gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

Sometimes on tuesday nights the beautiful girl and I head out to the beach...see whats going on...check out Sean's bar...go see Loretta...say good bye to an old friend, bound for new adventures, Kimmy...and so it was last night...we ventured north through what is normally quiet beachside towns...but I had a sense of curiosity...what with the RNC in town...would I be deluged with tea-party idiots...drunk, dancing and espousing their jingoist rhetoric...would I have to indulge anti Obama shots along with my Grand Marnier...but a very funny, very telling thing happened as I journeyed down our beaches...there was no-one here...no more republicans on our beach than normal...we have million dollar homes, you see...it is the habitat for their species...but the bars weren't packed with Romney revilers...they hadn't come...talked to a sales manager at our lowes W property...the Don Caesar...30% occupancy..come to find out they had booked 1600 room nights for the Rnc and were using...

Has it been three and half years already???  It seems that the last eleven  and a half  years have been like a horrible car wreck played at super slow speed.  The years of the Bush destruction of America and the middle class, followed by the rise of the tea party or as I like to call them the"unintelligencia".  The election of a man of vision, and his reactions to the bank, auto, credit and housing depression.  The election of the historically unqualified house and senate.  The elimination of the barrior between large corporations and our electorial process, by our countrys supreme court.  Three years of obstructionist rehetoric, destructive voting practises and the singularly worst bipartisan warfare since the civil war.  We stand at the precipise of or own demise.  We can continue to allow the least of us, those who represent all the riches created in our american dream, to amass fortunes, at our expense.  We need to face t...