I'm driving along minding my own business the other day and Herman Cain comes on my radio and says first thing he'd do is get rid of the E.P.A. Really?
In the last couple of weeks I've heard proposals of doing away with the Department of Education, the F.D.A., The National Weather Service, the Federal Reserve and other banking regulatory agencies. In short The Federal Government.
Cool, we'll let business and State governments set the rules and standards for society. What could possibly go wrong?
Regulations are crippling this Country. That is a very popular clarion call being belted out across the airwaves these days.
Hell, I'm up to my chinny chin chin in regulations every time I go to work.
The Federal Government tells me I can only work 14 hours a day and 70 hours in a week so I don't fall asleep at the wheel and run over a bus full of nuns.
They also say I can only have a load weight of 80,000 lbs so I don't pulverize bridges and roads as I'm tooling around. What an assault on my freedom!!
Hang on, being a fatigued menace to society and destroyer of infrastructure is a bad thing. Oh dear, regulations good?
Let's face it even with regulations we can be devious little shits.
Business is always going to try and get away with the cheapest bottom line even if it means dumping toxins in the water or air or paying women less than men just because they can.
We are always going to try and do more than the speed limit because we need to. Screw public safety.
Fishermen will over fish, farmers will waste the soil, coal miners will be valued about as much as shovels. And this is WITH regulations!
You want to get rid of regulations and Government? It's very easy.
DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE.
That's it. Not just for driving anymore. A Mantra for our times.
Regulations are like another set of physical laws to protect ourselves from our dumb ass selves. We can be pretty myopic when it comes to profits and our best interests.You don't catch a river on fire or make a Love Canal by doing the right thing.
Be sweet. Do good work. Look out for others needs and the impact of our actions on ourselves and generations to come. How hard is that?
I'm thinking we might need the regulations till we get over this whole asshole stage.
Changing Government starts with us changing our minds.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
You can stop me from breathing but you can't stop me from loving.
"If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind"
Personally I'd like to see a beanery where a fella could get a bowl of soup with a side of greens and bread for $2.00 and a pint of Guinness for a nickle. Above it I'd love to have three floors for the different realms brought on by good beer and full bellies.
One floor for fist fights
One floor for arguments
one floor for the hugs and kisses that come to those who make it through the first two floors.
On the floors above that I'd like a Library of the dead, for the dead so the ghosts of clear thinkers can sit in fine chairs, sipping bourbon and laugh at the living.
Studs Terkel can share cigars with Edward R. Murrow and Daniel Schorr while James Baldwin and Richard Feynman discuss Physics. Hunter S. Thompson is around here some where looking for Brautigan.
That's my idea for 51 W. Park Place.
A place to be human. Warts and all.
So maybe a Mosque is an o.k. second choice.
Before you burst a blood vessel and walk around with a droopy smirk and sinister limp for the rest of your life hear me out.
Trinity Church is just a couple of blocks away.
I would hope there is a Synagogue near by, if not perhaps one could be built or even better perhaps the building at 51 W. Park Place could house sanctuaries for two of the three branches of Abraham. Nice touch don't you think.
I like the idea of each faith having a beautiful house of worship to praise God and share their love and scriptures for a better world.
I like even more the idea that after services all these folks can go down the street and picnic together on the grounds of a park that is a monument to what happens when people warp the words of God and somehow come up with a liturgy of hate.
Hate don't put food on the table
Hate can't help you think yourself out of a jamb.
Hate complicates every little thing we do.
Lose the reigns on that horse and there is Hell to pay.
The only way we "Lose" in this case is if we let Fear, hurt and anger change our basic rules that make this country great. Criminals cloaked in the name of Islam broke that part of New York and I don't mind if the good folks of Islam want to help put it back together better and stronger.
I am an avid follower of the Devoutly Baffled. There are at least three of us that I know of and one is a fictional character but I'm not going to hold that against a guy especially when trying to boost the numbers.
I think there are over a billion Muslims, Hundreds of millions of Christians and despite a history of annihilation, millions of Jews. So I guess a mass conversion to blissful Wonder is probably statistically out of the question.
So what the Hell, Let's all try to get along and follow the one rule that is in everyone's book of rules: Love Thy neighbor, Do unto others,
Be well Cousins......
Personally I'd like to see a beanery where a fella could get a bowl of soup with a side of greens and bread for $2.00 and a pint of Guinness for a nickle. Above it I'd love to have three floors for the different realms brought on by good beer and full bellies.
One floor for fist fights
One floor for arguments
one floor for the hugs and kisses that come to those who make it through the first two floors.
On the floors above that I'd like a Library of the dead, for the dead so the ghosts of clear thinkers can sit in fine chairs, sipping bourbon and laugh at the living.
Studs Terkel can share cigars with Edward R. Murrow and Daniel Schorr while James Baldwin and Richard Feynman discuss Physics. Hunter S. Thompson is around here some where looking for Brautigan.
That's my idea for 51 W. Park Place.
A place to be human. Warts and all.
So maybe a Mosque is an o.k. second choice.
Before you burst a blood vessel and walk around with a droopy smirk and sinister limp for the rest of your life hear me out.
Trinity Church is just a couple of blocks away.
I would hope there is a Synagogue near by, if not perhaps one could be built or even better perhaps the building at 51 W. Park Place could house sanctuaries for two of the three branches of Abraham. Nice touch don't you think.
I like the idea of each faith having a beautiful house of worship to praise God and share their love and scriptures for a better world.
I like even more the idea that after services all these folks can go down the street and picnic together on the grounds of a park that is a monument to what happens when people warp the words of God and somehow come up with a liturgy of hate.
Hate don't put food on the table
Hate can't help you think yourself out of a jamb.
Hate complicates every little thing we do.
Lose the reigns on that horse and there is Hell to pay.
The only way we "Lose" in this case is if we let Fear, hurt and anger change our basic rules that make this country great. Criminals cloaked in the name of Islam broke that part of New York and I don't mind if the good folks of Islam want to help put it back together better and stronger.
I am an avid follower of the Devoutly Baffled. There are at least three of us that I know of and one is a fictional character but I'm not going to hold that against a guy especially when trying to boost the numbers.
I think there are over a billion Muslims, Hundreds of millions of Christians and despite a history of annihilation, millions of Jews. So I guess a mass conversion to blissful Wonder is probably statistically out of the question.
So what the Hell, Let's all try to get along and follow the one rule that is in everyone's book of rules: Love Thy neighbor, Do unto others,
Be well Cousins......
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