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Comments: To Barry Gibbs and Ken Haas: I enter the conversation with trepidation, since we've drifted into -- horrors! -- politics, but your posts brought back memories. The Spanish teacher who threw a fit -- as well as textbooks, erasers, papers, etc. -- every day and ended up getting dangled out the window by his ankles was Claude McMullan. He did give Carlos Cruz an extremely rough time; Carlos was a native speaker of Spanish, but had problems reading and writing it, and with grammar. I may have my "senior" -- oops, I mean "Rick Perry" -- moments, but still recall alot of useless trivia, including every address and phone number I ever had.
Comments: FYI ABC fact checking site: http://news.yahoo.com/state-union-fact-checking-president-022136336--abc-news.html
Comments: Make that "LYNELL IS SWELL".
Comments: Obama is a great speaker and that's all he is. No substance, no positive results, only bigger government, playing golf and taking lavish trips on taxpayer dollars. Just like '08, the Republicans have fielded a weak slate of candidates, but anything would be better than Obama. Just after the '08 election, I got a call from the RNC asking for money. "Not until I see that the RNC can field a true conservative candidate". The caller had the audacity to say that if I thought it was so easy to get good candidates "Why don't you run?" Well, that did it as far as the RNC and I were concerned. Maybe it's time to get out those "Lynelle is swell" bumper stickers! I have been sending a little money to Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. Check him out.
Comments: I predict that Donald Trump will come into the race as a spoiler as soon as his Celebrity Apprentice TV show ends in April.
Comments: All smoke and mirrors. No substance. Fact Check reamed the President on many of his claims. And I agree with John-Boy. There are NO viable candidates, including the incumbent.
Comments: I agree with Kathleen and Ginger that Mr. Obama is a brilliant speaker. Where it all comes unraveled is in the execution of his lofty vision for the country. Not likely to happen. Without a Congress that is willing to work together, I see 2012 as largely being a repeat of 2011 - with little, if anything, actually being accomplished. Still, near the end of the year Obama will easily stroll into another 4 years since the GOP seems to be its own worst enemy when it comes to fielding a candidate who can unify the required voters.
Comments: Ginger, I thought the President gave a powerful speech. I just hope he follows through with his proposals. It makes me angry the way some Republicans show such little respect for the President. I really hope the American people get rid of those deadbeats in the next election. I also thought the rebuttal speech was pretty good, although I did not agree with some of his comments.
Comments: All in all, a pretty good speech. 2012 should be an 'interesting year'... I'm with John McCain. I'm really tired of all the debates.. 
Comments: It's at times like this, with the Capitol Building packed full of the Washington elite, that my mind drifts back to Tom Clancy's book Executive Orders. Now I'm not saying.....but it sure would be nice on several levels to start all over again.
Comments: John...you forgot...they get off that Merry-go-Round with lifetime full salary and wonderful health insurance.
Comments: In the Real World, the Supercommittee would have all been canned. Unfortunately for us, D.C. is not the real world.
Comments: I'm hoping the speech will conclude with the President asking each of the members of the "Super Committee" to stand up and be recognized for the swell job they did last Fall of sitting on their hands for three months. Washington has become a circus where the elected few get on the merry-go-round, ride for a few years, stuff their pockets, then get off where they got on. While we, the "sheeple" just continue grazing in a shrinking pasture. Baaa. BAAAAAAAA!!
Comments: And, what about Entitlement Party
Comments: Aside from the fact that Warren Buffet is Jimmy's relative AND he looks disturbingly like my next-door neighbor, you're making me wish I had bought Berkshire Hathaway on its opening day. The State of the Union speech is always upsetting. Our current President has a nice smile, so I wonder what the over and under is for number of times we'll be treated to it. I'm saying ten.
Comments: Charlotte, it is funny how certain phrases ring in your ears. I have the same problem with Mitt and Newt, especially Newt. Newt is a master at using code to refer to minorities. Some examples: "welfare Queen" "food stamp President"... I would just like to say that "all men are created equal" except when it comes to the tax code.
Comments: Oh yes, and speaking of the oil pipeline, I’ve read Warren Buffett’s famously overtaxed secretary will be a guest at the State of the Union address tonight. Maybe we should ask her about the fact that 75 percent of the oil currently shipped by rail out of North Dakota is handled by Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC… which just happens to be a unit of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. What a coincidence huh?!
