Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
The
Republicans have a wildly unpopular, unstable and untruthful president,
and a Congress that veers between doing nothing and spitting out
vicious bills, while the Democratic base is on fire and appalled
millennials are racing away from you. Yet Democrats are stuck in loser
gear.
i can't wait to see the new Alison Bard Burnett CD/DVD.
Alison Bard Burnett was born today 97 years ago.
Alison Bard Burnett born June 25, 1920 at the family home in Laurelhurst, Washington and passed away December 23rd 2009 at Vashon Community Care Center where she had resided for the past four years.
Alison loved to entertain, was a passionate gardener, fabulous cook, talented decorator, and a gifted writer. She loved music, especially jazz, and was a wonderful dancer. She loved dogs and was a fierce champion of fairness. She will be best remembered for her warmth, generosity and infectious laughter.
We can read this in Alison Bard Burnett's obituary.
Alison Bard Burnett was a gifted writer and storyteller.
Alison Bard Burnett wanted to write her autobiography. It's not easy at all to do this if you have two worldfamous sisters, authors Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard.
We all know Alison Bard Burnett never wrote her book but something happened.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of the Betty MacDonald Biography and winner of first Betty MacDonald Memorial Award, interviewed Alison Bard Burnett several times in Seattle in 1996.
Years later Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund and other Betty MacDonald Fans heard of Wolfgang Hampel's interviews and eventually these Betty MacDonald treasure items had been published on CD and DVD.
More Wolfgang Hampel interviews will follow.
Thanks a Million dear Linde Lund and your Betty MacDonald Fan Club Team for doing this!
We guess Alison Bard Burnett would be very surprised about this but you are delighted if you listen to her golden Bard Memories about her father Darsie Bard, who died 6 months before she was born. Alison Bard Burnett's magical stories about her mother Sydney Bard, grandmother Gammy, sister Betty MacDonald, Betty's husbands Robert Eugene Heskett and Donald MacDonald, Betty's daughters Anne and Joan, sister Mary Bard and her husband Dr. Clyde Jensen,. brother Cleve Bard, adopted sister Madge Baldwin, Betty MacDonald's friend Monica Sone, the 'Kettle' family, Nancy and Plum and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle are unique.
The favourite Alison Bard Burnett memories are about her sister Dede whose real name was Dorothea Goldsmith and her very good friend Mike Gordon who felt in love with Betty.
Especially touching are Alison Bard Burnett's memories of family life in Laurelhurst, Chimacum, the University District in Seattle, on Vashon Island and in Carmel Valley.
It is moving to see Betty MacDonald's sister Alison Bard Burnett visiting the houses in the University District and Laurelhurst, where she was born. Alison visited it with Wolfgang Hampel. She saw it again for the first time after the Bard family left it. A very special moment!
As other Betty MacDonald and Alison Bard Burnett fans mentioned:
Betty MacDonald wasn't crazy about Sport.
Betty MacDonald's very witty sister Alison Bard Burnett was the opposite. She loved it.
I have to laugh tears about Betty MacDonald's very witty sister Alison Bard Burnett describing the behaviour of men in her interviews with Wolfgang Hampel. This is so real and funny.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of the Betty MacDonald Biography and winner of the first Betty MacDonald Memorial Award founded Betty MacDonald Fan Club and Society in 1983.
That's what Wolfgang Hampel wrote about his experiences with unique Alison Bard Burnett.
Alison Bard Burnett (June 25, 1920 - December 23, 2009)
I met Alison Bard Burnett in Seattle and we had such a great time. She told the most interesting and very funny treasure stories about her family especially her famous sisters Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard.
We visited all the places, the house in the University District, Roosevelt High School and the house in Laurelhurst where Alison was born 6 months after her father Darsie Bard died.
I won't ever forget it because it was such a wonderful experience to meet this great lady! How we drove with Alison's VW through Seattle. She was full of life and so very, very witty!
Thanks A Million dear Alison! You are always in my heart!!
All my love to you and your wonderful family!
Wolfgang Hampel
As Wolfgang Hampel wrote, Alison Bard Burnett was full of life and so very, very witty.
Although Alison Bard Burnett never wrote a book of her own she is as popular now as her sisters Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard.
Alison Bard Burnett's gift as a storyteller delights her fans in 40 countries.
Alison Bard Burnett is word famous and in our hearts forever!
CD and DVD interviews are different ones.
New Betty MacDonald documentary will be very interesting with many new interviews.
Alison Bard Burnett and other Betty MacDonald fan club honor members will be included in Wolfgang Hampel's new project Vita Magica.
Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli is so very busy now because of his private and many complicated political affairs
Mr. Tigerli is a winner and we know the winner takes it all.
Mount Rainier National Park is a magical place.
