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Can’t Be, Aunt Bee

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They told me and now I am telling you.

Good to run, better to hide. Best to just pack it all up or in and get on wid’it.

There ain’t really no place left to run and likely too no place to hide. But you can pack it up or pack it in.

And getting’ on wid’it? Well, man, that just means get to getting’ in line and takin’ what they givin’. Y’know, all that stuff that’s yours by right or at least Executive Decree.

You all know what Executive Decree is don’t you?

Yeah, some may call it Executive Order. Maybe I’ll just call it Royal Decree instead.

After all my simple-minded friends, what file would you put it in when it don’t come from me, it don’t come from you, it don’t really come from us, and it no longer even comes from those clowns we elected in the hope that they might represent us?

And the fact that others have done it in the past makes it all okay.

Keep marching sheep-boy. You can’t even aspire to being the shepherd bot no more. That’s been taken away along with what little personal freedoms you had left.

Yeah, let’s forget about those clumsy personal freedoms and just call everything that they want you to have, rights.

This country was founded upon the notion that rights are innate- they come with you when you come with us. No one gives them to you and no one can really take away the right. But they can take away the free and unfettered (big word I know) personal exercise of those rights.

Personal freedoms be damned- just give me my rights. Who defined those rights?

Oh, you did? And what about your cousin, and your neighbor, and the man across town- do your definitions line up?

Ok, no? Well then, THEY must have defined those rights for you. Did you vote on them?

No? Ok, now we are getting somewhere.

But you still don’t see do you sheep-boy?

If rights can be given, if rights can be decreed then they sure as hell can be controlled, changed, and even taken away.

They aren’t laws anymore.

And you ain’t free no more neither no way no how. Not like you was.

I know you don’t believe it. But one day, not too long from now, you will and by then it won’t really matter anymore. Too late has become long ago.

Aunt Bee said it be whilst Uncle Cracker tried to say no it don’t.

Guess who won?

 

American Acceptionalism

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Been away but am now back. Don’t ask where I been just be glad you weren’t there too.

What’s been up?

Well, more Christians reportedly captured by non-Islamic Muslims. Isis on the move. Obama vetoing the pipeline bill and getting ready to set out an order on the internet. A brave judge in Texas putting a stay on the execution of Obama’s order on immigration.   A battle over the funding of Homeland Security and the immigration funding it also provides.

Just another week of a lawless regime and the limpers in D.C. who can’t seem to understand our laws and the Constitution and the things that they were elected to fight for and defend.

Nope, just biz as usual and folks defending their fiefdoms and more folks reporting on and still others living off it while the rest of the country just simply wonders WTF. Seriously, can we just toss them all out and start over closer to the beginning?

It would be a good idea and you know it don’t you? Yeah, I thought so.

But we won’t because besides themselves and their enclaves they really don’t seem to care much about this country of ours. They don’t seem to think it’s so special after all- certainly not worth protecting inside and out. What a travesty.

I’m back now and not much has changed and not much is exactly the same. It’s moving away from us in fits and starts and no one seems able to stand up and stop it much anyways.

No, we just get along with our own little lives and hope that the damage will not be too big. Wouldn’t want to get taken away from all that important stuff we have going on now would we?

I wish I knew what to do but one thing I know is that I don’t want to just sit back and take it. Too many for too long have done that and things need to change don’t they?

Oh, you disagree because we, us Americans, cannot fail. Things will go on for us forever. We are different, better, than those old Greeks and Romans.

Didn’t the Mongols rule for a long time after that?

Gotta go soon. Not back to where I was but not all that far from it.

You just relax and sit back and take it easy. It will all be okay if we just don’t look too closely. Take it for what it is but don’t get all hung up and strung out.

Do nothing and nothing will be done to you, right?

Well, maybe. Then, maybe not. Maybe so, maybe no.

We ain’t special, we ain’t exceptional- our man told us so.

No, he don’t want no exceptionalism- just what we continue to give him with our own tepid acceptionalism.

Not to worry- it will all be over soon.

Y’all had enuf?

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Okay, so we have more and more folks being brutally murdered by non-Islamic Muslim terrorists.  And the Christians that they kill, um, behead, are citizens and not Christians.  The children that they kill are simply victims.  And the women that they capture, beat, rape, kill or sell are just, well, unfortunate, shall we say.

