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I Don’t Tweet,

Posted on February 9, 2017 | 1 comment

Don’t Ask Me…. (think Fred Astaire)

I was confused when the nation chose the current president. And we pay him, right?

He is hired to uphold the nation and take care of the need of its’ residents.

I’m a retired citizen and lifelong resident of the US of A. Why is our president sending out tweets to Nordstrom to carry his daughter’s line of clothing in their stores? It sounds like he is serving one person, not our nation.

Carry my daughter’s clothes at Nordstrom, or else. OK let’s go deport some Mexicans. Tell NBC that SNL is a horrible program because they had Alec Baldwin make fun of you.

Our president is arrogant and thin-skinned. To tweet constantly tells us he’s not minding the store, but using Twitter to gush personal vitriol while we pay him to mind a store that is much bigger that Nordstrom and contains hundreds of millions more voters than his daughter.

Imagine Donald Trump visiting a foreign country. If he got a hangnail there, would he tweet our troops to war against said country? Where’s Dick Cheney when we need him…. someone has to rein him in to concentrate on important matters of state, other than a Mexican fence, deportations and evisceration of personal privacy. ‘Nuff said. Dee

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Twitter

Posted on August 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

I may do Haiku

Tweets are unknown and foreign

No need to Twitter

 

As you’ve seen from over 1,600 posts I’ve expanded my repertoire, editing on the fly and able to do what was not easy in high school or college, writing 500 words in less than 20 minutes. If I could have done that back then I’d have been cum laude and not just Dean’s List.

I also try bad Haiku from time to time. It’s all an exercise in learning and fulfillment. Tweeting is foreign to me and I fear I may come at it with a slow learning curve.

Unfortunately grades in high school and college are based on word counts. Who decided that? So Moses rode down the river in a basket. In high school and college I was never asked to think, so learned that on my own over the years.

Now I can do the word counts in a few moments and express my thoughts. Paring down life and words may be next. Thanks, reader. Dee

p.s. I still have the first 1957 Smith-Corona portable electric typewriter my Aunt gave me for my high school graduation. It was the envy of the dorm pre-computer age. I wrote some good papers on that typewriter.

p.p.s. Not as well as I do now with editing and spell checvkvo

 

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Denial and Weiner

Posted on June 6, 2011 | 2 comments

Um, what I get from this is that Twitter is no different than other social or other media, including blogs or radio or tv interviews, papparazi or leaked information. This promising politician was caught with his pants almost down.

And his downfall, politically and with his wife, is due to te internet. Dear Congressman Weiner: Please look up John Edwards and his current presidential potential. And Weiner didn’t even get to meet the girl(s) or have a baby.”

He says he won’t resign. His constituency will have the last word on that.

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Alpha males, are they? The ones whose wives put them through school then are exchanged for a younger model. That was the old version. Now anyone with internet access can send and receive dirty photos. I don’t care about the congressman because he’s an adult and hopefully the person he sent the crude photo to was over 18. I do care when high school kids don’t care what’s on their myspace, twitter, facebook or other account because they have no other emotional outlet. Hello, that invites pedophiles.

Hey girls, remember journals? Write in one, you may have a book someday. Don’t put anything online that you don’t want others to read now and well into the future. The best friend you hate today may be back tomorrow and you make nice, everything is forgiven and you have this tweet hanging out there saying you hate her.

There is a future, and everything you put on line will be there for everyone to see for eons. Your social networking sites are making sure they have a lifetime of data on you and everything you do, will collate it with how you shop et al to know you more than you mother does.

I do not appreciate Congressman Weiner’s indescretions but believe that’s up to his wife to judge. Right now I just think he’s an idiot for blowing what could have been a great public career. Best wishes for our elected members, Dee

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