A family member tells me that something is going to happen very shortly.
45 minutes go by.
I ask the family member why hasn’t that something happened yet.
I get yelled at.
I point out that if the family member hadn’t have said anything, I wouldn’t have been upset.
I get critized at.
For once, I yell back…
We’ll see how this goes.
I don’t usually blog on Saturdays, but I have a little bit of spare time today.
Had one of those “streams of consciousness” strike me last night on Facebook. It all began with one of those memes you see on Mr. Zuckerberg’s site, about how burgers cost 99 cents at some fast food joints, and how if you want a healthy salad, it’s nearly $5 most places.
The same is so for drinks. You can go to your local “7-Eleven” and get a Big Gulp for 99 cents, but the much more healthier water costs more. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Some cities and counties have ordinances that makes it difficult at best to grow your own food. Why is that?
Then another thought hit my noggin. Is the economic recovery an illusion?
Where I live in Pinellas County, Florida, ridership on the local transit system, PSTA, has been setting records recently almost on a monthly basis. Did these people get sudden urges not to pollute the air with their automobiles? A safe guess is probably not. They ride the bus because owning automobiles isn’t economically feasible as it once was.
The same argument applies to the Tampa Bay Rays. Even when they play rival clubs like Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, as I have noted a month and a half go, attendance is off. My next door neighbor was a Rays season ticket holder, and isn’t one anymore. Local fans foolishly believe that putting up a new stadium in Tampa or in eastern Pinellas County will solve the problem, and it won’t. So the Rays will move to some other metropolis in ten years or less. That’s my sad and bold prediction.
And you wonder why the government watches us from on high, and says they do not?
So what do I watch on Netflix these days? Usually depends on the day or the mood, but I always try to get one Netflix episode in a day.
On Mondays, I used to watch 24, but now I watch selected episodes of Columbo. Great show from the 70′s, and I enjoy Peter Falk’s dry wit as the smart detective who doesn’t look the part.
Tuesdays was Nip/Tuck, then Breaking Bad, now its Sons Of Anarchy. I understand some new episodes of Breaking Bad will be streaming soon though, so I look forward to getting back to that.
Wednesday is the original Hawaii Five-O. I started in season eight because I’ve seen most of the first seven seasons. Currently on the next to last season.
Thursdays I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. Will eventually get to the other Star Trek franchises, lord willing and if the creek doesn’t rise.
Fridays is usually The X-Files, and on the weekends I usually watch documentaries, the TV shows listed above I might be in the mood for. On weekend nights, I usually watch The L Word. Yes, I hear the alarms going off in all of the heads of my readers making that revelation, but I would enjoy that show even if it had less of the gratuitous nudity in it. Seeing the perky boobs of Mia Kirshner all the time is kind of eating chocolate ice cream every meal every day. Good to look at, but even that gets dull after a while.
Something just occurred to me…
Edward Snowden, according to our government, should be tried for treason.
Our government claims that the NSA is not spying on American citizens.
If that is true, how can Snowden be accused of treason? For spying on the NSA’s spying?
It’s a good question.
Hopefully, the government will answer it. And we should continue to ask until they do answer.
Baseball season is heating up, in more ways than one.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks exchanged pleasantries last night, as both teams deliberately threw at batters. When Zack Greinke got hit by an Ian Kennedy pitch in the 7th inning, it was time for both teams to throw down. Ring the bell, and watch the clip narrated by the venerable Vin Scully.
On the Friday before Memorial Day, I posted a video from YouTuber Barbiepoledancer of some time lapse video of Interstate highway trips. Apparently, the user was in my neck of the woods recently on a cross country trip to Florida.
Here’s a video of a trip taken from Homestead, Florida over to Tampa.
I’ve been meaning to talk about this whole PRISM thing, where the government now spies on all Americans to gain terrorist information.
Yesterday, a man by the name of Edward Snowden did his mea culpa to the media, telling the world that he was the one who leaked what the NSA is doing to the media. While Snowden’s efforts seem courageous, I don’t give the man high marks for telling his side of the story from Hong Kong. You cannot claim to be aware of the consequences of your actions and yet evade the very country that wishes to prosecute you.
As for the government, I am reminded of the line Kevin Costner said playing the role of Jim Garrison in JFK: what do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
The American people must decide what THEY want to do about it as well. I hope they are paying attention to the fact that the elder statesmen and stateswomen of BOTH parties want to continue their efforts to spy on us. Changing the coat of the paint changes nothing. People must demand REAL change, and that is something no amount of spying can stop.
