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Sometimes I hate being the way that I am. My family used to get so mad because I "don't look at the world realistically." Just because I see and "openly acknowledge" (translation: am a loud-mouthed-bitch about) the way we all should be and am angered, saddened, and disgusted by the way we actually are, doesn't mean that I don't see what is. Just because I can make choices that are truly distasteful, that sear the very core of my soul, and continue to get by on a day-to-day basis, doesn't mean that I am sub-human. Just because I don't believe that the current Democratic system can continue in the way that it has, doesn't mean that I am anti-the-country-that-I-love and anti-freedom. Just pragmatic, idealistic, and future-forward. All human ideals fall. In the end. There is not a damn thing that lasts forever. No ideal, no belief, no politics or form of government, no life is forever. The harder we all fight that fact, the more we prove just how unevolved we really are.


I really am just, ultimately, realistic - without trying to hold "my people" to be better than we are. I know how the world is, how people are, how I am, and I'm not afraid or ashamed to admit it; We ALL Naaaaaaaasty Pricks. Getting pissy about the truth doesn't change it. I don't subtract myself from the equation. Oh, boy. Have I ever F.U.B.A.R.'ed, more than my fair share. If that's all it takes to be damned, I pity those of you who don't see it coming. I know what I am. As a race, we tend toward denigrating, smug, self-righteous, and judgmental (human race, not some dumb-ass division, decided by something as dumb-ass the color of your 'tan'). All the things that God (Allah, Buddha, higher-flipping-power,...) hates. That seems to go doubly for 3/4 of the "religious." If you say "That's not me;" it is. The true "Meek" who shall inherit the Earth will never be assured, until they reap what they have truly sown; they won't ever bother to consider it- not once. If you are assured of your righteousness and rightness, you are SO screwed. I don't care what dumb-ass 'religion' you belong to, whose child you are, or what 'color' you are. Truth and faith have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with "true faith"- duh. Our few redeeming traits remain; our wanton and random humanities toward others; our (usually mutual) need to perform acts that we define as "our good samaritanship (good deed for the day)" and brag about, because it is, after all, a fashionable thing to do. We do have our moments of true nobility. Too bad we spend so much time touting ourselves for it, once We realize that it is good P.R. Hey rich jack-holes, try not advertising any of the good you do. Let those bastard paparazzo members earn their money and report some good for once! Hey, you who think donating to the S.P.C.A. once, and wear a shirt oh, so proudly, for the next couple of years, get a fricking grip! How about a real change? Like, in the WAY we think!?!

It's political season!!! All the votes are in!!! A big deal is being made and a new count will be reaffirmed in the morning!!! Here is how screwed up and faithless I am; I voted only for names that I did not recognize, except for DelGrosso. He was the only person I received mail from that addressed any issues and did not mention one word of smear against anyone else. Again, in the mail I received. At that point, even his beliefs didn't matter. He was the only person in any of the races who was behaving in a manner worthy of the races, or any of the positions, in my view. I fully realize that not all views are going to agree. I can vote for someone whose basic views I whole-heartedly agree with and not agree with most of their decisions. I can vote for a policy that I hate, if I think, really think, that it benefits society (rare, but not unknown). I can vote against something that I think we need, if I believe that the plan laid out is fundamentally screwed (Health-Care).They aren't going to make me happy all of the time, they won't make anyone happy all of the time, but politics is a circus at this point. When was the last time that politics was actually about the greater good of the nation? When was the last time that US Corporate Policy tried to really enforce US job creation and overseas outsourcing/production/quality restrictions? Undemocratic! Un-Capitalistic! OH! HEY! By The Way! Democracy is supposed to help to provide a basic level of expected support, if democracy is going to increasingly support programs through the publics' moneys.

