I had one of many lazy moments today where I sat down to read the newspaper, and had to laugh when they referred to Scott Walker as the Governor of Florida. Well, its an easy enough mistake, I guess. Florida is probably on a par with Wisconsin when it comes to stupidity in politics.
I drove across Baton Rouge today during the end of rush hour --- a total mistake. This city is so congested, it's unbelievable. Felt like I was trying to drive across Los Angeles in a shriner car with a flat tire. On the plus side, I got to look around more, and notice the differences in the neighborhoods. I'm living in a new development just outside Baton Rouge's southwest side. Everything around me is brand new, very elegant homes and planned communities. It was nice to look around the older part of town, which has amazingly gracious homes. There were some really blighted neighborhoods, too, sort of back to back with the nice ones. Makes me really glad we decided to live outside of town. I found the Whole Food Store and the tres chic mall. Also found L'Auberge casino, which is as elegant as anything in Vegas, and has a beautiful terrace overlooking the Mississippi.
At any rate, the city clears out after rush hour ..... I don't think Baton Rougeians go out at night. Probably too exhausted from the drive home from work. I drove downtown and looked around, then drove back home through LSU.....very little traffic at all. Very Milwaukee like. For a big university town, I thought there would be more happening. Oh well. I know where to go for happening when I want to. I could have made it to New Orleans in the time it took me to drive across this city and that's pretty funny. I must remember not to drive through LSU when there's a football game. People here really love the Tigers. I've never seen such a big football stadium.
I think I'll become a Saints fan, now. At least, I think I can afford to go to one of their games, unlike taking out a loan to go watch football in Green Bay. But then, I can't really ever let go of the green and gold and I don't even know the Saints' colors.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Out of Milwaukee - and Feeling Good!
I'm about halfway to Baton Rouge, spending the night in Arkansas with a cat who is madder than hell about a 9 hour road trip. Ah, well. We're halfway there.
I felt very sad about leaving my friends and my family, and a few tears rolled down my cheeks, but when I hit Racine County, I was just ecstatic. I don't ever want to live in Wisconsin again, and I feel like I'll never have to. Making the initial move was incredibly burdensome, but now that it's made, I really am beginning to understand I no longer have to live in a city I really don't like, in a state that's lost all of its charm (for me). This feels very good and by the time I reached the Illinois border, I was in full joyful mode.
The cat, not so much. He's really upset and when he's upset, he poops on the floor to let you know. My car will never be the same. It's not like the cat box wasn't available, he just was having his usual catitude, and alas, I'll get more of the same tomorrow. Oh well, he doesn't know it yet, but he won't miss winter either. Cat brains are very small. By tomorrow morning, it will all seem like fresh torture to him.
Got very tired somewhere in the Missouri boot heel and had to drink a gigantic coke for the caffeine. It really helped, but physically, I feel just awful from it. Giving up Coke was good for my health and if I didn't have a rotten little cat with me, I'd stick to coffee, but I have to time my pit stops to less than the 3 minutes it takes for the car to get unbearably hot. So fun to travel this way.
Oh well.......I have a free pass to all things unpleasant, icky, boring, weird or just plain stupid for at least the next two years. My husband will have to do it.
I felt very sad about leaving my friends and my family, and a few tears rolled down my cheeks, but when I hit Racine County, I was just ecstatic. I don't ever want to live in Wisconsin again, and I feel like I'll never have to. Making the initial move was incredibly burdensome, but now that it's made, I really am beginning to understand I no longer have to live in a city I really don't like, in a state that's lost all of its charm (for me). This feels very good and by the time I reached the Illinois border, I was in full joyful mode.
The cat, not so much. He's really upset and when he's upset, he poops on the floor to let you know. My car will never be the same. It's not like the cat box wasn't available, he just was having his usual catitude, and alas, I'll get more of the same tomorrow. Oh well, he doesn't know it yet, but he won't miss winter either. Cat brains are very small. By tomorrow morning, it will all seem like fresh torture to him.
Got very tired somewhere in the Missouri boot heel and had to drink a gigantic coke for the caffeine. It really helped, but physically, I feel just awful from it. Giving up Coke was good for my health and if I didn't have a rotten little cat with me, I'd stick to coffee, but I have to time my pit stops to less than the 3 minutes it takes for the car to get unbearably hot. So fun to travel this way.
Oh well.......I have a free pass to all things unpleasant, icky, boring, weird or just plain stupid for at least the next two years. My husband will have to do it.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
RYAN BRAUN AND A REALITY CHECK
I'm watching another day of awful, violent news stories here in Milwaukee. People shot to death overnight. Armed robberies. A dead infant, killed by his father. A Dean of Students arrested for drunk driving and driving the wrong way on the freeway. But what story dominates the news? Ryan Braun's use of prohibited performance enhancing substances and his lack of making a public apology.
