What's Wrong With The United States

I agree with Byahs. There is something wrong with the United States government? Is it the American public or the ego-maniac politicians we elect. We are so divided as a nation that our elected officials can't accomplish anything. We are spending resources just to point fingers of blame, until we have forgotten what our nation needs.

We have forgotten how to work together and they have forgotten how to work. Politicians need to stop working for their party, and start working for the American public.

I have the perfect solution. Eliminate both political parties, do away with congress and the legislature. Send them all home. I think the White House would make a wonderful woman's shelter. Fill the Pentagon with day care and senior citizen centers and the rest can be made into affordable housing.

When a decision needs to be made ask the American public what they want. Have an election and I don't mean electoral votes, every vote counts. Which ever issue gets the most votes wins. Pay an accounting firm to count the votes, a few soccer Moms(and no I don't mean Palin) to disseminate the information and we are good to go until the next need for an election.

It is the KISS premise, keep it simple stupid. This would work on a state level too. Get rid of the pork bellies. This would eliminate the ego-maniacal politicians, the insidious political driven emails from both my Republican and Democratic friends.

We don't need elected officials, we would save money, we wouldn't have to read about their adulteress affairs and they could all go back to their home states to run a muck on their own dime.

All those in favor cast their vote.

Love to you and yours,
NanaCarol

HOW TO FILL A DAY WITH NOTHINGNESS

There is nothing like having to be home all day with your leg propped up. I am beleaguered with a leg infection which takes forever to heal. Now you might say that having to sit around with nothing to do but watch TV is the dream of every working person and for a week it is fun. However extreme boredom does set in around day five.

The first three days I watched non-stop movies. Then I switched over to HGTV for a couple of days. I had to stop watching HGTV because I felt compelled to start a home decorating project which is very difficult to do while laying around with your leg up.

So I thought I would write about how my days are spent (that is how bored I am). Of course the brushing of teeth and the eating of breakfast is the real start of the day but I feel the "reel" start is when I have my coffee, the leg is elevated, and the remote is in my hand. This is the real start of my day. I go to the guide for movies and start my selection of which movies I want to watch. I select them then save them for viewing at my leisure which is pretty much all day.

The criteria for this selection varies day to day. I generally do not select movies that are not on cable channels as I hate commercials. Yes, I know I can fast forward through the commercials but by the time I have revived from the semi drugged euphoria of movie madness I spend too much time fast forward, rewinding then fast forwarding again to find the end of the commercials. Get the picture? It is much easier to avoid movies with commercials.

Since my day is so unproductive I have decided to write quick critiques of the movies I watch with recommendations for my readers so they won't waste time on a movie that is not worth watching. Nothing is more wasteful in a day filled with waste, to spend twenty to thirty minutes watching a movie and finding it incredibly awful.

This morning I watched a delightfully quirky movie and I generally only use the word quirky when I describe Joan Cusack. Now she is delightfully quirky. However there is no other word to describe this movie but quirky.

The Chumscrubber is quirky. Basically it is about a teen who lives among adults that are more screwed up then he is and we all know that most teenage boys are screwed up. It starts with a tragic event and ends out warm and fuzzy with craziness in the middle. It is a movie that you can enjoy then forget, which is my kind of movie. I highly recommend this movie.

Mancora, a foreign film, takes place in Peru my old stomping ground. Again it is based on a young man's angst after losing first his mother then years later his father. It's worth watching and left me with a deep desire to speak spanish and eat ceviche.

Love to you and yours,
NanaCarol