So, since we did NOT receive all of the services that all of the added and "better defined" taxes, laws, Constitutional amendments, Propositions, restrictions, Agencies, Regulatories, and Educational Reforms promised over the last 100 years, or so, what have we achieved? We can not agree to have ONE, legal, expected to be learned for membership (too funny, when you consider that English is the primary second language to learn, WORLDWIDE) language in this nation. It is not a matter of racism or bias, but of a standard of communication. Home prices were/are inflated to the point of stupidity (and that still hasn't been rectified). Our education system is going down the toilet faster and faster (although 'administrative' positions seem to earn more than the ones who do the hands-on work). We have huge amounts of debt and the only answer seems to be to screw over the majority of the American people (the poorest of us) while we HAND OUT money to other countries, bribe officials, and hand elected representatives pay checks for amounts they don't deserve (and most of them don't actually need). We have some of the highest job loss numbers we have ever had, job creation is a joke, and the government believes that cutting aid to the citizenry is a good way to go!? And lately they're bitching that birth numbers are down. Yup. Them there folks on that there Capitol Hill have been doing such a good job.

Does it Matter What I Think?

It's political season!!! All the votes are in!!! A big deal is being made and a new count will be reaffirmed in the morning!!! Here is how screwed up and faithless I am; I voted only for names that I did not recognize, except for DelGrosso. He was the only person I received mail from that addressed any issues and did not mention one word of smear against anyone else. Again, in the mail I received. At that point, even his beliefs didn't matter. He was the only person in any of the races who was behaving in a manner worthy of the races, or any of the positions, in my view. I fully realize that not all views are going to agree. I can vote for someone whose basic views I whole-heartedly agree with and not agree with most of their decisions. I can vote for a policy that I hate, if I think, really think, that it benefits society (rare, but not unknown). I can vote against something that I think we need, if I believe that the plan laid out is fundamentally screwed (Health-Care).They aren't going to make me happy all of the time, they won't make anyone happy all of the time, but politics is a circus at this point. When was the last time that politics was actually about the greater good of the nation? When was the last time that US Corporate Policy tried to really enforce US job creation and overseas outsourcing/production/quality restrictions? Undemocratic! Un-Capitalistic! OH! HEY! By The Way! Democracy is supposed to help to provide a basic level of expected support, if democracy is going to increasingly support programs through the publics' moneys. 

So, since we did NOT receive all of the services that all of the added and "better defined" taxes, laws, Constitutional amendments, Propositions, restrictions, Agencies, Regulatories, and Educational Reforms promised over the last 100 years, or so, what have we achieved? Hospitals, Clinics, Museums, Banks, and Social Agencies are all funded with public money, but you had better be illegal, have screwed millions out of mi$$ions, or have figured out how to work the system for what you do not deserve, before you can get any help. God forbid that you ask for just the help you need, or just try being honest. Hell, at this point, our system is geared all the way around toward corruption. For Crimin-iddly-sake! We have made damn near any naturally stupid mistake and any accident in to either a criminal or civilly-liable offense!!!! We are finger-pointy-self-important-to-the-point-of-ego-maniacal-want-everyone-but-ME-to-be-a-clone-of-me-tighter-the-fist-the-more-slips-through-the-fingers type of stupid-asses, these days.

We can not agree to have ONE, legal, expected to be learned for membership (too funny, when you consider that English is the primary second language to learn, WORLDWIDE) language, in this nation. It is not a matter of  "the melting pot." It is a unity factor, WHILE we should still encourage multiple-language skills. And I Do Mean Multiple. We need less criminality in some ways, and stronger punishment, with actual treatment in others. It is time to bring back spanking, in the justice system as well. We can't force therapy on an inmate? We can't force education? We can't force inmates to express themselves in constructive ways and use privileges as rewards? I don't have cable. Why do any of them? Why are inmates not required to work in positions that maintain their surroundings? Why should my tax dollars? Let them maintain their conditions. If they want to have decent conditions, then it should be worth personal effort, especially since it teaches a trade. You want a balanced diet? Grow gardens. Low security prisons could do some of that cattle-handing and a self-sustaining supply chain could be instituted. No working out on weights in order to intimidate others, muck a flipping stall! They have given up their rights, right? Make damn sure that every one of them boys and girls can read and write with a minimum proficiency, even if they might need real help or force to learn! They should not have more rights than their victims; and there had better be real victims, or our justice system is a........Oh, hell, never mind.They do not have the right to perpetuate the ignorance that probably is a good part of the reason that they fell back on crime. 

Time's Up!

So many thoughts, so little time. I will be back, but it is Statistics and Small Business Management season, so this rant is, dum, dum, dum (ain't I punny)- To Be Continued!

Honey!

