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I Can See Clearly Now

I worked for a guy named Russell in Memphis, years ago. He was wrapped really  tight and that is never a good way for a boss to be. This was one of the many times when I was between commercial painting gigs, which I decidedly preferred for work. He was pretty good at getting work though and that meant the odds were decent that I would get paid and not have to react badly towards him in the event that that didn't happen. Because he was so angst driven, he made poor decisions. On my first house with him (my only? I'm not sure) he was getting bullied by a family of three generations of carpenters who clearly were running the job, if not just running him. The carpenters were alright really. I rather admired that a grandfather, son and son were working together. And they did good work. They were fine to me, just hard on Russell and his lead man, a guy whose name I don't recall even though I would work with him a couple years later for another crazy guy and he would later have no...
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The Similarities Are Different

 https://www.facebook.com/reel/954444744175485 "The parties are the same!" "They're ALL a bunch a crooks!" You hear both statements all the time from folks who don't do politics. Well, they're not wrong. US v. THEM has been the theme of life since the beginning of life. It is burned into religion, gender, motorcycle gangs, baseball teams and ALL aspects of politics for forever. It is the way it is and always will be. It's one of those things we just have to deal with. I saw a similar sentiment from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, on Bluesky the other day. She was laying out quite bluntly, as Don Leonard did above, how it is a foregone conclusion that Hakeem Jefferies will  lead the new Congress in January, and Chuck Schumer will  lead the Senate. AOC as much as said there was nothing she or we could do about it. It sucks, but it's the way things are done in both parties. To go against it is to be bullied into submission by the more senior members of th...
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Musing, On a Tuesday Afternoon

 Not sure what to write about today. I was going to post how I respect how women don't like to give oral, but mentioning oral at all might be why last night's post got a warning from the fine folks at Blogger (who are probably just algorithmic bots anyway <though good-looking ones at that>). I dunno as they never tell you what upsets them. They just default to the extremely vague "community guidelines". It's like when the wife or girlfriend is mad at you and they say: "Well if you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you!" That's productive. (<----sarcasm) So maybe I'll stick to politics and try to avoid any trigger words they might have, but don't see fit to tell us about. Wish me luck! I don't want to sound Pollyanna-ish, but I'm kinda impressed by the republicans/Maga who seemed to have woken up and smelled the bullshit about the Trump regime. Many have begun to realize that they have been played and they ar...
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The First Cut is the Deepest

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Tick Tock...

 If you go back a bit here, you'll see that I've done my share of alarming about the Trump regime in the past couple of years. Sorry- not sorry- about that. And here we go again.  It's far more serious now because the clock on the coup started running down the moment Trump and company realized that the Dems won both houses of Congress in the midterms. Whatever fuckery they had planned to ease the country into their takeover has now been accelerated. You can practically hear the AHHOOGAAA  horn from an old war movies blowing, calling all hands on deck. Their hand has been forced now. We the people have given them NO CHOICE but to get nasty. That's the way they think, whether they are high up in the regime or simply a typical magat posting on the internet. It's that rapist/bully mentality that always says: " YOU made me do this!" They were trying to be democratic about this, perhaps eventually going through legislative channels to fundamentally- once and fo...
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Everybody Wants to Rue the World

It's one thing to want to control the whole world, but quite another to want to destroy it. Both aspirations are aberrant in desire, but the latter is easier, especially now with nuclear weapons. Control-ruling is just stupid. Who, even in their *right* mind wants that responsibility? This why it's always crazy people who want to rule the world. You can read a history book to find out about that, or the comments section of any internet thread. A lot of crazy people at least think about it! I must also note that no good-looking people have ever made an unreasonably serious attempt at serious world dominance. History book reading again, but it is always ugly, stupid-looking people. Handsome people have better things to do. For example, I'm writing this.  For a long time I have been wondering why anyone would take a pretty much okay country like the USA and set their sights on destroying it. It's extra baffling that the current crop of ruiners are (again) the richest among...
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WE Did It! Let's Keep Doing It

 I'm still giddy. Even after a crazy, frustrating day of trying to get my new laptop to 'cast' onto a TV like my other one does, I'm still thrilled at the people's victories last night. Yeah sure, it was the democrats, but democrats are  the people and I believe we proved that last night. We the people do really care about government doing right, and we made that quite clear from Texas to Michigan, and Kansas to South Carolina. Everywhere but Florida really, but that's Florida.  I'm also excited about what didn't  happen yesterday. There was not a single black swan event! To my knowledge there weren't even any ICE or National Guard troops at polling places anywhere. Been reading about that for months. The media told us Trump might try all sorts of fuckery to keep from losing congress. They told us the best Dems might do is maybe take the house. Maybe.  Surely though, the Senate was a pipe dream. That wasn't going to happen. Not on their watch!Tha...
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