Wednesday, December 5: Four Hours off for George Bush Day of National Mourning.

Well today I got up and talked to Pat for a while. We talked 

 ecause I’m getting off 4 ours early today. This is because of the national  morning for recently   deceased George H.W. Bush   who will saluted at Capitol with tributes to his 

 ervice and decency. Compared to Donald Trump he did have 

 ecency. He wasn’t without its flaws. My only issue is we’ve never had been given time off or any other 

 eceased former president before. Well, I guess there’s a first time for everything. I’m wondering 

 hat they’ll do when Jimmy Carter dies or Bill Clinton or especially Trump. This ought to be interesting. 
Anyhow it’s really cold today. It was 27° when I wobbled out of the 

 ouse and went to sunrise. I was late but it was decent. I then got 

 ome coffee and took the Ellen to work. I’m going to be about five minutes late so that’ll

 mean 9:05 AM. Well didn’t really matter that I was late. I finished

 off as much is the alerts as much as possible and I have 10 remaining. I just got my  

  report it has 30 names. That gives me a fighting chance toe get
sanctions done and completed on time. I left work at 12:30 PM. And then meantime I sent myself the meet somebody

 new at the Starbucks at 19th and Chestnut at 1 PM. I deafly cut it close because I  boarded the trolley at 12:53 @ 22nd St. It was 12:55 pm  so I got there just in the nick 

 f time. I had to borrow 5 bucks from a workmate just to make sure I wasn’t

 completely broke. I probably should’ve waited but 

 hatever. It should be interesting. I made it to Starbucks on time and I must say she is nice. She has a lot of interesting things to say and she’s been all 
     over the world.  She likes taking pictures & knows about architecture. We talked for over 

 n hour. I know that just “hanging out” won’t do 4 sure. 

 e went to SNAP foods across the Starbucks and she got some vegetarian food . We parted ways and

 had some follow-up texts afterwards. We see what happens. Did you know the millennial‘s are changing the Philly accent. You can 
  break read it right here in Philadelphia magazine! Good reading while you’re on the bathroom or Waiting 

 or the bus of your choice. I took the train ride home and Pat and I went to Walmart as the sun was setting. We

 also went to the Home Depot. You got some basic items for his house. After that we went to get 
a couple samosas

 for a quick snack. Pat did his own thing and I decided to take a shower and eat more of my leftover Indian food. We got home and I decided I would eat some more and take a shower. That  really did help. It is now 830 and after I ate it will start working

 again. Well, took a while to get him up another hour to be exact. We got my couch and brought in and a couple of other things in.
. He removed most of the planes from my bedroom area so I slept in my own place for the 1st  time. We brought in some other things ended it because

 it was too cold. we stopped around 12:30 AM.

Small Bites

Well, yes its late out but I just felt like watching TV tonight to soften my mind up a bit. Anyway I was glad that Villanova beat Pitt to get into the Final Four and that Law and Order CI had the best actor for the show Vincent D'Onofrio returning BACK!! I guess he came out of retirement since they advertised him on a episode for next week. (then again they could all be reruns). I was hungry to sink my teeth into some good reading tonite:
I was taken aback by this article on the blog driftglass. This writer makes a blistering critique of an article in the Atlantic Magazine written by Andrew Sullivan. Mr Sullivan states that Bush betrayed conservatism and the right wing blowhards can not reconcile this fact Here is the highlight of this blog post:
"Bush, for Sullivan, is always, always, always where the story begins and ends:

“Now that Bush has been removed, the massive damage done, and a pragmatic liberal is trying to sort out the mess in a sane, orderly fashion, they've gone nuts.”

Except, of course, in order to posit his self-serving piffle, Sullivan has to rather flagrantly ignore a period in time we here on the Left refer to as “The Fucking 1990s”.

Sullivan conveniently forgets that the slavering Limbaugh-led orcs on the Right who now treat Barack Obama "as if he's already Robert Mugabe" even though he has "just two months on the job" are the very same slavering, Limbaugh-led orcs who spent the eight years before Bush/Cheney treating another pragmatic, center-left Republican-lite President as History’s Greatest Monster.
Was that fun or what?? Here is a blogger named Alex Knapp who writes a blog called Outside The Beltway. He points out the irony of the folks who are having "tea parties" to protest President Obama and his spending. Click here and check it out yourself. I most liked the exchanges that he gets involved and again I have a favorite. Please bite into something and enjoy.

Alex, are you aware of what a Marxist would do in the position Obama now holds,

My guess is that he would nationalize every industry, break apart large estates into smaller parces held in common by agricultural committees run by the government, end currency trading, round up business executives and have them shot, put the government in charge of distributing commodities, and send dissidents to gulags.

Alex, if your goal was to reduce the middle class to poverty, Alex. How would that be best accomplished except by spending all of our money, Alex.

If I wanted to reduce the middle class to poverty, I would do one of two things: create a marxist state OR create a system whereby tax codes, regulations and laws favored large, multi-national conglomerates and made it increasingly difficult for small businesses and entrepreneurs to compete unless they acquiesced to government control by changing their business form to a publicly traded corporation; I would ensure the protection of inherited wealth against new wealth by eliminating estate taxes; I would create a complicated tax system which allowed the wealthy to skirt the law and not pay taxes while those with lesser means ended up effectively being taxed more; I would protect monopolies by force of law through unnecessary licensure on professions such as cosmetology and undertaking; I would set up regulations that make shareholders powerless when it comes to the running of a company; I would enact bankruptcy laws that punish ordinary people for incidents that were beyond their control; I would reward companies that have utterly failed... The list goes on.
Touche!!!!

I return now to Cumberland County where the media do not ask questions and taxpayer watchdogs roll over when it comes to our county government. I guess Cindy Zerkle needs to write a blog cause she makes a good point about our County government. I saw this on the Magazzuwatch blog.
Well, Its time to go to bed now. Hope you all enjoy this bit of writing

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