Honey is an awesome tenderizing and flavoring ingredient. Too many people are afraid to add that little bit of sweet that really brings out the savory, especially to most meat dishes. The enzymes in honey can really help the tenderizing process. Try playing with ingredients such as ginger (which people seem afraid of), or different flavored vinaigrettes- or all of the above!  I used orange honey and a sun-dried masala vinaigrette, with all my favorite spices, rubbed it all in to a pork shoulder roast, poured in some beef broth over the veggies in the bottom, and popped it in the Crock-Pot. Pack the remainder of the veggies around the meat. Simply lightly pour a little more honey and masala twice more throughout the cooking and have at when done. The roast turned out almost buttery, it was so melt in the mouth. Play with your food!

Ground Zero Mosque

RE: "Let us never forget that we are AMERICAN, a proud and Christian nation." Part of a comment on a 'news' sight about Obama's support of building the mosque near ground zero, at:

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492?ncid=webmail

That is part of a narrow, ignorant, overly-simplistic, and utterly self-righteous statement that I would expect only of a lip-service Christian who would twist the Word to suit his needs and prove his superiority, instead of changing himself to truly live the Word and face the world with humility. It is also one of the least offensive statements I have found of those who are breathing hate every bit as bad as our enemy, in the commentary for the report. I choose to believe it is the passion of the moment and that the writer is not this person. Just because it is hard and we're angry and we're wounded (our behavior proves it) doesn't mean that we get to just ignore what we were adjured to "Do unto others" (for those who seem to be throwing the Christianity card around, even as they spout hate and every other unchristian thought, word, and deed).

It may have been by Christians, of whatever faiths, but this country was settled and founded with the ideal of freedom from religious persecution, the right to believe and worship as one chooses. For all. Not just for Christians. That we ARE "One nation, under God, indivisible; with liberty and justice for all." This is not a country where only Christians matter. "PRIDE cometh before a fall" (again for those who like to throw the bible at the topic).

9/11 remains a horror to this day, but the perverted offshoot denomination that perpetrated it is a minority whose actions are as strongly abhorred by the Muslim community as everyone else. Blaming the Muslim religion in general is as ignorant as blaming the Crusades on all denominations of Christians; as ignorant as blaming all and only Caucasian people for all of slavery through all of history. It is a reaction of hate that is causing the people of this great nation to start to reflect the perverts' mind-sets. How many AMERICANS of Arab descent have been attacked in this country? Some who were not even Muslims and had never been? Who were born in this country of people born in this country? This is the victory for the Taliban. They have sown hate, fear, and divided us one from the other- because WE have allowed it. They have caused us to allow our rights to be abridged and justice to be set aside in favor of vengeance and paranoia. WE have handed them that victory by our actions and our willingness- no, our NEED to be able to have someone we CAN reach to blame. Even if they are innocent.

So, the majority says it is wrong to build a mosque here. At one time, the majority thought it was acceptable to beat a wife or child. At one time, a majority thought it was okay to kill, rape, and maim 'blacks.' At one time, a majority thought that slavery or indentured servitude was right. Anybody ever hear the truism that, "two wrongs don't make a right?" A majority does not always mean right. That is one of the reasons to have a government and a basis of rights that are inviolate and that the government is charged to uphold- regardless of how a majority may think taking rights from any particular group is the thing to do. Having one set of rules and rights (including the purchase of, and use of purchased, property) for one group; faith, race, sexual orientation, or gender; and a different set for another is NOT what this great nation is about.

This Mosque should be built; NEEDS to be built. Actually, we should consider putting facilities for all religions around ground zero to create a Unity Zone and SHOW the perverts that religions, cultures, and races can live together in symbiosis. That they can not break that unity through fear. That Terror can not rule over OUR faith, whatever the religion or belief. That we are not so ignorant as we are showing ourselves to be.

But, no. It is easier to react the way the majority of the country has and I am disheartened and disgusted. So, while so many of us are patting ourselves on the back for this "righteous cause," maybe we ought to stop and consider what KIND of righteousness we are really showing. Knock Obama for trying to deal with the results of OTHER PEOPLES' decisions if you really feel you must, but the man is acting in a more 'Christian' manner than most of the so-called Christians who are acting contrary to every teaching of Christ.

