Now Is The Time

It's time for the US to create some sort of amnesty for undocumented residents. Since Bush, Cheney and their buddies ran this country into the ground, the undocumented residents are probably looking at their situations and deciding that home is looking a lot better. But now we need them more than ever. And when I mention how Bush, Cheney and their buddies ran this country into the ground, I mean things like the trillions of dollars wasted in Iraq, including the money paid to DICK Cheney's old company. I mean things like the shameful failure to stop the Taliban. I mean things like such lax controls on big business that Big Money was able to prey on unsuspecting borrowers using usurious tactics. I mean things like so many people now suffering because health care is so out of reach of so many US residents. I mean things like the "big three" automakers going broke IN SPITE OF protectionist laws supported and passed by Bush, Cheney and their buddies. Yes, they passed these laws even though "foreign" automakers have employed tens of thousands of workers within these 50 states for decades! Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Subaru and others. Fighting unfair fights and still kicking the asses of the "big three."

Now lest I be confused as a liberal-come-lately, let's also place some blame on the people who borrowed more than they can afford. And let's place some blame on UAW for holding the "big three" hostage by driving costs so high with their terrorist tactics against the "big three" in the past. I guess the final summary will show that there is plenty of blame to go around.

Yet, the thesis remains the same: let's offer some sort of amnesty for the law-abiding undocumented residents so that they may begin contributing what citizens are contributing already. Namely, much needed tax money to help clean up the tons of shit left behind by Bush, DICK Cheney, and their buddies. That's a good start.

Next, let's figure out a solution to this Swine Flu thing that, for some reason, seems to be disproportionately striking Mexicans and Catholics. Why is that? I can't figure out the Mexican angle, but as for the Catholics, to use some of their own logic, is this God trying to tell them something? After all, Catholic church hierarchy was quick to proclaim that God was trying to tell gays something by sending down AIDS....and was trying to tell the US something when he sent down Katrina....and so on. I think you get the idea.

The Buster Boys

They lived way back behind us. There were at least half-a-dozen of them Buster Boys, even though they weren't all "Buster" by birth.

Twice a year, they got their hairs cut. Always a flat top.

Earlier this week, I got a flat top. Only because the Good Nurse suggested it. Before my flat top, I had a long, shaggy mop with a beard of many weeks. I had disregarded my hair status only because it didn't matter. Then my favorite Brazilian said, "somebody said that you have let yourself go, girl." That was true. I had.

So now I am looking like a clean-cut marine. And my mind goes back to the Buster Boys. I hope now that I pay better attention to my personal hygiene.

Church in the Olden Days

Many, many years ago, long before I was born, my grandfather got in a tussle at the family church. You see, back in those days, some menfolk went to church, but didn't go inside the church. They only went so they could take the womenfolk. Some of the menfolk would find themselves outside the church, gambling and drinking and such. My grandfather was one of the ruffians.

My Aunt Mary, who was already over 60 years old when I was born, told me this story. During one church service, there in the back yard was my grandfather. Gambling and drinking and such. The preacher made up his mind that the menfolk out back were making too much noise, interfering with the service. He decided to call them down. They took the chastisement just fine. At first. After some more of the alcohol kicked in, they decided that they had been insulted. So they called the preacher out, along with some of the deacons, and decided they were going to "whup them." They succeeded. I suppose that church ended for that day, but Aunt Mary never filled me in from that point, and she is now long gone.

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Some years later, it came time for the church to build a new building. They needed a new location. My grandfather donated the land and lots of labor to build the new church. This must mean he was back in the good graces, as it were. My only reason for sharing this story is so that I may document it and come back to read it when I want to travel down the roads of history.

As far as I know, my name is still on the rolls of that church. I haven't attended in many, many years. I do know that the outhouses (his and hers) were replaced by indoor facilities in the 1980s. Maybe one day I will again visit. But right now, I can't see a situation where I would.

Let's Protect the Sanctity of Marriage

Since so many of the "do-gooders" are so keen to pick up a Bible for use as a weapon, let's show them its full use.

Legislators: it is time for a law to protect us from those who would try to steal such a divine institution such as marriage and destroy it by using it in a way the Bible clearly does not condone--nay, in a way that the Bible clearly prohibits! To wit:

In Paul's letters to the church at Corinth, he says that a man shall have no more than one living wife. Therefore, I demand laws be passed everywhere in this great country to prohibit marriage by anyone who has divorced his spouse--as long as that spouse remains alive. We can't be picking and choosing which parts of the Bible we want to obey, right? That's what the religious wrong keeps telling us. So we can't just overlook THIS part. Right? Isn't that what we have been hearing?

Oh, but wait...so MANY of the people of the religious wrong ALREADY have multiple living spouses that this would be an unfair hardship, you say. Hmm. But what about the sanctity of marriage? Do we just forget our teachings?

Gee. I'm not so sure how this should play out. But before I sit down and let earthly people pepper this nation with confusion (which is authored by Satan) about whom I may or may not marry, my voice will loudly call out those who attempt to judge me while their own house is not in order.

A final thought: since some same-gender marriages have been nullified, as I understand it, that gives us open season to nullify all opposite-gender marriages that don't follow all of the requirements of the Bible to be valid. Right?

Yeah, all of this sounds really silly. I know. Don't they know?

Double Standard?

Last night I fell asleep watching "truTV." The stories were forgettable, but something else really put a bug in my crawl.

It seems that truTV provides subtitles for people in the Southern United States, who speak their English clearly as can be. But when it goes to island residents in places like the Bahamas or Jamaica or other little, bitty places off the coast of Florida, there are no subtitles. And I can't understand a damn word they say. If I hadn't been on the cusp of sleep, I would have backed up the show on DVR, turned on the closed captioning and figured out what the hell they were trying to say.

Alas, all I know is that somebody was murdered on a golf course down there. truTV: why captions for people in Alabama, but not in foreign countries? Hmm?