Can’t post too Depressed…And the Mole Sings On

Everything I care about loses.  Every sports team (Including the Pistons at this very moment)..every politician..depressing.  You have to be talented to vote like I did yesterday.  I am not a straight ticket voted.. I research, I care and yet somehow after voting equally  Republicans and Democrats and equally yes or no on the proposals,  everyone or thing I voted for lost except for 2 and one of the winners only gets to control your licence.

I went out and voted my conscience…voted for justice, voted for life, I believe voted the best way for the empoverished, voted for education, voted for women and minorities, all the votes I believe were most compatible with the teaching of the Bible and the way of Jesus and yet they all lost.  Oh well, I guess I will have to go back to depending upon God to change the world instead.

PS. To all who voted for Prop. 2 I hope someone you care about is not a woman…Or a Latino or anyone else that this proposal will hurt.  You got what you wanted: assurance that the majority will continue to rule, that those who are already the best connected (don’t kid yourself, they are not most qualified they are most connected) will continue to use those connections to get a leg up and other more qualified candidates will be passed over due to the sin of being born a minority.   I just wonder how we Caucasians will feel about that when we are no longer the majority? I feel good about this though: at least white people in Michigan care about doves…that’s something I suppose.

Dear Sweet Jennifer Granholm…a tribute

In honor of everyone’s favorite mole..err Governess, I would like to state a position of mine that I gleaned from her obviously logical philosophical musings in her recent commercial on Abortion:

Poopemerges opposes Rape, but believes that this highly personal decision should be between a rapist freak and his private parts…not made by politicians. Whereas some religious folk take the extreme view that almost every form of rape should be illegal.

Why I am Voting for the Rich Guy who Can’t speak

So if you live in Michigan, you probably did not see the Gubernatorial debates because inexplicably they were on at the same time as the Tigers playoff game…But if you did, then you, like I, know our choice is between a guy who can’t speak and a mole..err..um woman who can’t speak. Seriously I want to write to the DeVos campaign and suggest to them that they might want to hire Al Gore as a speaking coach because he seems way livelier and much more authentic then Dick DeVos.  His speaking has this sureal hum to it that says “I am really caring and empathic in a faking it sort of way”.  It makes me want to slam my head in a door. Oh well. And J.Granholm, my goodness stop starting every sentence with “in fact”. It was “in fact” this and “in fact” that. Just stop. Besides the ironic humor of a politican ever saying “in fact” before whatever they will say next (which we all know will likely in no way be a fact) it is completely annoying and I am sure must violate some rule of Gramar. It would probably be more acurate for you to begin each sentence with “what I am about to say is only a ‘fact’ if you are already voting for me, and if you are not then the next ten minutes of hemmmming and hawing will not at all distract you from the giant growth on my face.” By the way, Dick DeVos may have cut 1400 jobs, but it would do you well to remember that he cut them in the economic climate you created…But alas I digress.

Now the interesting thing about American Politics is this, there is really no such thing as representative government unless you are rich. If you are not rich the likelihood of you being represented by someone who is truly and ideologically like you are slim and none..(you gotta be rich to get elected, thus most political decisions benefit Stockholders and not workers, i.e. NAFTA). And if you are me and have strange sort of God given bias toward the poor, then it is unusual for you to say hey, I want to elect the rich dude who has probably never experienced even a minute of what people in my neighborhood have experienced. Yet this November I will be voting for Dick. The reason is simple, Michigan is the 50th worst state in this country to do business in. People think that we are losing all of our manufacturing jobs to Mexico when in actuality many are just going to Kentucky and other states with a favorable climate. One thing I know is this, if the rich are not making money in this state, neither will the poor. If the job climate is awful who does that affect most? Not the rich, but the poor. So this year I will vote for the rich guy, because I truly believe that this is an issue of conscience and Justice. To go another 6 years with the current job market would be unjust, inhumane and sinful.

As Proof Texts I quote Michael Gerson:

“I don’t have any moral qualms about saying that free-market economics are the single best way to take millions of people out of poverty that the world has ever seen,”

And Suggest that you check out Urban Onramps post on the topic of free-market Economics Here