Wry On The Rocks

The current political campaign was brought home to me last evening when I pondered the GOP front runner’s campaign slogan about regaining the soul of America.  It may make a catchy slogan, but has America…have I… lost my American values??  Am I out of touch with today’s values because…..

 While I don’t make a whole lot of money,  I  thought it would be OK if I did;  and I have no idea why someone would want to occupy Wall Street; the rents are too high, the streets are all one way, and bad guys periodically try to blow it up.

 I used to think Newt Gingrich made a lot of sense, which was before he became  fat, deranged and a cartoon; I think Ron Paul still makes a lot of sense, and at least isn’t fat.

 I don’t understand how FedEx can make millions and the US Post Office go bankrupt.

I don’t understand how job growth rate in our Government can grow at 15% in a recession.  (Actually I do unerstand it, just don’t like to dwell on it.)

 I have never watched a TV show hosted by Oprah, Ellen, Dr. Phil, or Billy Bush and have no interest in the fact that Beyonce had a baby, much less how much she paid for the hospital room or why she picked a Martian name for the kid.

 I can’t name even one of the Kardashian sisters and don’t care who Kate Hudson, Katy Parry, Brittany Spears, Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen or most anyone else west of the Rockies, married, divorced, assaulted or was seen canoodling with in Cabo, Martinique or the Seychelles.

I think it’s OK to dis-like the current President without being labeled a racist and OK to like Mitt Romney without believing in that buried book stuff.  I just wish he’d pick a new slogan.  One not so depressing.

According to the Boston Globe, there has been flagrant disregard of the downtown parking rules by valet parking firms and their restaurant clients.  Illegal double parking in popular restaurant destination areas like the South End and the Back Bay is particularly rampant.  Part of the problem, according to the Globe’s investigative team, is that there is little if any putative action taken against the offenders.

The article cites a case where the restaurant Petit Robert, having been found guilty of violation of parking rules, was barred from providing entertainment for 2 nights.  In Petit Robert’s case this simply required them to turn off their 30-inch TV over the bar. 

What the Globe didn’t report was that Petit Robert sucessfully sued the City when the enforcement agency was unable to prove that there was anything entertaining about TV these days.

Here’s a real shocker….the Massachusetts legislature yesterday approved the casino bill!   Just when I had almost lost  faith in lobbyists.

But, it’s good news because now you see, with all that extra revenue that the casinos will bring in to the State, our taxes will go down.  No, I said that with all that extra money, see money that we don’t have now, our taxes will go down.  Let me put it another way, see our individual tax burden is going to go……

Nah, you’re right…..

     We’ve been confronted with a  series of revelations recently by leading elective officials  of the abuses,  taunting and other traumatic offenses suffered on their way to successful political careers.

     In a speech against child abuse,  President Obama revealed in a press conference today that he had been the victim of bullying in his younger years because of his big ears.  This comes on top of Sen. Scott Brown’s revelations in his new book that he was the victim of child abuse before his rise to power.

     Sensing a trend for the upcoming elections ,the Republican Party is now looking for candidates whose parents belonged to a Warlock cult or  preferably spent some time as a child sex slave.

     The Boston MBTA in looking for a sub-contractor to help in the construction of 20 new commuter rail locomotives has awarded a contract to those wonderful folks who brought us the big dig…Parsons Brinckerhoff.  Despite several billion dollars of overruns, death of a driver from a faulty ceiling and a 400 million dollar settlement for poor oversight of the project, PB was awarded an 8.7 million dollar contract for the new MBTA project.

     In a separate announcement it was disclosed that the MBTA had also awarded a 20.3 million dollar contract to Toyota to oversee the engineering of the locomotives brake system.