Pull my finger...
One wonders about the myriad ’n sundries of life in the course of a day or a week…or, in my case, the time period dedicated to commercials by network television...
Why, you may ask, or maybe not, why have I been watching commercials in the first place…and therein, lies the gist of the story…
The hard drive on my Dish Network receiver died…2nd time actually for a similar incident occurred a few years ago… in the interim, the 4 to 5 day interim waiting for FedEx (or UPS) I had to contend with (gasp) real-time television programming…wherein one is tethered, so to speak, to the time period in which your desired program is available…and you can’t pause or halt the damn thing for a bathroom break or anything else…you’re essentially stuck there and your movement is limited to the breaks in the program for the damn commercials…
Now, I do grasp the significance of commercials without which there would be no ‘free’ television but, like government handouts, ‘free’ comes with a price…meaning you’re not only stuck with the commercials but stuck to the time frame of the show itself…which brings us, as the venerable Paul Harvey use’ta say,’THE REST OF THE STORY’…which really ain’t all that much because I’m old ’n little things tend to irritate me more’n they used to…(funny thing about being old, it’s always the litle things that bug you while you tend to shrug off the big things, go figure)…
Anyhow, there’s a commercial keeps playing on various ’n sundry channel ( Weight Watchers, but that’s incidental)…there’s a character in that commercial, a man, dunno if he’s an actor or not (irrelevant) but he looks at the camera ’n speaks his lines flatly, “It ain’t complicated, you eat the food, you lose the weight.”…
‘It ain’t complicated’…applies to so much of the stuff that gets talked about over ’n over today, especially when it comes to politics…’n well, life in general…we tend to complicate our lives, create mountains out of molehills, see problems where sometimes, no problem exists…like Granny Smith said, when things are going smoothest, that’s when you know there’s trouble ahead…it’s hard being happy when you have to look ahead to see the trouble looming on the horizon...we never seem to be happy unless we have a problem to solve…that’s probably why crossword puzzles ’n soduku are so popular…(is that the right spelling, I’ve not got hooked on those yet)…
Anyway, life tends to be complicated and we make it worse by looking for complicated solutions…but, like Alexander and the Gordian Knot, sometimes the simple solution is best…It ain’t that complicated, just cut the damn knot!
Politics is actually pretty damn simple… it’s a game, a sport for some, a serious business for others, like the NFL, it pays the winners really well ’n nobody remembers the losers past that p’tick’lar season...
Obama’s been in office for seven years so he has a year to go (personally, I can’t wait for him to go away, his bony head ’n flapdoodle ears)…historically, two terms,eight years, is pretty much it for any party,altho’ FDR did manage to double that…didn’t quite get it finished, but he tried, he tried…
Those four terms turned out to be so scary for the professional politicians that they passed a term limit law…afraid of having a King, I think...Anyhow, after eight years, most folk think it’s time for a change ’n that’s usually the way the vote goes…
The Republicans have a pretty good shot this time around, a lot of really qualified candidates and the Obama economy has sucked big time…should be a shoo-in but with politics as in football, you just never know…
I use’ta like betting on sports when I was younger and knew damn near everything but even then I shied away from professional football on the grounds that on any given Saturday, the very worst team in the league could beat the very best team and it’s hard to figure the odds in that situation...
The Democrats only have one candidate, no matter the support for good old Bernie, and that’s Hillary…seriously flawed, she’s a self-confessed liar and cheat…somehow, that don’t seem to matter to an awful lot of registered Democrats…I don’t know why it doesn’t matter but it’s a fact that it don’t!
She pretty much has to run on the Obama economy which is good for the Republicans and her record as Secretary of State is only better than my record because she was actually Secretary of State and I wasn’t…her record as a United States Senator was darn near as good as her record of Secretary of State and she didn’t travel as much which made her term in the Senate a little cheaper…there’s no proof that she peddled her influence to the highest bidder, it’s circumstantial that the Russkie’s bought a big chunk of USA uranium under her watchful eyes ’n circumstantial evidence has always been good enough for the Clintons…all depends on what you mean by the word ‘is’...
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