Meanwhile, the beat goes on.  Beck and Kanye at the Grammies; SNL 40th anniversary bash; Bruce Jenner’s “age crisis”; the NBA all-star game.  All such American events.  All so wonderful.  All soon to be a thing of the past if those non-Islamic Muslim terrorists have anything to say about it.

Hear they’re heading for Rome and those cross-people.  Couldn’t happen then, there, to them…no never, and sure as where the bad people go never here to us.  Just keep on watching Hollywood and Facebooking all about where you live, what you are eating, where you are on vacation.  No need to worry, it’s alright ma.

What’s the word from D.C.?  Oh, I got it- ain’t none.  It’s just fine ma.

What’s the word from the streets?  Oh, yeah, “hands up, don’t shoot.”  You can cut my fuckin’ head off but don’t shoot bro.  It’s cool ma.

How does the general electorate fell?  Forgot- we’d need to explain who ISIS is.  We’d also need to have them get over the fact that the extent of their knowledge is that anyone who would ask them what they know about Islamic terrorism just had to be a racist.  Oops, I meant non-Islamic Muslim terrorism.  Of course.  It’s okay ma, I was only kidding.  Just get back at it, nothing here to see, know, understand or in any way worry your simple self about.

Yeah, even though they’d kill you too.  If you believe in nothing or anything other than what they do- because they are, after all, Muslims, even if that part of them doesn’t figure in the terrorism they carry out.  Kinda cool to be able to separate oneself like that- like a superhero- “Non-Islamic Muslim Man” to the rescue.

Don’t speak, don’t draw, don’t worship any other god.  Don’t not worship.  Don’t be gay.  Don’t be female unless complete subservience and full body armor is what makes you you.  Don’t be a Jew or Hindu or Buddhist or Coptic.  Don’t use alcohol (not in public at least).  Go get you a prayer rug and get ready to pray a buncha times a day.  Don’t be speakin’ your mind now ma.  Don’t be making or starring in those raunchy Hollywood movies that have sex and stuff.  Don’t try to create your own style of music or write your own free words.  Don’t think or act unless it is well within the constraints and complete restrictions that have been placed upon you.

Don’t cry for tears won’t save you.  Don’t hope for there is none to be had.  Don’t deny what you have been given to believe and all that you have been instructed to behold.

Don’t run no mo ma- there ain’t no place for you to hide.  Not no mo ma.

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Been Goner

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Trying my bestest these days to get to gonest.  Working on it man, working on it.

Just a few things here, this cold and sunny Friday morning as January fades into the melting snow.

I don’t think I ever write about all of the good things about my life, my wife, my kids, my family but I should because they are what keeps me going always; they are who inspire me to face each day and without them life would not be as challenging or as beautiful.  For them, for this life, I am forever grateful to the God that more and more people, on a regular basis, deny exists.  Yep,  all of this was just random chance governed by a few basic physical laws.  But here is a question that I know I cannot answer.  Why does the law of gravity dictate that two bodies are attracted rather than repulsed by one another?  Who made left left instead of right?…up up instead of down?…electrons have to remain usually in a certain orbit?…radioactive elements have to decay?…the Big Bang not shoot out in a preferred left, right, up, or down direction rather than in spherical direction?  Or did I miss something?

And why the hell did a firefly develop that cool luminescence?  How did it know and what was it before it did?

To me science is the doorway to the divinity, to a higher or at least unknown power that makes a bit more sense out of all this nonsense.

And that is my twosense.

While I am at it another topic springed up agin this morning.  It’s one of my faves- racinism!  (There I said the nasty “R” word and I haven’t combusted in a spontaneous or any other fashion…just yet anyhow.)

I gots a question I have to ask.  Why are you allowed to be proud of your race while I am supposed to be ashamed of mine?  That seems rather racinist to me.

And another:  why am I always made to feel that I should be apologizing for a bunch of stuff that I didn’t do?  (And, for that matter, neither did my brother or sisters, my father or mother, my grandmothers or grandfathers…pretty much as far back as I can remember anyhoo.)

Is there a purpose to all this racinism stuff?  Does someone stand to gain from such false and endless claims?

