Hello 'Pussy', your old friends are back again,
we guess you missed us a lot.
We were on holiday.
It's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
Here is one thing we are reminded of over and over about you: You simply cannot help yourself — especially when cornered. Given one more chance to forcefully condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Va., ended in violence and a counterprotester’s death, you angrily insisted, as you had suggested on Saturday, that both sides were equally to blame — a false equivalency that not just your critics but also an increasing number of your supporters have urged you to abandon.
Should I remain in bed, leave my country or fight against the dragon?
( see also the story by Wolfgang Hampel,
' Betty MacDonald: Nothing more to say ' )
Betty and Don MacDonald in Hollywood
Betty MacDonald fan club fans,
we got two new letters by Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard Jensen and share them in Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter September.
Gwen Grant is a beloved writer.
I was reading her Private! Keep Out! with several of my grandchildren and their friends.
We had tons of fun and laughed and laughed and laughed.
We'll never forget it.
Thanks a Million dear Gwen Grant!
Eartha and i are working on Betty MacDonald's favourite books and authors.
We are going to publish some very interesting documents we got during our Betty MacDonald research regarding this very important subject.
Now very wise Eartha looks at me and seems to say: Anita stop typing, please.
You are always writing very long mails. Don't bore your readers too much.
Eartha is so bright and she is right. I will stop now.
Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli and our 'Italian Betty MacDonald' - Betty MacDonald fan club honor member author and artist Letizia Mancino belong to the most popular Betty MacDonald fan club teams in our history.
Their many devoted fans are fond of Mr. Tigerli's golden memories.
Letizia Mancino's magical Betty MacDonald Gallery is a special gift for our Betty MacDonald fan club fans.
I adore Betty MacDonald's very beautiful Vashon Island.
Now very wise Eartha looks at me and seems to say: Anita stop typing, please.
You are always writing very long mails. Don't bore your readers too much.
Eartha is so bright and she is right. I will stop now.
Wishing you a perfect Wednesday,
Anita and Eartha
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Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
Here
is one thing we are reminded of over and over about President Trump:
The man simply cannot help himself — especially when cornered. Given one
more chance to forcefully condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists
whose rally in Charlottesville, Va., ended in violence and a
counterprotester’s death, Mr. Trump angrily insisted, as he had
suggested on Saturday, that both sides were equally to blame — a false
equivalency that not just his critics but also an increasing number of
his supporters have urged him to abandon.
The
setting was a bizarre and contentious press conference at Trump Tower
in Manhattan that was originally meant to be about infrastructure but
quickly escalated into a shouting match about Charlottesville. Gone was
the measured tone that the president’s aides had talked him into on
Monday, when he said “racism is evil” and appeared to distance himself
from his earlier claims about shared responsibility for the violence. In
its place was a high-decibel defense of his original position, to which
he added the claim that while there were “bad people” and “very fine
people” on both sides, the “very, very violent” protesters on the
“alt-left” who came “charging in without a permit” were at least as
culpable as the neo-Nazi protesters.
In
so doing, Mr. Trump took up many of the talking points of the white
nationalists and far-right activists who have been complaining that the
news media and the political establishment do not pay enough attention
to leftists who call themselves anti-fascists. He also sympathized with
the demonstrators’ demand — the announced reason for their rally — that
Robert E. Lee’s statue in a Charlottesville park be saved. “Is it George
Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?”
However deep their flaws, though, Washington and Jefferson are
memorialized as heroes of American freedom, whereas Lee symbolizes
violent division. It was hardly a surprise, then, that David Duke, the
former Ku Klux Klan leader, tweeted to thank the president for his “honesty & courage” in denouncing “leftist terrorists.”
What
is music to Mr. Duke’s ears is increasingly jarring to many
conservatives, corporate executives and others who would be natural
allies for a Republican president. Several business and labor leaders
resigned from presidential advisory committees on Monday and Tuesday;
Marco Rubio, a Trump-friendly senator, tweeted that the rally organizers
were “100% to blame.”
Quick
and unequivocal in his denunciations of anybody who dares to criticize
him, be it Rosie O’Donnell or the executives leaving his advisory
councils, Mr. Trump has repeatedly pulled his punches when it comes to
white nationalists, alt-right activists and racists. During the
presidential campaign last year, he disavowed Mr. Duke, who supported
his candidacy, only under great pressure from other politicians and
groups like the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr.
Trump’s behavior has become distressingly unsurprising. His default
position is retaliation; when threatened, he succumbs to bombast.
Washington politicians had hoped the recent appointment of John Kelly, a
retired Marine general, as his chief of staff would instill some
discipline in his chaotic administration. With similar hopes, others are
trying to get Mr. Trump to fire his resident provocateur, Stephen
Bannon. But the root of the problem is not the personnel; it is the man
at the top.
