I have been loving reading and watching about these women who were born before women had the right to vote. They inspire me and are great representatives of the oldest generation of Americans. Here via CNN on You Tube:
“Jerry Emmett was born six years before women had the right to vote. Today she’s 102 years old and is urging everyone to get to the polls.” (CNN)
Next Via WSB-TV Georgia, “98-year-old Faye Butler, who was born before women had the right to vote, voted for her first female president.”
And again from CNN via You Tube “She was born before women had the right to cast a ballot so when early voting opened in Iowa, 103-year-old Ruline Steininger was one of the first in line.”
These stories uplift my spirits after all the negative news lately.
There is “high jingo,”as Harry Bosch would say, involved in the Clinton investigations by the FBI. Something fishy in their culture if we are to believe some of the stories coming out about about agents with a big hard on for Hilary Clinton. I am not talking about sex. It bothers me because politics is not supposed to be involved in police investigations but like Harry said about the LAPD in his story there seems to be “high jingo” here.
Another interesting aspect is the McGuffin plot device of the “emails.” This theory was advanced by Neal Gabler, Alfred Hitchcock explains James Comey, the Media and 2016’s ‘McGuffin’….that the emails are a McGuffin, a plot device, objects to build a whole controversy around, that are virtually without any real meaning. Per Gabler:
“This has been true of the Clinton emails since the beginning. It was always something of a hoax — a new chapter for a hungry media juicing its audience. Not one in a hundred voters can tell you the awful crime Clinton was supposed to have committed or why it matters. Not one in a hundred — and I would include journalists — have any idea of what really went down with these emails, as I discussed in an earlier post that highlighted the one reporter, Garrett M. Graff of Politico, who actually did something it appears no other reporter thought of doing: read the FBI’s summary account of the investigation.”
I am always disappointed and disillusioned when I read about “high jingo” influencing justice and the truth in fictional stories and real life. And I really hate the state of much of the media which satisfies itself by creating scandal where there is none. When it uses McGuffins and tabloid journalism instead of working at honest reporting.
This post is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt for today is “novel.” Featured Image is “At Breakfast” by Laurits Andersen Ring. I am usually perusing the news nowadays on the internet every morning instead of in a paper. It wasn’t that long ago when we enjoyed reading the paper.
Spotted this rockin’ grandma on Senior Planet. She has some good advice for us all.
But my one liner is from David Horsey of the LA Times:
“It is not as if the 2016 presidential election campaign needed a single plot twist more to make it the most bizarre series of political events since Caligula tried to appoint his horse as consul of Rome.”
He is referring to the latest revelations from James Comey about emails found on Anthony Weiner’s computer. And how it has disrupted the last week before the election. I say Mema is right. We need to be sure to vote!
I am so sick of hearing about Hilary Clinton’s emails and what is or is not in them. What is wrong with some of the Republicans in Congress with their endless investigations? And what is with James Comey announcing, on the eve of our Presidential election, that he is reviewing more emails? And what is with the Russian government hacking into emails and trying to disrupt our election? Maybe it’s time that communicating by email is out.
I discovered a great website called, I Waited 96 Years!, which features women, who are voting this year, who were born before women had the right to vote. I love reading these women’s posts about how they feel about voting for the first woman, to be nominated by a major party, for President. I wish I was able to directly reblog them but the best I could do was link to the site.
Image of Women’s Suffrage Parade from US Library of Congress on Wikipedia.
When I was little we looked forward to the original film The Wizard of Oz shown on TV only once a year. My mother told me that in 1939, when the film first debuted, people were awed by the color. It was made more dramatic because the first part of the film is in black and white and it is not in color until Dorothy’s house lands in Oz. Dorothy opens the door to the house and sees, along with all of the viewers, the landscape in vivid colors. Think how amazing that would be to see color in a film for the first time and in that way. I read the original book by L. Frank Baum and many of the books in the Oz series. The word hobnob reminded me of the final speech of the wizard as he climbs into his hot air balloon to travel back to Kansas with Dorothy. I looked it up.
“I, your Wizard per ardua ad alta, am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere. To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother wizards. And I hereby decree that until what time–if any–that I return, the Scarecrow, by virtue of his highly superior brains, shall rule in my stead…assisted by the Tin Man, by virtue of his magnificent heart…and the Lion–by virtue of his courage! Obey them as you would me! And-ah-well, that’s all.”
I love that phrase “per adua ad alta.” I did not study Latin in school, so I had to look it up on Wikipedia. It means “through difficulty to heights” or ” through hardship great heights are reached.” Is he referring to his upcoming journey in the hot air balloon or how he had led the people of Oz through many hardships? There are many good lines in this script. I almost want to read the book again to see how closely it follows.
Another great part is when The Wizard is telling Dorothy how his hot air balloon drifted away from a carnival and he was lost.
Dorothy says, ” Weren’t you afraid?”
The Wizard answers:
“Frightened? You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death—sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified.”
The Wizard was going to take Dorothy back home to Kansas in his hot air balloon but the Tin Man lets go of the rope and the balloon starts to fly away. I was upset when I thought Dorothy was left behind.
It would be nice if we could just click our heels three times and go back to those more innocent times.
The screenplay for The Wizard of Oz (1939) was written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allen Woolf. Film clip via Charles Cairnes on You Tube. Featured Image of Ruby Slippers by Insomnia Cured Now on Flickr.
This post is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G. Hill. The prompt for today is “ho,” use a word with the letters -ho.
I am out of town this weekend visiting my daughter. Right now I am typing on her MACBook and I am not used to MACs. So that’s my excuse and I’m stickin’ with it. We saw a great movie last night called Queen of Katwe. It has been wonderful spending time with my daughter and we are catching up on a lot of conversation.
I love movies and spend a lot of time watching them for entertainment and relaxation. Nowadays we can enjoy films in the privacy of our homes and have the option of large flat screen TVs to watch them on. But there is something special about seeing a film at the theater on a movie screen. The size of the picture and sound, the theater seats, and the tasty bags of popcorn, make it a worthwhile experience. I do like watching films at home as well. It is less expensive and you can watch them more than once and at a convenient time if you have a DVD. I prefer watching films over most television shows.
I am so happy that movies were invented and I hope they never go away no matter what type of screen I am watching them on.
This is a short post for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. Image of movie theater via Wikipedia.
I remember staying in a motel, with my future husband, on a road trip where they had these coin operated massaging beds. I swear the label on it said something like “Cyclo Massage” and I tell you it felt more like a jerking earthquake and not too relaxing either. For many years we had our own joke about cyclo massage. I noticed in this image that the company address is in Pismo Beach, Ca. where ” home models are available. ” Be still my heart! Pismo Beach is not too far up the coast from us. Did you know A. Pismo Clam was the name of a character in The Bank Dick, a W.C. Fields film? In that film W.C. Fields’ character is Egbert Souse (pronounced Soo-say).
Just a little trivia inspired by the prompt “coin” for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. Featured image of Massaging Bed control by Kenji Ross on Wikimedia. Vote image by Pixabay.com
For readers in the US, don’t forget to make sure you are registered to vote and please be sure to vote in November!
Featured image from Wikimedia posted by Jim, the Photographer: Great Auk (the “Rivoli Auk”, specimen no. 77), Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 March 18, 2013
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