Attempt at poetry

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grey landscape, nature, peaks and valleys, postaday2012

Thoughts floating in the breeze
Riding the currents that meander
Through the peaks and valleys
Of a grey landscape
Forever swirling
Never coming to a rest
A hint of floating down
Borne away by another swish
Only to land and be lost
To memory

Something taken, not borrowed

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postaday2012, theatre museums, travel

I’ve Been Robbed!

London

When I was in London attending the N.Y.U summer program at the University of London, I was almost 20 and sharing a room with a great girl in the dormitories at the University near Euston Station. It was 6 weeks of adventure, learning, theatre, museums and traveling. It was on one of those traveling adventures that my roommate and I came home to discover that someone had broken into our room and had stolen money and a few personal items from us. It was a scary feeling to have had an intruder in the dormitories. The London police came and filled out a report but nothing ever came of it. I still had fun afterwards, London is a great city and I had a really nice group with me. Excellent memories.

Mitt Romney: ‘If I’m The Godfather Of This Thing, Then It Gives Me The Right To Kill It’

There are quite a few great things about the A.C.A bill that I love; one is that my two children get to stay on my health care insurance until they are 26. That is such a weight off my shoulders as a parent. The second is the elimination of the pre-existing condition clause that the health care insurance companies had a field day with for years. Third is the elimination of caps on health insurance policies so that if you were stricken with cancer or some other disease, they would cease paying at some point. Just these few issues makes me a fan of the bill and appreciative of just how vulnerable we were to the whims of the health insurance companies profit making policies. It basically stinks when a company hasn’t any qualms about making you feel that your health has a price tag to it. It opens your eyes as to how cold and cruel the world can be sometimes, just for the bottom line.
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The Paul Ryan Rorschach Test

Paul Ryan is a strong admirer of Ayn Rand and her producer versus parasite philosophy; in her books Ayn Rand creates a social Darwinian world by taking her producer versus parasite outlook to its logical conclusion. Since the 99% of us are the parasites and the 1% are the producers, in Ryan’s estimation we are only getting what we deserve, nothing. We shouldn’t expect anything from government because we don’t, in his mind, produce anything, or at least anything of value. I am not surprised in the least that Paul Ryan just basically double downed on his previous budget, he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. What really makes me annoyed is that the Progressive Caucus put forward a budget and yet you wouldn’t know it by reading anything in the papers or by listening to the news. The Progressive’s budget actually brings down our deficit but not by cutting anything from Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid. Instead it addresses tax issues, military spending, tax credits for green energy initiatives and promotes a Made in America program just to name a few ideas. It might not be talked about because the cynics in this world argue that it would never even come up for a vote in the house; all the same, I think that a comparison of the two budgets warrants a national discussion. These are two different visions of our nation’s future, the American people should be aware of the differences.
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