max making up to us for a rather blaring error in today's keiser report

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A decent compromise, all told, everything considered....

I am practicing no-handed smoking. This is the harder because I've switched to longer cigarettes. I can get them from the rez much more cheaply than the old Camel straights and they don't have the toxins added to them. But if my wimpy lips don't tune up, here, pretty soon, I may have to resort to cutting these puppies in half. I can't get used to it. Plus, it'll save even more $$$ if I smoke half a cigarette at a time. On top of this, I have ceased smoking on my front porch only because I can get more than enough air flow in here to carry the smoke out immediately... things don't get stanky and yeller when the smoke wafts right out, but when it gets too cold to do this and I have to go back out on my porch, I'm going to be feeling really sorry for myself.

In fact, I am considering trying to make it through the winter without turning on the heat at all, just wearing all kinds of clothes and toughing it out. If I do that, I might just leave all the windows and doors open on the lee side of the storms and smoke and shiver my way through adversity. OR go to El Cajon for a couple months, take up my second cousin on her invitation for me to spend the time down there with her. Southern California gives me nightmares. I might not be able to stand it. We'll have to see how things shake out.

I'm not in a very good mood. I'm bummed about my friends. They're watching tv. They're talking about how maybe it's time for bugs to inherit the earth. Pissing and moaning about the climate nazis blowing up school children in their propaganda. Deciding they like the way Andrew Bacevich thinks. Busying themselves in the garden or with their sundry family hassles and commitments. Reminding me that recessions and depressions ALWAYS spring back. Letting all the flagrant indicators of open fascism roll off as though they were invisible molecules of toxins or water rolling off a duck. The ones who recognize we have a fight in front of us won't fight. The others just flat out won't recognize it.

They're fussing over Prop 25 gonna wipe out Prop 13 and no amount of reminding them that it expressly states it won't, and how anyone who tried to wipe it out would be lynched, seems to settle their hash. I think Prop 25 is a TINY move in the direction of more power to the people but nobody seems to even think about that anymore, just squabble like maniacs over who and what will get their vote, even as their positions on the issues scream that they already know their votes don't make fuck-all in the way of a difference.

I just got a flier from some broad making an oath to yank teachers' medical benefits to save the County $9,600 should she be elected to the school board... spend that money on the KIDS. That's about a buck and a half per kid. Oh, right. I'm so gonna vote for this bitch... the only one of the bunch who could afford fliers. If I were famous, I'd start a drive for everyone to vote for Martin Luther King for all offices until the revolution has yanked everyone from them and we start again.

But, no, nothing will be done, and so long to the unlucky....

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love, 99
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