I don’t know if it’s getting older being the problem. Or a result of having some age and much experience in life is the issue. But I have noticed I’m much harder to please these days, or perhaps my expectations are just too high?

Case in point, we had an early appointment to make a week or so back, we slept in a bit and skipped breakfast at home. So after my mother in law (whos appointment we were seeing that she got to,) was taken home, I decided to take the wife to one of our breakfast preferences, Taco Bell. (We don’t treat ourselves to town food often, except maybe pizza a couple times a month.) They have a crunchwrap thing which is pretty decent for fast food breakfast, we pay a bit extra for steak, comes with a drink, plus a couple of little cinnabon things that hit my sweet tooth just right. So we went there. It was 9:30 AM. The doors were locked, sign on the door says open at 10:00.

Why in the HELL have a breakfast menu if you are going to open at 10:00 AM?!

A few years back my dad was here to visit, he and his wonderful wife, no not my mom, asked me where was a good place in town to eat. (They always book a motel when they come, I get it.) After a moments hesitation, I told them it really doesn’t matter, all the food in any restauraunt in town, comes off of the same truck. But I pointed to one I knew was decent fare at the time.

So that’s where we went next.

Well, we seated ourselves. I always do a cursory look in a public space, reading the room, and I sit where I can see the door. We figure out what we want off the menu, just sausage and eggs over medium for me, and an omelet for the wife. Both meals come with pre fab biscuits and packet gravy, yum!

I, having much experience in restaurants all over the country, asked the waitress if the cook knows what an over medium egg is? She seemed to think so. So we wait.

I’m looking around, oh gee there’s a 10 commandments plaque on the wall. Oh! And a pledge of allegiance plaque on the wall. And our table, no EVERY table in the joint, is plastered with adverts from every biz in town. Plus a bonus babble quote too! Sweet freaking jeebus… Get me the fuck out of here.

Our orders come and first thing I notice is the eggs were BARELY over easy. Nowhere near over medium. This happens to me no matter what city or state I’m in. Every damn time. No matter, I can eat them this way, begrudingly, but I can manage. Hmm, the sausage is overcooked to the point of lightly burnt too. This day just keeps getting better.

I did mention pre fab biscuits and packet, or perhaps canned gravy too didn’t I? Absolutely, positively, a crappy breakfast from hell, in a babble addled shithole. Cost me 20 bucks and two cents, plus a tip I left, despite being disgusted with the place. It wasn’t this bad several years back, I don’t know what happened…

Yeah. Difficult to please.

Catch a monster by the toe

If he hollers, make him pay

5 million dollars every day

Now when I learned that little “counting out” rhyme as a kid it was quite racist. Of course being a young child at the time I had no idea then what racism even was. A mix of young and dumb mixed with some white privilige I suppose. But as in many things in life I managed to grow beyond my upbringing.

I have no idea why this rhyme popped into my head this morning. Haven’t thought about the counting out rhyme in years. But when it hit me, I knew what I had to do.

Post it on the internet of course!

For those of you who may not get it, and I’m sure my regular readers will get it (don’t let me down!) it’s about the orange idiot and his loss in court yesterday. 😉

Oh, and the version I knew also had an add on that went “my mother told me to pick the very best one and you are not it.” Which meant you were “out.”

I really like living here, despite the severe weather, the scorching summer heat, and all of the goddamn ignorant rednecks. It’s beautiful country. Rolling hills and valleys, still a lot of trees despite the steady “progress,” that sees them cut down. Creeks, rivers, lakes everywhere, where I spend as much time as I can. It’s a nice place.

Until you dig a little deeper.

Let’s start digging at the state Capitol. Where the Gerrymandered Republican bastion, is as I write, holding a vote to expell 3 Democratic Representatives who had the audacity to hold a mild protest, during a recess in House business, about gun laws/safety, after a recent school shooting here that saw 6 people dead, 3 of whom were children of 9 yrs. of age.

The Rethugs reacted by overreacting of course. Is there any other way for the great party of hypocrisy? Two black men and a white woman, (What on earth are black men and white women doing here in our politics anyway? White privilege runs deep in Tn,) are right now seeing the R bastards vote on whether to let them stay, or be expelled.

Results right now, 1 Black man expelled. 1 White woman allowed to stay. 1 vote to go.

Just in that very small sample, is not the inherent racism pretty damn obvious? The misogyny is there too, trust me. It’s just not showing as much as the rasicm at the moment.

That the R’s are doing this at all is the water line, showing how eroded our democracy has become. A bunch of Gerrymandered winners of their districts, mostly out of touch white guys, perfectly happy with the status quo and all of the NRA money they can happily spend, and openly, blatantly, expelling, or attempting to expell, Democrats who dared to speak out about gun violence in their presence.

How dare they!

This is the part of Tennessee I don’t care for, the people who live here. The assholes in charge. The glorified scum pretending to be legislation for the people. They are as much for the people as the orange idiot is. That is not at all. They don’t give a damn about anything but the power they have over the state. Over the country. And they don’t give a damn what they have to do to keep it.

Our country is being led by the minority. We may have a Democratic president, and still control of the Senate, but that doesn’t stop the R’s from instituting everything they can think of to squash voting, and squash desire to vote by keeping their polished shoes on the necks of the downtrodden who have no way to fight back. Between Gerrymandering, and oodles of laws/statutes in their favor, plus the backing of SCOTUS, they are running rampant with all sorts of crazy culture war shit, and power grabbing, with absolute indifference to the needs, the desires, the resonable expectations, of the people who put them in power. Their only concern is maintaining that power at all costs.

Anyone who has been paying attention already knows this.

So, I’m pretty much a lone voice yelling at clouds today.

Nothing will stop these bastards until people get off thier asses and vote in massive numbers. If there is ever to be hope for the little people, we need representatives who have not discarded us in favor of money and power.

Sure, Democrats are not immune to greed/power, I know some asshat will come along and say as much ok? This is the internet. But the Democrats aren’t the ones right now running this country backwards 150 years.

Older I get the less I like people. Especially Republicans.