Monday, May 21, 2012

May I ?

May I say a few words about:

Dentists: - It seems they are all over the place these days; scores of 'em.  But finding one I trust is harder than it's ever been.  I'm not sure why this should be, since I doubt Dental schools have lowered their standards for graduation, but you couldn't confirm that through my experiences.  Suffice it to say that when I've not been unnecessarily gouged by dental instruments (of torture), I've been gouged by dental financial shenanigans (also torture).  Now I've got a broken tooth that needs a crown.  Who Do I Trust?

Obama V Romney: -  This will not be an exciting campaign.  We know as much about Mitterson Q. Romnificent the Fourth as most of us care to, and his minions (particularly that cheering section known as Fox News) are obnoxious when they aren't being heartless;  Meanwhile Barack Hussein Obama has become, to many of his formerly ardent admirers, just that guy who inhabits the White House and does more or less a decent job of dealing with world events, and tolerates with substitute-teacher zen the heap of republican excrement that's clogged his court appointments and blocked any real legislation.  No longer the second coming, however.  I predict America will snooze through the campaign, waking up on election day to vote for the guy they feel least uneasy about that morning.

California's Gold: - Where the heck is it?  Good Old 'Govvy Brown has lectured his 39 million surrogate children on our 16 billion dollar fiscal improvidence.  We've been bad and now we'll have to pay - either with taxes or cuts, or preferably for the Gov, both.  Problem is, we can't afford to cut school funding (at the college level at least) more than it already has been cut, without reducing the supply of future qualified graduates to the educational equivalent of a dried up mud puddle in a drought. And with 11% unemployment in the State, raising taxes will hit already reeling families hard.  Reverse Dust-Bowl migration, anyone?  Is there room in Oklahoma for five or six million more?  California needs gold, and that means we need jobs, but so far I've not seen anything from Sacramento except partisanship, polemics,  procrastination, and passing (the buck).  Oklahoma, here we come, right back where we started from (oh, wait ...)

They say April showers bring May flowers.  Well, it rained in California in April, and sure enough there are flowers in May ... but the Summer Heat is here and the blooms are withering folks; withering ...

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