Thomas Jefferson was right... we need a revolution every 50 years

   I am so completely disgusted with our "Congress" that I am ready to fire them all and replace them with people whose names have been drawn from a hat.  I mean, think about it.  What harm could it do?  Even the mentally disabled could do a better job of husbanding our resources than the bozos in Washington now.

   If they allow our nation to be globally humiliated by a default, they better not show their faces to their constituents ever again.  You remember the concept of constituents, I assume... the people the bozos are supposed to represent and protect.  Congress doesn't seem to have much of a memory of the concept.

   I want to know how this present Congress can be said to be representative.  Where are the businessmen, the educators, the doctors and scientists?  Where are women, who make up 51% of the population but only 17% of Congress (17 /100 Senators, 74 /434 representatives)?  Where are the social workers, the sales clerks, the manufacturers?  In a population of 124 million workers, only 6% are lawyers, but 45% of Congressmen are lawyers.  Where are the young people?  The median age of the US population is 32.9 years.  For Congress, the median is 53 years.  Where are the African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Pacific and other groups that make up respectively 12%, 9%  and 3% of the population (24% in total), while Congress is 87% white males?

  We should fire them all immediately. Failing that, we should repeal their right to set their own wages.  Force them to use the same health care system the rest of the country must endure.  Slash their pensions- put that money back into Social Security and take Social Security out the general funds.  AND DO NOT PAY THEM FOR THIS TERM!  The lazy do-nothings owe us ALL their back wages.  And while I do not agree with Dick the butcher (Henry VI Part 2 Act 4, scene 4 71-78) that we should "First, kill all the lawyers, I DO agree with the following quotations.

"The people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution".   Abraham Lincoln



"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse

every time Congress meets".  

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as

 when the baby gets hold of a hammer".

Will Rogers

"Congress: Bingo with billions".  

Red Skelton



"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money".   

 David Crockett

"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think".  

Milton Berle

"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends".       

  George Will

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it".   Cullen Hightower

"Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else". 

 Bobby Jindal

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.

But I repeat myself".  

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress".  

 Mark Twain

And now, representing thinking women everywhere...

I say throw the buggers out. 

Kate Lapczynski

Back to school... in JULY??!!

I did not get to spend any time to speak of with my granddaughters this summer.  I feel frustrated and cheated about that.  And all the "Camp NeeNee" things we had planned to do are not going to happen because, for my grandgirls, summer is over. 

My summer ends on August 30th, when my general biology class meets for the first time.  My girls will have been in school a month by then.

I can't imagine trying to learn in 100 degree heat, or when the bright sun from outside distracts me from my books.  My childhood summers were too long- out from mid-June until the day after Labor Day in September- but my girls' summers are too short.  

The weather was against me this summer.  Though my pool was opened on May 23rd, our first swim did not come until early July.  I remember summers past when my girls and I cavorted in the pool like the dolphins we are.  This year, only Emily and Delaney have been in the pool with me.  Twice.

Granted, I have been spending a lot of time in Michigan, caring for and visiting with my Daddy, who is 87 and failing.  Granted, the pool company opened my pool and then did NOTHING to it until my return home in late June, at which I fired them and hired someone who has turned out to be a miracle worker.  (Her name is Rhonda Loop, with is pool backward).  Granted, I have been puny on and off this summer.  Granted, my girls have spent most of their time with their other grandmothers.  (Apparently the equal time clause has lapsed)'

But if the summer wasn't so !$^#%*%#  short, none of that would matter.  Sigh.

So, here I am, all geared up for fun in the sun, chock full of ideas for things to do with my girls, chomping at the bit for some QFT (quality family time) and it is all for naught. 

Sending kids back to school in July.  Whose bull-shit idea was that?