Garden hose and five-gallon buckets, Heloise

As you and I both know, Heloise, one can never have too many 5 gallon buckets. But of course, you and I don't buy them at Lowes or Walmart. We reuse the ones we accumulate from home projects or construction sites... and the good ones are the black ones, the UV ray resistant ones, they last almost forever. But the white handle grips break down way too soon. It’s aways one-damn-thing-after-another isn't it?

When the handle grips go bad and our fragile old hands protest the biting pain of skinny handles, we can be saved by the reuse of 5 inch pieces of old hose. So… those old garden hoses. Remember resistentialism? https://somelightsomeserious.blogspot.com/2015/03/so-you-dont-believe-in-resistentialism.html I used to fill the buckets up... not any more (unless it's with feathers).

Ask your Congressman If Nazis love him, why do you?

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, has ducks waving flags and ducks declaring their love of it, and it is seen in the company of ducks; it is most likely a duck. We have all seen a lot of Rebel flags and Nazi flags among trump supporters. If they love him, why does my Republican Representative, Ben Cline love him? If you see Ben, please ask him. Oh! And you could ask the Republican senate candidate, Hung Cao the same question.

I wrote a goodbye to the Washington Post news paper

I will really miss parts of the Washington Post newspaper. What I will miss the most is the Saturday “Free For All” letters to the editor (FFA). Given the deterioration of the Post’s journalistic, editorial, writing standards, I have greatly enjoyed the submissions by readers who are so much more assiduous and professional than whomever the Post has working there now. How many times does one read a FFA submission and say, “DUH! I agree! That piece in the Post was a stupid thing to put into an international paper.” Typos and bad grammar aside, what is wrong with you? Political bias is an issue of… well, personal bias that we all have to deal with. However, to read exhaustive criticism of President Biden’s poor speech patterns and memory problems while not mentioning the firehose of lies, infantile taunts, insults, and insanity that spews from former president Trump every time he speaks, smacks of an agenda that isn’t “fair and balanced” (to quote the so-called news organization that calls itself Fox). I have noticed that you have hired important staff from Fox. I can only assume that you are copying their “successful” business model. They paid $875,500,000 in their admission that they lie, that’s why I don’t listen to them no matter what they say. Why would anyone? Keep it up and we’ll all wonder how much will you have to pay? Oh, and I’ll miss the comics.

Please, somebody...

Please, please, somebody in the MSM ask trump who is his favorite philosopher. Please?

More questions I've asked of Ben Cline No answers yet

To Ben Cline: As you and I both know, Republicans, when in control of government, have never refused to raise the debt ceiling, even when the policies of Ronald Reagan, G.W. Bush, and Donald Trump were sending America into regions of unprecedented debt, mostly because of “trickle down” tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations (many of whom get out-right subsidies paid for by middle cast taxpayers like me). Therefore, I have no doubt that you will break with your Mike Johnson “led” party and vote to raise the debt ceiling and protect our economy and your constituents from the negative impacts of defaulting any time in the future. After all, why be a representative of people in your district and collect a salary if you don’t vote to fund the government that PAYS you? By the way, spare me the “conservative fiscal wisdom” of paying as you go. Our government has already spent the money that these budgetary bills address. Have YOU ever borrowed money for a car, tuition, or a house? Did you pay it back, or did you decide that you’d default on your already accrued debt and somehow, just “start over”?

I wrote my Congressman Representative Ben Cline today

I wrote: Hannibal Lector. In your opinion, is donald trump sane? Ben's "contact me" form requires a whole lot of information about me. It is onerous to fill out. I really don't think he's interested in hearing from his contituents.

Why is the economy so bad for the little guys?

I am the CEO of a washing machine factory. We made a lot of money last year and as the brilliant “architect” of our success, I took about 40% of the profit as my salary and bonuses… As a very good leader of our financial balance among where our money is spent, earned, and “trusted to us” by investors, I presided over 70% of the remaining profits being remanded to those investors. We of course, had business expenses… you know, materials and such… But I guess the lawyers took their share too… somewhere in the CFO’s report. Who cares? Anyway, after that money was gone, as a good businessman, I reinvested 5% of our net profits back into the business. So do the math. What was left: 10 % ? I don't know; numbers are hard. Of this I gave a 0.02% raise to my labor staff… leaving me an extra “bonus” of 23.05% of the original total for myself and the investors who I like the best (and the Congressmen who regulate my business). I can’t understand why the economy is so bad and why my employees can’t afford to buy our washing machines. It just has to be Biden’s fault. I just heard from my good friend… he owns a microwave cooker factory…… I just remembered! He has a brother who owns a diaper factory...