And, hey you ponderable liberals, here is a question that is sure to keep you busy:

Which one is the worst? (or, if easier, please just rank order the following in order of worstness):

A racinist, a sexinist, an anti-gay-marriage gay basher, a pro-lifer, George W. Bush, a Christian, a stay-at-home-mom, an oil pipeline, a climate-change deniester, Sarah-goddamn-Palin, free speech, a gun-owner, white cops, Rush Limbaugh, China, Chick-Fil-A, the U.S. Constitution, Chris Kyle, a fiscal conservative, the Koch brothers, a family with two still-married-and-living-together-heterosexually parents and more than one kid, God, faulty condoms, another Bush in the White House, Hobby Lobby, the abolition of Executive Orders, John Boehner, suburban whites, non-union workers, the 2000 Presidential Election, Michelle Bachmann, a conservative black person, the use of the word “terrorist”, illegal drugs, untaxed anything, capitalism, second-hand smoke, the “N” word, a conservative woman, American history, Christopher Columbus, an SUV, a house or apartment bigger than yours, self-made millionaires, a right-to-work state, any corporation, any CEO of any corporation, any employee of any corporation, Fox News, Richard Nixon, a southerner, a Jew, McDonalds, tort reform, a budget, a strong-and-ready military, Ronald Reagan, the Founding Fathers, Sunday mass, private charity, Citizen’s United, Hillary Clinton forced to actually run before being handed the Presidency, American exceptionalism, small businesses, entrepreneurs, Republicans, welfare reform, Middle America, Rural America, prayer in schools, due process, American football, Dick Cheney, the stock market, interrogation techniques, Israel, anti-conspiracy theories, cowboys, charter schools, parochial schools, private schools, the Duke Lacrosse team, Darren Wilson, non-minority viewpoints, non-government healthcare, independence, responsibility, accountability, spending limits, or separation of powers.

There, now that is a good start of a list is it not? 

I will sit and await your response…

 

…before is now til then…

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It all becomes so clear when the smoke and fog finally fade.  And that they do, before short becomes very long, with almost everyone.  Oh, sure, there are exceptions but there almost always are yes?

There is a fun ride at most waterparks these days- it is called the “Hurricane” in these parts.  Everyone climbs into a tube and the dude pushes you off and down a drop tube that winds a bit before dumping you down into a bowl of sorts where you spin round and round, each time dropping you and your folk ever closer to an unknown and somewhat scary hole- another tube, the exit tube- with each spin round the bowl.  It’s sort of like a big, but clean, toilet.  And if you scream you can hear your echo quite clearly and quite loudly.  It’s all good fun.  When it’s done you really want to go again right off unless it is your first time and you need a bit of time to recover and chase away your initial fears.  Rare, that.

But sooner or later you do go again.

Society spins in such a fashion at times.  In fact it spins as such most of the time but there is a difference.

In society you spin toward the exit tube, the final drop, the ultimate dumpout. with some ability remaining to fight gravity or at least slow the descent.  Think “friction” perhaps.  You can also just jump out of your tube but that would likely be a very large challenge.  Maybe I will attempt it sometime but not anytime soon.  No, like the others in my tube; the others in the tube that just left with a pushoff from the dude; the others waiting eagerly yet patiently behind us; like everyone in the line we all are ready to get going toward the descent.  Maybe it’s the thrill and maybe it’s just our search for entropy that propels us forth.  Dunno.

What awaits?  What thrill have they devised for us at the exit tube of this tremendous ride?  There is to be a semblance of order at the conclusion but I sense it is unconvincingly contrived.  There is no order in such disorder and, all things being the same and little changing from all that we see and hear and experience in these days of days we spin, we slide, we slip, we scream, we yell, we cry out, we throw our arms up to help to quell our fears but we can never escape the echoes and we can never outrun the tube ahead or pause to join the tube behind.   They have so brilliantly devised the ride, these anarchists, and they know that it takes a special person, a special people, to understand the plan and work somehow to end the madness.

That used to be us but is no more.  We ride, we descend, we are pulled to lines, just like all the others before us, in order and made to disembark only to willingly climb up, get back into line, behave in an orderly fashion, and await our turn to again be shoved off and sent to descent by the dude.  THE dude.  And we do it, again and again and again as if there is no choice and, now, nothing else whatsoever that can be done to stop it.  Not a bloody thing.

That’s What I Thought

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Elections have consequences, that’s what they say. Maybe.

But sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter. So maybe not.

The Republicans won the recent midterms in something of a landslide. Yahoo. They don’t take office until next month but already the effects can be deeply felt.   Yeah, right.

There are Democrats and there are Republicans and there are other parties. There are folks on the left and those on the right and there are those who exist in between. There are many different people with personal and also institutional agendas who think that what they want can be gotten through normal political means and there are those who shed those means and take things into their own radical hands in order to achieve their goals.

