silver toned trains and sliver tongued devils

 At first I was just blown away at the train's tapping passage through all those half-filled wine glasses, but as it went on and on past the airport, the mountains, it became clear that this was something more than a bunch of nerds getting together in somebody's basement to do a really big shew.  

So it was all a big promotion, a calculated endeavor that would bring visitors and Euros into the coffers, still it has so much more to it than a celebrity-filled Bud Lite commercial at the Super Bowl, it still was a wonder.  Of course I saw it not long after watching Runaway Train (an excellent movie by the way) and the contrast between the crazed runaway train through Alaska and the cheery little red engine was wonderful.

Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $11 million in restitution for embezzling millions of dollars from four of his clients and obstruction.

You know who is not wonderful, it's this guy.  And I am sharply reminded that at one time about five years ago, I was a little sweet on him.  Availing myself of the search option I see that I mentioned him in eleven posts.

Well I was younger then, a mere child of 72.  And maybe the country was younger then too, imagine, we thought paying off a stripper with campaign money was a big deal.  We thought that 130K was a lot of money.  Oh we were adorable.

Well I thought that in order to stop the creature from the orange lagoon who brushed off the slings and arrows of the dems and all other reasonable people like it was so much dandruff, we needed some new kind of weapon, some non-politician from out of nowhere.

And he was a silver tongued devil, he sliced and diced the awkward arguments of the reps and the deranged rants of the orange devil with ease.  He taunted the beast.  He was brimming with self-confidence, was he The Man?

Apparently not.  I have to say that though I toyed with it I never actually gave him the much prized Uncle Ken endorsement.  I am also glad that I never gave him my credit card number.

Yeah whatever happened to those powerful sanctions that were going to crush Russia and bring Putin crawling to our shoes?  Well more on that in the next post.