A question for all for the Bernie or Bust people

First, for all for the Bernie or Bust people, I voted for Bernie in the Primary. I also voted for Obama in the 2008 primary. I’m a person who votes on the issues after much research. Why am I writing this? Because like 51% of the American population I was born female and I’m sick and tired of our misogynistic country.

 Okay America, you know how Donald T. keeps saying. “It doesn’t matter what I do. People just like me.” etc… etc… in many variations, including one catchy version that involves shooting people in a public street in NY.

Conversely it doesn’t matter how much Hillary Rodham-Clinton does right. How she has fought for children and families for her entire adult life. It doesn’t matter how intelligent and tough she is. It doesn’t matter how much international on the job experience she has. Because she is a woman who chose to make politics her career. i.e. a woman in power = people hate her.

You don’t believe me? Okay. Let’s take the e-mail scandal. Hillary C. accepts a position as Secretary of State after losing a hard fought campaign to Barak O. She goes to her staff and seeks advise on how to best do her job. Someone advised the Clinton’s that US government e-mails are being targeted by hackers and recommends someone in the tech industry to set up a private e-mail server. I have no doubt that who ever this computer tech was, he or she set up many private e-mail servers including some for more than one high ranking US government official, because you don’t get to set up a private server for the Clinton’s without being very good at your job and being highly recommended. Also to this tech person’s credit they did a good job. Why? It’s simple. Did the Clinton’s private server get hacked? No, it did not. How do we know this? Because, we know she had to submit all the data on that server to the investigation. That’s it. End of story.

Hillary C. is not a computer tech. She had to ask one of her staffers for help to set up her iPad. This is not joke, look it up for yourself. Like her or not, Hillary C’s genius is and always has been as a politician. As relates to her "lies" and the FBI investigation. I'm as confounded as the next person. Occam's razor, the simplest answer is probably the correct one. I.e. remember how she asked, "Where Bernie Sander's was on her early attempts at health care reform?"... and he was standing right behind her, and she even publicly thanked him then for his support, and then forgot years later? Well, the simplest answer is again, she sought advice and said what she thought was correct, and hasn't got a clue how many devices were handed to her, because she was reading the content of the e-mails, doing her job, not paying any attention at all to if the device handed to her was the same phone or not. As for Bernie S. standing right behind her? I still think we should unite the Democrats by putting both Bernie and Hillary on one ticket. One as POTUS and one as VEEP, just like the original constitution mandated. But, where was I? The topic was America's disrespect for women, taken out on Hillary C. not who I believe should be on the Democratic ticket.

 I could go on about pantsuits, but that was last election. We’ve all heard Donald T. yelling at the top of his lungs about how Hillary C. yells and speaks too loud (as a woman). Did you catch the irony there? Many of us have glanced at the statistics in that Harvard study on media bias in the 2016 primary. I look at the chart about the tone of coverage Hillary C. versus Bernie S. and it doesn’t surprise me at all. It depresses the hell out of me, and like I confessed in the first line, you know who I voted for in the primary. Don’t believe the media bias was misogynistic just by the comments alone; look at the numbers.

I don’t know what else to say? I guess if you have read this far you already know everything I mentioned and more that we all don’t have time for. Problem is, we are running out of time. Without any hesitation what the world needs more of is women in power. So, please take a minute before you vote and ask yourself, why you are voting for the person you are voting for?

  The future thanks you.

Congress humbly acknowledges responsibility for the lowest approval rating in American history

Congress formally apologizes from the bottom of their hearts, for not only the lowest approval rating in US history 10% in Nov. 2016, and for the longest sustained duration of years with an approval rating below 33% from the 113th to the current 115th congress.

Sorry, also for a record number of blocked nominees coupled with more often than not mind-numbingly stupid indecision derailing needed legislation. As well as willful inaction in completing budgets, including a complete shutdown that cost taxpayers billions.

There are too many examples of recent government fails to list here, so to stay positive, a secret joint committee has compiled a list of reparations and an action list.


Begin hearings to fill vacant supreme court justice seat, ...yesterday. 

No nonsense gun legislation, stat!

