-Yep so another Summer begins to grow smaller in the rear view and what's that right in front of us? Ah yes, another fun filled, alcohol lubricated, spleen rupturing football season. My favorite time of the year. Like Christmas. Only without Christmas.
-So it's hurricane season which can only mean one thing. Random tool bags from the weather channel will dress up in goretex, stand out in driving rain storms and tell everyone how dangerous it all is. I actually watched as some inbred bunny stood out in the surf as the surge rolled in and knocked her on her ass. Funniest thing was all the effort she put into saving her microphone. What was it going to come out of her paycheck or something? And the hype. OMG. There's this one guy standing at some street corner in some place nobody's ever heard of and he's talking about all the standing water and there's this puddle behind him. Meanwhile Vermont is going through a flood of Biblical proportion and all they call all talk about is the standing water (puddles) in Slapdick NJ.
-You know, Michelle Bachman, as easy as she is on the eyes she sure is skeery.
-Speaking of the media, anybody wonder why we never hear anything about what's going on at Fukushima? It sure ain't because the problems all better now is it. This is truly a sad, sad song. Radiation readings in Tokyo that on occasion exceed those found in the exclusion zone of Chernobyl. You know those pretty azaleas they have growing all over along the streets there? They're dying. Along with all other manner of flora. Fissures in the earth spewing cesium. And still she glows. You know, for all the ham handedness of the Soviet response to the Chernobyl disaster at least they put the friggin thing out. And so now we have a fair percentage of the western peninsula of Japan rendered uninhabitable for man & beast for oh i don't know say 10,000 years or so. Damn shame.
-2012 is just around the corner. Joy. This has the makings of a real barn burner folks. Romney, Bachman, Newt, and what's the guy from Texas? The one that decided to run because God told him to do it. Oh wait, that was Newt. No wait I'm pretty sure it was Michelle. Well you do have Ron Paul although he kind of comes across like Ross Perot without the personality. So what's the over & under on number of days before the most candidate like non-candidate Sarah Palin enters the fray? All for the chance to take the job from the current occupant that looks like he's aged 30 years since taking office. Long live the Republic.
-My plumeria bush is about to bloom. I think. Hopefully. There's always hope.
-My wife just asked me what I had written about her. I told her not a word. I don't know how she puts up with me. Probably my ongoing witty and insightful commentary on the events of the day.
-Happy Birthday Patsy.
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Politics already Doug, is it time to start the debates? right vs left, right vs wrong.. us vs them? You know how that turned out last time we tried it..
Welcome back, Doug! Nice rant
Thanks Dougie
PS, I'm still younger till Friday.
I wasn't being political. At least wasn't trying to be. Remember those days when we'd sit out on the curb in the evenings which was still warm from the sun. We would "discuss" things.
Granted the occasional rabbit punch to the solar plexus was administered in the midst of some "discussions" but I'd like to think we've all evolved since then.
Hey I'm not the one holding or attending caucuses, straw ballots or thousand dollar a plate fund raisers.
Now just as an example had I aimed to be political I would have taken the opportunity to point out the absurd hypocrisy of candidate Bachman. How she loudly decries "Big Government" and "Social Welfare". All while taking thousands of dollars annually in tax payer funded farm subsidies. To say nothing of the tax payer funded Medicare patients that are regularly treated at her husbands clinic.
But I chose not to take that route because I'd like to think that we've evolved.
Speaking of which...hey I know! let's get a thread going about evolution :)
It is nice to be back.
Classic Dougie Style.. bring it on big brother.. where on earth is Rac? If we must go the way of politics, we must have an all out discourse on the state of the Nation as it is currently configured under the present administration. I'll try not to gag on it as the left supports and defends the left. In addition, I will smile all-the-while.
Dave, I'm afraid our troubles run much deeper than the present administration - it took a majority of people (OK, electorates) to elect him after all. That is where the real change must take place. We must convince average Americans that they are truly better off making their own decisions instead of relying on the false sense of security offered by the "comfort" of progressive socialism.
Well you'll get little argument from me that we are in a tenuous position at this moment in time.
I defend neither side because neither is worthy of the effort. What I do find somewhat remarkable is this sentiment held by some that it's all the Obama gang's doing. Or undoing. Whichever. This slide began sometime back. And has been almost unfailingly bungled and mismanaged from both sides of the aisle.
Case in point. The ongoing flood disaster in the Northeast has led to a call for National Guard helicopters to deliver aid & relief. Only problem is most all of the helicopters assigned to the local Guard are already in use. In Iraq.
And now we have the Republican senator from the great state of VA insisting that no federal dollars be spent on disaster relief in any state until spending cuts be made that equal any money spent on relief. Funny how he was singing a different tune when flooding rains from Tropical Storm Gaston six or so years back caused Billions in property losses in his district. No zero sum requirement attached there.
I have said this before & I will say it again. Neither party gives a tinkers damn about the poor or the middle class. They pander to them and play them off of each other to one end only. The gaining & maintaining of power over those whose best interests that they're supposed to represent.
But hey, what the hell do I know.
The bigger and more centralized the government gets, the more we'll see these things that Doug complains about. It is more the size, influence and impact of the federal government - not just the side it happens to lean on.
Before you support giving more power to the federal government, consider how you'd feel if "the other side" had that power.
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