Seven years bad luck.
Where to begin?
I broke Ryther's shaving mirror today. had it in my hand and it just slipped away into the tub. Now, this mirror has fallen I cannot tell you how many times in the past. 20 maybe at least. We'll be sitting in the living room and her 'crash'. "What was that?" Oh, just the mirror, again. And yet this one time, when I'm there, all responsible and all, it shatters. Oh well. I don't shave, what should I care, right?
I found a home for the flute I found. My crazy friend in Oregon will take it for her son. Her husband played flute, and although this is considered an inferior flute, a school flute, he will fix it and try to teach his son, who is interested, how to play. Yay.
I've been home a lot lately since there is not much to do at the cemetery right now (although I did paint some signs, get gas in the truck and move frozen flowers today). It's that time of the year, when I have to do all the year end taxes, W-2's and so one, and start getting the years figures from the ledger into the computer. Every year I say I will do it as it comes in, and every year I put it off to the end of the year, which actually works out because, what the hell else would I be doing?
So being at home, I have the radio on to NPR all day. I also check Facebook more than I should. I don't multi-task well, let me tell you. I would never make it in an office. I need to be outside.
But anyway... Today when I got home I noticed my state senator was going to be on the radio, so I tuned him in. Unfortunately I missed half the show, but what I did hear was interesting. What I also found it interesting were some of the comments on his FB page from some of his 'supporters'. One person wrote that NPR was "state run crap" and another that it was "Socialist National Welfare Radio". Wow, no wonder this country is in the state it's in. I may not always agree with the slant some programs or conversations take, but NPR give the most balanced and in depth news around. It informs. Now, you may not agree with the conclusions they come to, but damn if they don't give you a lot of info to go on. According to Wikki: In a Harris poll conducted in 2005, NPR was voted the most trusted news source in the U.S.[4] Now, how much do you trust Wikki to be right? hmm? lol
It just galls me that people will submerge themselves in one news sourse that's not very good, or that's mostly opinion, rather than try to get the most information they can. I don't think a bombastic talk show host is really a good source of news. If you stick a Herald in front of me, or a Globe, hell, if you put a rag in front of me I'd read it. Doesn't mean I won't just take it with a grain of salt though.
So on NPR today were a number of topics of interest. I listened to my senator describe the fact that the chamber where the governor was giving his state of the state last night was rather empty, that they were bringing in people just to fill the seats. That can't be a good sign for his political future.
Also of note was the statement Sen Kerry made apparently saying he knew Scott Brown was going to win the election. LOL! Well, he did, did he? He might have told Martha that and maybe she could have gotten her shit together. What a jackass. I bet he's getting a bit nervous about his seat, although I'm not sure how much longer he has before he has to run again. The voters are notoriously short minded.
Who is going to run for Barney Frank's seat? See, that's the thing. You got a republican into an empty seat, but can you actually get a man with that much power out of office if he doesn't want to go? Does anyone seriously think that if Ted was still alive, he wouldn't have been voted right back in? I have no doubt that he would have won again. He just had too much power. But I am wondering if Barney might just bow out. Because he knows he's part of the problem. I just wonder how many others know that?
Anyway, also on today was a discussion of Denialism. New book. But this is one I didn't quite agree with. Basically he was saying that if you didn't trust science, you were a denialist. Ok, that's oversimplifying it. But then he goes on to flutter back and forth giving reasons not to trust science, but that you should trust it. He sounded like an idiot. You should trust that vaccines are safe, but we don't know how much mercury in fish is bad for you. We don't have all the answers, but you should trust us. Vitamins are useless. But... arn't doctors telling us to take them, and isn't that based on... science? Organic food is the same as non organic. Well, maybe in an absolute sense, but if you are buying something from Monsanto which leads to poor land management and enslaved farmers, is that fruit the same as an organic fruit. And wasn't DDT safe at one point? Actually I guess its argued that it still is safe, just in more measured amounts. Which is scientifically correct? Which scientist do you believe? And when they find they are wrong, like with the safety of plastic (also mentioned today) then who do you believe?
I see Obama has gotten stirred up by the election of Scott Brown. He's out there yelling at Wall Street again. Yeah, you do need to regulate the banks. You do need to break them down to more manageable sizes. Why are banks selling insurance? Can I ask that?
So back to Monsanto. We watch a show Better off Ted which is pretty silly but funny. Its about a big corporation. They have fake adds sometimes, and I was looking at a Monsanto add in Nat. Geographic today and all I could think about when i read it was teh show. "Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers' lives. That's sustainable agriculture. And that's what Monsanto is all about."
Yeah, right. See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122498255 I guess it sounded better than "Monsanto, enslaving farmers for years to come".
Well, there you go, all before dinner. Ummm.
And there is beef stew in the crock pot for tomorrow.
