{"id":62,"date":"2016-01-31T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-01-31T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T02:13:52","slug":"politix-raining-on-the-last-day-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/politix-raining-on-the-last-day-of-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Politix Raining Down on the Last Day of January?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, January 31st, 2016 -( 0\u02daC \/ +32\u02daF — Dark and fairly warm for this time of year in Atlantic Canada @ 8:37 pm )-<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Snowman
I had to look twice at the snowman before I realized what was up. \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— I spent too much of last night trying to undo weird glitches on my laptop – Then I switched to this computer to look up “How do you delete a user account that isn’t working right on a Mac with OS X 10.9.5?” ( It won’t accept its passwords – and nobody logged in and changed those passwords, so I haven’t the foggiest what might be going on there. )<\/p>\n

\"Jesse
Jesse Ventura likes the idea that Donald Trump is dismantling the Republican Party in the U.S.A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— But ya know what? There’s a lot of back and forth grumbling about politiks, especially back in the “States” where the Iowans are about to kick off another round of Presidential Election Season maneuvering.<\/p>\n

\"Leading
Michael Moore has been tweeting up a storm about the differences between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. – Somebody from Fox News believes Michael Moore is laughable because he generalized about the Republicans stance on issues he believes are very important – Fox News Pointing their finger at anyone’s shortcomings? That’s what’s laughable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Michael Moore has been poking holes in a lot of arguments about the Republicrats’ race to the White House, including citing poles that say that Bernie can’t get enough Democrats’ votes to beat Trump – But when Independent voters are figured into the mix Sanders clobbers Trump – But Hillary wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

\"Conservative
Meanwhile, in Canada, There are ‘Spin-Wars’ going on with Conservatives claiming they handed the new Liberal Government a Big Surplus. As this series of tweets and retweets (above) points out, The Conservatives tried to un-fund several areas and with-held funds earmarked – for instance – for Veterans Health care – Where they shut down 9 regional offices – which made it harder, nearly impossible for some vets to get help for their PTSD issues – which resulted in and “Epidemic” of Veterans committing suicide, and then the Minister of Veterans Affairs became extraordinarily unpopular by appearing on television newsbyte news handing the Prime Minister a cheque for a Billion Dollars in ‘savings’\/money not spent saving veterans’ lives. So what we had here was the rich robbing the poor and powerless and handing each other the spoils of their privateering. EI = Employment Insurance. The Harper Conservatives tried to make it so hard for downsized \/ laid off and retired workers to get help that the middle class is shrinking catastrophically up here – Retirement Benefits were basically ‘put on hold’ with retired citizens waiting so long for their benefits to start that it really looked like the Conservatives were hoping the retirees would drop dead before they could collect any of the money they’d earned over their life times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— A lot of people are now openly calling ex-Prime Minister Stephen Harper a Corporate Fascist.<\/p>\n

\"Bedroom
And in the United Kingdom – Something that some of us thought was a joke that couldn’t be true – looks like it’s reality : The elected government over there wants to institute a “Bedroom Tax” with provisions that exclude the Royalty and the very rich from having to pay anywhere near as much as the middle class and especially the poor – who would be paying for this new tax – which sounds like an old Monty Python Routine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— [ ‘Carers’ listed above would be ‘Home Health Care Providers’, as in: someone taking care of a sick parent or relative, or foster child, etc. ]<\/p>\n

\"Intelligence
– I’m not entirely sure who the ‘she’ is – referred to in the comment that accompanied this tweet. I’m not even sure it’s someone in the UK, but that would be my best guess – And the quote is something worth pondering, if only to wonder if it might be more true if a couple of the words were slightly changed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— How about, “The problem is that Sensitive People take their time to think about the consequences of their propsed actions while Belligerant people turn their minds off and charge straight ahead swinging virtual and verbal clubs and axes at anything in their way.” ?<\/p>\n

\"New
And this final photograph of the evening reminds me both of times when New York City felt like a wondrous and almost strangely beautiful place and it ‘scared the living cement out of me’ with the brutality of its indifference and greed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— This is probably enough damage for anyone’s peace of mind to suffer through tonight –<\/p>\n

— jda —<\/p>\n

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