wrestling for the soul of America

Maybe once the dem poor become plutocrats they will join the reps, but if they are working class they are not going to want to join the republic where there will be no unions, no minimum wage, no forty hour week, and where they will have to pay for schooling and other things that the government supplies in the democracy.  No, it's not, and has never been, our policy to reduce everybody to the lowest common denominator.  Isn't it your policy to stomp on the poor until they are like some kind of jelly that you can scrape off the soles of your Corinthian leather shoes?

I can't speak to the economies of your upper looper cities, but it hardly seems likely that Cheboygan had no homeless people.  Maybe the reason Traverse City had to build another homeless shelter was because homeless Cheboyganers moved there.

Myself, they could put a chip in me, I wouldn't have to carry a wallet with ids, or even money come to think of it, all my credit card info would be on it.  Actually I don't like those people who pay for everything with their card, or anymore they hold out their stoopid phone, it holds up the line for a busy retiree like me, and I just like cash, the feel of the wad in my pocket, the jingle jangle of the coins.  But I don't see how that is going to keep anybody out.  They don't stop for id checks on the border, and I don't think most of the guys that hire them do it because they think they are legal. 

Some of that stuff like alternate universes or the ones where you have like eleven dimensions only seven of them are all curled up in the other four are just speculation.  But stuff like quantum physics and relativity (have you heard way up there that they have just detected gravity waves?), you need that to enjoy many of our modern miracles.  Your gps for example won't work without it, but if you are not making, but merely using them,  I expect you'd do as well thinking it was the good lord guiding you.

Another Republican debate tonight, I am almost embarrassed to watch it, like somebody walking in on me and discovering I am watching Jerry Springer, but watch it I will.

It's a three man race now, though Kasich and Carson are still hanging in, God, or the eleven dimensions, knows why.  It strikes me that Cruz and Rubio are like those guys in the prisoner's dilemma (Where they are both arrested, and if neither one confesses they will both get off scot free, but if one confesses and the other doesn't he will do a lot less time than the guy who doesn't confess).  If one of them drops out they wouldn't be splitting the anti-Trump vote, and the guy who stays in will have a better chance to win the nomination.  There has been some talk of this lately, where one would be the prez, and one the veep.  Maybe they would flip a coin, or maybe it would be more American if they arm wrestled.  Hey wouldn't both of those guys make great pro wrestlers?  Oh god, I bet right now there is some pro wrestler taking on the Trump character.

And then there is that supreme court thing, right now Obama is thinking of nominating the republican governor of Nevada.  He knows the republicans aren't going to consider any of his nominations so he might as well pick the most moderate, even right of moderate, guy he can find, just to make the republicans look as obstructionist as possible.  Still a mystery to me why O'Connell is slamming the door so hard when all he had to do was give Obama's nominees a polite hearing and give them thumbs down.  I think it had something to do with the election, folks get fired up this time of year.

And now we have something where Biden, in 1992 when the shoe was on the other foot, said Bush I should not nominate anybody in his last year of presidency, but then the leaders of the republicans said the opposite thing.  Both sides pretend to be following some higher law of precedence, but it is basically a power struggle.

On to tonight's wrestling match, er, debate.  Trump will be the villain with charisma, Cruz will be the villain without charisma, Rubio will be the goody-goody good guy, Kasich will be the good guy who becomes a bad guy, or maybe the bad guy who becomes a good guy, one or the other, and who knows what Carson will be, but then who has ever?