Whew! I just finished my two online courses today! It’s been hectic and it’s been difficult to find the time to post here. Working on the courses has kept my weekends busy and my school days are filled with the end of the year art shows that I put up. However, school is almost over but don’t fret I am taking two more courses, so I will still be busy!
Lately, I’ve been wondering what is up with the Republican Party? It seems to me they can’t find a decent candidate to run for the presidency. I almost feel like this is all part of the “plan”. They will put up the worse candidate, so we are all left with a vote for the other poor candidate, President Obama. It’s like a continual game plan between the Republican and Democratic Parties of “good guy, bad guy” politics. Maybe as I get older I become more cynical, but it sure seems strange that in a country this size the candidates that we see running most of us wouldn’t want to put in charge of anything, let alone the presidency. Looking at the ever shrinking list of potential candidates makes me wonder if they really are going to pull out Jeb in the end. It’s just a thought and I have written about this before. Lately those potential candidates have been dropping like flies.
Gerhard-Kozissnik from the World Body Painting Festival
So, the other day I came across these pictures from the World Body Painting Festival and I was thinking what weird alien figure will be next to grace the stage of the Republican Party. So many of the Republican would be candidates have been dropping like flies out of the race.
Of course we all were drawn into the Trump drama which probably secured him many viewers for his finale on Celebrity Apprentice. I never really took that one seriously anyway. The list is ever shrinking and the two that remain at the top are now Romney and Palin. Please excuse me while I gag at the thought of either person at the helm of this big ship. Romney can’t stand up without flip flopping on some issue and Palin does absolutely the same thing. When I first read about her she was holding those oil companies “feet to the fire” in Alaska. My how times have changed since she made a little money. Now it’s all about keeping taxes down and helping big businesses out. There is nothing left for the little guy with these two scammers. We’re left with that “trickle down” theory of bullshit left over from the Reagan presidency.
Another interesting aspect to all of this is the candidacy of Jon Huntsman. I find it mildly entertaining that there are two people with connections to the state of Utah running to be president. Since our budget director was imported from Utah, I’m not remotely interested in either Romney or Huntsman. The budget in Michigan was recently decided in record time. It was decided in record time to screw the little guy, and of course the education of other little guys. I find this letter to our governor interesting because I have noticed that here in Michigan we would rather spend lots of money on prisons and prisoners than on schools and education. It seems a superintendent wrote this piece. http://bigthink.com/ideas/38573 It’s well worth reading. I had planned at one time to do a piece on just this very subject but there has been so much I have written about and just ran out of time. However, this pieces touches on what I have been thinking about for some time now. http://www.freep.com/article/20110505/NEWS06/105050518/Michigan-House-budget-cuts-cops-aid-poor-arts