The impatience of it all.

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attention span, hubby, postaday2012, remote control, scheme of things

I am gradually becoming like my mother and my hubby, they are terrible at watching normal t.v; if they are not watching something recorded, where they can fast forward through commercials, they then click-through all channels so they don’t have to watch commercials.

Being home alone, I am now finding myself remembering to use the remote when I am watching a recorded show from the previous evening. I have even started fast forwarding through parts that I find either uncomfortable or boring. I am trying not to embrace this trait too quickly because I think that it leads to increased impatience, decreased attention span and an all around negation of the medium you are actually watching.

I also think that fast forwarding through t.v would tend a person towards fast forwarding through passages in books because of increased impatience and decreased attention span. I could very well be wrong and over thinking the dangers of the remote control and its potential for reckless or feckless behavior.

In the great scheme of things, I suppose that I have just written about something as inconsequential as worrying about getting enslaved by her remote. That must show that life can’t be too bad.

The question of religion

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postaday2012

On Religion

sunrise

No, not at all. I do consider myself to be a person who believes in being compassionate, empathetic, kind and loving. I was going to say spiritual but it is becoming an expression that is over used and I didn’t want to trivialize what I meant to say. I went to catholic school until eighteen so I have been educated in a religious environment but it has made me sad and angry to see how much hatred and judgement exists in this world in the name of religion.

Santorum, Romney, Democrats — Losers All

We progressives do indeed need to think beyond Presidential electoral politics and focus on the senate and house and find candidates, who think outside the box in terms of economic growth, social mobility, environmental safeguarding and civic values to be elected. I think that a discourse in civics has long been ignored and it is time to get back to those types of conversations. What our responsibilities are to each other and our society as a whole. It has been too much of us versus them; whoever “us” is and “them” are. I would find anyone, who isn’t wealthy, hard-pressed to defend the statusquo as it is today. In our country, it has become way too expensive to raise children according to the ways our parents raised us in the 50’s, 60’s 70’s and 80’s without going into debt or working obscene hours or multiple jobs. As of today the GOP hasn’t produced a single economic plan that addresses that issue, they continue to want to lower taxes for the corporate world and the upper tier, much of what they have been saying for decades and still despite the fact that the middle class and below have become poorer as a result, no one is changing course in their economic plan; instead they double down on trying to control a woman’s reproductive freedom as if that will somehow guide us into the true economic vision of the 21st century, how I don’t know.
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Apology Derangement Syndrome

If religion and faith, as the three republican nominee candidates believe, are central to a society’s foundation, then it would be logical for them to afford the same respect to all religions as they do to their own especially Romney. Santorum, Gingrich and Romney all stand together with Israel and if an American soldier burned the Torah, they would be apologizing on the soldiers behalf without issue. The more that they automatically criticize and disparage President Obama for actions that either they themselves have taken in the past or for actions that are clearly called for, the more that they lose any shred of legitimacy in the public arena. This anti-Obama stance has made the whole republican platform laughable and silly. I recently read a great statement ” Never argue with an idiot because they will bring you down to their level and then beat you with their experience. I am so glad that President Obama takes the high road and doesn’t bother with all this republican insanity. Their nonsensical, extremist rhetoric I would think would push even more people to vote for our President. I know that I will.
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