235yrs America ... you don't look a day over 222. ($1 to Wayne Resnick, I'll postdate a check for Friday, no better make it Saturday because of .... well - today).
While others prepare their foul-smelling veggie-dogs, less-foul-smelling assembly-line USDA grade F patties and succulent tri-tip and NY Strip cuts**, blow shit up (legally or not), and find yet another excuse to binge-drink, start shit and get their faces smashed in (either by lack of balance or by messing with the wrong dude, ... or chick) - your humble reporter, writer, reviewers [and occasional pundit] reflects on our past, present and future.
-our glorious victories
-our dreadful mistakes
-our towering successes
-and the shame of our failures
I think about how I got some gas for $3.75/gal recently and how excited it made me, not 5 yrs ago that same price would have sent me into a tizzy-fit.
I think about the S&P500 going up a point, while UI goes up a pt. too.
How fragile the dollar has become. How China, Russia, Japan and God knows who else nip @ our heels and scramble to supplant the Estados Unidos as the world's foremost superpower.
Then my thoughts turn to the SEC, jerking it in their posh little offices to internet p*** while the NYSE crumbled; along w/ Americans' nest-eggs, 401ks, mutual funds, stocks and bonds.
Secrets and lies.
It wasn't the hummer that almost got Clinton impeached, it was that he lied about it later. Same for Mr. Weiner: the sexting (God I h8 that word) probably would have been tolerated until it came out that he was coaching his friends of the fairer sex how to lie to the press and investigators. Watergate, as a standalone B&E, did not force Nixon out of office it was the Executive coverup that severed ol' Dick's job security (no pun intended, yikes!).
Secrets and lies.
Past - Present - Future ... could it be that our morality will become the source of our ultimate success or failure as the "world's only remaining superpower?"
How have secrets and lies eroded your life? your family? your loved one(s)?
Perhaps if we can stabilize our own backyards, then we can turn our energy and determination to our towns, cities, counties, states ... and this great* nation.
*my hopes and prayers this remains so; long after I am gone.
This is an awful transition but I am brushing up on my HTML, below a search engine for medication should appear:
Search prescription drugs on Drugs.com
On a personal note: The last two 4 July's were good, fun, exciting ... places to go, people to see. This time I have informed Mom, Dad and stepmom that I plan to take the 1 bus to the SC Pier ... but I just don't know if I have it in me. Why couldn't my checks have coincided w/ the holiday??? For me and everyone else on UI, WE get to spend the "weekend" (days make no difference after a few months of this life) with unpaid bills and empty stomachs, with naught but tap water to slake our thirst.
**We had a propane grill in college. We used to load up on steak, chicken, pork/lamb chops, dogs, patties - u name it, I could grill it. The smell that used to excite me with the anticipation of a mouth-watering meal to come... is now just another tease. Mocking me and pocking my empty stomach. I know just how to make up for it though - a very special person introduced me to a BBQgrill-type place that had unbelievably good tri-tip. (southside RSM - ladera ranch? off antonio, b4 u get to the dump, lft-hand side). I'm patient, I can wait. I can wait a looooooong time. 4evr if need be.
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