I WATCHED THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT: I really had no intention of doing so. But, there was nothing else on TV that appealed to me and I just got started watching and so continued till almost the end. This morning I have been watching the news on NBC, AKA the today show, and it is obvious that Matt and Savanna and company is all for Hillary and against Trump. It is also evident that they watched a different debate than I did, although I did hear a couple of comments that I agreed with. So, while they are giving their spin on what took place, here is my spin on the debate.
I want to mention Lester Holt. I like Lester, but last night he stated that the questions were his. And the first question out of his mouth was "tell me how you will handle the economy better that your opponent? I hated that form of question. Better, Tell the public what you will do to improve the economy and the job situation. And then the candidates need to both go back to school to learn the definition of the word debate. Lat night was not a debate, it was an argument. And a bunch of accusations. You did this, will you said this etc. the 15 minute time limit for each segment got totally away from Lester and he had little control over the actual content of the debate. The candidates also got into the performance of President Obama. I have lived through the last nearly 8 years of his Presidency. I don't need these two hashing over what he has or has not done. I want to hear what they will do to improve the country. What will they do with the military. What will they do with the economy and jobs and taxes. And why do they think their plan will improve the situation. What will they do about foreign policy. I'm not really concerned about climate change, since I know who is in charge of the climate and it ain't them. And that is a subject for a future post. I also noticed that Lester would let Hillary carry on for as long as she wanted and say whatever she wanted, but he often interrupted Donald when it seemed he didn't like what Donald was saying. A debate moderator should be neutral, and Lester didn't come across that way. I am disappointed in that.
Now a comment of three or more about the candidates. While I expected it, I was disappointed that they went on the attack, instead of talking about a plan they would have for improving the country. What they did say was from different view points. Hillary was from a politician point of view and Donald was from a business man's point of view. Hillary's plan is to raise taxes and throw more money at the problem. Dona;d's plan is to lower taxes and bring back jobs and companies to this country. Having spent my working life in an environment where taxes and government over regulations often devastate companies, I agree with Donald on this. I don't really like his demeanor or his persona, but I do agree with him on that. Also, Hillary's answers were very scripted, while Donald spoke off the cuff, as it were. Donald said what he thought needs to be done to bring law and order to the country. Hillary, in spite of recent FBI statistics to the contrary, said that crime was down under President Obama's administration. Although they didn't really get into this item last night, Hillary wants to dis arm the citizens of the country and rewrite the 2nd amendment. I hope this is addressed in a future debate.
One final thought. Or two. Neither Candidate won. neither candidate convinced many undecided voters to vote for them. Both probably solidified their own base voter block. So, for the next two debates, I think we need a little diversion. Let Gary Johnson be included in the debates. He is on all 50 ballots and is polling at 10%. This will give another viewpoint to the current two party system. Who knows, he may have a point of view that will appeal to some, and provide a little relief from the snippyness of the two current leaders.
AND THAT IS THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
I MUST BE CRAZY
IF I AM NOT, THEN SOMEONE IS: Just a few things that I have on my mind as I get older. Have you noticed it? If not, then you are probably part of the generation that understands what the heck is going on. confused yet? Well, join the club, as I try to explain. I said Try.
The local TV stations have been hiring young people to give the news. They talk fast and they don't use proper punctuation. They put periods in their sentences where there should be nothing, or if something, then just a comma. They start and stop in such a manner that it hurts your head to listen to them.
Do the commercials on TV bother you? If not, then you are not part of the crazy generation. I can watch a commercial and by the time they are through I have no clue what they are trying to sell. Whatever it is, they are obviously not trying to sell it to me. They are reaching out to that young generation that seems to understand all that stuff.
I do have a cell phone, even though I have never been in jail. But I don't stream movies or music or TV shows on it. It is, after all, a phone. So I use it to make a rare call to someone, and it is turned off as much as it is on. I am just not tied to the phone, or the TV. Yes, we do watch a few shows. We watched the opening show of Survivor a few nights ago. One of the teams is a Millennial group. Young people. They won the first round because they won the game. I suspect that they will win more rounds on the games. Some of them are gamers. One girl said she plays video games for a living. In my time, back before I went crazy, we worked for a living and played for entertainment. How do you play video game's for a living.
The more I watch and look at the world around me and the things that people are doing, I just have to assume that I am crazy. Or they are. AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
The local TV stations have been hiring young people to give the news. They talk fast and they don't use proper punctuation. They put periods in their sentences where there should be nothing, or if something, then just a comma. They start and stop in such a manner that it hurts your head to listen to them.
