Not Smart

Wednesday the President took the blame for the beating in the election on Tuesday.   Thursday he packed and split for Asia.  When folks tell you in an election that you aren't getting it, that's not a good time to leave town.

Not Smart II

Friday Nancy Pelosi says she wants to be minority leader.  Having helped sink the Democratic House you would think she would know better.     When your leadership ends in disaster it is not a good time to lobby for the consolation prize. 

Not Smart III?

Fortunately we have run out of Democratic leaders to be Not Smart.   Tomorrow it's the Republican's turn to be Not Smart.

 

    Are you glad the elections are over?  It's like waiting for a war to finally end.

    The Republicans won this time. 

    Tomorrow the real war starts.  The conservative right wing of the Republican Party will be warring with the real conservative Tea Party members who believe they saved the GOP.  The Republican moderates are no longer a problem because they no longer exist.  They've gone elsewhere, didn't vote or won't admit they ever existed.  This war will make the last one seem like a walk in the park.

    As for the Democrats.  It's keep the helmets on and back to the drawing board.

    What it all boils down to is nobody knows what to do to fix anything including the voters.  But if you happen to be inspired enough to have an idea or worse do something...... you are wrong.  The "Republican Party of No" says you're wrong.  The Tea Party lights torches and marches against you .  Independents are bewildered and Democrats head for a bomb shelter. 

    Then there are those who think God will save us.  They're the same ones who also warn that God is going to destroy us first.

    And the latest idea is to elect another Bush to the Presidency in 2012?

    Personally, I think the Almighty is going to sit this one out.  To much work and no return. 

Remember the folks that brought you the last Republican Recession.  "They're back" and planning to take over the government again.  Lucky us, but then it's us that are poised to put 'em in so I guess we deserve what we get.  As for the alternative, the don't ruffle any feathers  "Do-Little" Democrats, don't look to them to discover the backbone they never had to begin with.

If the past is any guide to the future it's the last recession all over again but this time on steroids.  Seeing as how we haven't fixed the problems that got us in the last one like Wall Street greed and money games, mortgages on houses for people who couldn't pay for the attached garage let alone the house, the mega money in politics and the influence of large corporations the next round of financial disasters should not come as any surprise.  

The surprise will be that we have run out of money to buy our way out and China isn't going to loan us more.  They have us where they want us.  In the long run we'll work our way out of it like we always have but it will be no thanks to the clowns that got us in to it "twice" and no help from them either.

With this 2012 thing coming (which when I was in Guatemala last year the Maya said it was a gringo invention) I decided to see what was the safest place in the country to be when whatever it is that is coming........... comes.

There is flooding in Texas and Oklahoma.  Eighty years ago it was a dustbowl.  When Florida is not on fire it needs a hurricane to fill up the swamps but so far no water and when it gets it, too much. California has fires in the mountains, but they always have fires in the mountains, then it rains and the mountains slide to the valleys.  For variety they add in earthquakes.  The deep south is still getting over Katrina and about the time they do another of her relatives will show up on their doorstep.  New England has Nor'easters which usually are the remnants of hurricanes that pummeled the Carolinas just after the blistering heat ruined every southern summer since the last ice age.  Chicago has wind and politicians and the rest of the midwest gets tornadoes. The Pacific Northwest either has volcanoes or is awaiting the next tsunami and the southwest has two climates.  Hot and hotter.  New York City is New York City.

The only safe place in the country seems to be upstate  New York.  Aside from a stray blizzard or two that builds characters the only thing they have to fear is glaciers..... and they're melting.....this week. 

 

Getting ready for the mid term elections?  Know who you're voting for?  Care?

Seems to be the year of the nuts.  Up till now at least the Democrats haven't seemed to know how to do anything without apologizing for it and saying Obama made them do it.  As for the Republicans, they haven't done anything period.