And then there are the Washingtonians and the smaller kingdoms that aspire to be so. These folks also claim to be Democrats or Republicans or members of yet another party; left or right, liberal or conservative; calm folks or radicals; movers or shakers; people of the people. But they are really none of these no matter how hard they might try to convince us. They are the Washingtonians.

No matter how they arrived and no matter who they were when they arrived they wind up all the same. In the end there is no difference as they are all Washingtonians.

They simply work with the goal of keeping their jobs. Whatever it takes. But if they happen to lose their jobs through the undesired outcome of some election then they simply wind up turning that into something else- become a lobbyist, become a television commentator, become a political advisor, become a lecturer and tell people all about the stuff that you did that you really didn’t do. Recycle into the system. All that they care about is themselves. Seems to be the case with a lot of people in this country these days.

Nobody really gives a shit about this country anymore do they?

When we had Reagan we had hope; with Clinton, economic prosperity; Bush, international respect. What is it that we have now?

We have major issues with race relations. We have open borders. We have little apparent concern with the never-ending growth of the national debt. We have lost the global economic lead to China. China. We have an executive branch of our government that has decided the Constitution really doesn’t matter anymore. We are a joke on the international stage, no longer feared, no longer respected, no longer thought of as a country to be imitated. Islam is on the rise and we just continue to condemn Christianity and work tirelessly to finally remove God from our country. We have a popular culture that seems to have very little in the way of a moral compass- just do what you want to do (thanks 1960s). People in general just seem to not really care much anymore and if they do they mostly just don’t seem to know enough to have an informed and considered opinion. The liberal pundits were right, they ARE right- the American people ARE stupid I guess.

I gotta go now and happily greet the coming day but I will continue this soon. I am proud, still, to say that I am an American and I am cocky enough to add not a stupid one. I care deeply about this country and I am so sick of those who only seem to be focused on knocking it down perhaps with the ultimate goal of knocking it out.

But it ain’t over yet. We’re still standing, if just barely, and the final bell ain’t rung just yet.

Soon, maybe, but not just yet.

Honor & Country

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Today is Veterans Day and I hope that you are recognizing it in some way, large or small.

Today is Veterans Day and I will fly the flag. I always try to fly the flag on key dates- Memorial Day, Independence Day, 9/11, Dec 7, Veterans Day.

I hope that my kids and others will see the flag flying today and know why it is on display. Or maybe they will ask why if they do not know. I am shocked how little it seems that people know about their country and its history.

My dad was a WW2 veteran. My uncle as well. My remaining uncle was a veteran of the Korean War. I have known and admired many veterans of Vietnam and later wars and conflicts. I respect them all.

So few kids today understand the sacrifice that comes with being in the military. Often the commitment brings with it the requirement of putting your life on the line to fight for this country- your country and, sure as can be, their country. I will likely never know what that feels like, what that means, but I can still do my best to appreciate it and recognize it whenever possible.

I do not think that our fighting men really ever lost a war. That was done by politicians.

I do not think that, as some may contend, Korea and Vietnam were senseless engagements that simply threw away all those lives. I firmly believe that those men and the lives they committed and in some cases lost did so in the all-important fight against communism. I am naïve that way.  I do believe in the domino theory and I believe that our responses and commitments were instrumental in showing the Chinese and the Soviets that we would not simply stand by as communism rolled across border after border, across the non-communist world. And I believe that ultimately, though years later, those efforts and that sacrifice led to the defeat of communism.

And for that all of those veterans deserve our unwavering support, recognition and deepest appreciation.

No, communism is not dead but it was defeated. It lives still in the world and it lives on within our own borders and if we are not careful and vigilant it could rise again. And Putin would gladly take the lead.

Militant Islam (or whatever you choose to call it) is visibly on the rise yet we seem to only react to it and not take the lead in beating it down as well. It will not die, it will likely never die. It has not for well over one thousand years so it must be met and defeated time and time again.

And at this time of vigilance we have reduced our defense spending and military preparedness to uncomfortably low levels and I worry for our future.

And I cannot speak about the treatment of our veterans by the VA. That is simply too reprehensible and needs to be fixed for good.

On this day I simply wish to recognize our veterans and their families and the sacrifices that they have made for their country, this country; for people like me and my wife and my kids and so many others who they will never know.

May God bless you all and may God continue to bless this country; our country; the country that you have served so well to honor and protect.

