Neanderpundit

blood tests just showed elevated levels of uric acids, have to get my ass back on allopurinol. Much organ meat and game meat as I eat I don’t need gout. Minor levels of muscle enzymes. Doc says I need to drink more milk. I’ve been kind of cutting back ( I LOVE milk) because I think I’ve become a little lactose intolerant and it gives me the most remarkable volumes of gas- but now I have an excuse. ‘Doc says I need the Vitamin D, honey. Sorry about the farts”

One good thing that just might come out of the Obama Administration, and I would welcome it with open arms.

In my years, I have had the privilege of four separate Havana Cigars on four separate occasions. I for one, would like to have this become a permanent privilege.

Just sayin’. Anybody who’d like to torch me, feel free.

There’s a simple analogy here for what’s going on with our country, and it’s profound because it comes from an unexpected angle.

When Luther hammered his list to the door, the Church was in a bad time. Unquestionably, the Catholic Church has a history of some bad behavior, and this may have been the height of it.

But what Luther did, what all the protestants have done, is change the rules to suit them. Instead of working within a bad system to make it better, they did their own thing, because they felt they knew better than anyone else.

This doesn’t make protestants bad people- on the contrary, most are decent folks. But the schisms between Christian beliefs- the idea that some nutball convinced a bunch of people that catholics pray to saints or worship statues- generates friction within a group of people who should- by the nature of their belief- have NO division at all.

There is little question the Republic we have is broken, but I don’t believe it is irretrievably broken. And I’m surrounded by people who are bound and determined to effect change. (Btw: Three times in the last two weeks I’ve heard people espousing Anarchy say “like it or not we’re LIVING in Anarchy”. WTF? Shouldn’t they be happy? I have yet to understand that one)

Anyway, instead of fighting with one another about who knows what and why we are fucked and how much better this or that or the other system would be (they won’t, by the way) we should be putting that effort into fixing what we have.

Most people are so anxious to have that new hotness that they trade in the old POS to get it. And then the bill for the new hotness comes. Will people ever realize that the new hotness always becomes the old POS if they let it? Take care of what you have and it will take care of you. This refers to religion, government, cars, relationships… the list is pretty large.

Instead of bitching try looking at ways you can force government to shrink. yeah, yeah, the folks getting those government checks are never going to vote themselves a pay cut, yadda yadda. What if we give them some incentive? Think of ways- legal ways, I can already think of a billion illegal ones- to make that happen, and DO IT.