Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night, 11/18/14, humorously pointed out a sad fact. Since republiKKKans cut $800
Million from food stamps, the poor have resorted to going to a new wave
of stores popping up:
Salvage Food Stores
These stores are selling food that has exceeded
sell by dates or dented canned goods or bruised fruit at "crazy
discounts."
As a person of low fixed income, I myself shop at a little
store in my neighborhood which sells day old bread for 99 cents (about a 3rd regular price)
as well as some often REALLY out of date and often failed overstock
goods...like some strangely flavored cereal which never caught on so
ends up being bought by the pallet and sold at "crazy discounts."
I'm
not going to name the place, but in addition to dollar stores, this is
the new America...pay people less, give them low quality or expired
(sometimes REALLY expired) food at a profit, gut their unions and labor
rights, and raise their rents and utilities. The republican value
system. No thanks. I may buy the old bread, but I ain't buyin' the
BULLSHIT.
Fight back, America. If you still have brain cells firing.
Be cool, be nobody's fool; and don't dismiss the bliss.
QM
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Hold On To Happiness
Listening to some 80's ItaloDisco. Reminds me of the only happy time
I've ever had...3 weeks in the Philippines during the revolution when I
apparently was in an alternate universe in which I thought the person I
was going to marry actually felt the same way. I was generally happy
for 3 weeks out of over a half century, even though it turned out to be
illusory.
Not to discount happiness, but it's a decision, no matter what fuels it. You can decide to or not to be happy. If you do, hold on to it as long as you can, and conjure up that memory with a song you listened to. It sure is better than drowning in a bottle of Jim Beam...and cheaper.
Also, just FYI, if you do find that romance that I believe only exists in the movies, hang on to it for dear life.
Be cool, be nobody's fool; and don't dismiss the bliss.
QM
Not to discount happiness, but it's a decision, no matter what fuels it. You can decide to or not to be happy. If you do, hold on to it as long as you can, and conjure up that memory with a song you listened to. It sure is better than drowning in a bottle of Jim Beam...and cheaper.
Also, just FYI, if you do find that romance that I believe only exists in the movies, hang on to it for dear life.
Be cool, be nobody's fool; and don't dismiss the bliss.
QM
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