Clown Car

     The republican clown Volkswagen is parked in South Carolina tonight.  Don't know yet how many players we will see tonight and how many might have fallen off on the way over.
     Turns out only Rand Paul figured out that keeping up with this bunch of losers and used his demotion to the Santorum forum to save face, stay home and quit wasting billionaire's money  Without realizing it, Rand just proved himself more intelligent than the rest of the field.  The rest stayed to make fools of themselves for the next hour or two.  It started at 8:00 PM.  How long it will run I don't know because I realized I was wasting time I could use to watch my lawn grass grow or watch the traffic light change colors so often on the street corner.  Both more edifying than watching a convention of Pinocchio's competing to prove they can grow the longest nose at the  party.
     If you were able to stomach all the misinformation, errors and outright bald faced lies to make it to the closing bell, you have earned my heartfelt admiration.   

Coming of Age

      I've been reading about coming of age rituals in the world.  I notice in third world countries, such rituals nearly always involve pain and mutilation of body parts with a lot of blood and scarification.  Circumcision is common but uncommonly performed on adolescent boys instead of infants.  Very painful.  Especially so if performed with a ceremonial dull knife.  I never understood the biblical god's obsession with penises and foreskins.  Did he feel like it was a mistake to construct them together.  If it takes losing mine to prove my manhood, I'll have to pass.  I'll just have to live with Arnold's judgement of being a girly-man.
      When a male Jewish boy turns 13 he is eligible for Bar Mitzva in which he is formally inducted into manhood after which he can read from the Torah at synagogue services or become one of the participants in any ritual or service requiring a certain number of men.  Probably the most painful thing about it is learning to read and speak Hebrew.  The best thing is at the reception when relatives bring gifts like savings bonds and envelopes stuffed with money in the higher denominations,
     In rural Texas where I grew up there is one sure signal that boyhood is over and the fact of his majority is reached and recognized by his father.  Whenever there was an event involving a number of females, the men would go in a circle behind the barn or some other secluded spot.  Someone invariably produced a bottle of whiskey and someone else a bottle of seven-up for a chaser.  I was in college before learning you could mix the whiskey and chaser together and get a smoother drink. The two libations would pass around the circle.  After my dad drank, he handed them to me instead of reaching  over me to pass the bottles on.  It was a silent signal to me and all the others I was now a man.  I will never forget the taste that burned my throat so bad, tears leaked from both my eyes and I was so grateful for the chaser and so grateful that I didn't throw up.  That was coming of age in small town Texas.     

Repeat 7/3/2015

     With the new surge in the polls today by Sanders over Clinton.  I feel this post in July is especially apropos.  I re-give you:


      Poor Hillary

The poor woman just can't win.  Evidently she was born under the wrong sign or date or something.  She had the democratic nomination all wrapped up in 2008.  Until Obama came from nowhere and snatched it away,  Last week, she had the democrat nomination in the bag until Bernie Sanders popped up with the answers America seemed to want most.  A lot more than her proposals.  He is honest; his years long record on votes in the senate is spotless with his support of the people over big money.  Not even Fox News has been able to dream up anything impugning his integrity.  Sooner or later Republicans and conservatives will make up some corruption and make fools of themselves.  He will shoot them down as he's done for over twenty years.  

    Sorry, Mrs. Clinton.  It's just not your time.  Fate seems to have decided otherwise.

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Union State

     Tomorrow night, Obama will make his last State of the Union address to Congress and the Nation.  I pulled up and re-read his first such annual speech in 2009,  In it, he talked about the steps he was taking to dissect and correct the Bush/Cheney/Bevis/Butthead debacle and mess he inherited.  He cited the success of the auto industry bailout and the job creation of the stimulus program.  He never mentioned the opposition from Republicans that were determined to ensure that everything he did would fail.  In spite of their best efforts, Obama managed to achieve one glaring success after another.  A testament to his strength, intelligence, perseverance and ability to get things done.
     In the intervening seven years, he did what practically every president since Franklin Roosevelt has tried and failed,  he revolutionized national healthcare.  That ranks in importance with Social Security and Medicare.  Obama's place in history is secure as one of our best and greatest leaders.
     I believe he is too much of a man to mention tomorrow night the achievements he could have attained if the republicans and conservatives had worked for America with him instead of against him and this country.  They think of themselves as patriots; I think of them as idiots and shout "Raca" to them. 





    

Billions

     At Christmas I received a scratch off card for the lottery.  I won two dollars which I had until today.  When the Powerball lottery went over an estimated billion dollars, I decided it might be propitious to take a chance and blow my two dollars on a ticket.  Since the computer picks win over 75% of the time, I trusted it to my fate. 
     1.3 billion dollars will probably get you an invitation to the president's  White House or one to have dinner with Donald Trump.  I'll have to advise Don I have a standing appointment to get my hair washed whenever he has dinner.  Sorry about that.
     I have to clarify now how they are going to pay me.  Do I have to go somewhere to pick it up or will they bring it to me here?  We need to get that straightened out now instead of waiting until the drawing of my numbers.

Steel Balls

     It's often said of a strong man that he has balls of steel.  Luckily our president has balls of Chromium.  On a Mohs scale, this is the hardest metal, far stronger than steel ranking just below diamond for hardness.  With all the crap he has to deal with, he needs just that.  From the republican castrati whose  scrotums must be stuffed with cotton wool and belly button lint.  They scream and shriek like school girls whenever Obama does what they are afraid to do.  They issue all sorts of threats and dire predictions; none of which actually happen.  As Shakespeare once wrote, it's "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."  Exactly what the United States Congress has become.  So sad.  

Human Life

     How much is one life worth?  Can we even evaluate it in monetary terms?  First we have to define what a human life is.  We have to disregard gender, ethnicity, age definition i.e. from the first breath exiting a vagina to the last breath at the end and including the sum of one's contribution to society at large.
     Our president Obama feels the value is beyond the price of passing more restrictions on the sale and possession of firearms.  Since our republican legislature refuses to do it, Barak is forced to do it himself.  He did so yesterday leading to threats of impeachment and all sorts of dire punishment.  None of this will actually happen.  Republicans are the modern castrati singing in high pitched voices of indignation and impotence against a president with balls of brass.
     We can't stop all violent actions but if we can save even one soul or one grieving family, all of this will be worth it.