Bobservations

As we were getting ready to go see the doctor about Carlos’ surgery, I ran across an online article reminding me that the _____ Administration is seeking to make it legal for health care professionals to deny services to LGBQ+ Americans because God Hates Fags.

I, naturally, was instantly apprehensive about the doctor who likes to hand out Bibles. Then, at the office I saw that the receptionist is a woman with whom I used to work, and she knew me, and she knew Carlos, so I felt a little better; a little better. When the nurse called Carlos, we went back to the exam room where she took his vitals; as she was taking his blood pressure Carlos said:

“This is my husband, Bob.”

She said, 

“Oh … Hello.”

I said, 

“Uh oh.”

She got very curt and stiff and then … she asked where we lived before Smallville and when we said Miami she began chattering; she asked where I was from originally, and then said she’d just been to San Diego; she talked to Carlos in Spanish, and then laughed when I said I know mostly the profane parts of that language.

She couldn’t have been nicer; as was the doctor, too, and the nurse who came in to schedule the surgery and give us some information. She told Carlos that after the surgery he wasn’t to pick up anything that weighed more than ten pounds for the first several days, and then she said:

“And I always tell people, don’t even vacuum, because that’s really bad.”

Before Carlos could say a word, I said:

“He doesn’t vacuum now.”

And we all, well, except Carlos, laughed. And all was fine in Smallville. Nothing to worry about.

This week  Bernie Sanders said he’ll cut back on the number of campaign events he does after suffering a heart attack.

I wish Bernie no harm, but if campaigning is too hardon his heart what does he think the presidency will do.

Bernie needs to take a seat.

In her first 14 months as Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, AKA Missus Moscow Mitch, met with officials from Kentucky, which her husband represents in the Senate, vastly more often than those from any other state.

Elaine Chao is the swamp. Get her out of politics and send her husband home, too.

I need a laugh, and a wee cry … the flamboyant confetti comedian Rip Taylor died this week at the age of 84. Taylor made over 2,000 appearances on television during his more than 50 years in show business, but his confetti schtick started as an accident, according to Rip:

“I did props and I was ‘The Prop Comedian.’ I was dying like hell on Merv Griffin’s show. The jokes were dumb, and I tore the 5 by 8 cards, threw them up in the air and it became confetti. I knocked over his desk, walked up the aisle, went to Sardi’s and said, ‘Well, that’s the end of my television career.’ I went home that night. Their switchboard had lit up. They said, ‘Get the guy that went crazy!’ And that is how the confetti started.”

Here’s hoping there’s plenty of confetti in heaven.

RIP Rip

Remember that Trey Gowdy said this in 2012:

"The notion that you can withhold information and documents from Congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. Respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles."

And yet in 2019 he’s gonna help _____ withhold information and documents from Congress.

GOP hypocrisy at work, but  then it’s Trey Gowdy so are we really surprised.

Ellen DeGeneres has a new friend, and it’s causing her some angst, because many people, including me, don’t understand it. It seems DeGeneres and George W. Bush were seen hanging out together and people were quick to smack Ellen for it; and she responded:

 “Here’s the thing: I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different, and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s okay.... Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I’m not gonna be friends with them. When I say, ‘Be kind to one another,’ I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. It doesn’t matter.”

Um, Ellen, you’re hanging with a man who ran a presidential campaign on the idea that you, and me, and countless others, should not be allowed to marry; who played up the notion that if you and Portia were allowed to marry it would ruin everything for everyone. And he has never apologized for it.

You can be kind, but you don’t have to be buddies.

Just a thought.

The other day in a Tuesday Thought, I mentioned that Maine Senator Susan Collins called _____’s calls for China to investigate Joe Biden “inappropriate” and how she would quickly change her mind to goose-step along with Hair Furor.

And then she did this: at a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting this week Collins voted against an amendment to stop _____ from raiding funds meant for the military and military families across the world in order to fund his border wall.

Yes, Susan Collins is slapping our military members, and their families, in the face, just to stay in _____’s good graces.

She certainly can bend over, can’t she?

Oh, Nabil Taleb. He’s tall dark and handsome; he’s sultry; he’s tall. He’s French. He looks good briefly, he looks good wet.

What’s not to love?