A Mockery of a Mockery

At first I was appalled. Donald Trump's entry into the presidential race - truly a mockery.  But isn't mainstream politics and the entire process that grinds, drives and spits out our presidential candidates already a mockery?

Oh watch the republican "leadership" squirm. The political pundits stammer and stomp. Trump's entry and early success truly a mockery of a mockery - and they know it. 

Hurray for citizens united. Hurray for the big buck business of electing our "leaders".  Hurray for the endless banter of pundits and the 24/7 news cycle making a buck while turning it all into a stage for the inane, insane, and the extreme. Hurray for Donald Trump for showing us just how ridiculous it has all become. 

Hats off Mr Trump. I have, thanks to you, now finally arrived at the point of saying to our entire modern day electoral mess of a process - you're fired. 

Racist Nonsense and other Fun Facts

Asked a trivia question the other day.
Who discovered Hawaii?
So apparently it wasn't the Hawaiians
It was Captain Cook.
Voyagers from the Marquesas Islands to Hawaii some 1300 years before Cook don't count

They're still teaching this nonsense in schools

Your Greatest Love

He taught me how to love a woman
as he has loved you all these years
Seven decades of devotion, near unconditional love and tenderness
He worships you, admires you, and now finally cannot live without you

He approaches the end of his days 

feeble, nearly blind, deaf, and unable to rise

One thing still sure
His love for you strong, unwavering, constant through it all

So much of his care now up to you

try to not regard him a burden, a yoke

Ruining these last years
Honor him, honor all these years, honor this, your greatest love

Help him to his last days with tenderness, with grace
Do not struggle against it 

Embrace it

For soon a lifetime of love will finally slip away, forever

Rock him gently, soft kisses, patience, kindness
allow all the years of love, to flow, back to him
Through you 

It can only set you both, finally, free

Evil, Greed, and Sociopathy

Modern warfare exists for three basic reasons:

1. To repair, albeit temporarily, broken economies. 
2. To consolidate power.
3. To transfer wealth on a huge scale from the masses to the richest 1%.

Using fear, paranoia, and propaganda, all of which are draped in the flag, the people are manipulated to blood lust and war by the people in power who think war beneficial, to them.

Sadly, so easily done as regards war. 

To do so - the height of evil, greed, and sociopathy.

Boehner's Mandate

John Boehner has pointed to the recent congressional election results as some sort of mandate to President Obama that business as usual from him is not what the American people want.

I have very little respect for Boehner, his intellect, and I always know when he lies - his mouth is open. But even John Boehner knows what the real message of the last election was. It swung republican and extreme right only because most Americans didn't bother to vote. Disgusted with Boehner and his congressional colleagues - both republican and democrat, they just didn't bother. Reflective of their apathy, utter disgust, and lack of faith in congress and in our system of goverment, this last election cycle saw the worst voter turnout since 1942 - save for the fanatical right.

Of course Boehner knows this. Prior to the election he was all to aware of congress's 13% approval rating - and could of cared less. If he cared he'd have interpreted the approval rating and now the abysmal voter turnout as a mandate to congress. He doesn't - his political survival all that matters - after sating his greed, lust for power, and maintaining his staus quo.

Chritsy's Ebola Choas - A Primer for the Oval Office

Maine nurse Kaci Hickox observed the same isolation precautions when caring for Ebola patients in West Africa as those recommended by the CDC and as followed in the US. One could make an argument that in fact health care workers there are better at it than in the US given the amount of practice they have had. Furthermore the CDC has made it clear that Ebola patients are not contagious until symtopmatic, and do not recommmend blanket quarrantine for those who have cared for Ebola patients. What then is Govenor Christy's rationale for doing just that? Is it as simple as fear, arrogance, ignorance and bigotery? 'Clearly West Africa cant do anything right, thank god I - Govenor Chris Chrity - am here to save the people and set the CDC right'.

I'd say if west Africa is a place that cant do anything right then perhaps Gov Chritsy shoud move there - he'd fit right in. I'd say that save for the fact I could not wish such a fate on any people - not even those in New Jersey.

If its not bigotry and fear driving Christy's decsions then by logical extension he simply has no choice but to put all health care workers who have cared for Ebola patients into 21 day quarantine - including those in the US. Or maybe he could just shut up and let the CDC - the people who know what they are talking about - lead us through this crisis.

My Boat

Im a neophyte but already know shell take care of me. And if not - it will be a wondrous death

She’s alive with a quiet, deep, ancient presence - thousands of years in the making, beautiful

She'll take me - anywhere, everywhere

She brings me to my knees - physically, emotionally, redefining my very life, while exposing who I really am

a small price to pay for any great love