Create jobs by rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure by up-cycling it with modern trains and transportation systems.

Create passive energy and renewable energy jobs to meet the global challenges caused by climate change.

Invest in education, not war or corporate oil tax loopholes.

Revenue generation via expanding Park Ranger jobs, working in cooperation with state and local parks to build a network of bike and hiking path across the nation, connecting National Parks.

Election reform, and modernization of US voting system via a new USPS digital branch that would also to replace antiquated paper junk mail.

Also with contemporary corporate accounting software and computer systems out-pacing antiquated government payroll and accounting, especially as relates to the military and veteran affairs. With unemployment of veterans still too high. The best private accounting firms will compete to win the job of training a small army of unemployed to update the entire military payroll and VA records systems.

Same goes for our fragmented and inefficient medical records. Where administration costs have tripled.

Lastly as a token of goodwill as well as scape goat, we here by begin the proceedings to impeach a few of our most obstinate politicians starting with Mitch McConnell for his role in obstruction of government and Ted Cruz for his role in the government shutdown.

If we all work hard to fulfill our obligations to serve the American people, this could be the most exciting time to be in politics since the US constitution was ratified.

Transcript from an over ambitious and still hopeful congressional intern, who wishes to remain anonymous.

"USA! USA!“ whispered the intern, with a couple fist bumps before hurrying away from our recorder.

Two continent wide lawn mowing ban

The Americas: North America, Canada and South America unanimously agreed yesterday to cease the practice of mowing private and public lawns for non-sporting use. Only, soccer/football fields, golf courses, baseball diamonds and other athletic grass fields will be maintained by mowing, effective immediately.

Native Georgia grass, planted in Atlanta, USA along the 'belt-line' walk/bike path.

It was a trifecta of reasons: water, pollution and habitat, but all from the same source, climate change. “Stopping lawn mowing is one way we could take a bite out of climate change, without adding any expensive infrastructure.” A spokesperson from the American committee to protect vital pollinators, cheerfully reported.

Removing lawns from the equation saves water, especially those lawns grown in climate areas that require a sprinkler system to grow and stay green. 

2. Pollution. If we all stop lawn mowing (and machine-powered weed-whacking, leaf blowing and edging etc...), it cuts an unnecessary use of non-renewable energy i.e. gas and electricity (plus batteries), fertilizers and weed killers that leach into our soil and water systems and lastly, stopping use of lawn maintenance machines cuts one of the main sources of neighborhood noise pollution. 

3. Habitat. Grass as a mono-culture is not a good base for disappearing natural habitat for bees, native plants, birds and all creatures above and below the topsoil. Lawns as they are being used now, as some sort of machine maintained outside carpet, simply do not belong in nature.” Imagine instead of lawns, small yard shaped fields of wildflowers, clover or native climate region appropriate ground cover plants. 

Flowers next to a sidewalk in San Francisco, CA

This is a vital first step, and we are hopeful that other countries will follow the Americas example, replacing mowed lawns with native plants, ground cover, and gardens.  

P.S. Leaf blowers were last month. If you still own a leaf blower turn it in, to a machine up-cycling location near you. 

closet full of unedited drafts

lost tale direction 

story a mirage of words 

 too far to return 

 

 

Um.... why did I write that, ... haiku?  Back in February, this year of 2016? The simple reason is, 'I was lost'. 

 Today, June 19th, summer of this same year, I've decided to be found for a while. I'm tired of being lost. It's not that I've figured out where I'm going to. It's just, I'm here now, so I'm going to try being where I'm at, where ever "here" happens to be. 

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 By the way for those of you who wonder about #haiku, it's fun. 

 Here are the rules as I understand them.

Write a poem with three lines. The first line is 5 syllables. The second line with 7 syllables and the third line with 5 syllables, again. The goal of a haiku is to express an idea or a feeling in this short sound shape of words. 

Be careful to not write one line, or one sentence and divide it at 5/7/5. It may look like a haiku, but it isn't a poem unless each line of words can stand on it's own as a sound phrase. I only mention this because I see a lot of haiku on twitter written like a broken sentence, not that I am correct and an authority on this, but if you read them too, you'll know what I mean.