The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    A RANT ON DESPAIR

    By Richard Day on Tue, 09/15/2015 - 5:36am |

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    There are residents in my semi-resthome who can become happy with the help of their small dogs and parakeets; not all the time of course.

    Just sometimes.

    And an hour of happiness appears to trump 15 hours or more (assuming an ability to sleep) of depression.

    There are no absolutes, except for death and grandchildren (if we are lucky).

    Louis CK tells us as much.

    Louis, Louis, Louis, Loui...

     

     

    I watch politics play out.

    Trump, all by himself, says things that play trippingly upon the tongue.

    Personally, I get $1215/Month but I lose $105 to Medicare which I will not ever understand. Dental is unavailable in this town without cash.

    There has come a time when tens of millions of 'the boomers' must sit on the sidelines. 

    O'Reilly and others might fool us from time to time.

    But we, ironically, see boomers on the playing field.

    Biden, Clinton, Bernie, Trump, Fiorna, Mitt (in or out?) Jeb...

    THE YOUNGSTERS?

    Hell Cruz and Rubio aint even Americans qualified for the Office, according to their own party's propagandists. hahahahah

    I will tell you this.

    I have read or attempted to read newspapers for 60 years.

    I have viewed TV news programs for 60 years.

    Off and on I have been 'on line' for thirty years.

    The 'arguments' have not changed much.

    Not really.

    Women should stay in the home.

    Blacks should stay in their own neighborhoods.

    Hispanics should stay within their own borders.

    The poor should work harder and stay off the dole.

    If you are on the dole you should be ashamed.

    If you are rich, you should be proud that you have attained the American Dream all by yourself.

    If you are ill it is your own fault.

    You smoked.

    You used drugs.

    You drank.

    You ate meat?

    In the end, we must not walk in another man's shoes.

    We must not treat our neighbors as we would wish to be treated since our neighbors have sinned more than us.

    On this blog I offer no links.

    Just my despair.

    Again, as I have stated before, what the hell happened to the boomers?

     

     

     

    Comments

     

    Don't post in despair when I'm having a bout of insomnia, DD.   Now I'll never get to sleep!

    What happened to the Boomers?  I don't know, but In 1982, Hippie / Yippee leader Jerry Rubin started advertising a group that encouraged people to "network" with each other;  you'd show up (at Studio 54!), shmooze, hand out your business card, etc.  Thus, the Yuppie was born ... and it's been downhill for Boomers ever since.   Coincidence?  


    by MrSmith1 on Tue, 09/15/2015 - 5:57am

    222One person decides that we might again welcome the Cubans; and the  only Cubans running for Prez abstain?

    One person decides that we might be able to deal with Iran and the bomb and all of Congress says 'fuck you'. hhahahha But this Congress cannot gather an override this sentiment. hahahah

    One person says 'give us your lost and .....'' and Congress cannot override this sentiment.

    I dunno Mr. Smith.

    We lose this one man and we are screwed.

    hhahahahah

    ​I cannot sleep either. Such is our condition. hahahah

    Here is a happy happy  song to help us sleep.

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 09/15/2015 - 6:27am

    We are not going to lose.  The Republican Party is in a mess.  There is 16 of them still running and the leader of the pack is a snake oil salesman carnival barker. I mean these guys are so far in the weeds thrashing around.  Not only do they hate the government but they hate everyone else.  Now we get the treat of watching them make fools of themselves again in the 2nd debate. 

    Are you going to do a live blog again this time? Hopefully I can listen to the debate on Net roots radio again. 

    Last night while you guys was up worrying I was defrosting my little chest freezer with a hair dryer.  Made quick work of it.  I am busy doing fall cleaning and I have made myself stiff and sore so tonight I can't sleep.  I am getting too old for big projects they kick me in the butt sometimes. It is going to take all fall to clean this place.  Any ways it keeps my mind busy. 

    I have made some notes about Sanders economic advisor.  There is more to Sanders then his white mussy hair and Bronx accent.  Media has not covered this yet but they don't get into economic theory because it is above their pay grade.  When I get time I will post about it.  This is the major reason I like Sanders over Clinton.  


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 2:23am

    On Rachel's MSNBC page has a Trump Bingo Card.  LOL...You have to scroll down the page past the clips.  

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show 

    They say it is going to be Yoooge.  I see this word a lot now in comment sections on liberal sites.  Dumb me I didn't connect it to Trump. Anyways the bingo card is really fun. 

    Here is a better link to the card to print out. You can also just draw it out on paper if you can't print it. 

    http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/trumpbingo.jpg


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 4:13am

    Oh we shall have so much fun Momoe. hahahaha

    Instead of five or ten minutes, I have been watching Rachel for half an hour or more.

    Lately.

    Rachel's show last nite was WONDERFUL.

    TrumpHair gives a speech on 'foreign policy?) and does not say one thing about foreign policy except that he will make US the greatest. Like ole Cassius Clay. hahahah

    But supposedly he charges folks a hundred bucks to a thousand bucks a piece and all the money goes to a 'charity for veterans' that has thirty bucks in the bank? hahhaha

    ​Trumphair claims there are hundreds of thousands of members and yet Rachel finds one. A crooked attorney.

    Okay, that is enough.

    Join my live chat in five or six hours!


    by Richard Day on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 2:05pm

    Debate Bingo Cards

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_1.png

    http://i2.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_2.png

    http://i0.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_3.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_4.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_5.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_6.png

     http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_7.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_8.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_9.png

    http://i1.wp.com/www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GOP_Bingo_10.png

    Don't forget to call bingo after you fill up a row.  You can work as many cards as you can handle. 

     


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 2:48pm

    You gave me these 'leaders' on the other blog of mine. hahahahah

    BUT, you know damn well that there are just brief thoughts left from all these 'conservative thought blogs'. If they say this, say that.

    Well done.

    Well done Momoe. hahahahah


    by Richard Day on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 3:07pm

    Hopefully I can find a live feed but yes we will have fun. 

    I always see the clips afterwards on the internet.  Frontier will take over Verizon  in the spring and it will be about half the price that it is now.  I will get some cable back then. I have Verizon internet hook up. It is $100 a month. 

    Some Dems are made at Debbie W-S for not letting the candidates running for the Dems debate more then 6 times.  


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 3:06pm

    Okay, just for fun, here's an article from the Newark Star-Ledger about Chris Christie and tonight's debate:

    http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/what_if_christie_admits_this...

    The joke is, the Star-Ledger article is a less funny re-writing (aka rip-off) of a blog that the man I work for wrote and I posted online on July 29th, a day before the first GOP debate.  Check it out:

    http://thatshowwithmichaelrakosi.com/2015/07/an-apocryphal-tale-or-not/#...

     

     

     

     


    by MrSmith1 on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 4:20pm

    I get so lost sometimes, Mr. Smith. hahahahah

    here we go with a song.

    But then again I trust you Mr. Smith.

    Anyway here is a song.


    by Richard Day on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 4:33pm

    I lose my songs sometimes:

    SO I CHEAT!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 2:37am

    Dick, losing yourself, your songs, going on a rant...the way you're behaving lately is getting so BIZARRE!!!

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 3:56am

    Damn straight, Dick.


    by woolly the mammoth on Tue, 09/22/2015 - 5:44pm

    Hi Woolly

    I am more than a month late.

    Thank you anyway.

    We have much to discus here,

    This is a good place to express opinions.

    We usually respond quicker. hahahahaha

    but there are a lot of folks here who have  something of relevance to say.

    Even me; but just sometimes. hhahhahahahahahhaha


    by Richard Day on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:52am