Still crazy after all these days

I just saw a headline on the Times Leader site that read “Unemployment up in 27 states.”

Boy, this so-called ‘summer of recovery’ rocks! As in, the folks calling this a recovery have freaking rocks in their heads.

It’s been a crazy fantasy football week, this past week. Thus, the well-deserved and thoroughly enjoyed hiatus from the political (far, far) side of the local Internet.

When we draft our fantasy teams, we all have varying strategies going in. Some go heavy on running backs right from the get-go. Others are all agog over stud wide receivers. And some, like me, go hunter/killer quarterback with the first pick.

Whatever your preferred strategy, if you go decidedly with one position, logic dictates you’ll end up lacking at some other position. The trick is to draft so wisely that you’ll have one position loaded, and the others not horribly foreshortened because of it. And when the draft is concluded, we all look lovingly upon our rosters, the products of our having known better than everyone else.

But when the first NFL fantasy weekend is in the history books and those players thought to be superstars go and seriously under perform, well, then what happened this past week is what happens. People panic and the trade talks do get hot and heavy. And after this particular first week of action, people in record numbers were scrambling to improve their fast-flailing lots in fantasy life.

I’ll not bore you any further, but suffice it to say this past week has been a freaking hoot.

Supposedly, we have dueling liars in the 10th congressional district.

From the Carney camp: My opponent is a liar.

And from the Marino camp: My opponent is a liar.

Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

And in the 11th congressional district, the Kanjo machine has gone back to it’s old dirty tricks stalwart…scare the senior citizens with, my opponent is going to take your social security away.

Really? Again?

Yawn.

Obviously, we don’t need the Barletta camp to point out that Kanjorski is lying all over again.

Since everyone involved is accused of being a liar to some degree, I guess we’ll have to remind the voters which two of these tone deaf hucksters voted for the Fedrule Govmint’s ill-timed health care takeover, that boondoggle of boondoggles in the making.

I did some work in the Woodcrest development last week. For those of you not in the know, Woodcrest borders Muckegan Sun City, our fastest growing casino/city throughout all of NEPA. Here comes the curious part.

The Luzerne County Transportation Authority public busses were rolling in and out of there with such great frequency, I couldn’t believe it. And if that’s not stupefying enough, the busses were damn near packed. And as a result, my mind did wander.

If you are not currently in possession of an operable automobile, why would you be visiting a casino? So you can hit the record jackpot and proceed directly to Obama Motors with riches in hand?

And what of all of these good paying jobs that supposedly came with the casino? If you ride the bus to your casino job, I find it hard to believe that your job pays enough.

Anyway, busses rolling in force to the nearby Sprawl Mart or the local Family Dollar I can get my grossly denuded mind around. But a nonstop caravan of public transportation to a casino?

Something doesn’t add up.

As far as Blogfest is concerned, unlike very many of you, I will not drink and drive. And since I neglected to find a designated driver for the evening, that was that.

Then again, partying with Paul Kanjorski? Seriously? Some of you are asking far, far, far too much of me.

I will say this though, seems like Gort and Joe Valenti put together a kick-ass event. Kudos to both of them. Now all we need is Cheap Trick.

And to Michele, jeez. You’re not getting older, you’re getting better looking.

I see that all (and that means all) of the folks on the left side of the political aisle feel the need to belittle the Tea Party at every available opportunity. And that’s fine, especially when you consider that the cacophony of the easily led voices is clearly telegraphing it’s collective uneasiness bordering on fear.

While I do not belong to the Tea uprising, nor can I name any of it’s higher profile candidates off the top of my fat head, I fail to understand how or why people rising up and “throwing the bums out” is somehow a problem?

If we impeached everybody, if we through out all the bums from both of the two dominant political parties, then we’d be left with a bunch of novices fast reduced to problem solving. And with the United States of Amerika jostling with the Scrubbing Bubbles for a good seat in the toilet bowl before the flush, what’s not to like?

The problem with both the Republicans and the Democrats is that they look not for good legislation, rather they look for shoddy legislation that will ensure their place at the top of the thiefdom.

I mean, what were sub-prime mortgages other than one party’s ill-advised attempt to curry favor with a growing constituency group, the group that needs a teat from which to hang?

Why won’t we enforce our borders other than the fact that we have two polar opposite political parties working in collusion to a attract a new and fast-growing constituency group?

The thing is, those mostly useless fu>ks in Washington are no longer there to serve us. No, they are there to serve themselves. And as a result, they make misstep after misstep, then tell us it’s the other side that keeps tripping things up. Dupes, they take us for.

Getting back to those boisterous Tea Party types, I find it beyond amusing to see career politicians having the fear of god being instilled in them, even though they pray to a different god than that of the electorate.

I say send ‘em all to the political graveyard.

Later