I broke Ryther's shaving mirror today. had it in my hand and it just slipped away into the tub. Now, this mirror has fallen I cannot tell you how many times in the past. 20 maybe at least. We'll be sitting in the living room and her 'crash'. "What was that?" Oh, just the mirror, again. And yet this one time, when I'm there, all responsible and all, it shatters. Oh well. I don't shave, what should I care, right?
I found a home for the flute I found. My crazy friend in Oregon will take it for her son. Her husband played flute, and although this is considered an inferior flute, a school flute, he will fix it and try to teach his son, who is interested, how to play. Yay.
I've been home a lot lately since there is not much to do at the cemetery right now (although I did paint some signs, get gas in the truck and move frozen flowers today). It's that time of the year, when I have to do all the year end taxes, W-2's and so one, and start getting the years figures from the ledger into the computer. Every year I say I will do it as it comes in, and every year I put it off to the end of the year, which actually works out because, what the hell else would I be doing?
So being at home, I have the radio on to NPR all day. I also check Facebook more than I should. I don't multi-task well, let me tell you. I would never make it in an office. I need to be outside.
But anyway... Today when I got home I noticed my state senator was going to be on the radio, so I tuned him in. Unfortunately I missed half the show, but what I did hear was interesting. What I also found it interesting were some of the comments on his FB page from some of his 'supporters'. One person wrote that NPR was "state run crap" and another that it was "Socialist National Welfare Radio". Wow, no wonder this country is in the state it's in. I may not always agree with the slant some programs or conversations take, but NPR give the most balanced and in depth news around. It informs. Now, you may not agree with the conclusions they come to, but damn if they don't give you a lot of info to go on. According to Wikki: In a Harris poll conducted in 2005, NPR was voted the most trusted news source in the U.S.[4] Now, how much do you trust Wikki to be right? hmm? lol
It just galls me that people will submerge themselves in one news sourse that's not very good, or that's mostly opinion, rather than try to get the most information they can. I don't think a bombastic talk show host is really a good source of news. If you stick a Herald in front of me, or a Globe, hell, if you put a rag in front of me I'd read it. Doesn't mean I won't just take it with a grain of salt though.
So on NPR today were a number of topics of interest. I listened to my senator describe the fact that the chamber where the governor was giving his state of the state last night was rather empty, that they were bringing in people just to fill the seats. That can't be a good sign for his political future.
Also of note was the statement Sen Kerry made apparently saying he knew Scott Brown was going to win the election. LOL! Well, he did, did he? He might have told Martha that and maybe she could have gotten her shit together. What a jackass. I bet he's getting a bit nervous about his seat, although I'm not sure how much longer he has before he has to run again. The voters are notoriously short minded.
Who is going to run for Barney Frank's seat? See, that's the thing. You got a republican into an empty seat, but can you actually get a man with that much power out of office if he doesn't want to go? Does anyone seriously think that if Ted was still alive, he wouldn't have been voted right back in? I have no doubt that he would have won again. He just had too much power. But I am wondering if Barney might just bow out. Because he knows he's part of the problem. I just wonder how many others know that?
Anyway, also on today was a discussion of Denialism. New book. But this is one I didn't quite agree with. Basically he was saying that if you didn't trust science, you were a denialist. Ok, that's oversimplifying it. But then he goes on to flutter back and forth giving reasons not to trust science, but that you should trust it. He sounded like an idiot. You should trust that vaccines are safe, but we don't know how much mercury in fish is bad for you. We don't have all the answers, but you should trust us. Vitamins are useless. But... arn't doctors telling us to take them, and isn't that based on... science? Organic food is the same as non organic. Well, maybe in an absolute sense, but if you are buying something from Monsanto which leads to poor land management and enslaved farmers, is that fruit the same as an organic fruit. And wasn't DDT safe at one point? Actually I guess its argued that it still is safe, just in more measured amounts. Which is scientifically correct? Which scientist do you believe? And when they find they are wrong, like with the safety of plastic (also mentioned today) then who do you believe?
I see Obama has gotten stirred up by the election of Scott Brown. He's out there yelling at Wall Street again. Yeah, you do need to regulate the banks. You do need to break them down to more manageable sizes. Why are banks selling insurance? Can I ask that?
So back to Monsanto. We watch a show Better off Ted which is pretty silly but funny. Its about a big corporation. They have fake adds sometimes, and I was looking at a Monsanto add in Nat. Geographic today and all I could think about when i read it was teh show. "Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers' lives. That's sustainable agriculture. And that's what Monsanto is all about."
Yeah, right. See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122498255 I guess it sounded better than "Monsanto, enslaving farmers for years to come".
Well, there you go, all before dinner. Ummm.
And there is beef stew in the crock pot for tomorrow.