Accomplishments

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Make a list of things you’ve accomplished so far this year.

April 17, 2012 by

Recent Accomplishments

French Ordinary Court

I don’t feel as if I have a list to show anyone. I am still working on my novel. I make it a point to write something on my blog everyday. What I do is the ordinary, the mundane, I do like to find humor in as many things as possible. What better to do everyday than to laugh. Laughter is the best medicine.

Weeds, the bane of my existence

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Last year I had tackled the sidebed to get rid of the crazy Lily of the Valley, I thought that I had done a thorough job. Why did I think that? Because last year, I got down and dirty and followed the root system until the bitter end. I wish that perennials, the ones that I spend money on, would have the amazing root system and imperviousness to all obstacles that Lily of the Valley have.

This morning I was walking about the front yard, like the mistress of the manor, surveying all that I possess, hee, hee, and when I got to the sidebed, I noticed the familiar tips of the Lily of the Valley poking up through the ground. I am not talking about two or three, it was three huge clusters. Their appearance annoyed me to no end so I went inside and got my tools.

The only remaining plan of action was to attack the lilies aggressively, by not only removing the lily’s extensive root system, but to also temporarily remove the hyacinths, daffodils, tulips and irises so that I can get every bit of the lily’s root system as possible.

I got half of it done today, I am hoping to finish the other half tomorrow and to also replant all the bulbs I dug up today.

A gardener’s work is never done.

We Are The 99 Percent, 1765 Edition

It seems to me that we, the 99%, constantly fall into the trap of assigning special gifts and virtues to those of the 1%, that they are “super people” of a sort and thus are inherently deserving of their extraordinary wealth. The robber barons of old acquired their riches by exploitation and manipulation, how do we know this? Because shortly after the 1890’s economic crisis we saw many progressive financial regulatory laws come into being. The same could be said of the 1920’s, the incredible wealth that was accrued wasn’t healthy for the nation’s economy, it broke the economy on a world wide scale. These vast riches and the means by which they were made had to be reined in for the overall health of the whole nation. Speed up to 2008, why can’t we learn our lesson? Is it because in the back of our minds, we would so like to be that wealthy, that we don’t want to think that in order to get that type of wealth, you really need to step on other people and crush them down? That must be the reason, because I can’t of any other reason when we have so much history that shows us evidence that the incredibly rich don’t get that way because they are single handedly so deserving of it, they exploit and manipulate and don’t really sow as much as they reap.
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Ann Or Hilary: Either Way, Motherhood Is a Dismal Financial Decision for American Women

This is the article that should be quoted by women everywhere. It is sad when sitcom writers incorporate the difference in pay between men and women into their comedies. It is especially sad that women have wanted to believe that much of entry into the workforce was through our own choice, when fundamentally it was through economic necessity because wages have been stagnant for 40 years. If women had realized that at the get go perhaps we could have been more proactive through these 4 decades by fighting harder for better pay, better maternal care better everything. We are playing catch up but 40 years of catch up feels like a monumental task. The make up of congress doesn’t put the battle in our favor, women are severely under-represented. I would love to look over at Europe to point out their progressive outlook towards women in general, but with the austerity policies in full swing, all the workplace support programs for mothers and fathers may fall by the wayside, I hope not. For now it is much easier to be a woman in countries like France than it is here.
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Buffett Rule Vote: Tax Measure Fails In Senate

According to many economists, the Buffett rule is mainly symbolic in that it doesn’t pay that much down on our federal deficit but the symbolism would do wonders for the morale of the 99%. It really says something of the present day composition of the GOP, when the economic adviser to former President REAGAN, Mr. Stockman, supports the Buffett rule and renames it the Reagan rule whilst defending the 46% who are too poor to pay federal income taxes but still pay regressive payroll taxes and all other types of taxes, there is something acutely wrong with the GOP and their whole economic platform. The GOP of today isn’t even hiding their Randian philosophy of letting the “producers” pillage the commons for their own private enrichment. The GOP is systematically making the 99% lives less safe in terms of food safety, infrastructure safety and also severely curtailing our liberties, just look at the assault on women reproductive freedoms and the militarization of police forces. This GOP version of America has become a combination of George Orwell and Ayn Rand, we might as well have a movie version as well, oh wait we do, it’s called the Hunger Games, out now at your local movie theater.
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