Every now and then I have to go into one of my Rants about the callous stupidity of our nations politicians.
This is one of those rants about these heartless and cruel politicians and their attempt at splitting people with Pre-Existing Medical Conditions away from the rest of the population, essentially condemning them to eventual poverty and becoming second class citizens, with health problems that will often lead to the depletion of any saving they have or worse, their deaths.
Oh, LOOK!
Over there!
What strange group of people!
Look at them, such a strange and mixed bag of Humanity.
They’re just standing there,
staring at that old memorial with the nasty soldier statue.
How strange!
Oh look, they removed their hats,
and placed their hands over their Hearts.
And now they are repeating some strange words that they all seem to know.
How embarrassing, don’t you think?
What’s that?
They call themselves Patriots?
And they are repeating the National Anthem?
Oh, and you say this day is actually a national holiday?
Set aside to honor our men and women who served in our military?
Oh my!
Well, Come along kids,
I don’t want you to get too close to such a bunch of radicals.
Besides, we’re late getting to the sale at the department store.
by Don Bobbitt, November 11, 2016, All Rights Reserved
Yeah, here I am, one of those Average Americans that came out of the woodwork to vote for Trump. (Or, was it to vote against Clinton?).
Anyway, I was up late, watching this very important election and finally the results turned and started going in Trump’s direction, and I must say, the consternation and shock on the faces of the whole world of journalists was, honestly, entertaining.
I got to watch the final end of the thousands of repeated and twisted ads fired at Trump and his supporters.
Anyway, i wrote a pretty good article where I attempted to explain to these opinionated news-mongers, just who I am. I am, simply put, a veteran and a common man who worked his whole life without any superlatives that the liberal press would be interested in exploring.
Me? I am just an Average American, who was finally able to symbolically “spit in the face” of those who have ignored the plight of us, the Average American over the past decade.
Click on the link below to read my article.
by Don Bobbitt, November, 2016
I was just wondering.
You see, today I was watching a news network on my TV, you know which one.
It’s the one with over 75% (which seems like 90% after all these months) of their 24-hour coverage being about the Republican candidate for president and what he slips up and said to people 10, 20 and more years ago.
In most states, some of these things they beat to death are older than the statutes of limitations on such crimes as Murder, Rape, Assault, and other true criminal abuses.
But thes disconnected fools go on and on, filling their air time with digital nothings that in a few week will not even rate being stored for posterity.
So, today I made a point of switching back to this network at least hourly all day long and into the evening.
Our politicians today are a privileged group of self-serving individuals that would not hesitate to sell anyone down the river to get what they want.
One of the problems we have today is the fact that the two political parties have polarized themselves so far to the two extremes of ideology (liberal and conservative) that they have become ineffective and basically in need of being replaced by people who believe in the goals of our original government; to serve the people, and not just themselves.
That’s one of my big problems with Mr. Cruz, in these ongoing state political primaries.
His arrogant disregard for the truth is outrageous.
OK, stop right there, I know ….. All politician tell lies.
That’s right, I’m Retired!
And, here I have combined two different articles of mine for efect. The first half I wrote when I turned 65. The second half are my reflections on then, Now and what I am afraid about tomorrow and our future as retirees.
Click on the link below to read the article.
Here I am, RETIRED, Reflections of a Retiree.
by Don Bobbitt,2014
Copyright, DonBobbitt, 2014, All Rights Reserved
I was Just Thinkin’
I was Just Thinkin’
Sitting over my morning Coffee and Worried.
The news really has nothing of any national import to talk about other than beating on the weather and older stories.
The weather isn’t that shocking, and the older stories are just being stirred around, kind of like a kid would poke a stick at an interesting spider on the back porch.
SO, On my second cup, I realized something! Our national leaders (and I use the term loosely) are quiet.
I’m not hearing about any of them standing in front of a row of microphones, in their Armani suits and pontificating on some grand thought or plan of theirs.
