Come Heller high water …
- Love that Time magazine made the women who spoke up about the Weinsteins, Spaceys, Trumps, Frankens and Moores of the world their Persons of the Year.
Fitting, too. Sexual harassment, like rape, is about power. And these women spoke truth to power, which is what brave people do. - I miss the days when Time, Newsweek and other magazines actually mattered, don’t you?
- The polls in Alabama show a dead heat more or less. So maybe shame isn’t dead after all in Alabama. But aren’t polls meaningless in the post-Trump era?
- My beef with polls is their lack of honesty. Pollsters love to tell us how scientific they are and how the results have a margin of error of three or four points either way. And then we get a Trump. In my mind, since polls measure human sentiment, they have a margin of error of 100 percent, making them more voodoo than science. Polls probably say I’m wrong. But I’m not.
- His opponent Doug Jones said “I damn sure believe and have done my part to ensure that men who hurt little girls should go to jail ― not to the U.S. Senate.” I agree, but from what I’m learning about the U.S. Senate, it sounds like Moore will fit right in.
- I don’t think Trump is senile because I don’t like his politics. I think he’s senile because he does inexplicable things like denying that’s him on the Billy Bush tape. Someone who is in control of his mind and emotions would think, “That’d be a dumb thing to say. All reporters would have to do is ask the people on the bus, including Bush.” Someone who is not would just blunder ahead anyway.
- Putin says he’s running for re-election. I propose we spend every dollar in the U.S. treasury buying Facebook and Twitter ads against him. Who’s with me?
- Was anyone else not surprised when the Lions couldn’t even knock down their former stadium? Every Lions fan I knew said, “Typical.”
- Be honest: Don’t you sometimes feel stupid singing a lot of Christmas tunes? Usually I’m OK with singing inane songs, but sometimes when it’s Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Baby or 12 Days of Christmas, I think, “This is the best we’ve got?” Yeah, I need to lighten up.
- How was I the last person on the planet to know about Bitcoin? A year ago it was trading in the $700 range a share. This week it surpassed $14,000 a share. A lot of fortunes were made this year. Mine wasn’t one of them. Then again, a lot of fortunes will be lost, too, when the inevitable fall occurs.
- Don’t know what a Bitcoin is? Neither did I. I looked it up. It appears to be a made up currency that almost nobody accepts but now everybody wants. So it’s essentially Monopoly money. But then again, so is “regular” money. By itself, dollar bills have no value. We’ve just collectively chosen to pretend that these bits of metal and paper are worth something so we’re not exchanging chickens, which used to be a form of currency. I’ve now thoroughly confused you, so my work here is done.
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Andy, check with your local drug enforcement team about bitcoins. Very interesting and scary. I attended 2 eight week sessions with the Jackson Police Dept & Jackson County Sheriff Dept Also, a six week session with the Michigan State Police. Part of the info was on bitcoins and how they are now used in the drug trade to conceal money transactions. I also had no idea what they were until then.
Reading these comments after a few days makes me wonder how most commenters got so far off the subject. But, I should have added in my comment about bitcoins and the sessions with several police agencies, I should have added that the sessions were in Citizen Police Accadamy with each department. Citizens were informed why police do what they do and why they don’t do what many may think that they should do. I would encourage everyone that has a chance to attend one of these to definitely do so! All are free to attend and are 2 hours a night, one night a week for 8 weeks.
Andy still blocks decorated, retired, US Navy officer Dale Harris from making comments on his FB page even though Andy FALSELY claims opposing views are welcome. Andy still has Dale blocked such that Dale can neither comment, nor send a message to Andy, BECAUSE ANDREW HELLER BLOCKS DALE. Can there be any credibility in any conversation when Andy blocks opposing views from decorated veterans?!?!
You decide….. I say NO
I think you should reveal your real name Working Dad. Why should anyone take anything you say seriously? First name and last initial would be acceptable.
Why are you so obsessed Francis? Get over yourself.
You are the one obsessed. Every Heller column is a chorus of “ndy still blocks decorated, retired, US Navy officer Dale Harris from making comments on his FB page even though Andy FALSELY claims opposing views are welcome. Andy still has Dale blocked such that Dale can neither comment, nor send a message to Andy, BECAUSE ANDREW HELLER BLOCKS DALE. ” No that is what I call obsessed!
I blocked Dale Harris long before Andy did because he seems completely unable to have a civil, rational conversation about those differences. The fact that he’s a veteran has no bearing on the issue. It’s his conduct.
I say YES. We cancel each other out.
Not all veterans are angels, especially Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh.
This is a weird obsession. Either you are Dale or you’re friends. Either way – if he behaves like a decent person he’s welcome back. This ain’t a privilege to be on here. I just don’t want him attacking others or putting words in my mouth. You wouldn’t like it. Military veterans wouldn’t like it ( see how dumb that sounds) and I don’t like it. I say enough dumb things on my own.
