November 5, 2015

I went to the grocery store today. A Clinton Sanders divergence.

I blurted out "you have to be shitting me" for 3.98 each for tomatoes. A nice lady I didn't know (know her now) was there and I apologized for the ugly language. We started discussing the economy.

Later, I arrived at the checkout counter, and a lovely African American lady and her child were in the line behind me.

I'm not exactly certain how we got on the topic of voting for Clinton, but the white cashier and the AA standing right by me both said they can't stand her.

I brought up Sanders. "I've heard about him, isn't he the one that is not launching negative campaigns"? I had three different people discussing how much better it would be to elect Sanders. The lady that had a book in front of me stopped and listed places where you could register to vote.

I do more every damn day without getting paid for it to get Bernie Sanders elected than a SuperPAC ever could. So can everybody else. Our daily lives - that is what he wants to improve.

To be honest, I'd be depressed as hell if Hillary Clinton was my candidate, strictly because of the maudlin air that they can't win unless they go into the gutter.

I am *PROUD* of Bernie Sanders.

November 5, 2015

Musical interlude: These particular primaries are tough.

We will all get through it, but some will not emerged unchanged.

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." - Nelson Mandela

Death Penalty. We have got to do some reform.

November 4, 2015

Cheap, but highly effective ab workout.

I had posted in Exercise and Fitness, but to my chagrin it is a rarely visited group.

It's a really neat way of exercising your abs beyond your standard crunches (my favorite, but not as effective).

It's entirely up to you if you wish to try it. I've had great results and have made no changes in my diet. caveat: Other than having to eat more due to the other workouts I'm doing.

November 3, 2015

Nosebleeds due to weather changes

I swear, ever since I have been a kid, every time the weather changes I get a nosebleed from hell.

It's like clockwork - the herald of winter is me having one.

Has anyone else experienced this weird phenomenon?

November 2, 2015

Strategic candidates vs. Big Picture candidates

and a big thank you to Ed Suspicious that sparked the discussion because he asked me, sincerely, why candidates are strategic and big picture thinkers that cannot confront homelessness in the US.
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They are strategic thinkers merely because they have a strategy that benefits them the most and at all costs. Like it or not it's a touch of Ayn Randism to get elected at all costs.

Big picture people are far different. They view our lives and our country as a garden where we all flourish, we all benefit, and have a PLAN for heaven's sake to get us there besides killing people in a foreign country.

We have a multitude of gardens that need to be grown in this country, including Black Lives Matter, demilitarizing our police, repairing failing infrastructure and ending trade policies that are killing jobs.

Hell, they have managed to demonize *TEACHERS*. Take a step back and imagine that you demonize teachers. Yet you aggrandize the police and invest most resources there.

If that isn't a canyon of despair that is difficult to cross, I don't know what is. But I guarantee it that one way or another the American people have the spirit to do it. It won't be an equivocation candidate that does so.

November 2, 2015

Wow. Martin O'Malley on the Daily Show.

He smacked it out of the park.

He is a strong speaker and an intelligent man.

I'll hunt for link so you can watch the interview for yourselves, but he was brilliant.