Nomination

     I read articles on the net about the Sanders campaign that show me how many people completely misunderstand the man, his ideas and his purpose.  Bernie doesn't want wealth or power for himself.  In that respect, he's cast more in the mold of Gandhi or Mandela.  If truth be told, he can do more good for America and it's people by leading his movement from Congress than he could possibly do as president.  And especially with Congress now infested with Republicans.
     I wasn't sure if infested was the right word until I looked it up.  It means the state of being invaded or overrun by pests or parasites.  Turns out it's exactly the correct word in this context.     

Housemates

   As I've mentioned several times I live in a group home populated by a diverse group of people.  I happen to be the oldest person here and also the only individual with a physical disability rather than a mental disorder of some kind.  I finally realized that this group is actually a cross section of Republican, tea-party conservative morons.  As I watch election returns from five states voting today, I am more convinced than ever I need only listen to the people around me and have no need of polls to tell me all I need to know of the American electorate.  I remember P. T. Barnum's sign "this way to the egress" to get people to leave sending crowds to see the "egress"  That funny story went flat in our living area since not a single person knew that egress was a synonym for exit,  Its time for the elections to close so I will now egress.

Word Fun

   For the last several days, every morning a person keeps trying to ingratiate himself to servers by offering all sorts of help or offering to fix a cup of coffee for them.  If this person was normally a nice generous individual, I would think nothing of it but the truth is he is probably the stingiest and most narcissistic person living here.  So whenever I hear his offer, I say "sycophant" to no one in particular.  The fun I have is in the fact he has no idea what the word means and is too arrogant to admit his linguistic ignorance and try to find out.   








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Revolution

   Bernie Sanders has already won a much bigger prize than a presidential nomination.  He and his ideas have won the support of his political rival.  I have watched Hillary Clinton almost imperceptibly change her message to, for want of a better word, Sanderism.  Or Bernism.  For example, she has changed her $12.00 per hour minimum wage to the Bernism call of $15.00 per hour.
   Sanders has created a huge and potent pressure group that will influence politics far longer than any political group winning temporary power.  He has enabled an awareness of the power of people to change the status quo to something more to their benefit.  This fact strikes fear to the heart of present political power structure from top to bottom; from the president down to the local dog catcher;  from the 1% Walton's to the Trump Tower resident.  They have reason to be terribly afraid.   

Republican Bathrooms

  With all the brouhaha over various Republication bathroom laws, one is led to believe that relieving a bladder or colon is tantamount to chancing violating some civil or possibly criminal law. 
   I can't imagine what fevered imagination visualizes what could possibly happen inside that closed door that would turn a person into a raving lunatic.  It isn't Christianity or religion.  It isn't experienced in the rest of the world, only here in America.  And why is it mostly centered on Republican controlled legislatures.?  I've used unisex facilities in various cities here in America that contained numbers of stalls occupied by both genders.  I've never seen a woman walking around naked or a man with his penis hanging out. I would not be averse to seeing unisex, repub men and repub women on restroom signs.        

Very Bad Day

  Yesterday there was nothing I could think of  humorous to write about.  Some days are like that.  Ironically such blah days are usually followed by days that either are so funny or so sad they invoke laughter or tears like the two theatrical masks; a smile and a frown.
   Today is a frown day.  The world lost two beautiful and talented individuals.  I personally lost the emotion each in their own way stirred in my mind's eye.  Prince Nelson Rogers and Joanie Laurer have left us behind and we are poorer as a result.

Blessings

  This morning at the breakfast table, someone sneezed and I immediately heard a chorus of  "bless you" and "God Bless you."  I thought about why.  Why should someone be blessed by others and a deity for clearing an irritant like dust or pollen from one's respiratory system?  Why should a rapid expulsion of air from one's mouth be any more sacred that the rapid expulsion of air from one's anus.  Yet no one blesses a fart.  Or a burp even though I've smelled burps worse than any fart.  I guess it's one of those unexplained religious things I'll never understand.
   I see also that a court judge has decided it's ok to sue a country that allegedly had citizens involved in a horrendous act that occurred 15 years ago. Years ago I read a statement about lawsuits that I find true over and over.  It said "you can sue Safeway over the price of a can of beans if you are willing to pay a lawyer."  As I've written before, because of past rulings, suing Saudi Arabia over 9/11 has less of a chance than suing Boeing.  Probably the Bush/Chaney administration had more responsibility for 9/11 than either Arabia or Boeing.  The only winner here is a law firm, as usual.