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I am the Alpha and the Obama

I'm all insouciant and, like, whatever over the last election.  Yes, the side that hews closest to my own philosophical beliefs has lost, again.  I expected as much.  But being unpopular is not the same thing as being wrong.  For me it's not about winning elections so much as about certain outcomes.  I want freedom of choice in education.  I want a strong military.  I want largely unfettered trade and free enterprise.  I want the least amount of bureaucracy and the least amount of governance as possible.  I want a robust private sector.  I want to keep highly talented immigrants here.  And I want the government to stay out of my choices, whether it's abortion or the size of soda I want to drink.  

Where am I going with this?  I don't know.  But I suspect these concepts aren't so easily attained by just having my guy win.  They have to be won in the hearts and minds, not wrung out of an unwilling populace in whatever four year period we manage to snag. 

 

Something that has bothered me for awhile:  Republicans who think Obama is all powerful and will destroy everything good in our lives.  This is no different than thinking he can heal with a touch.

The most important aspects of our lives are under our control.  We should never imagine that one democratically elected man is the guiding force of our lives.  Obama is no more our destroyer than he is our savior.  Yes, more people voted for Obama and his ideology of big government.  More people are idiots as far as I'm concerned. But I'm not going to join their ranks by embracing the delusion that my times are the most difficult and fraught in the history of mankind just because my guy didn't win.  Maybe people should read more history.

Crack Den Look

Here's our living room right now.  We're still waiting on the couch we ordered in July.  The company seems to be working with us, mostly by making soft comforting noises that lead us to believe our couch will be here any time.  But who knows for real.

Instead of our Italian-designed-American-built couch, we have our old mattress on the floor.  No amount of fussing and cleaning can make the room look like anything other than a bedroom with a kitchen off it.  But it's great for watching TV...so comfortable.

Cat selected to go with our bedding. 

 

Stupid Pet Saturday! We're Back!

He definitely does not want a cheeseburger.  Maybe access to our checking accounts, but not a cheeseburger.

The Gods have Spoken. Change Your Ways Before it is too Late.

There is little difference between the religious leaders who blame natural disasters on our sinfully debauched ways and the agnostic ideologues who blame them on our sinfully wasteful ways.  It's just a difference of one being socially trendy.  Both derive from an excess of hubris.

I was listening to some guy on C-Span radio this morning advocating for a carbon tax system.  He started out fairly reasonable -- for a fear monger -- but soon moved from arguing for a small tax on carbon emitting activities to turning homes in the suburbs into dormatories for his army of dead-eyed environmental warriors dedicated to eradicating all joy in the world except for the joy of righteous self-abnegation.

By the end of the interview he had completely reshaped our world into his particular narrow and remorseless idea of utopia.  Exciting in a comic book super villian.  Scary when it's someone with access to our national leaders. 

House Updates

Here's a picture of our kitchen/office space/computer room/homeschooling paraphernalia area.  We added some blackboard paint and a cat.

We still don't have our couch we ordered in late July.  And the company we ordered it from is giving us the run around.  With a little luck and good timing, we'll get our couch before they go bankrupt.  I certainly won't be buying from them again.  Right now, we have an old mattress on the floor which makes the living room look like a crack den.