No tea to be had here

I wish I could say that I get the rationale of the tea party but i don't.

I  don't get where these people were when  George W. Bush was declaring wars on the Muslim World, passing tax cuts to benefit his rich friends, not only spending all the dimes that had been nailed down and spending dimes that have yet to be minted.    I don't get why people blame Obama for TARP when  W. signed the law befow Obama so much as turned on the lights in the Oval Office.

It's not a tax hike when you end a bad law that you cannot affford to keep.   Currently the top tax rate for income is 39 percent although i am told that under President Eisenhower it was something like 90 percent... holy cow.

I don't get how people can believe how a man who smokes, drinks beer and eats hot dogs can be muslim, I was under the impression Muslims did not eat pork nor do they consume alcohol.  I don't get what makes the Obama birth certificate i have seen on the news "fake". His is different than mine, but i have an Indiana certificate. My father's birth certificate is on another form and my mother's is another different form although she was born on a US Army base somewhere in Europe.  All these forms basically have the same information, but my father's form has more info than mine.  

Sometimes  I wonder if it's because they think Hawai'i is a concocted fairytale sort of place like Xanadu, Avalon or Andalasia.   

I don't get how you can be a "small-government conservative"  when you want to legislate how people can live, love, what church they must go to, and what colour they should paint their house.

Hypocrite!!

That's right. Anti-masturbation-activist  and hyperconservative Christian Christine O'Donnel shares a house with her boyfriend/campaign manager.  Slacktivist. 

Tee-fucking-hee people!  That's enough anti-sex hysteria for one century.  Chrissy  is also a "fiscal conservative" who pays her billls with campaign cash!

Sharron Angle has a husband who has retired after working for the State of Nevada and benefits from his government pension and healthcare, and yet she rails against socliaized medicine and Social Security.  What is UP with these hyperchristian teapartiers wanting to take income and health care away from older people and sick children?  Is that what Jesus would really do?   Take from the sick and defenceless and give unto Halliburton and Blackwater?

A day in the life of a so-called "spoiled" unemployed person

I am unemployed and I don't especially like being me. 

I tried living with my sister and looking after her kids while i looked for work but that didn't work.  I had a lot of trouble with the children, and barely had time to study for my PTCB. 

I live with my mother and do all the heavy lifting or i cut the grass and i clean the bathrooms. I shred documents like canceled checks,  and put stuff in the car to be taken to Goodwill or Salvation Army.  I am organizing the family pictures and scanning them.  

My family has spent 21 years accumulating documents, and pictures and clothes, knicknacks, and this heap wasn't built in a day, so it will take some time to get rid of it.  I have spent days shredding sensitive documents, the equivalent of TWO  normal week's work, and maybe three by the time I am done.

For a while i was looking after my grandfather, going on errands with him,  but he died, and i miss him. I'll never make pancakes for him again or get him coffee.

 I can't afford a mani/pedi. I do not own designer clothes unless i have been lucky to get it at a thrift or secondhand shop.  I do my clothes shopping at the outlet mall and hem my new jeans myself.   Sometimes I get to buy a used book from the library's sale cart if they have anything i will read over and over again.  I haven't colored my hair in five years.

I have applied to just about everything. I've applied to McDonalds, Publix,  Dollar Tree,  Burger King, Target, Best Buy, Jo Ann Fabrics, Michaels, Big Lots, I've put my resume at temp services.   I've applied at Walmart -  but failed their  test 3 times.  I've applied for govenment jobs. I've worked for the Salvation Army as a bellringer.  I am also a certified pharmacy technician, I passed the PTCB.    I am good with computers and I would even go back to a call center if i was offered a job there.

I don't know what to do.

A few things I don't get...

I don't get the "Real Housewives" one bit. I know my mom like that show, but i don't get what makes them so popular, or where the housewife part is, because i see these women fight, party, shop and do other things but not housewife, not so much. 

I don't get why Justin Bieber is so huge. I heard a few seconds of him singing and asked if that as really a guy, and my cousin said it was. 

I don't get 'purity balls' and honestly it strikes me as a little possesive and creepy. I think if you have a daughter, she should be taught how to make good life choices, how to say No, and self-defense.   I'm also not getting why it is that they don't seem to have mother and son purity parties.   Teenage boys need to be taught to keep it in their pants. 

I don't get the Bachelor and Bachelorette series. It's like watching an arranged marriage trying to arrange itself and it's not especially romantic to me.   I'm also not sure why there are STILL V.C. Andrews books coming out every few months when she's been dead for 20 years. I know there's a ghostwriter, but where's all this coming from?     I don't get why people go to tanning booths but i sunburn very easily, and that's why i don't go, but to each his own.

I don't get why people don't vaccinate their children. If I had a baby that came down with polio or whooping cough, because i couldnt' be bothered to have the kid get a shot then I would hate myself.

I don't get evangelical Christians much. I did go to a church where some members went door-to-door to invite people and i occassionally get Jehovah's Witnesses to come by and sell me on their religion, but I know that faith isn't for me. I appreciate my right to vote, blue jeans, blood transfusions and birthday cake, if if i'm not especially happy about getting older.    Christianity is a mishmosh of pagan beliefs and other assorted desert nomads' mythologies, and just doesn't work for me. I have a KJV bible to read, but the inconsistencies are mind-boggling.  I also own a Gideons' New testament.    I know where all the churches are in this neighborhood and if i wanted to go, I would go.    I have been to church, but i can't bring myself to beileve that i could be useful to something that can create a universe.

TRUE freedom of religion should include freedom FROM religion. Freedom of religion is not  created by having one loudmouth tell everyone where and when to go to church.  Freedom of religion is in the state not giving any preference to any religious denomination.   I'd rather take my chances with the secularists than the fundamentalists.

I don't want to vote for Christine O'Donnell

I don't want to vote for Sharron Angle or Sarah Palin either. I am concerned that these women will have  a negative impact on women's rights as they are now and i find it disgusting that so-called small-government conservative want to legislate how we can live and love.  I think Anne Coulter is a reprehensible human being, and a plagiarist. 

I want to vote for a woman but i don't want to vote for someone who seems to think that as a woman, all i should want is to stay home, have a few babies and be a housewife.   I'm not great with kids and being a housewife bores me to tears.    As a feminist, if you decide to be a housewife after college and marriage that's ok, but YOU don't get to tell me how i should live my life.    I'm pro-choice,  for legalization of marijuana,  I was raised a daughter of lifelong union members. I'm for gay marriage.  Gay people getting married isn't going to take away anything from me nor hurt anyone i know.  I'm for access to birth control, clean drinking water for everyone on the planet, and I love my library.  I recycle.   I vote and I blog.  I think condoms are a good thing and do not spread disease.

I am concerned about where this country is going but I don't think Sarah Palin is the answer.