I always look to the magnolia trees for my first sighting of spring. On
Sundays I eat pizza for lunch at Whole Foods and across the street are
two magnolia trees which I have been watching like a hawk. Last week
the buds were looking fuzzy, and now they seem to have some green
tendrils coming out of them and surely next week they will be in
flower. To me summer is like your true love who comes back into your
life and promises that she will never leave again, but of course she
does.
I guess your watching the weather channel is lot like your watching the
stock prices go by. Well maybe it's a little different in that though
you can't have any effect on the weather you can at least figure out how
to dress. But don't you do the same thing every day? I think you told
me once that if the weather is good you go fishing, and if it's not you
putter around the freehold.
I'm a little curious about how often you go into town. Do you have a
grocery day? Why else would you go into town, unless maybe to sneak
into the old-timers coffee klatch, holding your hand over your cup so
that nobody can see that it is actually tea and covering up that cub
reporter (for the Institute, so you can find out what the Trumpists are
saying) card in your fedora so that the loveable old characters don't
find out that you are a member of the media and tear you limb from limb.
Speaking of which have you heard about the petition going around to have everybody at the republican convention packing heat?
http://madmikesamerica.com/2016/03/packing-for-peace-at-the-republican-national-convention/
I would guess that the cooler heads, if there are any left in the GOP,
would not be in favor of this what with the recent exchanges between the
Trumpists and the Cruz-ers, but dare any republican have photos of
himself without a big iron on his hip sent back to his constituents?
Oh that Republican convention is looking to be more fun than ever.
I don't know if the Catholic church with it's fifteen hundred year
history was worried about youth ferment in the 60s. Which reminds me of
the 18 year old vote, which actually was an amendment to the
constitution. Can you imagine anything like that taking place in these
troubled times? It gives the dems a little edge so you wonder why the
reps did it. Well the fermented youth at the time were pretty much
against both parties, and Nixon actually might have done well with youth
what with his promise of a secret solution to the Vietnam war. Oh and
that was another reason. Some of the troops were complaining about
having to fight a war and not being allowed to vote, so the gummint gave
them a vote and then a rifle, and said ok, now quit complaining.
The hymn I remember most is The Old Rugged Cross, oh I hear it droning
on in that dusty Elsdon church on a Sunday summer morning while outside
the breezes brushed through the leafy bows of the trees, and inside the
time just crawled, and i was wearing those itchy clothes, my throat
strangled with a tie, and all i could think of was how great it would be
to be an atheist when i got older.
I imagine you have car and home insurance, because if something bad
should happen you could go bankrupt. Probably not with the car, come to
think of it, that is something more where you have it for the benefit
of other drivers so that if it's your fault you get paid, but in turn
you expect to get paid if it's their fault and you expect others to be
carrying insurance, and the government enforces this. I'm surprised
that the tea party doesn't get upset about the government telling them
to buy car insurance.
And it's kind of the same thing with health insurance because nobody,
except some of those vocal Rand Paul backers, are going to let you just
die from something, so if you have no insurance and get some bad disease
we are all going to have to pay for it. So isn't it better if we all
have insurance so at least we are all paying into the pot?
It would be better still if we cut the insurance companies off entirely. But that's a battle for another day.
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