This is our country, ALL of ours, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Amish, Agnostic, Atheist, Sufi- WHATEVER;  the United States of America. I love my country and hate to see the mockery of the founding principles that has taken over, in the public as well as the government. God bless America and may we truly start behaving like a nation of Faith and Unity.

2 topics: Greed of the Species. Health Care Reform

Our species is so corrupt, as a whole. Those who achieve wealth and power grasp and plot for more at the expense of all others and call it their "due." What idiot needs to make over a Mill. a year to be comfortable? Why does anyone need to live in a palace of a home? It's a waste of property, lumber, and resources. It is pure self-aggrandizement. Corporations refuse to pay an actual living wage without raising their prices to the point where those wages become poverty-level again. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US!? A friend of mine likened us, as a species, to a virus. I argue that we, as a species, are parasites. Earth is an infected body. Our spread from that infected body is slow (thank God) like a parasite. We eat away at the sustaining body slowly, without thought for its death. We repeat our old patterns of greed and destruction from generation to generation, only evolving new ways to destroy and patting ourselves on the back that we have "advanced" beyond the barbarian past. We are such liars and self-deluder's in this. We are the same as the most barbaric of our ancestors, regardless of race or culture. Only our means of destruction has actually evolved. We need to WAKE UP!


So, about this new medical-care crap. I admit that there needs to be a minimum basic standard of available medical care for every American, but THIS plan sucks! I have a previously shattered leg, a crushed knee, steel compression plate in one arm, a bone impingement in the other shoulder (both of which make my cane painful to use), a minor form of scoliosis which causes constant pain and problems, migraines, insomnia from pain and stress, and I inflamed the synovial fluid in the hips as a child (turning them in their joints until my feet pointed the wrong way) which to this day causes me problems. I was terminated from my job with Goodwill because I can not function at full capacity. I can't walk around town or a workplace, so no one wants to hire me. Disability seems to think I'm fine (just like they told the gal at the doctor's office who had lost BOTH her legs) and denies me. I get $200 in aid, while I fight Disability, and $200 in food stamps.  With this new bill, when I can't afford to get medical coverage I will be fined up to $5000 and potentially go to jail. Great, so adding criminality will REALLY help with trying to get employment, in general, and with trying to get decent PAYING employment, specifically (for you mental midgets out there, that was SARCASM). If I don't have the money for medical coverage, where the F$%K do you expect me to come up with $5000 for fines, and how much MORE impossible will it be for me to afford medical coverage once I'm slapped with this ridiculous idea of the bureaucratic morons that are running this country?

Some days I just PRAY that this planet get hit by a "world killer,"  except that the other species are the innocent ones.

I firmly believe that stupid people shouldn't breed, and yet every time I turn around, some moronic twit with a gun is on the news. By this I mean gang-bangers, or whatever the twits call themselves.

Seriously, people who try to act bad-ass while running like rabbits are a joke. It takes no intelligence, spine, or honor to point a gun out of a moving car and drive away. Invading people's homes, but considering it a mortal insult if the wrong person walks down your block, takes a truly dim mind to conceive of. Shooting or beating people because they are wearing, or just are, the "wrong" color is asinine. And these morons keep mass-producing each other with unsafe sex with anything that walks, perpetuating a senseless cycle of ignorance, and then blaming everyone except themselves for their lot.

Why can't we just haul them and their happy little guns and drugs out to some deserted island, drop the whole miserable load, and monitor to be sure no one gets off? Let them have their own private little war zone if they want, without being a danger to society. Either they'll eventually grow up and knock their stupid crap off, or they won't be a problem anymore. Either way works for me.

opinions, politics, and food

I suppose that this is my new, online diary. Oh, the weird and multifaceted aspects that my id may unleash upon the cyber-world! I have always considered this type of thing to be for the zombie, so what does that make me?

Just for shits and giggles:

There are certain words that I have been told not to put online (nuclear) for fear of being one of MILLIONS (bomb) whose names are put upon a (terrorism) watch-list.

I have faith that our security is not in the hands of complete morons (W's gone). I'll let ya'll know.

