It's been a brilliantly beautiful week capped by today's pure blue sky and the clarity of Autumn sunlight making the bright colored leaves illuminate the trees as though they were created just to give delight, which maybe they were.
And then this evening my best pal Jamie Rose gave an equally brilliant reading/talk from and about her book SHUT UP & DANCE! at the local bookstore with friends and family in attendance.
Now, if only the corporation in charge of power in this part of the world could find a way to get the still live wire hanging into the street just one building up from mine, keeping my street still blocked off with police tape and barricades.
Like I said in an earlier post and I'm sure so many are feeling in this area and the surrounding states: How's that corporations-can-do-it-better-than-the-government thingee working out for y'all? Not so hot if you're still waiting for the power to be turned on, or live wires to be removed or repaired.
Given the "weather events" of the past year and the recent scientific conclusion (see SCIENCE magazine) that the predictions for the damage done by global warming were too optimistic—it's happening much faster and having a bigger impact already than they thought—you'd think the power companies would be better prepared, or would use some of their enormous profits to hire more workers and buy more trucks and equipment etc. and that even Republican politicians would want to get the government involved, raise revenues to hire workers to rapidly respond to these catastrophes and better prepare for them.
But nope, it's business as usual, meaning business makes even more money and those at the top who work in that business do too, while the rest of us sink into the "new normal"—or as I've been calling it for many years now, "the new Dark Ages" (in more ways than one).
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The rightwing stalker tried to use the post Office as an example of government misrunning things. But in fact the U. S. Postal Service ran incredibly efficiently for hundreds of years before the Nixon administration began the "successful" effort to partially privatize it, after which it became much less efficient and "going postal" became a metaphor for stressed out workers violently losing it in the workplace. So, as always, the comment contained lies and a bogus argument that when looked at factually actually bolstered one of the points of this post, that corporations do not look out for consumers or workers or the general public but only the bottom line, and if not restrained by government will take us back to 19th century conditions of vast inequalities of wealth, poverty, overworked employees, and exploitation of all of nature, including humans, for the sake of profits. Oh wait a minute, that's already happened, thanks very much mainly to Reagan and Bush/Cheney and their rightwing Republican offspring.
e-mailing is faster and cheaper... so is Facebook
about all that the post office now delivers is
junk-mail from credit-card companies and booklets from Victoria's Secret.
If you want to get mail, you have to send mail. This holds whether we're talking about the internet or the Post Office. E-mail is cheaper only AFTER you've made a sizable investment in a computer. For the hundreds of dollars you spend on a PC or an iPhone or an iPad, you could send multiple thousands of letters via the Post Office at 44 cents apiece, eh?
Bob B.
I get free internet at my public library heck
there is some much "crap" in America that is free
& one can live off of what is thrown away as waste
I still use stamps mail letters but am down from about 12 per month to 4 per month...
an I don't for a moment miss the Pony Express or Morse's
Code or smoke signals...
or land-line telephones....
the future will be in charging per e-mail so that the retired letter carriers can continue their pensions and health care...
ps
the $millions that I've saved via NOT buying consumer electronics I've put into Mobil-Exxon Stocks and Convertible Junk Bonds....
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