Frankly, I could care less about Ryan Braun or his apology. His actions are neither important to me or of any particular interest. The elevation of sports figures to some God-like status has always annoyed me, and I'm certain it also annoys the sports figures. No one needs that kind of idolatry, persecution or scrutiny ---- unless they're feeding off the public trough of taxpayer monies. So if Ryan Braun makes a public apology matters very little to me. The news stories already have exposed him as a liar and a cheat. What does one say after that? I'm sorry? Just doesn't really matter, does it?
Is anyone outraged over the street violence here in the city? Hardly seems like it. On Sunday, I'll pack up my car and head south. I'll avoid the apathy that is as thick in this city as beer is abundant. I'll leave all of this town's problems behind me and hope that my family members who remain here are able to stay safe in an increasingly dangerous and violent city.
Waiting for a statement from Ryan Braun? Get a life. Get a clue. Get involved in making Milwaukee a better place, because frankly, it's an awful place and I'm glad I'm escaping. Intelligent life is sadly lacking here.
Frankly, I could care less about Ryan Braun or his apology. His actions are neither important to me or of any particular interest. The elevation of sports figures to some God-like status has always annoyed me, and I'm certain it also annoys the sports figures. No one needs that kind of idolatry, persecution or scrutiny ---- unless they're feeding off the public trough of taxpayer monies. So if Ryan Braun makes a public apology matters very little to me. The news stories already have exposed him as a liar and a cheat. What does one say after that? I'm sorry? Just doesn't really matter, does it?
Is anyone outraged over the street violence here in the city? Hardly seems like it. On Sunday, I'll pack up my car and head south. I'll avoid the apathy that is as thick in this city as beer is abundant. I'll leave all of this town's problems behind me and hope that my family members who remain here are able to stay safe in an increasingly dangerous and violent city.
Waiting for a statement from Ryan Braun? Get a life. Get a clue. Get involved in making Milwaukee a better place, because frankly, it's an awful place and I'm glad I'm escaping. Intelligent life is sadly lacking here.
Monday, August 19, 2013
WALKER DISTORTS TRUTH
When the conservative rag known as the Milwaukee Journal prints a headline stating that Scott Walker, that lazy-eyed, low IQ, poor excuse for a governor, is actually distorting the truth, well, you would think people would stand up and take notice. But we all believe what we want to believe, don't we? Oops. Who am I kidding. Most people believe whatever is convenient.
Walker's latest skip though the valley of deceit involves his jobs records. We all remember Scott Walker's campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs here in Wisconsin in the first term of his governorship. Not exactly happening, but here's what he is saying today: "Wisconsin has seen its best two year job growth in a decade".
The Journal goes on to disavow that claim, providing stats and actual job numbers.
Yet, Scott Walker perpetuates the lie. Well, politics as usual, right? Wrong. Scott Walker spins the truth because he is a liar. And liars simply cannot stop lying. And there isn't a group quite like liars when they lie, because they consistently swear they are telling the truth.
I guess Scott Walker fits perfectly the description and motivation of a pathological liar. These people lie because they are completely paralyzed by fear that the truth might be discovered. Scott Walker's truth is that he is unintelligent, unprepared, and unsure of the place he finds himself in, which place he had very little to do with actually attaining.
I do wish liars pants would start on fire with every lie they told. We'd be a nation of charred a$$es. The stink of burned fat would be everywhere. If I wished I had a superpower, it would be to make people choke on the words of every lie they tell.
Walker's latest skip though the valley of deceit involves his jobs records. We all remember Scott Walker's campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs here in Wisconsin in the first term of his governorship. Not exactly happening, but here's what he is saying today: "Wisconsin has seen its best two year job growth in a decade".
The Journal goes on to disavow that claim, providing stats and actual job numbers.
Yet, Scott Walker perpetuates the lie. Well, politics as usual, right? Wrong. Scott Walker spins the truth because he is a liar. And liars simply cannot stop lying. And there isn't a group quite like liars when they lie, because they consistently swear they are telling the truth.
I guess Scott Walker fits perfectly the description and motivation of a pathological liar. These people lie because they are completely paralyzed by fear that the truth might be discovered. Scott Walker's truth is that he is unintelligent, unprepared, and unsure of the place he finds himself in, which place he had very little to do with actually attaining.
I do wish liars pants would start on fire with every lie they told. We'd be a nation of charred a$$es. The stink of burned fat would be everywhere. If I wished I had a superpower, it would be to make people choke on the words of every lie they tell.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Blame Anyone and Avoid the Truth
I found it very interesting that Robin Voss has a huge editorial in the Milwaukee Journal this morning about how the violence in the City of Milwaukee is attributable to poor policing.
Uh.... not really, Mr. Voss.
