Dang it.

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Nothing is working today. I have done nothing. I do have hopes of getting to some of the more important business, and maybe doing some shoveling this evening. Neatening the house, doing some dishes, and a little cooking would be good. But I simply do not know. I am not tired, I might be a little sore but that is minor (the boulders busted my mackrels... remember, I cannot sense when I hurt hard or overdo things). Still, I am in a dead zone. My mind and body are on vacation and pushing is not working. We will see.

I have been thinking about the upcoming election. Democrats, or worse, of course, are out of the question. Many if not most Republicans, and the party itself, however, are at the best troubling. However, there is only one real option. I will be voting a straight Republican ticket. Why? Because it is a direction thing. I do not believe Republicans are anything like a reversal of direction from Democrats. They are only a slower injection of the same poison... for now. Anything they might do would simply slow down what is happening. However, once the slowing begins, there is a chance to push that into a full stop. Going further, there is a possibility to reverse direction. As with engineering, economics, and every other school, politics is about increments. Incremental change is the only way, and to a degree this is how it should be. Imagine if the brakes on your vehicle were only ever either fully deployed or off. Driving would be... difficult and dangerous. Another example might be when prescribed medication, if you were only issued full dosage immediately or no dosage. Trust me, that is not good.

With a strong Republican majority, we can then begin weeding. Some areas, like our far North-East, will only ever provide token Republicans. Some areas are so fundamentally leftist that getting a candidate with an "R" after his name will be as good as it gets. They will be weak, they will split on even crucial votes, and they will be questionable about their reasons even when they vote with conservatives. The systems that have created politicians, from schools to medical care to professional unions, all play a part in why even when conservatives can be found and elected, they cannot be counted upon to act as they were elected to act. Those have to be changed, disbanded, shamed into abeyance, and financially strangled. Actually, much of this is happening due to a weakening economy. Their own creation is their own doom, in many ways. If we suffer with them, we suffer less for it.

I still think about some things. I do believe, as I wrote at the time of the creation of it, that "Bush's tax cut" was a fundamental stroke of genius. He could not get many things done, he simply did not have the power. This is one of those things that has done some of what I hoped it would. Beyond that, the sunsetting of it has caused such chaos in the ranks of both sides that it is proving to provide fruit even as it prepares to die. Another issue was putting Fannies in conservatorship. It did not, fundamentally, change anything going on with the two. What it did do was to point it out as being a problem long before it was considered a problem in the mainstream. It, in essence, gave the monster baby to those who really own it. As Riddick would have said... beautiful. Yes, beautiful indeed.

Though I have not been attending Church, I do listen to the Catholic radio Station and watch EWTN (one of the few gifts of having television). For me, going to Church with people is fine, unless half of them believe in murder. If I was in a Catholic Church in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's, if half of the attendees were devout NAZIs, I would not have attended either. Yes, abortion means the same thing to me... and the Pope... pick one. Not a Catholic and pro-abortion? That is another issue. But a Catholic who claims to be pro-abort, that is my territory. That would be like a "fellow" U.S. sailor, soldier, or marine who is a devoted communist. I was watching a show on EWTN recently which also affects this. When Christ said something along the lines of spitting out those who are lukewarm. The worst of the worst it seems. So many issues. And yet, at some point, I will have to enter the Church and find out if this Church... it's attendees, are lukewarm... or worse. Just so you know, it is on my mind almost always.

Well, I should try to get a few things done. Life is tough, doing nothing is worse. I must begin it. Good day.