Local events have been making me full of questions lately.
Of course the political events of the day have my mind spinning. I’m trying to understand how anyone could think that defaulting on our national debt could possibly be a good thing. I am also wondering why fully grown people who are supposed to be mature enough to govern our country are throwing what amounts to temper tantrums since they can’t get their own way. I mean, the Supremes ruled that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Get over it already, and go back to passing your effing pork barrel and lining your pockets and listening to your corporate masters’ desires so that you can get more money in order to be elected again so you can go on your merry way doing the same thing next year. Who cares about the electorate, anyway? Do they REALLY need jobs?
On a lighter note, here are some other questions I have had lately.
1. Why does Mallory love my feet so much when I am in bed? What is so wonderful about them that they need to be rubbed on, talked to, purred at, and washed when I am trying to fall asleep?
2. Why do people feel the need to announce their comings and goings so loudly that they will pay extra for glasspack “mufflers”? Why do these same people insist they have a right to privacy?
3. Why do people think they need the right to bear arms, specifically assault weapons, so they can defend themselves against the government? Don’t they know that the Army has tanks and M50s and grenades and the Air Force has bombs and drones? Don’t they realize the government can effectively shut them down by making it impossible for them to use their debit card?
4. Why do intelligent people state that chain restaurants serving over-processed, over-priced chemical stews are “Good places to eat”??
5. Why do employees in public offices like Court Houses, Drivers License Bureaus, Public Libraries and the like think it is okay to use air fresheners, which have been demonstrated to be absolutely full of chemicals that are harmful to humans?
I could go on and on, but these are questions that have been bugging me lately.
I’m afraid there are no good answers.
What are some of your favorite questions?
I hope I never stop asking questions. 🙂
I’m sure neither one of us will…
Yeah, these questions bug me, too, except for the one about Mallory. 🙂
LOL So, don’t you have a cat to mystify you?
Of course we have a cat. His name is Murgatroyd. Right now, he’s obviously wondering why we don’t make the rain stop. He just doesn’t seem that interested in feet. 🙂
I used to have a cat who would watch me shower, or take a bath, or run water in the sink, as well as water the garden. When we moved to Bremerton Washington, and she began to experience rainfall, she was very accusing of me as I simply didn’t care enough to make the water from the sky stop. Obviously I was derelict in my duty vis-a-vis the rain, since I could make the shower or the hose stop any time I wanted.
Usually I ask three questions in a day:
1) What was my dream about again?
2) Why does my nose look like the best kitten chew toy ever?
3) What sort of silly and hysterical person will I get a phone call from today?
Customer service. Must be fun.
1. What happened?
2. When did we become so collectively stupid as a nation?
3. Where did i put my keys?
Nobody knows. It happened gradually, probably starting with Reagan. I don’t know. Probably in the freezer.
What are glasspack “mufflers”?
They are mufflers, usually found on pickup trucks, that are designed to allow the exhaust gases to pass straight through the muffler. This is supposed to reduce the back pressure from the exhaust system and thus increase your engine performance and power, but what it really does is pretty much eliminate the actual muffling of the sound of the engine which is what a muffler is supposed to do in the first place. There are glasspacks which are actually designed to “roar” during deceleration.