Okay, now that I'm finished putting conspiracy-theorists aside, I have to admit that while I do agree with much of the nation that the government has gone WAY far from the founding-father's ideals of democracy, we can not place the blame solidly on "The Men in Black's" shoulders and we can not blame the current situation on the current administration (although so many of those who cast past ballots and voted in to being many of the policies that are now come to fruition would like to). In a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we have no-one but ourselves to blame for the corruptibility and self-interest of our representatives and their inability to make every one of us happy, even when they ARE trying to make us ALL safe. (You have to admit that for a country that is based on the premise of freedom , in general, but more specifically freedom of religion, We Suck. Everybody is trying to make someone else conform to something, everybody has their nose in SOMEONE else's business, each of us has SOME opinion of another's life that we think that we have a right to inflict, each of us unconsciously looks for that person that we can look down on- especially those who seem to have flown so high beforehand). They are easy scape-goats for the opinions of those of us who are self-centered, look to "the law, with no recourse to emotion" (sheer stupidity on our individual parts) , and who want a system of law in place that puts ANYONE except for fate, life, shitake happens, ourselves, or "God, God, NOOOOOOOO" in to a bad place that isn't EVERYONE'S or ANYONE'S or SOMEONE'S FAULT (we mustn't run out of people to sue!). They have the unenviable task of trying to keep the most vocal portion of society happy, even though that involves multi-opinioned people who can't All be left happy, while trying to anticipate the desires of a non-vocal (probably major-ital) societal section, while trying to anticipate what people really mean/ vs what we ALL say, vs practice and theory, ..... well, vs all the various human responses that before and more especially AFTER they've tried to make "the people" happy.

Look, the government of ANY nation, regardless of the label that that form carries, depends upon the people who stand for it. Even in strictly military-based governments, the government is powered by those who defend it, as much as those who accept it. And DO NOT be mistaken, the readily observable power of all forms of government are militarily based in some way. The soldiers who go out are not to be punished for the war they fight. They have done their duty without recourse, choice, and it has always taken much more than this for a standing army to turn on it's rulers; to shift belief in the meaning, the reality-changing evolution of their heart-given vow, to their country and the ruling cabal, but the "government" is answerable and the only honestly blamable force for the conflict that our sons, brother, uncles, husbands, and fathers find themselves in.

That statement doesn't mean that that is the end of the argument. I can bring the guilt all the way down in to each and every one of our laps, regardless of which side of the fence we individually sit on, regardless of nation, regardless of faith, regardless of color, regardless of individual biases. "We the people" are NOT blameless. NO ONE can say that they had no hand in the current situation. If you do, you are the very least trying to lie to yourself.

Okay! Enough of this! I can type for hours and sound like the ignoramus that I am! FOOD FOOD FOOD! I saw a Jacques Pepin cook show, using red wine, that reminded me that alcohol can be used for food- including desserts. I did a marinade for 2 VERY nice pork steaks (on meat department clearance for less than my favorite bacon) using 1&1/2 cups whiskey, 2-3 tbspns hand-minced garlic, 1/3 cup chopped onion (unless you like more or less), 1-3 tbspn pepper, 2-4 tbspn cinnamon (preference is the point), up to 1/4 cup brown sugar, up to 1/4 tspn red pepper, how much Italian seasoning smells tasty to you, and THE big thing for this PORK meal; 1 apple cut in to quarters, cored, with anything icky cut off, thin-sliced. I put the marinade together at 4p.m. the 20th, let it sit until midnight, put 1 steak in a thick medium tossible, spooned out half the solids and sopped out half the liquid, evened it out, slapped in the other pork steak on the 1st mess of yummy, dumped the rest on top, evened it out, let it all sit until tonight, the 21st, at 8p.m. and then forked it into a medium heat pan with 1/4 cup of butter- pre heated- with whatever landed in the pan while forking out each steak and a few apple slices, distributed. Cook on each side until juices run clear or LIGHT golden-brown on each side, whichever comes first.

I served this with cream of asparagus rice: medium saucepan, 1 can cream of asparagus soup for basic (any cream soup), 2 cans water to 1 can rice, boil water and condensed soup, add rice, stir lots and check, cover but check, simmer on low for 20 minutes or until ready.

The actual veggie was canned, long, and green, cooked the way the canned, long, and green things are cooked. This meal didn't cost me any extra and the only thing I had to go out of my way for was the Northern Lights whiskey. I had used up my Jack on the (similar) marinaded apples for the Butter Pecan ice cream topping. That recipe should be obvious, pan sauteed. Think! Common sense and flavor!