Working Daddio – Are you actually Dale in real life? How do you know so much about Dale and Andy’s Facebook page? If Dale is as boring and un-original as you are, I would ban him from my own page. I would ban both of you. Decorated Navy veteran, my foot. What medal did you win? Admiral’s Pet?
Jim III, Al Franken resigned today. Quick! Move the goal post again!
I am not going to move any goal posts. The only goal posts that get moved are the ones in your mind.
The only reason that conners and frankin retired/resigned is a calculated move by the democrats getting ready for the 2018 and 2020 elections. By “gently” urging conners and frankin to retire/resign at this time the democrats are going try to claim a higher moral ground by stating that they had 2 sexual predators retire/resign over their actions. They will then claim that the republicans are not nearly as moral as the democrats, because of Judge Roy Moore. IF Moore gets elected he will always those allegations brought up against him. He might be forced to resign. If he does, he comes from a republican leaning state and it has a republican governor, then the governor can replace him with another republican.
This what the democrats have in mind with conners and frankin. MN has a democrat governor he will select a democrat to replace frankin. conners and the democrats are hoping that conners son will be somehow be selected to replace him. If that happens then the democrats have lost nothing. They will still have the same number of seats in CONgress.
As another commentator on another site stated “we need to have the names of all those who used taxpayer money for a hush fund to buy off those that they sexually harassed”.
That would be a good start to clean up CONgress.
“They will then claim that the republicans are not nearly as moral as the democrats”
i will say they are absolutely right if you are still supporting trump and moore.
You are still back pedaling and contradicting what you said yesterday, because you are a liar and a hypocrite.
Sexual harassment claims exposed (pun intended) by brave and powerful women who are influential, dynamic, confident and distinguished have helped earn them the prize of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. Now, if only they could put their heads together and come up with a national movement to help women and girls of all ages to have the courage to come forward with issues of harassment. That would really be worthy of acclaim.
But Time and Newsweek have indeed lost their clout. Oh well.
Oh, and by the way, has anyone noticed the “uniform code” of the gals at Fox News? They all dress in nearly the same style of dress, sleeveless, no two colors the same, still hiked up almost to their thighs, but no flowers or prints or designs; and with the standard spike heels. I wonder who that directive came from.
Who would mandate that these brave, powerful, intelligent, influential women need to dress the same? This issue is far from over.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected, none of these Democrat politicos or donors would have been held accountable for their sexual assaults… Let that sink in…
#MAGA
You mean like how you aren’t holding trump and moore accountable for their sexual assault?
If I understand the motives of conyers and franken, conyers retirement is a now situation, franken’s “resignation” will happen over the next few weeks. From that part of his bye-bye speech it might take months for him to completely resign.
Some suspect that if Judge Roy Moore gets elected to the Senate, franken just might reverse his “resignation” and change his mind. He will claim that because the people of Alabama elected Moore then there is
no need for him to resign. If franken does resign he will have his CONgressional pension to retire on, along with gold plated health care plan paid for by the taxpayers. No taxpayers will be able to afford the kind of health plan that franken will retire with.
Millions wont be able to afford any kind of health care plan when trump and the gop gut ACA
Andy, Kevin Spacey assaulted young men, not women.
Ha, that’s true. Broader point still valid, though. Thanks for catching.
The idea of using the www against Putin’s re-election is profound.
The observation that the Same Old Lions could not even demolish their old stadium is clever.
Shocking Revelation!
Both Working Dad and Andrew Heller tried to touch my nose, back in the 1970s! Both of these males need to repent and resign from everything! They deserve to be thrown into a dungeon forever!
I do not believe we need a pedophile with a stereotype cartoonish Confederate accent, wearing a fakey cowboy hat, in the US Senate. Roy S. Moore. (It is not even a white cowboy hat, for cryin’ out loud!)
Here is what his college friend said about Roy’s attraction to teenage girls:
“Maybe he asked some younger girls out. If you’re from small-town Alabama, you know, that’s not unusual. It’s a place where people got married at fourteen or fifteen back then. In my estimation, his piety might have led him to younger ladies later. He was so earnest, he may have thought younger girls were virginal. That was probably important to him.”
Roy Robella said this, and The New Yorker magazine published it, December 11, 2017.
This may explain Roy Moore, in some way, but it is a major reason NOT to elect him in 2017. Wow! I am from a small town in the North. “Small Town” does NOT excuse ANYTHING! Nobody I ever met ever got married at age 14 or 15. Do they really do that in the South? Wow! Shame!
(And, please note, this post is a white Northern guy writing about a white Southern guy.)
If you google Roy Moore, you will find he is an undistinguished lawyer and a creepy “Professional Christian.” Please do not vote for him. He tries to manipulate you. If you cannot find it in your heart to vote against him, please just stay home, and do not vote.