Made it through the New Years Eve thing stone sober and sound asleep. Not the first time that has happened. Oh, I had a nostalgic moment before I went to bed. I thought about the past year and asked the good Lord to forgive some of the vindictive thoughts I had. Also asked him to bless all those who are less fortunate then I am. All in all the last year was not a bad one. I managed to spend a lot of the kids inheritance. I made a few enemies and got rid of a couple toxic friendships (for want of a better word.) And I thought about making a bunch of New Years Resolutions on a sheet of paper and putting it on the refrigerator so I could look at it every day, but I had a second thought that beat hell out of that first thought! But since I did all this thinking in the middle of the night, I just rolled over and went back to sleep!
Let's just face it! I am who I am and I shall remain that way. I should quit cussing, but that just ain't happening. I should start being a softer person, but hell with that. I already go to church every Sunday, so that is a given. I try to be kind to people, but some people are just such total assholes that they make it impossible. Most of the time I grit my teeth and just put one foot in front of the other and it works for me. But of course there is always that one person that is insistent on having my honest opinion on our politics and they ding at me until I give them my opinion and then they will talk louder and faster to convince me that I am wrong. Well, it is down hill from there. When I get in a screaming match I tend to spit when I talk and there is nothing more degrading then an old woman foaming at the mouth over something she has no control over. I am getting pretty good at just walking away from those situations, but it has taken me 76 years to learn that art.
I gotta tell you I am not happy with our political climate today. I spent many years working on gay rights, migrant rights, women's rights, racial equality, animal rights, Black Hills Energy rate hikes, health care, food labeling and that damn GMO crap that we are forced to eat or starve. I want a quiet peaceful world where we all are equal and it just isn't happening. I thought we had made strides and then some lunatic becomes our leader and with a stroke of his pen changes it all. Or he thinks he does. Most of his edicts can be overturned because they are illegal and won't happen just because he wants them to, but we are in limbo as they creep through the judicial system to be declared unconstitutional.
And that damn wall! Did we not learn anything from the Berlin Wall? I knew a lady once who moved to Mexico and lived there until she died. Why? Because she could afford to live on her Social Security down there and she had a cleaning lady and ate very well. The climate suited her and her little condo was very nice. I survive on Social Security because my home is paid for and so is my car. Sadly, if I want anything extra I am dipping into the kids inheritance or taking in some sort of work that pays cash under the table. And while we are on the subject of the border wall, is that for us to keep the Mexicans out, or for keeping our own people in? Our little world is collapsing around our heads and we are not smart enough to see it. But that is alright, because they just voted us a tremendous tax cut! As long as they keep telling us how well off we are, we can keep thinking some one cares for us.
We can not pass a gun law because the NRA owns us. I hear the argument that "guns don't kill people, people kill people and they can do it with a knife, or a car, or anything." We live in an atmosphere of hate. Pure and simple. We are controlled by who we send to Congress. It is that simple. We have morons in Congress who have been there forever and we keep sending them back because when re-election time comes they tell us things will be different. Well now you see what different is! Talk about raping and pillaging that goes on way back in history and then take a look at what we have in Washington today! And enjoy yourself, its later than you think!
I hope I live long enough to see Americans pull their heads out of their asses.
Let's just face it! I am who I am and I shall remain that way. I should quit cussing, but that just ain't happening. I should start being a softer person, but hell with that. I already go to church every Sunday, so that is a given. I try to be kind to people, but some people are just such total assholes that they make it impossible. Most of the time I grit my teeth and just put one foot in front of the other and it works for me. But of course there is always that one person that is insistent on having my honest opinion on our politics and they ding at me until I give them my opinion and then they will talk louder and faster to convince me that I am wrong. Well, it is down hill from there. When I get in a screaming match I tend to spit when I talk and there is nothing more degrading then an old woman foaming at the mouth over something she has no control over. I am getting pretty good at just walking away from those situations, but it has taken me 76 years to learn that art.
I gotta tell you I am not happy with our political climate today. I spent many years working on gay rights, migrant rights, women's rights, racial equality, animal rights, Black Hills Energy rate hikes, health care, food labeling and that damn GMO crap that we are forced to eat or starve. I want a quiet peaceful world where we all are equal and it just isn't happening. I thought we had made strides and then some lunatic becomes our leader and with a stroke of his pen changes it all. Or he thinks he does. Most of his edicts can be overturned because they are illegal and won't happen just because he wants them to, but we are in limbo as they creep through the judicial system to be declared unconstitutional.
And that damn wall! Did we not learn anything from the Berlin Wall? I knew a lady once who moved to Mexico and lived there until she died. Why? Because she could afford to live on her Social Security down there and she had a cleaning lady and ate very well. The climate suited her and her little condo was very nice. I survive on Social Security because my home is paid for and so is my car. Sadly, if I want anything extra I am dipping into the kids inheritance or taking in some sort of work that pays cash under the table. And while we are on the subject of the border wall, is that for us to keep the Mexicans out, or for keeping our own people in? Our little world is collapsing around our heads and we are not smart enough to see it. But that is alright, because they just voted us a tremendous tax cut! As long as they keep telling us how well off we are, we can keep thinking some one cares for us.
We can not pass a gun law because the NRA owns us. I hear the argument that "guns don't kill people, people kill people and they can do it with a knife, or a car, or anything." We live in an atmosphere of hate. Pure and simple. We are controlled by who we send to Congress. It is that simple. We have morons in Congress who have been there forever and we keep sending them back because when re-election time comes they tell us things will be different. Well now you see what different is! Talk about raping and pillaging that goes on way back in history and then take a look at what we have in Washington today! And enjoy yourself, its later than you think!
I hope I live long enough to see Americans pull their heads out of their asses.
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