Past bad experiences make people say all these negative things about the other gender. But most of the people doing the saying really still want to find that connection with another person. They just don't realize that they will never find the good ones if they keep focusing on the bad experiences. They keep looking out for the bad ones, so of course they keep finding them.

Got rained out friday night. It was supposed to rain all weekend. It cleared up enough last night to run the fireworks shows. At first I thought we were getting a thunder storm. My apartment faces the wrong way. I played computer games, watched movies, and read a book. Only thing missing was a bottle of wine.

I don't know why they seemed to fear rampant sex going on in the trenches and foxholes, so to speak. After all, when you're busy staying alive in a war, you really aren't going to be worrying about whether or not the guy next to you finds you attractive. Seems silly to me.

I agree that things take time. But first they throw all this money at the banks. Then make it difficult for the banks to give the money bank when the realized they didn't need it. THEN they do the 'stress tests' and discover that some of the banks they thought they really needed to shore up really were not in any danger at all.

Now all those months messing around with that when they could have been doing something to help real people in real need. Creating jobs or creating a more practical borrower assistant program. And Bush's idea of just giving more tax money back was more of a band-aid than anything else. People paid Bills for the most part. It helps out for only the months that people were getting their checks in. It wasn't a 'get the ball' rolling again event.

The ball being uncontrolled spending beyond everyone's means. And you can say all you want about it being the individual's responsibility to save and stay within ones means. When multiple articles out there were describing people who actually try to save money as "horders" it shows a general consensus in the economic and political world that they NEED people to be spending at that level to keep the economy moving. Which means there is a deliberate agenda to keep people spending beyond what they can afford.

One thing I'm glad about in the past year. Those weekly inundation of credit card offers vanished. Less junk mail in my mailbox.

Naw.......

I still say all those April babies are from Fourth of July celebrations the year before.

LONG POST....

But ultimately, I don't think the problem has anything to do with the so-called stimulus stuff working or not working.

Personally, I never thought it would work. Thought it a huge waste of money. Lots of tax money down the toilet.

I think the issue is one inherent to an economy totally based on spending and getting people to spend and a period of people being stable enough and secure enough that business pushed the envelope trying to see how far they could raise prices and still have people buying.

While sales are recovering slightly, showing that the general public is no longer in a panic of worry, the damage has been done and in a way the damage started before people stopped spending.

I don't think we will see the return to such spending abandon as we used to have. People can't get the credit anymore and people have realized they can get buy without as much and we have realized we DON'T need those frivolous "have to have" items that end up sitting in the closet anyway.

But since our economy is based on getting people to buy things they don't need, and spending more than they have, and not saving money, we will continue to see job losses for a while.

I thought Obama had far more potential to become the next Roosevelt than McCain. But politicians are advised by economists that were far more shocked and taken by surprise by what happened than average people who saw it coming years before hand.

So it really isn't any wonder that these stimulus ideas either flopped or had a very minimal impact. All that money would better have been spent if they did more to focus on job creation than anything else.

Look at how many of the Depression era bridges have started to collapse. Some states have great road systems and some have horrible upkeep. If they had actually taken a page out of Roosevelt's handbook and put together a plan to repair and update much of the stuff that has languishied since Roosevelt's 'job stimulus' packages, many people could have been put to work in many states.

It's strange how this isn't a Depression with a capital D, but it still seems that some of Roosevelt's solutions would have had a far more positive impact that what the government has tried to do so far. And I'm including both the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama one.

The political side is relying too heavily on advise from the very "experts" who helped create the situation and who were utterly blindsided when average people saw it coming 2 years before it happened.

Shiny things are good. I like shiny things. I need to better organize my shiny things.

I went out with a friend last night. A guy tried talking to us about motorcycles and was totally blowing smoke out of his ***. My friend and her husband ride and she knows a lot about certain bikes. This guy was acting like he was all that and a bag of chips pretending to know stuff and was just talking ****.

I love fireworks. But this city is insane. This city has more private fireworks going off in it than any place I've ever been. Which is very interesting since it is illegal here. I flew back into town one year on the 4th of July and the smoke and haze over the city made it look more like the city was burning down than setting off fire works. Now I just stay inside and stay away from the insane crowds and even more insane pyromaniacs setting off stuff on the sidewalks next to the roadways. They started the celebrations about two days ago.

To me, it sounds like a direct tie in to what they are trying to do with the radio stations. So the artists get paid every time their song is played.

I always thought the purpose to having your music on the radio was for people to hear it, like it, and then buy it. Radio play is a form of advertising for the artists and record companies. Not a "performance" of the music.

But after saying they wanted radio stations to pay for playing the songs, I'm not at all surprised by this course of action.

But, doesn't EVERYTHING cause something or other......????

LOL

It's that or Excedrin or Ibuprofin. I refuse to suffer headaches that get worse with sleep.

I suppose I should take a Tylonal PM tonight and go to bed now. That way sleep all night, don't wake up w/ a headache, and get 8.5 hours of sleep to make up for last a couple of less than ideal nights of sleep.

Or I can just continue to hate mornings.

Actually, I ended up in a much better mood after class. So it's a good thing I went.

Tribal Fusion Belly Dance

Maybe it was the middle of the night headache. Maybe it was the over-sleeping. Maybe it is because with 2.5 weeks until the workshop and show, I really have no idea what we are doing for the show.

But I'm really dreading going to my dance class tonight. Normally I really look forward to it. But I so don't want to go.

before I leave for work, I simply must say one little thing....




I

HATE

MORNINGS



I really really do.

The Mother Did It.....

Well, sorta.

It wasn't the ghosts. And it leaves you wondering if the ghosts were ever real or just her dementia from the stress her son disappearing.

Kinda like Pan's Labyrinth, and you don't know if the girl's fantasies were really or make believe.

Those two movies are more alike than the other movie of Del Toro that I've seen.

It was good.

But the pharmacists would notice. There ought to be a way for them to report something like that.

Blink...Blink...Blink...

Watching the silence.....