No Kidding America
I fixed the creaking floor. It’s creaking again.
The navigation system in our expensive new vehicle continues to place the location as off-road and, instead of telling us how to get to where we are going, it keeps trying to tell us how to get back on to the road we are already (and still) on.
There has been another shooting, with deaths, at Ft. Hood.
I heard another white liberal who has spent his life in academia talking about racism again. He had the support of some high-ranking Democratic officials and some black activists who managed to stray out from their mansions in the suburbs. I managed to miss the precise nature of the accusation but they assure me it must be true.
At school my kids are learning all about their country. Correction, all about “their” country. They learn about how we… screwed the Indians; raped the land; polluted the waterways; shut women out from the workplace and voting booth; exploited the working man; planted the seeds for hatred in so very many countries around the world and are now being served our just dessert; were responsible for just about every war in every corner of the world over the last couple of centuries; immorally treated illegal aliens; unethically pursued the sin of the American Dream; allowed and even aided big business to screw over every single person in the country, again and again and again; obstructed a woman’s right to produce, not produce, or un-produce; denied people of the same gender the right to couple, marry, and assume children; withheld the natural right of healthcare by not allowing everyone to insure regardless the risk or even the need; polluted outer space; allowed far too much free speech in the wrong areas; prevented unions from assuming their natural positions as the only allowed owners of labor; shut minorities out from business and school opportunities; unfairly imprisoned people who have broken the legally and properly enacted laws; and enslaved millions of blacks even 171 years after they were declared emancipated by none other than A. Lincoln. I love the look in their eyes when they return home after a hard day learning all of this (and maybe just a bit of math and science)- it just bursts out as “God I am so proud to be an American”. No time for any good stuff even if there was any.
The news media continues to flee from the unfair label of being a “free press”. Their free use of their freedom of speech to deny the same freedom in others is, what, ironic?
It sure seems to cost a lot of money to win a campaign these days. But that’s not buying the office, that’s just the way it is.
When I was a kid youth sports coaches managed to teach a little and expect a lot- win, baby, win. If you weren’t all that good they would cast you off at the end of the season anyway. Nice to see how much that has changed.
I recently tried to tell a kid that he was responsible for his actions. I managed to escape hard time but was placed on probation. One more offense and I’m in deep doo-doo.
The programming on television has never been better. So much great stuff to choose from nowadays. Good people with positive messages doing good things 24/7.
People still complain about the money poured into pro sports and yet still go to the games and still buy all of the endorsed products. And then again complain that the amount of money these guys command is obscene. Hypocritical of course but still good to know those that complain would never take such an offer themselves if they ever got the chance.
Everywhere I turn I encounter good role models for my kids. It is comforting to know that there are still so many famous and popular folks who still step up to the plate on this.
Heard that Gwyneth Paltrow (or however the hell you spell her name- ain’t gonna look it up) thinks she has it much worse than the average working mother. Wonder what her salary is; wonder if she cleans her own house; wonder if she washes her own car(s); wonder if she has a nanny (does she have kids?); wonder if she writes her own checks at the end of the month when the bills come due and it’s time to make meager ends meet. I’m sure that none of us would want to be her.
White people are the only ones who should ever feel guilty about anything…ever. Correction, mainly white males. Correction, mainly white conservative males. Correction, mainly white conservative males who are married to a woman. Correction, mainly white conservative males who are married to a woman and dare to have more than one slave-owning, gay-bashing, woman-hating, immigrant-fencing, tree-cutting, job-producing, free-market-promoting, Constitution-supporting, air-polluting, responsibility-bearing, victim-causing, global-warming, fossil-fuel-consuming, income-tax-paying, SUV-driving, nice-house-owning, anti-union, capitalistic, property-tax-paying, personal-freedom-loving, non-socialist, light-skinned, home-grown, home-schooled, fascist, charity-giving, bratty little American kid. God forbid it is another male and, worse still, possibly a Republican. Oh the shame.
Do the celebrities who have made a ton of money off of the problems we face think that we don’t see they will lose their allure if ever things got better? I’m not sure that some of them are not worse than those who cause all the problems. But rock on.
The government will take care of you always.
The temperature is twenty degrees lower today than yesterday and there is a rumor of more snow in the forecast.
My kids don’t listen like they used to and certainly nothing like I think that they should. I try to tell them all about life but they keep ignoring me.
I just heard the Dems have another plan to save the country and the Repubs are doing nothing about it. The Libertarians are plotting how to come in 3rd again.
The price of gas shot up again right after winter ended.
The dogs need to go outside again.
It’s election year again. Mid-terms. We can elect more do-nothings and just let them gather in the aisle- no need to cross it and waste all that valuable energy.
This winter was so bad that we now have over 5 major cracks in the driveway. Never happened before now. Something else to fix.
Finding it harder and harder to get a good night’s sleep. Keep waking up and then just end up getting up early. Every single day.
Will continue to pay property taxes even if the kids go to a private school. Education in this country has really gotten pitiful. But we still have the teacher’s unions thank God.
I heard that God is dead.
Have a leak in the wall, likely from the roof, that will need to be fixed when the weather gets better. Something else to fix.
I’m working out pretty regularly and still can’t drop ten pounds. And my feet hurt all the time and I have ringing in my ears and I am almost always so tired.
It sometimes seems that the world is closing in around me and my days are now numbered. These are the bad days and the days when very little seems right.
I believe that our country is dying and there is not much a person like me can do to stop it, to save it for the future, to save it for the kids, for my kids.
It’s dying and no one is doing very much about it are they?
You have to be kidding me.
Are you freaking kidding me?
You gotta be frickin’ kiddin’ me…
No one looks up and no one, for damn sure, ever answers.