Assorted nonsense

Just curious....If you post every day, how do you manage to do it????  How do you find the time and compose your thoughts so quickly?  How do you come up with topics?  

If I were using this blog as a 'Dear Diary' then I might be tempted to pour my heart out to you about a few different things.  Lately though, I'd have to stop crying long enough to type it all out.  Some stuff is really better not discussed anyway.  Suffice it to say, I'm hurting, but I'm managing.  Hugs are welcome in the comment box.   

So here's what I am willing to share.........

My grandson's school picture.  This sweet little guy makes me SMILE! :)))  He's so handsome, happy, intelligent, curious and fun.  I love him!  

Are any of you watching the ABC TV series 'Once Upon A Time'?  My hubby and I like it.  I think he kinda digs the Evil Queen.  I'm not sure who my fav character is.   Snow White is cool, but creepy Rumpelstiltskin is interesting too.  I need more fantasy and less reality.  *sigh*  And I sure wouldn't mind looking that intense in an all black ensemble.  A little much for grocery shopping or having tea at Barnes, huh?

                             

Hmm... what else?

Since normally I'm not all that interested in politics, I should probably refrain from putting opinions up here, especially since I don't know how some of you vote or how you stand on the assorted issues. Lately though, I've been getting rather annoyed.  Watching part of the process to narrow down the list of presidential candidates for the GOP is like watching a traveling circus.  Overly dramatic, smoke and mirrors, bad makeup and weird clowns.   And one of them could become our next President!   GAH, seriously?  Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm not thrilled with the Dems about alot of things and I might not be AS liberal as you think I am, or even as much as I think I am, if that makes any sense.  So I do try to be open-minded about different ideas and will listen to some candidates for awhile, but this group, well thank goodness it's almost over because I'm running out of patience. 

"Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are.  Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend." —Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair who suggested that taxes should be raised on corporations as part of balancing the budget (August 2011)

Mitt's the guy who made over $42 million dollars in the last 2 years and paid around 15% in taxes.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that it was based on capital gains.  Investments, etc. Legal, sure.  I can't argue that.  Screwy tax codes work pretty well for some.  Go Mitt, Go Mitt.  And if the capital gains tax was zero, which alot of people think it should be, he wouldn't have paid much of anything at all.  

It's really not even that he has a huge amount of personal wealth that annoys me.  Sure, it would be great if someone would pay my husband more.  He does hard, physical work and his body will wear out from it long before he's saved enough of what's left over every paycheck to retire comfortably.  Why is Bruce's song 'The River' coming to mind??  Yep, Mary got pregnant, hubs got a union card and a wedding coat.  He's certainly not sitting in a cushy office shuffling money around for exorbitant managing fees.  It is what it is though and we're happy enough with what we have most of the time.  But what really bothered me about Mitt was when I read that he said the speaker's fees he gets occasionally were 'not very much' and that figure for last year turned out to be almost $375,000.   Not very much, huh?  Sad.  So sad.  He's made other comments too, like that he was unemployed last year.  Hey, I'm a Sag, I have a sense of humor, but I don't find him funny.  I think he's insensitive and doesn't really understand what many people are going through.  I don't think a fat-cat businessman who doesn't actually work for a paycheck can provide real solutions for those who do. 

And then there's Gingrich, who could end up with the nomination over Romney.  Wait, is Santorum still in it??   My uterus has stopped twitching, so he's probably only got an outside chance at this point, thank ye gods.   Anyway, Newt made less  money and paid more of a percentage in taxes but he's reaching so far back in giving his own ideas praise that I fear he might just break an arm.  Enough already.   You're not as interesting or intelligent as you think you are.  

And there you have it.... a cryptic feel sorry for poor me plea, a couple of photos and some boring political drivel.   How fast can you leave a comment and get the heck out of here you're probably wondering.  ;) 

I'll try to visit soon and check out what's new with you!  Hope you got some good stuff going on.  xo