Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day 2005 in Punxsutawney

Main Stream Media just reported (6:30 AM CT) that the Groundhog saw his shadow today and that means that there will be at least five more weeks of winter (it used to be six weeks, but with global warming and all!) and billionaires will continue to fund people like Newton Gingrich.

So the more things do not change, the more things stay the same (what?).

Al Franken is a despicable guttersnipe

BILLO

How much do you have to pay to get outta goin through all these things twice?

BOB DYLAN

I recently took the time to view Groundhog Day again.

I have, of course viewed this classic film again and again and again.

I recall thinking, when I first saw this film:

Bill Murray is a terrible actor.

Up until about five or ten years ago I would have stuck with that assessment.

But the thing about Groundhog Day is that it points out what bad actors we all are in the end. hahahaha

The Wiki link brings back memories if nothing new.

Which brings me back to my original theme.

How much do we really have to pay to get outta going through all these things twice?

13 years ago we as a nation decided that it was time to get ridda the Newt.

38 years ago we as a nation decided that an imperial Presidency was not in the national interest.

47 years ago we decided as a nation, again, that all men are created equal.

48 years ago we decided as a nation that all citizens in the United States of America have a right to vote.

56 years ago we decided as a nation that a national highway system was necessary to spur commerce between the states and that that highway system needed to be reexamined and repaired from time to time.

77 years ago we decided that a pension system available to all American Citizens was necessary so that our aged would be provided with some assistance in their waning years.

79 years ago we decided that the Coolidge/Hoover theory of economics no longer worked.

87 years ago we decided as a nation that Spencer Tracy had proved that the ages of rocks were in fact more important than the rock of ages.

92 years ago we decided as a nation that women are people and therefore are citizens of these United States of America and have equal rights with men and have a right to vote.

Over the last 122 years, we as a nation decided that the Bill of Rights actually applied to all American citizens.

122 years ago, we as a nation decided that the worker has some rights with regard to the blood, sweat and tears shed as a member of the national labor force.

151 years ago we decided as a nation that a progressive income tax was necessary to sustain us as a people.

154 years ago we decided as a nation that a divided house cannot stand.

210 years ago we decided as a nation that there would be a separation between church and state.

236 years ago we decided as a nation that all men were created equal.

Here are some examples of new legislation that seem to contra act or at least fly in the face of some of my findings with regard to these basic tenets, principles and beliefs that were a part of our national heritage.

13 states, on their own, would infringe upon the rights of American Citizens to vote in state and Federal elections.

Several states, on their own, would infringe upon the right of employees to organize as a union

The Bill of Rights no longer has any applicability to the citizens of the United States of America.

We now imprison more Black folks than White folks; thereby making a large number of  Black folks slaves once again.

One percent of our national population is in prison and making profits for corporations as slave labor.

The Coolidge/Hoover theory of economics wins out.

How much do we have to pay to get outta going through all these things twice?