Oh, understand, I have a long-standing distrust of our representatives, and when these fools are quiet, I can only make a couple of assumptions.
My top assumption is that they are cashing in their perks given to them by the special interest groups and vacationing, in style somewhere that the rest of us cannot dream of ever affording.
My next assumption is that these “snakes without morals” are sitting together and planning yet another attack on the rights and monies of the working class.
OK! Sure, they might be doing something productive, but experience over the past decade tells me that when something stinks, it is probably rotten!
Nuff Said!
DON
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ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 7.8%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.
COSTELLO: You just said 7.8%.
ABBOTT: 7.8% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 7.8% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 14.7% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 7.8%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 7.8% or 14.7%?
ABBOTT: 7.8% are unemployed. 14.7% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, the White House said you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed.You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn’t look for work can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less
unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down.
Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for
work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down.
That’s how they get it to 7.8%. Otherwise it would be 14.7%. The resident doesn’t want you to read about 14.7% unemployment.
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like an Economist.
COSTELLO: I don’t even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like Congress
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Yep! It’s relatively quiet on the “Who is blaming Who” front at the moment.
We are finally down to one Democrat candidate and one Republican candidate. So, it no longer matters if we like the choices or not, they are who they are.
And, both of them, are sitting back and polishing their Rocks for future use.
Remember when you were a Kid and you would search around for a nice rock with a smooth flat surface to toss across the Pond. Your whole purpose was to get the perfect rock that would SKIP the most times on the surface of the Pond and travel the furthest before it finally sank into the depths of the cold dark Pond.
Well, I see our politicians as doing the same thing, today.
Their Rocks are potential issues that will make them more popular than their opponent, for a longer period of time, and thus will help raise their visibility with the voting public.
They really don’t care what the issue is, as long as it doesn’t hurt their standings and has the potential to damage their opponents in some way.
So, what do we do?
We, the voting public?
We just sit back and watch the Clowns dance their Fool’s Dance and occasionally pull out another rock and see of it will SKIP well.
Don Bobbitt
I’m just sitting here, sipping on some water and watching it rain outside. For entertainment, I turned on the news and flipped it up to the CNN channel.
I keep them turned on a lot, mostly because they are more middle-of-the-road than the other news channels.
Anyway, I had fired up my PC to work on cleaning up my Hubs, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a commercial for a Veterans support group.
The difference with this one was the fact that they were using a clip from a battle in NAM, along with the sound effects.
It was just a momentary 2-3 seconds of a clip that was part of a 30-second commercial.
But, it happened again!
I was back in time to the late sixties, with all of my old friends and relatives of my generation, sitting around; drinking beer and talking about the war.
You see, my family was poor or lower lower middle class, whichever you want to call is, I don’t really care!
But, we, and my friends, were the people in this economic group were the ones that went to war and wore the uniforms, and justServed our Country.
And so many friends and some of my relatives, were the ones that never came back from NAM …… Alive!
I myself, served in the Navy, and I was never in-country, so obviously, no one ever tried to shoot me, or impale me on sharpened bamboo sticks dipped in excrement.
No one booby-trapped my friend’s body with a hand grenade, just to get one more American kill, if I moved the mauled body.
No one kicked me out of a helicopter and told me to keep my head down and “run like Hell!” while the CONG were spraying us with live fire and mortars.
No one had been brainwashed so well that they wrapped explosives around their body and walked into my favorite Saigon Bar and detonated themselves on the chance that they would kill a few of us American Imperialists!
No, I didn’t watch my buddies get killed in front of my eyes.
You see, I was thousands of miles away working on an Aircraft Carrier, and occasionally, I got letters from home about my buddies and relatives being killed, or wounded, by such acts.
But I did serve my Country and these great guys were a part of my life, then and still.
I guess that might be one of the reasons that I am still here on the crazy world of ours; to write this little story and perhaps awaken others who have forgotten. You see;
I Served and I Remember!
MEANDERINGS of DON BOBBITT 