Here we are at the beginning of the last week in September and the idiot brigade in the House of (Un-)Representatives still can't get even a continuing resolution together to fund the government. As one of the news commentators noted this morning, even if they, miraculously, get their miserable butts in gear they will still miss the Saturday night deadline. They have to pass a bill, pass it to the Senate where it will be modified and sent back to the house. They simply don't have time. Fasten your seat belts because the ride is going to get even more bumpy.
I hope that when it is light out and I can see what is on the patio I see we had rain. If not I will have to water the plants. We also have to go out to pay our rent and our grocery shopping.
Another entry in the "Stray Thoughts File:" watching the a news/talk show last night one of the commentators asked the interviewee "how concerned we should be about Russian interference in our politics?" Although both the moderator and respondent thought the problem was serious with streams of influence in both the finances of politics and in the infotainment net. A big glaring omission was any recognition that the U.S. might just be experiencing a bit of Karma. For decades we have done the same thing. Just look up the overthrow of the Mossadegh government in mid-1950s Iran which reinstalled the Shah and the overthrow of the Allende government in Chili which established the dictatorship of Pinochet. However, I am not really wanting to do a Former Guy "but we kill people too" ploy to white wash an enemy's actions. It would better if neither side played those games but that isn't our world. So we are left with how to counter the Russian interference about which that interview did not provide us any information on how too do that.
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