A billion people waited anxiously, watching a small chimney on the roof of the chapel at the Vatican. They were watching to see the color of smoke that came out. Black smoke prompted a moan.......3 times. Finally, what they all were watching for....white smoke!!!! Yippee!! A new Pope. Someone charged with control of an empire rife with problems.
In this age of electronic media and games, I found it interesting that such an event would capture the attention of so many. No campaigning, mud-slinging or outright lying could be found in the media. It must frustrate the hell out of media pundits not to be able to do more than sit a watch with the rest of the billion. From what I saw, speculation of front runners was way off target. Newscasters seemed lost for words. No juicy sub plots. (Other than the need for reform within the Catholic Priesthood)
Entertainment does not have to be electronic.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
gloom and doom
Well, we shot past yet another fiscal crisis. Yet again, our elected officials couldn't see fit to get together and really solve a problem. The reality is that neither party will do anything for fear they might upset some voters. It seems to me from recent polls that I have read that the majority of voters are upset with politicians. Reality also seems to be that they are only upset at the opposing party. What will it take to finally have Americans fed up to the point of real action?
Our latest fiscal fiasco involves a mere $85 billion. That is just a few days spending for our government, yet the gloom and doom that has been forcast is surprising. It seems if politicians can scare the crap out of the other parties voters that they feel they will be excused for their own poor behavior.
We can throw away $85 billion on futile military exercises in a matter of hours. We throw that away daily on USELESS politicians. Heck, we spend that much to fly the sitting president and posse around for meaningless meetings. One thing our politicians are very good at is spending money we do not have. I read in Time Magazine that a small group of mixed (Repubs and Dems) senators have proposed that congress not be paid until they pass a balanced budget! Hell yea!
If Washington and the States don't get serious about our annual budgets soon, we will experience some real gloom and doom.
Our latest fiscal fiasco involves a mere $85 billion. That is just a few days spending for our government, yet the gloom and doom that has been forcast is surprising. It seems if politicians can scare the crap out of the other parties voters that they feel they will be excused for their own poor behavior.
We can throw away $85 billion on futile military exercises in a matter of hours. We throw that away daily on USELESS politicians. Heck, we spend that much to fly the sitting president and posse around for meaningless meetings. One thing our politicians are very good at is spending money we do not have. I read in Time Magazine that a small group of mixed (Repubs and Dems) senators have proposed that congress not be paid until they pass a balanced budget! Hell yea!
If Washington and the States don't get serious about our annual budgets soon, we will experience some real gloom and doom.
No better way
I had heart work (angioplasty and 4 stints added) in December. Hadn't been feeling well and knew it was heart related. Put it off as long as I was comfortable that I could still function. Surgery went well but, I never felt as good as I did after the first time I had stints installed. So I had another heart cath last week to see whats up.
I am beginning to think that 60 years of poor eating habits wasn't such a good idea. After all that time my body and mind tend to reject healthy foods. They just don't have the same flavor that salt and grease laden foods do. I now have traded in my "donut" diet on a more health conscience diet that I will name the "Spit it out if it tastes good" diet.
I have written about the benefits of growing older before. Now we can add bland foods to the growing list of crap we have to put up with as we stroll through our GOLDEN years! Whats Golden is the amount of money spent to continue into those wonderful years. Wouldn't have it any other way!
I am beginning to think that 60 years of poor eating habits wasn't such a good idea. After all that time my body and mind tend to reject healthy foods. They just don't have the same flavor that salt and grease laden foods do. I now have traded in my "donut" diet on a more health conscience diet that I will name the "Spit it out if it tastes good" diet.
I have written about the benefits of growing older before. Now we can add bland foods to the growing list of crap we have to put up with as we stroll through our GOLDEN years! Whats Golden is the amount of money spent to continue into those wonderful years. Wouldn't have it any other way!
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