Congress doesn't read your Facebook status updates, and they don't care even a little bit about what you are tweeting. Unfortunately, the masses tend to believe that if you write it, they will read it. This is not the case. If you are truly interested in having your elected officials hear your voice, then send them an email instead. The only people that they are actively paying attention to are those of us significantly contributing to them keeping their job$.
Also, sharing is not socialism. It is teamwork. Wanting to do things politically or economically to "help" out your fellow American citizen does not make you a socialist, it makes you a good person. We teach our children to share everything they have. But we are unwilling to put anyone else's needs above those of ourselves or our family. Even though, by doing so, we will all benefit in the not so long away long run.
Social Security. Because people exploit and abuse the system, it does not mean they system itself is bad. It means the system needs to take further preventative measures to regulate and protect the system from the bad people that are doing the exploiting and abusing. Reform = yes, shutting it down = no. Do you not remember that this system saved the lives of your grandparents and their parents? There are good hard working people that use this system properly and they should not be left behind because you are greedy.
Greedy greedy greedy greedy greedy. Stop it. Humanitarianism is not that far off from the lifestyles encouraged by most religion. Which is the backbone of the conservative ticket that is currently too involved in their jobs as politicians to consider what is best for their country.
Just sayin.....
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
My New Life
For those of you who don't know, Jesse Shayne and I have left Austin. We now live in Denton. Let me tell you something about Denton: it sucks. Now, to be fair, in the 6 weeks of us living here we have only been cleaning the house or going to school/work. We did stumble upon the Denton Blues Festival last weekend and that was a nice surprise, but it wasn't enough to alleviate the fact that Denton is just not Austin.
My biggest irritation with living in this town is the overuse of one way streets, and an even more so, the obese overuse of raised medians. This is not a big city. There is absolutely no need for this type of action towards traffic control. The roads are bumpy and cracked and not even a little bit straight, yet there are million of dollars worth of medians through almost every street. Want to go to that bank over on your left-hand side? TOO BAD! First, you must continue driving for another 2-5 blocks and make an illegal U-Turn at the next light. I don't want to. If I drove a Jeep I would hop these things all over the place.
And there is no HEB here. Where the hell am I supposed to shop? They have TWO Wal-Mart stores. I think that in itself is a pretty bad sign. Fuck Wal-Mart. I've had no other options and have been inside that store more in the last few weeks than I have in the last 5 years. I lost a piece of my soul each time. My heart goes out to all of the young Vietnamese and other impoverished overworked children that enabled me to buy window blinds for under $5.
In other news, our house is finally in livable condition. The woman living here before us was apparently a degenerate alcoholic and did not clean anything for the 2 and a half years she lived here, nor did she do anything about the jungle overgrowth in the gardens and the backyard. The grass was over a foot tall in the back, and that was with the drought this summer.
So now that I am settled, please expect to see more from me here. I apologize for the lack of rants and bullshitting that I know you all look forward to hearing on a more regular basis.
My biggest irritation with living in this town is the overuse of one way streets, and an even more so, the obese overuse of raised medians. This is not a big city. There is absolutely no need for this type of action towards traffic control. The roads are bumpy and cracked and not even a little bit straight, yet there are million of dollars worth of medians through almost every street. Want to go to that bank over on your left-hand side? TOO BAD! First, you must continue driving for another 2-5 blocks and make an illegal U-Turn at the next light. I don't want to. If I drove a Jeep I would hop these things all over the place.
And there is no HEB here. Where the hell am I supposed to shop? They have TWO Wal-Mart stores. I think that in itself is a pretty bad sign. Fuck Wal-Mart. I've had no other options and have been inside that store more in the last few weeks than I have in the last 5 years. I lost a piece of my soul each time. My heart goes out to all of the young Vietnamese and other impoverished overworked children that enabled me to buy window blinds for under $5.
In other news, our house is finally in livable condition. The woman living here before us was apparently a degenerate alcoholic and did not clean anything for the 2 and a half years she lived here, nor did she do anything about the jungle overgrowth in the gardens and the backyard. The grass was over a foot tall in the back, and that was with the drought this summer.
So now that I am settled, please expect to see more from me here. I apologize for the lack of rants and bullshitting that I know you all look forward to hearing on a more regular basis.
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