gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

i know, i know...another rant about mitt and ryan...the antichrists in control of the house and senate...but riddle me this...is their chant, their knock, their screaming crescendo of high pitched tweaking voices...jobs...jobs...jobs...obama hasn't created enough...dropped the ball...well remember the jobs act he proposed...the one that would be funded by a tax on billionaires...not hundredaires or thousandaires or even millionnaires... but billionaires...people with so much money that if you stacked it on their chest...the sheer efficacy  would crush them like tiny beetles under foot!...not an entirely un attractive notion...yet ...no they blocked that bill...keep the billionaires happy...big oil wants to drill in the artic national park...go ahead...doesn't matter that the oil will go to china...the largest consumer nation on the planet...run a pipeline from Canada thru the midwest.s largest fresh water reserves...go ahead...make a buck...enact a law prohibiting laws to pro...

so I got a new gig...a small-ish restaurant out on the beach..kinda below my pay grade...but its work, and in this economy ...the one handed chef needs to ...so with new job comes new hours...and by this I mean some day work...the go to bed early, be in the restaurant by half past eight early...I get slightly nauseous just thinking about it...but I  am meandering...home by six ..I get to catch the local news..at the commercial break  it starts...five unrelenting minutes of right wing bashing...anti Obama, anti bill nelson, anti anything that smells democratic...now what struck me, what made me wait for the next break...was.. where was the response...where where were Obama ads...pointing out the differences...the obvious choice we have to make in the very near future...well folks they were missing...and you know why??..its because there is no longer any governor on what private interest can do to buy an election...we are witnessing the dismantlement of our government in front...

I grew up with a guy...since we were very young...we have seen tragedies together, laughed and seen a great deal of joy along side each other...I have buried his mom and watched his kids be born...we got to be middle aged at the same time..he is rich or at least I think he is...he has all the trappings of wealth...poor people like me tend to think anyone with anything is wealthy by comparison...but here is the rub McDuff...we have so many loves...music, art, food ...I am a liberal and then a democrat...he is a liberal/conservative republican...the liberal part is easier than you would think to reconcile...we both favor women's rights..racial equality, immigration fairness and gay rights...but I would never, ever vote republican and he would never ever vote democratic...we both understand the fruitlessness of a third party in a national election...i always found  Ralph Nader  more than annoying, sniggling votes away from my candidate...and he thinks Ron Paul is a well meaning...

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...

chefkbr@gmail.com another fantastic trip to our tiny Mayan island in the sun...flying as any of you who do it is basically southwest  and the rest...i know, i know the poor airline companies barely make a profit...they are going broke allowing  us to fly for below cost...I'm calling bullshit on that...just like their is a reason gas prices fluctuate with intestinal pressure of some sheik watching re-runs of "I dream of Genie"...but i digress...this ones is for passport control in the good ole US of A...so we return to Ft Lauderdale International airport, which is like calling a 7 eleven, a walmart...anyway so we are herded into a large hall...after deplaning with the thousand or so people who came in on the three planes that arrived simultaneously... it's taking a really long time...an hour passes and finally i get to front of the line and realize what is taking so fucking long...citizens with blue US passports...lots of them...cannot read or understand the English ...

I just noticed that i haven't written in the blog for months...work has been hard...harder than normal...growing another restaurant through the changes and growth spurts...training and raising up a staff ...dealing with the resulting changes brought on by a table saw...i have a literal new grip on life...i woke up not too too long ago 40 pounds heavier and probably the unhealthiest I have been in my adult life... so ...politics and all the very important triviality that surrounds it has fallen under my radar..i am starting to read again...trying to find a foothold in the slippery slope that is a two party system...i am at best disappointed in my party and my president...yet i know that the other side is bought and paid for by folks who could give a shit if i lived or was run over by a mob of disaffected water buffalo...so i changed my diet...started swimming again...lost those forty pounds and working very hard to grab about twenty more...go to the gym...which in its social atmosph...