Mr. Voss, and other like-minded republicans, enjoy blaming the police department for the high number of violent crimes occurring in the city. They decry paying police overtime as a method for curbing the violence. They criticize police operations and methodology. They blame the Chief of Police and the Mayor. They point the fingers at everyone, except themselves. And they are the true fan that flames the fire of inner city violence.
Milwaukee has lost jobs, manufacturing jobs, mostly. Those jobs provided a source of income to many inner city residents, who are now forced to take minimum wage jobs, if they can find them. It is impossible to support a family on a minimum wage salary. So we have a loss of jobs. Then comes a republican administration, which basically gutted any social safety net available to people who could not earn enough money to support their families and survive.
What is happening in Milwaukee is reflective of what happened in Detroit. People are desperate. Most republicans have never been desperate, unless you want to include in that description desperately apathetic. So let me educate republicans about what desperation looks like. It looks like Detroit. It is starting to look like Milwaukee.
People will do what they have to do to survive. That is, they will take jobs that are horrible, for pay that is inadequate. When even those low level jobs are no longer available, their lives are devalued and they have nothing more to lose. This is when desperation sets in. Since non-inner city folk, mostly white, have no idea how it feels to desperately need money, food, bus fare, new shoes, medication, etc., they have no clue what kind of corner the desperate folks have been backed into.
But they're going to find out. Violence will continue to escalate here in the city. The Robin Voss' of the world will continue to blame the police instead of the real culprit, a totally dysfunctional and apathetic society of haves not giving a rat's a$$ about the have-nots. These people will continue to spout off their ignorant rants that if you work hard, anyone can make it, and inner city folk are just lazy. You can't work hard if there are no f*cking jobs. You can't "make it" on $8.00 per hour. Period. End of story.
I am leaving Milwaukee and moving to a very economically viable city in the south. I don't want to watch the devastation that has fallen over this city, and I don't want to witness first hand the suffering that the republican party has inflicted on an entire race of people here in this city, with their narrow-minded and cruel economic plans and policies.
Most importantly, I don't want to watch the desperately violent stories that pour out of my television during the six o'clock news. I think, though, it will be harder to watch what happens when desperation brings about the end of the world as we know it, though. Hitler rounded up the Jews and other "undesirables", herded them into concentration camps and methodically murdered them. Is what we're doing that much different? Starving people? Killing them by providing no access to health care or medication? Insuring that the cycle of poverty continues by gutting educational funding to public schools?
Trust me, Mr. Voss, these desperate people will take matters into their own hands and there will be violent and bloody clashes between the haves and the have-nots in the near future. Think you live in a safe neighborhood, immune to the violence of the inner city? Think again.
Uh.... not really, Mr. Voss.
Mr. Voss, and other like-minded republicans, enjoy blaming the police department for the high number of violent crimes occurring in the city. They decry paying police overtime as a method for curbing the violence. They criticize police operations and methodology. They blame the Chief of Police and the Mayor. They point the fingers at everyone, except themselves. And they are the true fan that flames the fire of inner city violence.
Milwaukee has lost jobs, manufacturing jobs, mostly. Those jobs provided a source of income to many inner city residents, who are now forced to take minimum wage jobs, if they can find them. It is impossible to support a family on a minimum wage salary. So we have a loss of jobs. Then comes a republican administration, which basically gutted any social safety net available to people who could not earn enough money to support their families and survive.
What is happening in Milwaukee is reflective of what happened in Detroit. People are desperate. Most republicans have never been desperate, unless you want to include in that description desperately apathetic. So let me educate republicans about what desperation looks like. It looks like Detroit. It is starting to look like Milwaukee.
People will do what they have to do to survive. That is, they will take jobs that are horrible, for pay that is inadequate. When even those low level jobs are no longer available, their lives are devalued and they have nothing more to lose. This is when desperation sets in. Since non-inner city folk, mostly white, have no idea how it feels to desperately need money, food, bus fare, new shoes, medication, etc., they have no clue what kind of corner the desperate folks have been backed into.
But they're going to find out. Violence will continue to escalate here in the city. The Robin Voss' of the world will continue to blame the police instead of the real culprit, a totally dysfunctional and apathetic society of haves not giving a rat's a$$ about the have-nots. These people will continue to spout off their ignorant rants that if you work hard, anyone can make it, and inner city folk are just lazy. You can't work hard if there are no f*cking jobs. You can't "make it" on $8.00 per hour. Period. End of story.
I am leaving Milwaukee and moving to a very economically viable city in the south. I don't want to watch the devastation that has fallen over this city, and I don't want to witness first hand the suffering that the republican party has inflicted on an entire race of people here in this city, with their narrow-minded and cruel economic plans and policies.
