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Monday, Monday Meh. It's Monday. I'm semi off today. The minion horde is with their parental units for the day, but I have two of my Granddaughters here. Thankfully they enjoy sleeping in. If I had known this earlier I would have slept in too. Ah, well. I can sleep when I'm dead. Such early quiet mornings are kind of nice. I usually sit here at the dining room table and sip my coffee, read the news and fart around on social media until the coffee kicks in and I realize I am indeed awake. Some days that takes a little longer than others. I've been watching political fights on another site. Pro Trump vs anti Trump people verbally duking it out, saying shit that they would never in their giddiest of daydreams imagine saying to someone face to face. It used to make me laugh out loud when they all started having a go at one another, now it just makes me sad. It's a lot like watching Rome burn while listening to Nero's fiddle. I have no side politically speaking, I really don't like any politician. Period. They are all self serving liars who care more about money than they do humanity. There are a rare few who seem to be working for the good of all mankind, but the downside of social media is that all anyone can see from it is the side of the person that they themselves choose to put out there. And my trust issues are such that I look at all of it with skepticism. My biggest beef with our gov'ment right now is the dismantling of our environmental safeguards in the name of making a buck. More than oil, the idea of bringing back coal horrifies me. I grew up in coal country. I've seen what black lung looks like, I've seen rolling green mountains scarred forever by mountaintop removal mining practices. But I've also seen how hard it is for people in coal mining areas to survive without those mines. When Clinton signed the NAFTA trade agreement, all the textile mills that once provided income for people in the area where I grew up closed their doors and headed to third world countries so they could exploit impoverished people for cheaper labor and lowered health and safety standards. Coal mining was about the only chance communities had to stimulate economic growth and give citizens a way to earn a decent living. And when the mines started closing down some years back, it hit hard. Without those mines there is little else for people who don't own a farm to do. Retail cannot thrive and provide jobs to a place where no one except those who work in retail have jobs. In a place that did not usually see drug crimes more serious than weed busts and DUI's there are now meth labs and addiction and all the crimes that those things bring about. Bringing back coal mining is the easy answer to the complex problem of that area. But like most easy answers, it comes at a premium cost. Rolling back environmental safeguards on coal mining waste is going to see an increased rate of birth defects and health issues of epic proportions in an era where only a blessed portion of our citizenship has decent healthcare coverage. And then there is the matter of increased natural disasters like flooding caused by removing the tops of the mountains that once served as a channel to distribute rainfall and ice melt evenly. Landslides because the trees that once held the mountains together with their roots are gone. And while we sit and argue over who said what and who did what and other truly nonsensical bullshit, politicians carry on doing just as they damn well please because in their fortified ivory towers, NONE of this touches them, at least not yet. They have to cater to their corporate sponsorship, so they can afford their ivory tower. And the corporations have to cater to stockholders and ceo's, and by the time that shitstream starts rolling, the ones who are buried beneath it are people who are simply trying to build a life for themselves. Go on any social media site and you will hear a million plus voices crying out in the name of this cause or that, but the fucked up thing about that is that each voice can only see as far as what they want. There are millions of voices and absolutely jack shit in the way of cohesion. Everyone thinks their personal cause is the only cause that needs to be addressed and each person within both sides of that cause wants everything their way. No one is willing to compromise on anything, no one wants to sit aside societal causes and concerns and work on things that will benefit our nation as a whole. We can't possibly work together to establish green energy jobs when we have to save stray dogs and<b> cats.... </font></b>(And dear God, please, I'm not saying animal rescue is not important, but we have got to get our shit together or we are going to all end up dead because our only planet is too polluted to harbor life.) So, every day I search for that voice crying out from the wilderness of social media who will be someone to unite us. That rusty knight draped in crumpled tinfoil who will bring us back to sanity and lead us to a brighter future. Alas, it feels like there are no more Dr. Kings, no Ghandis left in this world. Jealousy and fear has likely killed them all or beaten them catatonic. I could go on for days about this, but the girls are up and I have grandmotherly business to attend. Love, peace, and bacon grease ya'll.  "Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson   |
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I believe social media itself is to blame for much of the divisions in this country. It used to be we all got our news from a couple of sources. Feel free to debate their own biases , but at least we all heard the same thing. Now, thanks to social media, a great many people are only exposed to like-minded thinkers, and genuinely disdain anyone that has an opposite opinion. Cleaning Out the Joke File Posers, WannaBes, and Bloggers Oh My Sometimes the Old Ways are the Best Ways [post 3312759] My Private Blog – Tell Me All You Secrets
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Dear Heartland, Our biggest problem is our elected officials. That every year insulate themselves more and more from We the People.We need to stop being the disillusioned cattle that feed them.Wouldn't it be nice if we used the technology available and required those that represent us to live in our states on a daily bases.They would conduct business linked to offices across all the the states.They would be better in tune with those they represent and the issues we have.I for one would think the nation's capital building would be a great museum. Using more than all the road!
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Just so happens...I got my ballot for our city election over the weekend...Along with the "Voter Information Packet"...Tells ya who's who and who's endorsed by who...I find that info very telling...If I see a list of former city/county/state officers endorsing a candidate...They don't get my vote...Why? Because they have all had their chance and have failed...Homey has no faith in public servants who make careers out of their civic duties...The founders never intended public service to be a career...A calling? Yes...A career? No..."Seniority" in Politics? What hookum...If they couldn't "get 'er done" in their first couple of terms...Yer outta there!...My only hope is they get rid of The Chump in Chief in time before they destroy us and the environment...These people are pure evil...Stepping away from the Soap Box now...  
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