@spendius,
spendius wrote:Quote:I attended Ronald Reagan' s Inaugural Ball in January.
If I was to speculate on that I might say that from the moment of receiving the invitation, before which the fond and usually forlorn hopes, up to the patting down at the gig entrance, your mind was preoccupied with the thought that you were going to Ronald Reagan' s Inaugural Ball because it proved you were approved of by the vetting staff unlike us scumbags who didn't get an invitation. During the ball the same sort of considerations would have applied as you tugged on the hem of power as it whisked by with its hoped for favours.
The form may have changed since the days of the eastern potentates but the substance is still the same.
The radiance from the sun of power has a magical influence
on those on whom it shines.
A profoundly religious effect.
[After we won the election for Governor of NY in 1994,
we continued working in the office in December.
A Christmas tree was set up, in due course.
Someone got the idea to put a picture of the Governor
on the pinnacle of the tree; it became a Pataki tree.]
And again, I might suggest, that since the great day you have laid in ambush in your social intercourse for the cue to inform those you are in conversation with that you attended Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Ball so they can be informed what scumbags they are without you having to baldly blurt it out.
One supposes one is supposed to be grateful to be in cyber conversation
with someone who attended Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Ball
and I assuredly am. In fact I am grateful to be allowed to express my gratitude.
[U r most welcome, Spendius. If u kneel, I will CONSIDER cyber knighting u.]
Are you the same person now Dave that you were in 1981 when you were an extra in a TV video-bite show. And one who could be counted on to not behave as some of the guests likely did in the 1881 Inaugural Ball which took place, as you probably know, before TV video-bites were invented and before we men were rounded up, stabled and set to our tasks in the service of the great Lady whose symbolic representation in stone stands on Ellis Island to welcome the world's lost to the Hudson River mouth. A gift from France.
It surprizes me that u choose to take it personally,
altho I have seen that happen b4 (tho very seldom).
It struck me as odd -- blew my mind a little-- some years ago,
when someone I know, in a spirit of amusement, was throwing up
coins that fell in the grass for children at a convention in a summer resort:
antique dimes, quarters, Morgan silver $$ from the 1800s and
$10 Gold pieces.
I heard a guy, middled aged stranger to the proceedings,
among the observers thereof, say: "he 's doing it to make me look bad."
That guy was not even
remotely involved,
by any stretch of the imagination, nor had he ever been,
but he believed that he was made to look bad among the crowd
by not doing likewise with coins of his own.
At the Inaugural Ball,
NO ONE accused Spendius of being a scumbag,
nor was that question addressed to the President.
I also attended the Inauguration of Richard Nixon in January of 1969,
at which
every attender
SIMULTANEOUSLY did not accuse Spendius
of being a scumbag.
I attended each of those Inaugurations, in a spirit of the rejection
of liberalism and celebrating that fact.
(U also get to see friends who u have not seen for years; its fun.)
However, I was not present at the Crowning of your Queen,
so u r ahead of me there, Spendius.
