this was sent to me via email from Diane G. 

I have not deleted one word..directly copied and pasted the entire letter...I will not speak to any of it except for the line "yellowdog granny for you there is no hope but I do love to read about Waco and your grandbabies."..obviously doesn't read it often enough to know I don't write about Waco I write about West...and they are my great granddaughters not my granddaughters..and this I will say..I'm so glad there is no hope for me. I revel in the fact there is no hope for me..I will wear it on a fucking tshirt..there is no hope for me...I will shout it from the treetops..there is no hope for me..thank you Goddess. Because that means I will never find anything that man says as acceptable.I am glad there is no hope for me that I think anyone that says he can grab women by the pussy is ok..that anyone that says Mexicans are rapists..that anyone that says all Muslims should be banned..that puts people in job positions that their only qualification is they donated over a million bucks to him. I will never be ok with him tweeting scary tweets to the leader of a country that is as crazy as he is and they both think it would be cool to start a nuclear war..I'll never be ok with him colluding with the Russians to get elected to the presidency..I can't forgive him or the people that voted for him who don't know anything about the constitution and the laws of our country..and if you are tired of reading about politics on our blog..hit the road jack..I will not insult you here...and will not allow anyone of my readers to insult you or call you names..they don't do that here even without me asking them not to..I have some very smart and very loyal readers ..they knew what they were getting when they came here the first time.yellowdog granny should have been the first clue.. so you should have known what you were getting when you came here..and as for losing readers? To the best of my knowledge..I haven't lost any..actually have gained more..so I'm sorry your unhappy with what you find here..so I suggest..you don't come here any more..cause sweetie...I ain't going to stop..not until that man is out of the white house..have a good day and Goddess bless you..ydg the one with no hope..snort*

So tired of reading politics on  your blogs.  Read this and maybe you will understand “the rest of us” who voted the man into office.  No side is correct; there must be give and take but to be honest with you guys, you have no give...daily bashing gets to be repetitive and also boring after awhile.  And that is why  you are losing readers.  Karen, I come to your blog to read about what is happening around the homestead.  If I want to read about politics I will go to a news site.  Yellow Dog Granny...for you there is no hope but I do love to read about Waco and your grandbabies. 

So please do not take this wrong.  I was born into a Democratic family but when I was old enough I made my own choices and decisions.  That is what America is about:  choices and decisions.  But when we make a choice we do not expect or want to be lambasted for it.  Political humor is no longer funny.  Chelsea Handler is no longer funny.  SNL is no longer funny.  Anti-Trump and Trump haters are no longer funny. Most of Hollywood are no longer funny.  Doubly so for Robert DeNiro, Debra Messing, and on and on.   It hurts me when Americans act so childish that they have to lash out with vulgarities like they are currently doing if they don’t get their way.  I am using this venue to “talk” to you because when I left nice messages on your blogs some of your other readers took me to the back of the barn and whipped me something terrible.  I cringed, deleted my comment(s) and I crept away quietly.  But I came back later to see if things had changed.  They haven’t.

So now I suppose you will be all uppity and call me all kinds of names.  That’s okay, I am very used to it, so have at it.

DIANE G

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From: JENNIFER CARDINALE

Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:38 PM

To: Lisa Sarli ; Luanne Spinelli ; Rob Thompson

Subject: Fw: Fwd: Re: : Trump - INTERESTING READ -

On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:15 AM, "dfkciv@aol.com" <dfkciv@aol.com> wrote:

Interesting indeed

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Very interesting read..............passing it on..........................

ROSE

Received from a High School Friend,

It truly makes you think, why so many Democrats crossed the line and are now INDEPENDENTS.

F

-----Original Message-----

Below is the best commentary I have seen on this President.

David

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Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore,
CA.. He ran on the Democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never
vote for a Republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the
following.

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Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me
if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t
think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity.  There could not have been a
man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous
lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who
so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt
Romney?

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing
by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for
the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those
of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack
Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to
ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.

I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans
in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.

I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to
destroy your political opponents and any dissent.

Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least
bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the
Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is
held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve
fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day
one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side
fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who
stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity,
collegiality and propriety.

With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s
first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the
most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors.

Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen
him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.

Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted
Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln
rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this might have
seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal
rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five
decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton
standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s
shouting, “You magnificent bastard, I read your book!”

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only
is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.

That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the
Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire
Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It
is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our
book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky
dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing
exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.

First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that
they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60
years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet
Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson,
Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described
as “the most powerful weapon of all.”

Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable
position.  They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of
herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and
begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on
their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria
and demagoguery.

The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start
honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party
they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read propaganda) that
keeps the Left alive.

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported
then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid
Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the
true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.

Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama
administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political
opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about
the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s
cover-up

So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish
we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified”
and “proper”?   Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And
it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past
50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be
vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t
spare this man. He fights for America!