Yours,
Vera
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WASHINGTON
— YOU know who is really sick and tired of Donald Trump winning, to the
point where they beg, “Please, Mr. President, sir, it’s too much”?
Democrats.
The
Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly
thought they could win because everyone they hang with hates Trump.
If
Trump is the Antichrist, as they believe, then Georgia was going to be a
cakewalk, and Nancy Pelosi was going to be installed as speaker before
the midterms by acclamation. But it turned into another soul-sucking
disappointment.
“It’s
Trump four and us zero,” says the Democratic congressman Tim Ryan of
Ohio. “I don’t want to admit that. When it comes out of my mouth, it
bothers me. But Trump does robo calls. He tweets. He talks about the
races. He motivates his base, and he moves the needle, and that’s a
problem for us. Guys, we’re still doing something wrong here because a)
he’s president and b) we’re still losing to his candidates.”
The
43-year-old Ryan, who failed to unseat Pelosi as House minority leader
last year, says that the Democrats’ brand is toxic, and in some places
worse than Trump’s. Which is beyond pathetic.
The
Republicans have a wildly unpopular, unstable and untruthful president,
and a Congress that veers between doing nothing and spitting out
vicious bills, while the Democratic base is on fire and appalled
millennials are racing away from Trump. Yet Democrats are stuck in loser
gear.
Trump’s
fatal flaw is that he cannot drag himself away from the mirror. But
Democrats cannot bear to look in the mirror and admit what is wrong.
“We
congenitally believe that our motives are pure and our goals are
right,” Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, told me. “Therefore, we
should win by default.” But, he added dryly: “You’ve got to run a good
campaign. In elections, politics matter. Oooh, what a surprise.”
As Ryan sighs: “If you don’t win, you don’t have power, and you can’t help on any of these issues we care about.”
Democrats
cling to an idyllic version of a new progressive America where everyone
tools around in electric cars, serenely uses gender-neutral bathrooms
and happily searches the web for the best Obamacare options. In the
Democrats’ vision, people are doing great and getting along. It is the
opposite of Trump’s dark diorama of carnage and dystopia — but just as
false a picture of America.
With
Jon Ossoff, as with Hillary Clinton, the game plan was surfing contempt
for Trump and counting on the elusive Obama coalition. Heavy Hollywood
involvement is not necessarily a positive in Georgia, though. Alyssa
Milano drove voters to the polls but couldn’t bewitch the Republicans.
And not living in the district is bad anywhere.
Democrats
are going to have to come up with something for people to be for,
rather than just counting on Trump to implode. (Which he will.) The
party still seems flummoxed that there are big swaths of the country
where Democrats once roamed that now regard the Democratic brand as
garbage and its long-in-the-tooth leadership as overstaying its welcome.
The vibe is suffocating. Where’s the fresh talent?
In
a new piece in The Atlantic, Emanuel and Bruce Reed — who engineered
their party’s last takeover of Congress in 2006, the first since 1994 —
argue that Democrats need to channel their anger and make 2018 a
referendum on Trump’s record, not his impeachment.
In
dwindling swing districts, Emanuel told me, Democrats need to choose
candidates who are pro-middle class, not merely pro-poor.
They
can’t just waltz in and win seats held by Republicans. And they can’t
go full Bernie. They have to drum up suburban candidates who reflect
their districts, Emanuel says, noting that they wrenched back control of
Congress by recruiting a football player in North Carolina, an Iraq
veteran in Pennsylvania and a sheriff in Indiana.
It’s
shocking that Hillary couldn’t be bothered to come up with an economic
message or any rationale other than “It’s My Turn.” “Hillary never got a
real message out,” Michael Bloomberg, who eviscerated Trump at
Hillary’s convention, told Anderson Cooper. “It was ‘Don’t vote for that
guy’ and the gender issue. Whereas Donald had us saying ‘Make America
Great Again.’ ”
Ryan
says Democrats need to stop microtargeting. “They talked to a black
person about voting rights, a brown person about immigration, a gay
about gay rights, a woman about choice and on and on, slicing up the
electorate,” he said. “But they forgot that first and foremost, people
have to pay their mortgages and get affordable health care.”
He
also urged his fellow Democrats to stop obsessing about Trump and
Russia and start obsessing on globalization, automation and wage
stagnation.
“The
crazy thing is that there’s a great opportunity here, because neither
party has figured out how to thrive in the new economy,” he said.
Carrier
and Boeing, where Trump visited to boast about saving jobs, announced
layoffs last week, and Ford is shifting some production to China. And
news flash for Donald: King Coal has been dethroned.
“Trump
leveraged his wealth to convince working-class people that he could
deal with these changes,” Ryan said. “But just saying, ‘The Chinese rent
from me,’ doesn’t mean he’s figured this stuff out.”
Trump may be nuts enough to blow up the world. But the Democrats are nuts if they think his crazy is enough to save them.
