Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wizard of Id



Thanks to my smart and sometimes smart-alec brother Bill for the cartoon that inspired a response to the Krider-Okeefe yahoo group site--he felt things on our site were too quiet and Margaret accused him of stirring the pot! I'm posting here because I do love pots--and stirring!

Yes, we do all have a "job" just going about multi-tasking, doing the day-to-day-chores of working class folks, cleaning up after the fat-cats whose lingering stench in the House & Senate left us with broken education systems, crooks and liars in insurance companies, and the most expensive healthcare delivery system in the world. Oh yeah, the CEO was the Bushy-tailed-cat who was spraying his macho "mist" in Iraq. There's not enough litter in the world to clean up his mess--however, some heavy duty long term renovation, long term thinking, intelligence, patience and responsibility is in order! The "party" thing is over, let's clean up, freshen the air, call off the dogs and move on!  

Today's Charlotte Observer had a 3/4 page spread about a family that has cut back by now choosing to do their own housekeeping! I think Congress and the financial services segment of our economy is going to have to do the same thing.  

AIG=Arrogance, Ignorance & Greed. The hearings today included looking for "sound bites" and feeding the media frenzy for those "fancy feasts" for the felines scratching in their own litter boxes. One woman asked, "if labor unions have been renegotiating contracts because the company's losing money--what is different for the 'contracts' of management?

AHHHH- but hooray for having a contract. I called off today--teacher fatigue, tired of musty, frustrated, marginalized, angry African-American teenage boys telling me I'm racist, and not being allowed to walk outside and breathe fresh air, and who have been lied to, promised fairness and been locked up for months while the overloaded system figures out if they have enough evidence to proceed. I'm tired of having to listen to school administrators earning 300% as much as I do -- blaming teachers for low achievement scores based on a "corporate testing industry" that if summarily eliminated could provide free healthy lunches and breakfast at IHOP for everyone! Geez, wonder if those "fat cats" running the ACT/SAT/State testing giants could pass the poop test?

Stirring the pot? Right now, it's more like a cauldron.

Obama has only just begun. We elected the smart guy who was willing to step up and go for the open shots, get back on defense, or pass off to others on the team for at least 4 years. We barely survived 8 years of the dumb guy with the team skills of an overweight lazy 6th grader--because that's the way it works here in the USA. Presidents get 4 years, Representatives get 2 years, Senators 6 and for the majority of the rest of us, it's one day at a time and/or employment at will.

But speaking of pot let's legalize it, and then the 90% who ARE working will relax, have the option to enjoy the "less" that we have, and fly!

k.k.s. (that would be Kate Kan Stir!)

P.S. My question of the day yesterday was "what's an antonym for racist" ? Any ideas what was the response?

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