Blowin' in the wind

Thoughtful words set to music can send a message people remember.

 

How many violent ICE attacks on our streets before we vote for change?

I hope the answer blows into the voting booth this fall. 

no sympathy

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, FOUR years
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Yes, I've been watching the RNC coverage combined with some listening to lyrics of my favorite songs.

(please note most all my posts are non political but certainly not this one)

According to Wikipedia Thugs from the Thuggee cult

The Republican strategists attempts to polish up mean Mr. Mustard’s image enough to reassure swing voters that he is OK enough was on full display. In other words, asking for sympathy for the devil (more about the devil part later).

The week before I watched the DNC coverage. I watched both on the PBS channel. I enjoy the commentary. I used the mute button more with the RNC coverage.

So Trump got his name in fireworks over the Washington monument. That should be enough. Resign now it's not going get better Donny John. Oh, spelled out in fire, the devil? Oh never mine.

As I checking the lyrics to the Rolling Stone's hit song, I came across this line:

And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

I had no clue to what this referenced. Thanks to a bit of clicking on the internet I found it most likely refers to the Thuggee cult in India's past. Some historians believe the British exaggerated the problem to justify some harsh laws in India. I don't know, but it had me thinking of the thugs associated with mean Mr. Mustard. I included the Thugs picture I found on wikipedia.  

The devil in the details - a favorite phrase but since I don’t really believe in the religious concept of the devil, I’m using the term more as slang. I do love deviled eggs.

good luck Donald

I started to write my reaction to this election but then reminded myself that I don’t really cover politics much here on my blog. I wondered what to write and decided just to not bother. You might have read my past rants about all the election garbage spread around fakebook. I rationalized to myself that those fakebook rants would apply to both sides of our political divide. I’m not trying to hide that I like President Obama and thought Hillary Clinton would have made a better president than Donald. This blog is a fun thing for me and I’m not out to sway anyone’s political views. Nor do I want to argue about that on this blog.

Election night renewed my dislike of polling and the electoral college. I’m hoping that Donald does NOT keep his campaign promises. We don’t need his crappy ideas.

I wish him good luck in running our big government.

Other recent events:

a table set for the missing veterans

Veteran's Day

I had my free Veteran's Day lunch with one of our daughters at a Texas Roadhouse. Very nice. The local veterans group set up a table for the MIA/POW's. It was a good reminder that too many veterans never returned and are still unaccounted for.



Supermoon - when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.

Did you take a glance at the supermoon over the weekend? It did seem brighter. It’s hard to measure any difference with your eyes when there is just dark sky around it. Also if your eye has something in it like a big pizza pie. I would rather eat pizza than remove it from my eye. Of course as happens to many, my eyes are often bigger than my stomach.





Plenty of food references in this song. You’ll sing Vita Bella - since this election I just can’t sing life is beautiful yet. That election pizza has given me a long spell of heartburn.

A great songwriter Leonard Cohen passed on:

SNL and Kate McKinnon nailed it with their Leonard Cohen tribute combined with a remark about the election. Just in case you are not an SNL fan, Kate McKinnon has played Hillary Clinton during the campaign.

big bird might be the answer

(Warning: The post you are about to read contains Lisleman’s fact and speculation. It only takes a quick spin on my office chair start my inner ear spinning. The truth is out there, I just don’t know where.)

If you interpret this post as political then I failed to communicate my message. This is not to persuade you to a particular candidate. I don’t like extremes and believe compromise is the best path to solutions. The moderate view does not play well in the media so we don’t get to hear much of it. I wish we heard more about solutions that came from the different sides working together.

You may have heard or even participated in the big trending topic coming out of the first presidential debate - Sesame Street’s Big Bird

Myself I always liked Oscar the Grouch better than Big Bird. The charismatic one is Elmo.

Of the many issues mentioned in the debate are you surprised that Big Bird and PBS funding seemed to get the most attention? At first I was a little surprised but after I thought about it maybe it makes sense that the public focused on this big yellow bird.

Most everyone recognizes Big Bird. He looks funny. He’s a big simple target. People don’t seem to care for complex details. If people bothered to look into this they would find the federal funding is minor part of PBS operations and about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Maybe it’s meant as a simple mostly symbolic target.

Honestly while I’ve supported PBS with donations and enjoy much of its programming maybe it could survive without government funding. This issue is not a deciding factor for me and probably not for many others.

I don’t know if government funding was a factor but maybe the Elmo and Katy Perry song might not have been dropped if PBS were more independent. Just crazy speculation on my part but the video really shows Elmo’s charisma. 




The bottom line is please vote and remember more local offices affect you more than the higher ones. This has been brought to you by the letter ‘V’ for vote. 


another circus 

simple politics

News flash - there’s an election next week.

Voting is important. Everyone who is eligible should do so. I think we should tie it to a reward system like coupons redeemable at the IRS. Get 10% off your next tax bill for turning in your vote.

What is NOT important is the coverage of the elections and media's damn predictions. Since when did the news get into fortune telling?

1 out of 10 think our news program sucks and polls show that group will double in size before the end of the program today.

Only the Poles should be allowed to poll and only when they give out paczki for taking the poll.

I believe the polling (who really knows how that’s done anyway) turns you off to actual voting. The prediction crap turns the elections into a sporting event that doesn’t even have a winner or final score.

But the two biggest turn offs to an election are TV campaign ads and political robo-calls. Boring would be much better than annoying in elections. Imagine a ban on political TV ads. We did a ban on TV cigarette ads. Why not political ads?

The candidates could still appear on TV but just in debates and interviews. Of course those activities would require real news professionals and who know if we have any of those around anymore.

The headline of the Chicago Tribune today:

“Secret cash pours in”

Who the hell has cash to pour into anything?

Many poor people out there don’t have the cash to pour a cup of coffee. Poor me, pour me another shot of whiskey.

The election reporting goes on to say that candidates for the House and Senate have raised a combined $1.6 billion and spent $1.4 billion. Even if the numbers are off and over estimated that’s a good chunk of change. Who knows where some of that cash might be spilled.

One more thing about this 2010 election - what’s with all the nut cases this year?

Did you hear about this new political party called the “Rent Is Too Damn High” party?

I found the following picture on their web site (honest here’s their link):

I’m thinking of starting a party (doesn’t need to be political) called:

“Political Ads Are Too Damn Annoying”

I've done a few political type youtube clips before.  Here's one from awhile ago "Don't go breaking my TARP".  Maybe I could start with  my facebook group “Stop Music On-hold” and expand from there.

vote hour

I found this on the google blog - I think its great for these CEO's to support this.

It's called vote hour.

I don't post about politics here but this is voting and that's important for our country. This election looks to be a big turn out.

So a couple of comments - you get to see some of these CEO's that many have not seen before. Also, it shows the impact that youtube has. Too bad the employees can't also vote on the CEO's staying in their position.