Most importantly, I don't want to watch the desperately violent stories that pour out of my television during the six o'clock news. I think, though, it will be harder to watch what happens when desperation brings about the end of the world as we know it, though. Hitler rounded up the Jews and other "undesirables", herded them into concentration camps and methodically murdered them. Is what we're doing that much different? Starving people? Killing them by providing no access to health care or medication? Insuring that the cycle of poverty continues by gutting educational funding to public schools?
Trust me, Mr. Voss, these desperate people will take matters into their own hands and there will be violent and bloody clashes between the haves and the have-nots in the near future. Think you live in a safe neighborhood, immune to the violence of the inner city? Think again.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Scott Walker Loose & Free with Taxpayer Funded Appointments
Ah, yes, Cynthia Archer back in the news with yet another high-paying job in Scott Walker's administration.
It's amazing how Scott Walker hands out government jobs in his administration like a big fat banker hands out lollipops to a millionaire's kid.
Now if only Scott Walker had enough compassion to hand out some Badger Care benefits to people who desperately needed them. We all know Walker is as compassion-less as any other Nazi. Bereft is the best word to describe Mr. Walker when it comes to any fundamental human emotion associated with caring.
If we are loading up the government here in Wisconsin with Scott Walker sycophants, Wisconsin is doomed to fail on every level. Scott Walker is a hopelessly lacking human being with no real plan and no real clue. Those that buy into his ideology seem to be cut from the same material; lightweight and diaphanous. How long can this band of non-thinking demi-gods hold Wisconsin hostage? I guess as long as the non-thinking blind faith voters continue to believe in Mr. Walker's house of cards.
It's amazing how Scott Walker hands out government jobs in his administration like a big fat banker hands out lollipops to a millionaire's kid.
Now if only Scott Walker had enough compassion to hand out some Badger Care benefits to people who desperately needed them. We all know Walker is as compassion-less as any other Nazi. Bereft is the best word to describe Mr. Walker when it comes to any fundamental human emotion associated with caring.
If we are loading up the government here in Wisconsin with Scott Walker sycophants, Wisconsin is doomed to fail on every level. Scott Walker is a hopelessly lacking human being with no real plan and no real clue. Those that buy into his ideology seem to be cut from the same material; lightweight and diaphanous. How long can this band of non-thinking demi-gods hold Wisconsin hostage? I guess as long as the non-thinking blind faith voters continue to believe in Mr. Walker's house of cards.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Racists Entrenched in the GOP
Comparing illegal immigrants to Satan, Steven Kreiser, assistant deputy secretary at Wisconsin's DOT (a Scott Walker appointee) has been fired from his job. This is less about his bigoted rants than it is about damage control by Scott Walker. You see, in the GOP, you must think the way Kreiser thinks, but you mustn't verbally express it.
Kreiser further wrote that a "stream of wretched criminals" is crossing the border without obstruction and they "completely ruined" entire states and industries. Well who would know better about criminals and ruined states than a Scott Walker appointee.
My point, here, is that this person, appointed to a $96,628 position with the Department of Transportation, has the moronic sensibility of a gnat. He is even more ignorant than our un-illustrious governor. Why are these people in public office? How did this country fall into a state of complete intolerance and blatant hatred for all things non-white and non-Christian?
Is the GOP the party of hate? It certainly seems so. Scott Walker is so busy handing out high-paying appointments based on political connectedness that he can't see the crooks for the pay-offs. Scott Walker is as small-minded as Krieser, he just hides it better. Perhaps Krieser will have to cross the border into Mexico to find a job to support his family. I hear the big drug cartel down there is looking for new members. I'm sure they would love to welcome someone as bigoted and full of hatred as Mr. Krieser.
The big issue here, though, is not that Krieser is a bigoted racist, it's that he got appointed in the first place. Yet another example of Scott Walker being incapable of homework.
Kreiser further wrote that a "stream of wretched criminals" is crossing the border without obstruction and they "completely ruined" entire states and industries. Well who would know better about criminals and ruined states than a Scott Walker appointee.
My point, here, is that this person, appointed to a $96,628 position with the Department of Transportation, has the moronic sensibility of a gnat. He is even more ignorant than our un-illustrious governor. Why are these people in public office? How did this country fall into a state of complete intolerance and blatant hatred for all things non-white and non-Christian?
Is the GOP the party of hate? It certainly seems so. Scott Walker is so busy handing out high-paying appointments based on political connectedness that he can't see the crooks for the pay-offs. Scott Walker is as small-minded as Krieser, he just hides it better. Perhaps Krieser will have to cross the border into Mexico to find a job to support his family. I hear the big drug cartel down there is looking for new members. I'm sure they would love to welcome someone as bigoted and full of hatred as Mr. Krieser.
The big issue here, though, is not that Krieser is a bigoted racist, it's that he got appointed in the first place. Yet another example of Scott Walker being incapable of homework.
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