Like Clockwork
Once you hit the downhill side of life and you are just playing out the string about the only thing that keeps you going is that life is unpredictable. Personally, I peaked at about 18, playing three sports, touring with Conspiracy, sex, drugs, rock and roll: life was good. I had a few girls, a couple of bucks, no bills, and bad habits without consequences.
Now approaching the half-century mark with another half century to go (based on family genes) for over thirty years I have had little reason to get out of bed. Why would anyone want to get up and take life's daily screwing from the world? Because sometimes life is interesting. That is you never know what might or might not happen. About once every twenty years something might even go my way. Life is like a Grateful Dead show really, you have no idea what the set list will be. Likewise you have no idea whether you or the band will be headed up or down. When life becomes predictable that's when we all stop living, figuratively and literally.
I really wish President O so bad for me and my mama was a racehorse. There is no one more predictable. In every instance he folds like a Swiss army knife at an airport security check point. When elected he had the country behind him. The rich, big oil, drug companies, banks, special interests he promised to go after them all. Then came the Wall Street bailout. Then came the extension of the Bush tax breaks for two years in exchange for six more months of unemployment benefits; now the deficit.
As predicted here (you don't have to be Nostradamus with this guy) no taxes for the rich more cuts to the poor. Obama is the worst President in the history of the Democratic Party. He makes Jimmy Carter look competent. Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Mass) voted against the compromise saying, "being a Democrat is about helping people up, not knocking them down."
So the rich get richer and my grandmother who is 105 this week will have to get by on a little less.
Hey Mr. President, sounds like a reason to celebrate to me.
KOKO
