Month: September 2016

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Talking to the Dead

I have fun reading book blurbs of books I’ll never read. Take a recent blurb about a “cozy paranormal mystery” featuring two young women, “One a baker, the other a mortician’s assistant, and both blessed (or cursed) with the gift of talking to the dead. . . ”

OK, even leaving aside the stupidity of the supposed “gift/curse,” methinks the blurb writer should go back to Remedial Blurb Writing 101. ANYONE can talk TO the dead, or pretend to (or delude themselves into thinking they are). I’d not expect any real two way conversations, but imagining one is talking TO dead people is something many folks do. Not me, but others seem to do so.

But, if I were dead and just hanging around (although I rank that as happening somewhere around the Twelfth of Never), I wouldn’t stand for being talked to by some flesh puppet. Nope. Wanna talk to me? Buh-bye!

More seriously, what’s the appeal of necromancy, eh? I mean, #gagamaggot.

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Are These the Best Candidates the Parties Could Find?

Many have asked the question, “Is this really the best the parties could come up with?” To answer this question, one must ask, “Best for what purpose?” The “parties” in question have for some time been little more than a Uniparty of statists concerned with little more than different tactics for enhancing their own power over society. As such, when the Uniparty selected its Anointed One, its Dhimmicrappic arm simply engineered its nomination. Now, how to assure its election? Hmmm, need a stalking horse. . . Oh, right! Make sure NOTHING, not even a legitimate challenge at convention, prevents the selection of an unelectable candidate by the Repugnican’ts!

And it was so.

And so the Uniparty has offered a fake choice of one of two evils for the presidency. (Oh, and down-ticket races are often not much better, just choices between two different statists).

#Don’tVoteForEvil

As Thomas Sowell, a genuine national treasure, IMO, has recently written,

“If a third party candidate could divide the vote enough to prevent anyone from getting an electoral college majority, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where any semblance of sanity could produce a better president than these two.”

Here. An article that might help: How Not to Waste Your Vote: A Mathematical Analysis

Vote for Johnson/Weld instead of throwing your vote away on either one of the two worst candidates ever put forth by the Uniparty.

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Neighbors

Some ya just gotta love. Others? Notsomuch.

A couple of months ago, one set of neighbors complained to the cops about our dog, a well-behaved medium-sized dog (Lab/Aussie Shepherd mix) who is just a real lover boy with family and strangers alike (no watch dog at all *sigh*), said “that big black dog” was “scaring” the children they had over from time to time.

Cops came and “interviewed” the dog. Found him to be a “real sweetheart.”

Still, pussy kids or asinine neighbor or both, irritating.

Not a word from the neighbors since the cops went back and told ’em he was properly tagged, well-behaved, and behind a proper-sized, continuous, locked fence, and so was not their problem.

Saw some of their family visitors over next door this a.m. with one of the residents of the home out with them. . . and a small dog running free. Told ’em to get that dog on a leash or I’d call the cops on them. (They have no fence and the “city” does have leash laws.)

When next I checked, they’d all gone inside, but I’ll check back, with phone in hand. . . because I meant it.

(OTOH, our good neighbors on the other side let one or two of their Jack Russell Terriers out in their front yard from time to time. Usually they’re either inside or in their kennel, but when outside off leash, they’re well-behaved, so I really don’t care. Heck, I enjoy interacting with ’em, and enjoy the times our good neighbora let ’em come over and play for a bit with me.)

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Med Services as an Example of What Is Wrong With Society

After my Wonder Woman’s recent adventures in things medical, where every person asked the same questions over and over, in order to fill out yet another form (when multiple times the same questions had been asked, answered and entered into electronic databases), I am thinking of having a “medalert tag” made that says something on the order of,

“No known allergies to any medications. Severely allergic to being asked the same questions over and over. Will charge $100 for each time the same question is asked when it has been previously answered.”

I understand the “cover your ass” aspect of our current med system, brought on by stupid legal practices that are counterproductive for everyone but lawyers, and by (mostly) “feddle gummint bureaucrappic” interference in medical services, but really? Assholes asking the same question that has been asked by someone else and answered IN THEIR PRESENCE?

OK, maybe I can abate my charges a bit and only charge $50 for every 15 minutes of bullshit. *heh*