Then there is the Tea Party which seems to be the right wing of the Conservative wing of the Republican Party.  As their political position says, "They are Right on everything".   That's especially true for the things they haven't done yet, considering none of them have ever been elected and haven't done anything , which means they haven't done anything wrong which makes them safe Republicans.

The polls say that the Republican folks that put us into our last Recession are about to recapture the national legislature.  If true, based upon their rhetoric and understanding of the problems they already created once we are about to repeat history and do it one better (or worse).

 

 

The latest from the US wingnuts is the preacher from Florida that's about to burn a pile of  Korans.  Says it's because the Muslims don't see Jesus as their savior.  In his next breath he calls them terrorists.  Then he says he's negotiated a deal with the Muslims not to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City.  They don't know what he is talking about.  In the meantime he is waiting for God to tell him what to do.

Meanwhile the President has weighed in asking him not to do it.  The local Fire Department says he can't because it will create a pollution hazard and after the fact they will have him arrested.  And Christian clerics around the country are begging him to back off.  Muslims around the world meanwhile are watching to see just how goofey we can get before they become crazy too.

Believe it or not I don't invent this stuff.

As for the good reverend, let us hope he gets a call from God in the next few hours and the God that calls is the rational one.

 

 

The President's first big problem is small.  Only six inches of opening in a pipe.  The problem is the other end of the pipe is connected to an oil well a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico and British Petroleum doesn't have a cork.  The President can't do much, even if he could swim, which seems to be what the Republican's were hoping for.  BP seems to be at a loss despite 36,000 suggestions on the Internet  The Navy could nuke it, but somehow that doesn't sound like a good idea....yet.  Soooo....the oil keeps flowing...... to places we don't want it. 

BP says the two relief wells that will be drilled by the end of August may buy some relief.  What do they mean by may and some and what if they are wrong.....again. 

Some say the world will end by a Flood, some say Fire.  Me, I'm betting on Gunk.

Larry King is about to split with wife number "Eight".  Kate Gosselin of "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" has already split with her husband. 

So here we have two celebrities with no ties and something in common.  Namely......."Eight".

That should be enough for the National Inquirer to put the two of them romantically together on the front page.  They'll probably call it "Eight Is Enough".

Then they can spin off more stories on the ex's having Eight girlfriends or boyfriends. 

After a while it all gets to be too much.  But it sells papers and if you can't find a good story, fabricate a bad one.

 

                                                                           

Ever wonder why? 

When people can't think of anything else to talk about.....they always turn to the weather.

It's a thing that we can't control, can't avoid, don't much understand and usually can't predict and it is invariably temperamental and uncooperative.

It comes in a multitude of varieties.  Hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, stagnant, sunny, stormy, good, miserable and drop and cover.  Sometimes simultaneously, at least in New England.

Everybody has an opinion about it and we all know from our own experience that everybody's opinion including our own is about as useful as a legislator.

But that's what makes it so useful as a topic of conversation.  It is a worthless opinion native to all of us and universally used when we don't know what else to say..... because it is safe.  It offends no one.  Doesn't have to agree with anybody and does no harm.  

In other words my opinion and yours on this particular subject is irrelevant.   And if perchance you don't happen to like the weather you'll have to take up your complaint with a higher authority. 

The health care debate seems to be pretty well over.  Now hunting season starts and it's open season on Democrats.

 Some redneck down in Alabama says people all over the country are cleaning their rifles because the are outraged about big government and rampant socialism.  And he's going to join them Thursday just as soon as he has some money when his Social Security check arrives in the mail.

Sarah Palin has 'em in her crosshairs and intends to do something too, right after she sneaks back from getting her health care in Canada.

The Republicans meanwhile have suddenly come up with 44 solutions to the problem of health care that weren't available last week and are outraged (and astonished) that the Democrats have put through a health care reform program without them.  When the Democrats point out that most of the program they passed was based on past Republican ideas that could never get beyond first base when Republicans were in power, dementia sets in.

I can't tell you how well this is going to work, but I can tell you how well yesterday's system didn't.