Loved ones

So, here I am in backwoods Arkansas.  We came here for Thanksgiving to visit my Parents.  Thats always a TRIP!  Days are spent with eating,  playing cards,  doing little chores around the house and talks on all manner of subjects.  If you have kept up you get an idea about the players.  Dad is still Dad.  Mom is well educated and well spoken.  Brother is also well educated, read and spoken.  Sister in law is the same as  Brother.  That leaves my wife and I which I will claim are well rounded as well.

The six of us definately have six different ways of looking at most subjects.  Naturally the rest of the group has yet to learn that my view is always the correct one,  so discussions get off track.  Nevertheless,  we have solved most of the worlds problems in a little less than a week.  Now if we can just get the powers to be the message.

Card playing is another story.  Although secretly we all assume the others cheat,  we rarely speak those words out loud.  Games are fast and fun.  Euchre is the favored game and truth is everyone is probably even in the win/loss column.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we have already consumed enough to keep Biafra from starving for another year.  We all love to eat.

Tomorrow we will attempt to call all of the Family that could not attend our little get together.  We all miss those members of our Family.  We, like so many others,  miss Family at these Holiday times.  We sit and recall amusing stories from the past, particurally about those missing in action.  We can stretch the truth a little because they were not here for self defense.  After we laugh ourselves silly at others expense,  we settle back at the table to add back the lost weight from laughing.

So goes our week of Thanksgiving.  What a wonderful way to spend a week.  Wirth loved ones.

Chinese food

I have been busy.

So, here's my take on the recent Elections.  I was surprised at the re-election of Mr. Obama,  as I guess roughly half of the population was.  I am guessing that continuation of the known is more acceptable than the unknown that comes with new.  I for one would have considered a new approach, even if uncertain, would be acceptable given the past four years and the lack of progress on issues that are stiffling this country.  That does not mean in any way that I am enamored with Mr. Romney,  simply that I think something different is required.  Are we so gullible as to beleive that the last four years were just "set-up" for the real solutions?

At all levels of Government we have been bombarded with hollow promises for the past 18 months or so.  We were informed less about real plans for correcting our nations problems than we were about candidates shortcomings as human beings and politicians.  Yet we somehow managed to cast our votes for those repugnant candidates and entrusted them with our fate yet again.

Again,  i would suggest that our entire system requires a complete overhaul.  Even though newly elected officials have now begun bantying about ideas such as bi-partisan efforts,  I will crap and fall back in it if there is any real effort to do such an outlandish thing.  Admitting that the opposition party may in fact hold some ideas of value is counter to all that our present political system holds dear to them.

The next political person that claims to be able to reduce taxes when our debt has passed 16 Trillion dollars should be jacketed (AS IN Straight).  Every taxpayer should be willing to pay their fair share.  I am simply tired of paying for worthless crap, forign economic assists,  long ago lost military causes, etc...  Lets get our house in order before ordering Chinese is in fact ordering national foods.