Category: Politics

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Secession? That’s not the biggest problem.

I’m not concerned about secession petitions appearing on a White House NewImagesponsored site. 

(These petitions have no weight of law, and the secession process is far more involved than signing a petition. I suspect it would require a civil war, the complete collapse of our government. Followed by armed camps staring each other down across a DMZ. None of which is likely.)

Of far more concern are the comments posted after articles reporting on the petitions. 

I have rarely read anything more hatefully venomous than the comments directed at Southern States.

That educated liberal people would actually take the time to spew that kind of vitriol astounds me. I’d have expected it from the rabid fundamentalist fringe but not from liberals.NewImage

I guess it goes to show that given enough time you become what you hate.

I’m deeply saddened that we have, despite all our connectedness lost the ability to discuss controversial issues with our fellow citizens.

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Can we please shut up about the election?

It’s over!

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I’m over it!

I was over it weeks before election day.

I’m doubly over it now… perhaps i’m just doubled over vomiting from all the endless rehashing of the results.

Obama won… NEXT!

Who cares at this point if Romney made this misstep or that mistake? IT’S OVER.

Nothing changed. The politicians are still grandstanding, “scandals” overblown by our media are still serving as distractions and the beat goes on.

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Really, does Feinstein need to know the details of Petraeus affair?

Why the hell is she in any way concerned that her committee didn’t know Petraeus was fucking a woman who was not his wife? If anything it says that he was pretty damn discrete… isn’t that what you want in a CIA director?

I’m not even sure that the Libya attack needs 18 months of investigation by a congressional committee. 

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We all know the “INVESTIGATION” will reveal, warning signs were missed, someone didn’t get the right information to the right agency, people died, lets do better next time.

I don’t mean to trivialize the deaths in Libya but for gods sake, we know there was a tremendous underestimation of the danger.

Once again the idiots in Washington chose to ignore the people actually on the ground in a dangerous foreign country asking for more security. 

The simple solution from here on out is, when someone asks for more security forces… Washington sends more security Rikki fucking tic. Worry about the budget issues after the fact!

The President and the Republicans have continued their fight over taxes, budgets, and will probably continue to do so until the county falls into another recession.

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Even then the Republican and Democratic parties will claw at each other trying to assign blame as they’re falling into the gaping maw of Hell itself.

Merry fucking Christmas to all… YOU’RE BROKE!  It’s that other guys fault!

Can we please end the bullshit?

The best Christmas present I could get this year is a working government.

I’m too much of a cynic to hold my breath.

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4 More years…

You know, it wasn’t the presidential election that mattered.

Since the makeup of congress didn’t change it wouldn’t have mattered if Romney won.

Had Romney won, the democrats in Congress would have stonewalled anything he tried to do, just as surely as the Republicans have done, and will do to President Obama for the next 4 years.

The President isn’t really the issue.

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What is at issue, is that we have a government that is no longer concerned with doing the best for the majority of the people. Things are far too partisan and focused too narrowly on special interests.

I personally think that a 50/50 split between candidates, or propositions is a really BAD sign.

What that says is that neither choice has significant merit and it means that essentially the political process is in neutral.

I remember hearing as a child that you wanted to make sure that you married someone who was not only the same religion as you were, but they should also be the same political party. 

The logic was that if your spouse was a Republican and you were a Democrat, you cancelled out each others votes.

This most recent election is exactly that. 

The future is ours to control, It’ time to re-evaluate the obstructionist behavior in congress. If necessary, we need to recall & replace those individuals that put the agenda of their parties, and lobbyists ahead of the needs of the American people.

We desperately need a government that works for US!

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Did you vote?

Nope i”m not going to talk about the election… I think far too much has been said.

Hopefully whoever wins… it will be a clean win so we don’t have to listen to the wailing and gnashing of teeth during endless recounts. I’m not holding my breath though.

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Not only did I vote, but I walked to the polling place…

Perhaps I was overly ambitious due to the fact that I’m still getting over a cold and I think I’ve developed a slight sinus infection.

However…  as  treat to myself I decided to have lunch at The Grizzly, so here I am.

Decided to sit outside on the patio, it’ s a pretty day

I got  to the poling place, and was sweating like  pig! Hopefully I was sweating this bug out of my system.

After all increased blood flow, should help flush all the nasties, and get some white cells to the infected areas… That’s the theory anyway…

On the other hand if this doesn’t get better in the next few days I’m going to put a call into the medical establishment, and get some drugs.

I’ve been tinkering with the idea to take a trip that I’d use to get my advanced open water diving certification. Then see family… of course if I’m sick, the diving thing is right out…

I’m home now… 

Looking on the map I was definitely a little ambitious!

It’s 2 miles down, and 2 miles back.

Going downhill was no problem. Coming back uphill was tough…

I used to walk this every day, then I got out of the habit.

My starting point is 6200 FT by the time you get to The Grizzly the altitude is about 5300FT.

You don’t really think about it until you have to walk back up, then that 1000 feet feels like it’s 10,000.

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I can say from experience that if you walk that 4 mile loop every day you’ll very soon have great calves, tight legs, and a butt that is anything but flabby.

I’m going to have time on my hands… I should start walking it again every day. After all if I have to start selling my body for income… I should at least look decent! 

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And in the last few days before the election…

I’m turning my radio & Television OFF!

The incessant vicious ads and mudslinging have reached a fever pitch and I can’t take it anymore.

I’m with Abigael Evans,  the 4 year old who got an apology from NPR.

I wholeheartedly agree that it’s just gotten to be way too much.

If I see another 10 minute string of proposition commercials punctuated by sniping senate & congressional hopefuls… I swear I’ll just not bother to vote at all.

Grow up people, present your case be civil to each other and hopefully we’ll make the best decision.

At the very least you’ll be examples of how differences should be resolved, instead of demonstrating to young people that name calling and bullying are the way to get what you want.

I’m almost to the place where I thinking we should just choose our politicians randomly from the population. At least then, the PACS and businesses wouldn’t know who to hand the money to.

It would be a damn sight easier to figure out WHO was taking what money from whom.

I think we ALL deserve an apology for the nastiness we’ve seen in this election season.