Long time no post. A few notable things have happened in the past week. May 1st was May Day, of course. It was also Un Dia Sin Immigrante which had an impressive turnout. Stephen Colbert stood up against Bush (it’s about time someone did!!) on live TV and gave the speech of his life at the Whitehouse Press Correspondents’ dinner.
Since these stories have been featured very prominently in the news I don’t feel bad for skipping over them. Well, I do, but my philosophy about this site is that it’s more of a personal journal/record and I never want to write out of obligation.
I do have some sad news to report. So, I voted in the Primaries yesterday, right? The sad news is that doing so officially put me on record as a Democrat.
Doh! I’d prefer to have no affiliation because neither is doing much/anything for the real problems of our country. Yeah I voted for Strickland but I also signed the petition to get Fitrakis on the ballot for Governor in November.
Radical times call for radical measures, our system is so outdated, we need something new or else this is just going to drag on forever. We need to quit the ridiculous arguing, I’m so sick of the bickering. Yeah so Congress is split up unevenly which is why the Democrats say they can’t get anything done, but isn’t that always the case? They need to get over it and figure out how to work together, it’s not an excuse for years-long periods of inaction and indecision. That would never fly in a real job. I know people more educated in political workings will have plenty to say about my simplification, but I’m a simple person and believe too many things are unnecessarily complicated. Like that last sentence, didn’t need to be so long.
I keep seeing example after example of the Gov’t./System/The Man/whatever you prefer to call it, treating the symptom instead of the disease. Okay a weird analogy just popped in my head, try to follow my weird and cynical logic.
- Say you have poison ivy growing around your yard and while cutting the grass one day you rubbed against it. Doesn’t have to be literal poison ivy. Could be poverty. Could be homelessness. Could be AIDS.
- The gov’t. we have now would claim to help you by appropriating money (most likely by taking it from already under-funded social programs like AmeriCorps or those silly Public School places) to start a very official sounding “Independent Poison Ivy Investigative Commission” to see how bad the problem is. It would probably be headed by a former CEO of an oil company who has no idea what to do about Poison Ivy but used to play baseball with the current President on Sundays after church.
- Two years (and lots of itching) later they complete their study and say “yeah, it’s a problem.”
- So they make a deal with a pharmaceutical company that will be your lifetime source of anti-histamine cream. You can only buy this particular cream from this particular company. And it’ll have a 5000% price markup. And of course you don’t have insurance.
What needs to be done is the freakin’ poison ivy needs to be ripped out of the ground!!
Get rid of the poison ivy, it’s that simple. Much cheaper to pay someone to put on some gloves and rip it out of the ground and alleviate any possibility of it affecting anyone else in the future. And give the person some cream that’s 100% covered by her universal health care insurance so she doesn’t have to sell her plasma on the weekends to pay for her medicine.
But in my eyes that’s not how it’s working right now and I can’t make sense of it. Either they’re in denial that the poison ivy is actually there, or they’re arguing over who’s fault it is that it’s growing in the first place. They’ll probably blame the liberal media for “fertilizing it with radical notions of equality.” Instead the long and expensive temporary solution is chosen every time at the expense of the average citizen who is subjected to the symptoms and consequences of systematic failures they have no control over.
For whatever reason today I’m especially frustrated with our political process. Highly disappointed that someone like Ken Blackwell was able to secure the Republican nomination for Governor. Silly me for hoping the Republicants would actually impress me and pick Petro.
Just boggles my mind. But I suppose if Ohioans are that blind to his past then they deserve to turn over the state to him. It’s gonna happen whether he gets the votes or not, sure helps when you run the Board of Elections! I can just hear it now “look I’m a moderate Republican cause I’m voting for the black guy!” Ok maybe that’s unfair of me to say. Maybe they genuinely support his goal of banning gay marriage and believe writing discrimination into the Constitution will solve all our problems. Why should two people that love eachother get married anyway? That’s silly. So what if the divorce rate for straight people is over 50%, irrelevent, it’s still sacred and you can’t have it!!
I’m a little out of it and it’s probably evident in all this rambling. My excuse is that I passed out this morning at the Dr. and still don’t feel 100%.
I had a fever-induced dream where my cats scratched out the window screen and there were little birds in my apt eating the hamster seeds that fell on the floor. I wanted to call the maintenance guy but I was afraid cause they don’t know I have 2 cats here and I didn’t want to get in trouble and I couldn’t afford the monthly fee they’d add on. Then I looked in the litter box and there was a five-headed snake-like dog-monster thing coming out of it. It just went on from there…
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