Do the commercials on TV bother you? If not, then you are not part of the crazy generation. I can watch a commercial and by the time they are through I have no clue what they are trying to sell. Whatever it is, they are obviously not trying to sell it to me. They are reaching out to that young generation that seems to understand all that stuff.
I do have a cell phone, even though I have never been in jail. But I don't stream movies or music or TV shows on it. It is, after all, a phone. So I use it to make a rare call to someone, and it is turned off as much as it is on. I am just not tied to the phone, or the TV. Yes, we do watch a few shows. We watched the opening show of Survivor a few nights ago. One of the teams is a Millennial group. Young people. They won the first round because they won the game. I suspect that they will win more rounds on the games. Some of them are gamers. One girl said she plays video games for a living. In my time, back before I went crazy, we worked for a living and played for entertainment. How do you play video game's for a living.
The more I watch and look at the world around me and the things that people are doing, I just have to assume that I am crazy. Or they are. AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Thursday, September 15, 2016
ARE YOU A FASHIONISTA
ARE YOU? YOU KNOW THE ONES, DONCHA? The ones that have to have the latest in fashion. Fashion dictated by someone who decided that something should be in style. So, hair styles change and shoe styles change and the clothes you wear also changes. And you just have to have the latest in fashion. It don't really matter if you are comfortable or not. It don't matter if you can walk in those shoes or not. It don't even matter if you are modest or not. It is OK, because someone somewhere said that was what the fashion was.
I wear western clothes. Cowboy boots, Wrangler jeans, and western cut shirts and suits. And, of course, a cowboy hat. I have worn that style of clothing for over 7 decades. I know, I know, my family feels that I need to get with the times and update my wardrobe. So, I thought, OK, I will just do that. And here is what happened.
A few weeks ago My wife and I were in a shopping mall in a large city on our State. I went into a store to look at a pair of Jeans they had on display. Man, they were the latest fashion. They were faded and had holes in them. Really, there wasn't much thread there holding all the holes together. Wow, I thought. Now here's a pair of pants I won't have to go to the trouble of breaking them in and wearing holes in them. I can buy them already broke in. So I went in and ask the price. $70.00 Yep, that is not a misprint. $70.00. Well I guess they are worth that much to get them already broke in and faded worn. But, I had to turn away. No way could I afford that pair of pants.
I guess I will just have to continue paying $25.00 for mine and wearing them out myself, until I can save up enough money to afford these jeans already broke in and holes worn in them and not have to go to all that work myself.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
I wear western clothes. Cowboy boots, Wrangler jeans, and western cut shirts and suits. And, of course, a cowboy hat. I have worn that style of clothing for over 7 decades. I know, I know, my family feels that I need to get with the times and update my wardrobe. So, I thought, OK, I will just do that. And here is what happened.
A few weeks ago My wife and I were in a shopping mall in a large city on our State. I went into a store to look at a pair of Jeans they had on display. Man, they were the latest fashion. They were faded and had holes in them. Really, there wasn't much thread there holding all the holes together. Wow, I thought. Now here's a pair of pants I won't have to go to the trouble of breaking them in and wearing holes in them. I can buy them already broke in. So I went in and ask the price. $70.00 Yep, that is not a misprint. $70.00. Well I guess they are worth that much to get them already broke in and faded worn. But, I had to turn away. No way could I afford that pair of pants.
I guess I will just have to continue paying $25.00 for mine and wearing them out myself, until I can save up enough money to afford these jeans already broke in and holes worn in them and not have to go to all that work myself.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Friday, September 9, 2016
I WASN'T HERE THEN
YOU KNOW, BACK IN THE DAY, when Dinosaurs roamed the earth. At least history tells us that they did. I have only the history books version of that, so maybe they did and maybe they didn't. Your choice. As I stated, I wasn't here then. But now, in this day when I am here, we still seem to have animals that I know nothing about, Namely;
Buffalo. Oh we have Buffalo. I have seen them. A couple of them up close and almost personal. In New Mexico, and Arizona and Wyoming. And they looked just like Buffalo are supposed to look. At least as far as I know. But I keep seeing on Restaurant menu's this offering for Buffalo Wings. And I just have to ask myself, where do they get them? As I said I have seen Buffalo's. But I have never seen one with wings.