We are still standing because of all of you. Thank you from my family; thank you for my children.

Yahoo

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I waited a day to write here so that all of my exuberance had enough time to settle out. I think I’m there.

So “we” took the Senate, added more seats in the House, and also increased our gubernatorial advantage across these United States.

So, Yahoo! I’m guessin that everything can get back to normal and we can forget about things for the next, oh, two years while we await the coronation of Hillary.

Happy? Are you really?

Well, I suppose that I am as well. After all we managed to take back control of a completely useless upper chamber while at the same time disinfecting the evil influence of the evil Tea Party by increasing our majority in the lower one.

By the way, I would like to spend some time sometime with someone who can explain to me why the Tea Party is so darn evil. I think they pretty much have the barrel on the ball. But, another time for that one.

But what are those major-party policy-setters in Washington going to actually do, starting in January, that is any different from what has been done in the past? How are they going to stop being self-serving politicians who have not exactly taken this country in a direction that I, for one, would like to see it go?  The way it was always intended to go for the most part. (NOTE: If confused simply read the Constitution. Probably take you under an hour; maybe just a bit more. Definitely less time than the length of a football game.)

You see, when it comes to Congress, especially the Senate, I am a highly skeptical person who believes that the differences between the Democrats and the Republicans is merely one of degree. They are all, still, national politicians and share all of the same characteristics and are driven by the need to just keep getting elected every six years so that they can continue to enjoy the many fruits of a career that is not so readily available to the vast majority of those of us who they have been elected to supposedly serve. Even the good ones eventually get Washing-toned.

(NOTE: $100M spent in North Carolina alone? Why don’t some of the bleeding hearts complain that that money should be put toward kindly social causes? Wouldn’t that buy a lot of stuff?)

So, it is good that we have stopped the bleeding (hearts)- performed the necessary triage, if you will; for now, maybe, but so very much more than that will have to be done. And even in a Reidless world a lot of what needs to be done will probably not get done because it requires a whole bunch of work by the surgeon on the surgeon. And one must never bite the hand that feeds one. Soon enough they all get that point in a short amount of time so it seems to me.

(NOTE: What is the political equivalency of spaying and neutering? Answer, for free- getting elected.)

More exciting to me, and something that gives me the most hope for the future, is the continuing rise of the number of Republican governors and then the fact that they get good stuff done. This had been fairly steady (though I need to go and check on the actual stats) and it appears for good reason. The best states are those run by the Republicans while the worst are run by the Democrats. Just look at the advances in Wisconsin (gotta admit that I really like and respect Scott Walker), Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey (well, kinda), Florida, and so on.

Heck, if even Illinois elects a Republican then maybe things are changing. (NOTE: We still have Madigan and Durbin and Chicago.)

Maybe not in Illinois though since we here seem to mostly elect pre-convicts. The bars usually wind up closing on whoever we put up down in Springfield. Part of the job description.

BUT, for the most part, I like the set up at the state levels and I trust that from that crop of good governors might grow a good candidate to run as a real candidate, someone who has actually done something, for President in 2016.

I’m a firm believer now in electing a governor, a good one, a successful one, as President. It just makes sense given the effectiveness and applicability of their resumes. What the hell do senators ever do anyhow?

If the newly-elected members of the now-majority or more-majority houses of Congress, upper and lower, can somehow get their act together and do what they were elected to do and are also given to do (or, more importantly, NOT do) by the Constitution and if we can elect a successful governor like Scott Walker to the presidency then maybe, just maybe, we all have a chance. This country might then have a chance; a good one.

Also, if the Chicago Bears just simply get even just an average defense they could run deep into the playoffs.

Here’s to wishin; here’s to hopin’; here’s to dreamin’; here’s to a helluva lot more hope and a whole different kinda change.

And, for now, just for a little while here is a heartfelt and hearty YAHOO!

Vote (y’all)!

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It is midterm election day. I am up super early and my wife is mad at me because I can’t sleep. Somehow it is my fault that I cannot sleep. I understand though as I get upset with my kids for the very same thing. They think it’s unfair; I don’t get that option.

