election

I am sure that many of the pundits will slice and dice the election costing billions yesterday. Each will declare an epiphany of political savvy. None will declare that they actually voted or that their vote counted. None will decry the billions spent on campaigns filled with smear, misdirection, and outright lies. All will declare that their side won - even in a loss. Torches will be passed to the new representative or senator with grace, aplomb and civility with a set of rules defined by chivalric and Victorian courtesies. Crap! It is all crap. We as citizens do not really get to elect fair, impartial and representative advocates of our needs. America ignored the upcoming recession as they overbought houses, overextended their own credit and bought anything Chinese from Wal-Mart. We lived in a bubble of false security, a propensity for fooling ourselves that everything will be OK, and the US of A will always be safe from economic or physical harm.

Consider that the same politicians (in effect) lost Viet Nam; can't really do anything about terrorism except throw money at Homeland Security and hope the cash will mix with someone's blood, make a slurry and dry to create impenatrable adobe blocks that will somehow also solve the illegal alien issues; are still clueless about the current recession; and, likely ignore the people that they pledge to serve.

Government, recession, pains

well, I'm back again . . . The elections are over, we have an articulate President. Sometimes I get irked with all the fuss about his skin tone, heritage, and all of the other baggage that he is suppose to be carrying. Crap. He's a smooth politician, may be able to get congress to act like they are spending billions on the citizens - hah. The Dem congress is going to do a lot of social stuff that he has promised. But, neither he nor anyone else can come up with a quick fix for the economic woes that have been building for 8 or so years.  On another and completely unrelated note: my ankle is getting worse - can hardly walk. I work standing a lot. Really bad . . . Tomorrow, I go to the doctor and see if there are medical stuff that can be done to get me back to at least walking normally.