… Can you tell I'm still on a high from the Nat's improbable win last night? Isn't it great that the "viejos" finally won! As Barry Svrluga's wrote in the WP today, "there was no doubt, just hope." Please give Howie Hendrick a call and congratulate him on his game changing homerun. He seems like a super nice guy and deserves some recognition…
…Did you really have to say all of that mean stuff about CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson? As he noted, ‘Today, the same police officers, the president criticized for their inability to protect this city, spent all day protecting him." He says that "getting caught up in negativity has just never been something that" he does. I love that!
Our power was out so I wrote my letter on paper and did not consult the news.
…What was your impression of Benedict's President, Dr. Rosalyn Artis? You, two, have a lot in common. She calls herself a tornado….It's unclear how she feels about you, but I'm sure she's happy to see her institution in the national news….
…As I'm sure you know, most of Columbia, SC is unsettled by your visit to Benedict College. … I think they're so disturbed because there are still plenty of folks who carry hate and anger toward the descendants of enslaved people. Folks who have repeatedly desecrated memorials to Emmett Till. So much so that the new memorial that they put up last Saturday in Glendora, MS is bulletproof. I encourage you to apologize for using that word (lynching) so casually.
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…I hear that Roger Penske (RSP) will be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. When I googled "Penske Trump" I expected to find that he was one of you big donors who liked to hobnob at your clubs. Instead I found a 1988 piece from the WP that compared the two of you, noting that you were a "philosopher king" while RSP labored in the shadows. …
…So, as your friend, I have to tell you that I cringe when you talk about being "lynched." Senator Tim Scott can help you understand why that is….
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…I was surprised to see Larry Kudlow(LAK) citing Mark Zandi (MMZ) of Moody Analytics when talking about how great the economy is doing. LAK was talking about 180,000 new jobs as if that was a great accomplishment, but MMZ talks about it as a slowing in hiring as the "trade war takes a toll on the economy." …
…Even your friend, LOG, is unsettled by you. I'm sure you heard that he called you a "handful" and an "equal opportunity abuser of people." He also said that you can be "charming and gracious." He wants to do what he can to help you, but it sounds like he's lost some confidence in you….
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… I've been reading about Adam Schiff (ABS) since he's been put in charge of the impeachment inquiry. Here's what I learned:…He has a wife named, Eve, which means they are a Biblical couple. He likes to call himself, "Congressman for the Stars and Mars." He sounds like a nice guy to me so I wish you'd stop calling him, Shifty Schiff.
Thanks for sending your warm condolences to the Cummings family… I wish you had been kinder to EEJ when he was alive, but I think he will forgive you when you meet again on the other side. That's the kind of guy he was "always ready for reconciliation" so you can look forward to that when the time comes….
I read about your Italian translator making a face when you said that Syria, Turkey and the Kurds have "a lot of sand to play with." Please don't fire her. She just had a momentary lapse. You know how that goes. I wonder if she also made a face when you said that the Kurds were, "no angels." …
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…It IS weird that Prof. Joseph Mifsud has disappeared with the help of the Italian police. Maybe he's afraid that some thugs will kill him for talking to GDP. …
