Another Day

It is a really strange feeling not to have a car available when I want one. This power steering issue is going to drive me nutz! I guess I will just have to get use to it until its fixed.

On another matter... the Republican party keeps on imploding. What's up with that? The latest victim is Gov. Sanford of South Carolina. In the history of our country, South Carolina has been the colony then state, that has always been at the center of controversy. It was S.C. that demanded the section condemning slavery in the Declaration of Independence be removed. Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, is in S.C. Now another promising republican presidential contender bites the dust because of a desire to be with another person other than his wife. Human beings... Mazlow had it down with his hierarchy of needs. The republicans need to know, and understand Mazlow's hierarchy, then they may be able to rebuild their party.... but I doubt it.

Graft, greed, and corruption seem to run deep in the current republican party. I think they have lost sight of what it really means to be a Republican in America. Do they really know what it means to be a conservative? Or are they just a bunch of ditto heads following some radio personality? Remember, radio show hosts have to keep the number of listeners up so they can keep their jobs. They will do whatever it takes to get and keep listeners. One has to be really careful and dig deep to make sure they are not being fed a bunch of merde. But of course that means using critical thinking and listening skills and taking time to do research and read background material so that one is able to verify what someone is saying. Now how many people do you know who do that? Most don't because it's hard work and it takes time.

This one reason why our country is having problems. Critical thinking and listening skills do not come to one naturally, they are skills that one has to learn. If you don't learn and use these skills, you are open to being lead around by anyone. Just like a bunch of herd animals. It is the nature of humans to take the easy path, the course of least resistance, and the result is what we are living now. Humans also have the ability to change and adapt, so there is hope.

More on this as time goes by....