Off The Publisher’s Desk – 2-26-2020
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The only winner was Donald Trump!
I watched the entire two hours of the six Democratic Presidential candidates debate in Las Vegas last Wednesday night. The only conclusion that can be said is that President Donald Trump was the winner and he wasn’t even on the stage.
As we choose who is going to be in the White House for the next four years we should look to someone who can get things done. But, those six just tried to out do one another with jabs and accusations with none of them willing to get together and work for the betterment of the country, but then when its all over they will be great buddies.
The Bearded Patriot put the event this way; “The Democrats’ showdown Wednesday night in Las Vegas repeatedly put Bloomberg in his primary rivals’ crosshairs as the surging billionaire made his debate-stage debut. But the conflagration quickly expanded into an all-out melee and easily the most aggressive debate of the nomination season to date, as each of the candidates took sharp and often personal shots at one another.
“The fight started out white-hot when, in her first turn at the microphone, Elizabeth Warren asserted that she would support whoever wins the nomination, but warned that Democrats ‘take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.’
Warren started out with this: “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians, and no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.” And Amy Klobuchar asking Pete Buttigieg if he was calling her “dumb,” and, Bloomberg referring to Bernie Sanders as, “The best known socialist in the country who happens to be a millionaire with three houses.”
Three of the six candidates are United States Senators, and only Buttigieg and Klobuchar are not millionaires. That makes me wonder how someone who has spent the last 29 years in Congress and has a net worth of two million dollars – most of it from a book deal – made that kind of money. I guess that if you get elected to Congress and write a book, you become a millionaire. I am in the wrong occupation!
On another topic, last week I wrote that there is no personal information on a dollar bill, and I was questioned about that. I was making a comparison to using a credit card that contains some of your personal information and if someone gets that info, they can charge items to your card.
A few years back someone tried to make a charge against my credit card. Paula and I along with David and Susan Brathal of Hudson were traveling to Delta, Wisconsin where David and I were going to hunt some birds. We were traveling up Highway 63 about to Drummond early Friday morning, when son, Shawn called to inform me that Hewlett-Packard had called the office to inquire about the laptop computers that I had ordered on my credit card. If you know me, the last thing I would be ordering would be any computers.
Shawn gave me the number to call and the nice fellow that answered the phone call told me they had some reservations about the dozen laptops being sent to Kentucky as I lived in Wisconsin. Someone has my credit card information, I was told, and he suggested that I call my Credit Card Company so that no more charges could be put on my card.
Buy this time I was standing in the parking lot of a bar in Drummond, at the corner of Highway 63 and County N. I called the number on the back of the credit card and a nice lady took my call and I told her what had happened and she quickly said they would cancel the card and issue me a new one which I should get within five to seven days.
After we concluded our business, the gal questioned me, being from Wisconsin, if I knew where Drummond was. I told her I was standing in the parking lot of the bar in Drummond. She said Drummond was her hometown.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton