As promised, our very own Downton Abbey discussion page. I haven’t figured out how to keep it running but I will. I have put my favorite character at center stage. Let’s begin with calling out our favorite characters. Mine is definitely Violet. Et tu?
I am a bad person. I simply could not resist. Once I saw this picture which was taken of the Virginia General Assembly at the Inauguration yesterday, a SNL skit went running through my bad head.
What a horrible picture. I can’t decide if the Virginia General Assembly looked more like Condom Men or if they looked more like a transparent KKK rally with their pointy hoods. At any rate, it is a horrible, unforgivable picture. I am scarred for life just from seeing this photo op which was in the Washington Post.
“Carry me back, to Ole Virginny….das where our assemblymen …” oh, never mind. If there are assembly women in there, I simply cannot tell. No, no women. No woman would come out in public in a condom costume.
Surely there could have been other contingent plans for rain other than matching KKK condom costumes.
Winter is a rough time for animals. Not all will make it through. Buffalo in Yellowstone are no exception. These buffalo are in danger not only of cold and starvation but also of heat. The buffalo sometimes get too close to the geo-thermal activity which can also kill.
In the nine weeks since Election Day, political observers say, Terry McAuliffe (D) has been shockingly gubernatorial.
With moderate Cabinet picks and an ardent courtship of Republicans, the colorful former Democratic National Committee chairman and political fundraiser has projected an image of seriousness, caution and bipartisanship that critics had doubted he could muster.
His deliberate approach appears meant to win over skeptics in both parties who dismissed him as a flamboyant Washington insider with no interest or experience in state politics before his failed bid for governor four years ago. He especially needs to woo Republicans if he wants to get his priorities through a House dominated by the GOP and a Senate where control is in flux.
“I was expecting it was going to be crazy liberals and political hacks,” Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax) said of McAuliffe’s Cabinet appointees. “And I have been very surprised — pleasantly surprised — that he really seems to be appointing people who know what they are doing, who are mainstream, who know how to run a government, who’ve been in the job before. So, pretty impressed.”
Everyone had it all decided last fall. The detractors of Terry McAuliffe had him pegged as a political hack who was partisan and knew nothing about governing. It seems that that assessment was just a little premature, as Virginia’s new governor has proven again and again that the way to move forward is by finding common ground.
Readers should note that not all of the McAuliffe detractors are Republicans. More than a handful are Democrats.
