shopping cart to the cart corral. We miss you in the Kalamazoo Gazette, but have you on line. Keep it up and go Tigers!
He definitely scares me more than Trump. Trump doesn’t have any true positions. He’s all hooey and nonsense – whatever gets the biggest reaction. Cruz means it.
And THAT is what is driving people towards Cruz, no matter how creepy he is, what alternatives do Republicans have. Even if he does look and sound like Mr. Hainey from Green Acres.
Oooo, true. I hadn’t thought of that.
Here’s a couple of my thoughts (not that it matters):
I agree with your thoughts on Kroger’s.
I don’t understand
1. Amy Shumer saying she’s a 6-8. I’m a size 10, occasionally an 8, and there’s no way she’s smaller than I am. I am thin!!
2. Any less than size 13-14 is considered plus sized
We laughed when Pres.Obama had to take time out of a press conference to address Trump and his “wall” plans. We loved when he used the word “wacky”. He’s finally at that stage of his presidency that he can actually say what he wants and use non-diplomacy words. LOL.
And on the GOP side you have your choice between a guy who’s looks like he’s wearing a cat on his head or a true “Greaser”, in both looks and philosophy. And there’s Kasich… The least offensive with whom I’d feel less apprehensive about our country’s future. But then again, I too am a dreamer.
Candi..I’m a 14 and Melissa McCarthy says she’s now a size 10, 12!!!! I think if you’re rich enuf the designers will put any size label in you want. If I shop at more expensive stores I instantly become a 12 or 10.
Do you guys know why the Tigers pitcher Francisco Rodriquez is known a K-Rod? Why K? Why not F-Rod? Or, P-Rod, because Pancho is a nickname for Francisco? Or?
He earned the K-Rod nickname as a young pitcher who struck out many batters (aka K’s).
I still like Prod, or Frod, no hyphen, better. LOL
As Emily Littella used to say, “Never mind…” I just realized that K is the baseball symbol for a strike or a strikeout.
Oops. I responded before I saw you caught that.
That’s okay. I think of myself as a master baseball fan, and I should have known. Why did I not know? Was K-Rod in the National League? I knever know knuthin’ about the Knational League.
“You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one” John Lennon. I am with both of you, have to stay optimistic.
Bueches in Flushing carries groceries out. NO tipping is allowed. Love it.
What I want to know is why the Tigers put their copyright info. on every single program? Who wants to reproduce THAT?
If you like, and I do too, grocery stores that have teenagers carry your groceries to the car for you, may I suggest Bueche’s in downtown Flushing. They stoll have friendly service and deliver your groceries to your car. I am not an employee of the company. I am just another person that appreciates good old fashioned customer service.
Thanks John. Too long a drive for me!
I wish had a Bueche’s here,but it would never make it in Bay City.
I found a full service gas station just outside of Mackinac City last fall. I was so shocked I didn’t know how to respond to someone who pumps my gas, washes my windows and takes my payment. Sure brought back the old days. They said they had always operated that way and saw no reason to change.
Cruz is the reincarnation of Joe McCarthy.
Got that from my Dad, who is 90 and remembers McCarthy. Hope Cruz implodes the same way.
I, too, yearn for the return of full-service gas stations since I have a job, and the clothes I wear for it are not appropriate for pumping gas or checking the air in my tires!