Because I really had to see the tax lady, I finally looked at the IRA’s and they were heart pausing but not heart stopping. For that I am grateful. However, that said, I find the daily discussion over each nuance of the financial fixing plan to serve the news networks more than myself. I recently backed off the amount of news that I ingest because there is more hyperbole than straight reporting or straight analysis. The only intelligent wit and wisdom to be had is courtesy of MSNBC in the person of Rachel Maddow. If you do not receive MSNBC you can get her courtesy of Air America Media. She is better educated, better informed, and truly wittier than any news presenter I can think of including the BBC.
For most of the other pundits on air, the daily financial events are merely fodder for people over-talking each other supporting their particular slant rather than any real discussion with actual listening taking place. Others are serving platters of bitter weed in the form of rants and raving with no attempts at objective analysis or counter-points. For the remaining news we are getting over-exposure to the horrible and the horrendous. I-Reports can be useful, but how many times do you need average-Jane saying how outraged she is? How much do you need to hear about OctyMom or MurderMom? How many chimp attacks, service-horses and other non-news do we need? How many different people do we need to tell us how horrible that no-survivors, child-killing plane crash was? I do not for a moment expect that any of you need anyone to tell you that a no-suvivors plane crash is heartbreaking. That type of nonsense is what drove me to BBC for my news before the election. Guess I will have to go back there.
Moving along, I guess the Republicans are getting organized. The day I gave my workshop a woman checked us out but when invited to join us she exclaimed that she had . . “ a verry important meeting to attend . . . far more important than your workshop.” THE REPUBLICANS were meeting! That caused me to walk toward that meeting expecting the entire town to be there since I live in REDWORLD . There were about twenty-five people. It must have been the REALLY important republicans.
I note that there seems to be a regular REPUBLICAN meeting there now. So I guess they are getting ready for 2012. That is accompanied by new waves of lets scare the pants off of um so they will run our direction and accept our way of ruining the economy in the name of conservative economics. Ask any successful and historical figure if victory was grabbed from the jaws of defeat with conservative actions and you will learn the truth of that idea.
Yes this is a ramble WITH SHOUTING so it may also be a rant. No tightly written, calm post here. Think I should add a new category, Ramble perhaps?
Onedia
Yes it is depressing isn’t it when the losers can’t be gracious and not only not gracious, but being down right vicious?
Hope you feel better after the rant.
It seems meetings such as referenced are composed of the extremely redical element only.
It seems those of us who are slightly left or right of center politically and philosophically, are not important until an election when we are bombarded with these spheres of influence.
In fact we are dumped together and labeled as non-entity “independents”, perceived as “enemy combatants” of either liberal or conservative thinking.
My most radical thought is we as a country are headed toward a revolutionary war, not for independence, but franchised vs. disinfranchised, because we have lost a so-called middle class socially and economically–a revolution as described in the TALE OF TWO CITIES….it is the best of times or the worst of times…depending.
Probably not in my life time, but who knows?
NitWit1 (Carol)
But it’s most important to remain calm and keep your head when all around you appear to be losing theirs. Critics are generally stupers (short as you know for egregiously stupid persons), and one must never take them seriously. It keeps us from remaining focused on issues we deem important.
I am dismayed at the general and casual lack of respect for our highest office.