But I do get to vote and today is the day to do it. It’s gonna be a slightly colder and rainy day but that’s okay. I am looking forward to getting down to the polling place to cast my ballot against a bunch of useless and corrupt Illinois Democrats. I can only hope that the state will begin to turn itself around by casting out Quinn and at least giving Rauner a chance. The voters will never turn out Durbin though- he is too entrenched and just too valuable to the state machine. You see, the Chicago machine eats and feeds right along with the Cook County, Illinois State, and national demomatics so a vote agin one is a vote agin the other. You best not be black and living in the city and vote any other way than dem dem dem. Dat ain’t allowed no how (my bestest Hillary imitation dere).

On the national scene we shall see how the gov races go. Of especial interest to me is Wisconsin and Walker.

We shall also see if the dems lose more seats in the House and if they can hold the Senate. There is too much analysis out there to really draw any early conclusions so we’ll just wait to see how it goes when the returns start rolling in.

I wonder lately though if the dems would not indeed be okay with losing the Senate and even more seats in the House. Think about it a minute.

Obama has managed to do a lot with the exec order and use of the exec chair. The dems never get blamed for anything by the media though they have controlled the Senate for eight years now. That chamber has become impotent and certainly by Progressive design.

Further empower the exec and castrate the Senate. Marginalize and demonize, in the eyes of the public, the House. Let the Republicans take both houses at a time when Obama is increasingly weak and failing in the eyes of the public so that for the next two years he and they (dem dems) can legislate with the pen and the phone from the White House and, at the very same time, simply blame everything and anything that they so choose, with the full and complicit support of the media, on the Republicans. Nice, huh?

Why? Well, 2016 of course.

See, the Republicans just kept saying no and were obstructionists and Obama just couldn’t overcome it because, oh I dunno, because of the rampant racism that is this country.

And what then?

Give it to the white lady to fix.

2016.  The Coronation of Clinton.

Want to have chance to stop it? Then get out and vote and vote for what is better. Sometimes it’s just that simple.

Meanwhile, though tired, I cannot sleep. And I am in trouble for the transgression. My bad.

The Gales of November

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November. Decision time America. It’s just a day away. Are you ready?

I hope that all of you who have expressed concern, concern in the extreme, about this country and where it is being dragged (not led, not directed) then this is your chance to do the rightest thing. You may think that the candidates on the ballot are not worth a trip to the polls but you cannot possibly advance a defensible argument that can support one candidate not being a better choice than the others. C’mon!

Sometimes in life we just have to take the lesser evil, the better thing. Even if it ain’t the best or maybe still smells a bit. The shortest path from A to B may be a straight line but the only way to do it in real life is just a series of tacking maneuvers.

Check out the ads. The politicians all know that the easiest way to make progress is to show that the other guy is bad bad bad…implying in the process that their guy may be once bad but not thrice. It is a matter of degree and they know it. My guy simply sucks less.

Sure, we should strive for the end goal that one day we might return to actually voting for the guy who has a good record, clearly defined positions on the issues, and a communication strategy that will educate all constituents but, until that nirvanic day has arrived for us I believe that we just need to keep the ball in play. Like baseball, as long as we have one out remaining to us the game ain’t over. Get ‘em on, get ‘em over, get ‘em home. One bloody run at a time if necessary.

How will these mid-terms go? I guess we will see by the end of the day tomorrow- or very early Wednesday.

Meanwhile life goes on.

The family situation is better (though always a sensitive organism). Muslims continue to recruit radical members from around the world for jihad or whatever the hell they want to label their evil (but maybe some countries are beginning to wake up just enough). American voters are still uniformed for the most part (but getting pissed and maybe that can be put to temporary good use as we continue to try to educate them). The Christian religion remains under attack, even here at home (but folks are pushing back on this with some measurable amount of success). Our culture and its moral underpinnings are not improving (but maybe the degradation is slowing just a bit). Our schools still mostly suck (and I hope that parents will rise up in protest one fine day and make teachers teach and not do just about everything else but). Youth sports continue to amaze me with how badly too many are run and how irresponsible and even reprehensible the coaching is (and how many good kids and potentially great athletes just end up quitting as a result). Music can still inspire those who truly listen (though some of it moves people in the wrong direction). Obama continues to lose support (more people in his audiences now sit behind rather than in front of him…hurrah). America may finally be waking up to the false accusations that face those of us who have the audacity to disagree with “the agenda”.

Bottom line, there is still hope. We still have one out to go and the game ain’t over.

Not for me; not for you; not for this country.

Get out there and vote tomorrow. Remember, triage is needed at times to keep the heart beating and life prolonged until the real doctor can get there.

One out left; heart still beating.

I kinda somehow sorta like our chances.