Comments: John, how many of these do you think we will hear? " Let me be clear" "everyone is entitled to______" "If Congress would just cooperate" "More jobs have been created" "The economy is better" Blah blah blah. Woooweee..I say this.....If the United States does not have a budget then the government can spend and spend and spend, because there is no limit. 4 Trillion? WOW! I don't think we will hear...I am sorry about the $500 million we squandered on the failed Green Company or that the govt regulations will be cut so that our business will come back and not go to China. Or that we will become Energy Independent...etc etc etc.
Comments: 3:00pm ... time for me to go take a little "disco nap" so I can stay up late and watch The State of the Union fictional presentation. I hope the writers come up with some NEW false promises rather than re-stating the same old ones we've heard for the past 12 years. My people tell me Hillary will be wearing red tonight and John Boehner will be the one in the background rolling his eyes every three minutes.
Comments: Oh yeah, Sharon. I remember too..I think it was the other way around...Franklin came after Whitehall....didn't it somebody? Gotta go...I gotta call Ken!
Comments: Ken's phone is gonna be a-jinglin'!
Comments: Too cute, Ken. Charlotte, the book is hard back and it must weigh 20 lbs. In Oak Cliff, I remember our prefix changing from Franklin to Whitehall (or maybe the opposite). I don't remember my cell number and can't figure out how to pull it up, so I keep it written down! I'm about to go high-tech and get a new cell phone, but gosh it's confusing.
Comments: I was at the purse counter at Neimans in NorthPark years ago, about to buy a Coach bag. (This was before Coach's prices went sky high.) Stanley Marcus walked up to the counter, and the employee turned to talk to him. He told her nicely to finish the transaction with me. I think about that incident when I see managers blocking the aisle at Target and Walmart, getting in the way of customers. You know they are important, because they speak very loudly and they point a lot. I've even seen this at Nordstrom's, and it always amazes me. Something else that bugs me at stores: You're standing there, money or credit card in hand, ready to pay for something. The phone rings, and the employee answers it and gets involved in a long chat. I like to shop online!
Comments: I remember my telephone number: Beachwood 4-5789, you can call me up and have a date, any old time. la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ohh baby...... uh...never mind.
Comments: Joan worked at Neimans when she got out of TCU and when we lived in Lakewood we would occasionally see Stanley out walking. He knew everyone that worked at Neimans and he and Joan would talk shop for a while. Those were the good old days.
Comments: Sharon, very interesting about that Directory. Is it hard back? I remember my phone number when we were changed to Drexel and Franklin etc ...mine was FR4-3206. But, I don't remember any others that I had before that. I don't know why that one stuck with me...maybe because it was the one I had the longest and it was the last one before my parents left Oak Cliff??? Dunno
Comments: While at my mom's on Saturday, I picked up an old and very big book that was under an end table. It turned out to be a city directory of Dallas from 1937 sponsored by Perry Motor Co. which became Boedecker-Verner. My Uncle Joe and Aunt Annie Rusek were listed at their address on Alaska and it also gave his occupation as mechanic for Perry Motor Co. They had a five-digit phone number. I can still remember the very first phone number we had (Tennyson 3902) from the early 50's, but can't remember any others except the one I have now. Strange.
Comments: Lynell, I took my information from "Minding the Store" where there were several pics calling her by her nickname ''Billie''. Her maiden name was Mary Cantrell. I thought Stanley didn't like the designs of Frank LLyod Wright and replaced him with architect Roscoe DeWitt, according to an article, I read several years ago. I was surprised when the book didn't mention South Dallas as a beginning address. I know Stanley couldn't live in Highland Park because they didn't allow Jews at the time. So, he lived in Lakewood. He and his first wife were on Nonsuch in 1945, according to the Dallas City Directories. He had the house built in 1935. His second wife, Linda Cumber Robinson, used to drive a yellow VW and her job with Stanley was to organize his library of books and art.
Comments: I may be mistaken on this, but I believe most of the early-day department store owners were Jewish and lived in South Dallas -- the Titches, the Sangers, the Neimans, Kahns, Marcuses, etc. Mr. Stanley's first wife, Mary, died and after several years he married a lady named Linda Cumber. They lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright house on Nonesuch Lane in Lakewood.
Comments: Yes, Pelosi is a joke...oh nevermind, I see that is not what was meant here. haaaaaaaaaaaa! My bad! Those are interesting facts about who lived in Oak Cliff in the day Kathleen. It was a beautiful part of Dallas with all the trees and rolling hills...I suppose it still is. |
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