And Chickens. I was raised in the country. We had chickens. They had feathers, and laid eggs, which I had the opportunity to gather from time to time. I still know what a chicken looks like. I have never seen one yet with fingers. Yet, in restaurant menus they list chicken fingers as a food to eat. I have also heard people say they are as fine a hens teeth. Guess they don't know what a hen eats with, cause they got no teeth. Saying they have teeth is a plausible as the syntax of the previous sentence. And they saying Fine as Frogs Hair. I have seen several frogs. Never seen one with hair. They must have been barbered by a hen with teeth, and fingers. Who knows, maybe they caught a flight on a flying Buffalo. And maybe all these animals are actually from the Dinosaur era and so they don't really exist any more, and some one is just plagiarizing the name.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Saturday, September 3, 2016
IT CAN BE HEART BREAKING
MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN: There has been several things on the local news lately that just makes you shake your head, and even choke up a bit and maybe even shed a tear or two. And you just have to wonder, WHY? What is going on.
Recently a young mother was walking home in Chicago after walking her children to school. She was shot in the head. What did she do to deserve that? Nothing. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got caught in a cross fire of two men having a gun battle. Chicago registered 90 gun deaths during the month of August. The first time it has reached 90 in a month for several years.
I dare say here that none of the people involved in these gun deaths, or the instigators of such, were legal and registered gun owners. Most of them are not.
On August 12, 2 felon's running from a murder charge in Ohio, were pulled over for a traffic violation in the small town of Hatch, New Mexico. They shot and killed the police officer, high jacked another car and ran from the police. They were later apprehended after a police chase and other things that took place. They are now in jail.
A couple of weeks ago, the police in Albuquerque answered a call of domestic violence. Arriving at the apartment they apprehended a woman, her boy friend and a female cousin of the boy friend. The female cousin jumped from the apartment balcony to escape police, but broke her leg in the jump so was apprehended. Their crime. They had tortured, raped, then killed and dismembered the woman's 10 year old daughter. They were attempting to burn the body in the bath tub when police arrived. The girl had just turned 10 years old the day before. The boy friend and his cousin both had long rap sheets and the cousin had just been released from jail a few days before this incident. The girl was a pretty girl and it just hurts to even see the news reports.
A day or so after the above incident, also in Albuquerque, a woman and her 11 year old daughter from Vietnam had recently arrived in Albuquerque to join the woman's new husband. The husband shot them to death then shot himself. No one seems to know why he did this, but it cut short a life of someone who thought they were on their way to a better life her in the U.S.
Just two days ago, in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico, a police officer contacted a felon who had 4 active warrants for his arrest. the felon shot and killed the police officer, before being shot and killed by other officers who arrived on the scene. The felon was just that, a felon who was not supposed to have a gun. But he did. Against the law, but then I'm sure he didn't care.
This is just a small smattering of things that have happened in the past month. I am sure it is also just a small smattering of the thing that have happened nation or even world wide.
A lot of this kind of thing is taking place, and the general populace is getting fed up with it. Hillary nor Trump, with the help of congress, will not put an end to this. It will be the "uprising" of the general public that will finally stand up and say enough is enough, and put an end to the madness that has taken over the nation and the world.
And that is the View From the Ditch Bank
Recently a young mother was walking home in Chicago after walking her children to school. She was shot in the head. What did she do to deserve that? Nothing. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got caught in a cross fire of two men having a gun battle. Chicago registered 90 gun deaths during the month of August. The first time it has reached 90 in a month for several years.
I dare say here that none of the people involved in these gun deaths, or the instigators of such, were legal and registered gun owners. Most of them are not.
On August 12, 2 felon's running from a murder charge in Ohio, were pulled over for a traffic violation in the small town of Hatch, New Mexico. They shot and killed the police officer, high jacked another car and ran from the police. They were later apprehended after a police chase and other things that took place. They are now in jail.
A couple of weeks ago, the police in Albuquerque answered a call of domestic violence. Arriving at the apartment they apprehended a woman, her boy friend and a female cousin of the boy friend. The female cousin jumped from the apartment balcony to escape police, but broke her leg in the jump so was apprehended. Their crime. They had tortured, raped, then killed and dismembered the woman's 10 year old daughter. They were attempting to burn the body in the bath tub when police arrived. The girl had just turned 10 years old the day before. The boy friend and his cousin both had long rap sheets and the cousin had just been released from jail a few days before this incident. The girl was a pretty girl and it just hurts to even see the news reports.
A day or so after the above incident, also in Albuquerque, a woman and her 11 year old daughter from Vietnam had recently arrived in Albuquerque to join the woman's new husband. The husband shot them to death then shot himself. No one seems to know why he did this, but it cut short a life of someone who thought they were on their way to a better life her in the U.S.
Just two days ago, in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico, a police officer contacted a felon who had 4 active warrants for his arrest. the felon shot and killed the police officer, before being shot and killed by other officers who arrived on the scene. The felon was just that, a felon who was not supposed to have a gun. But he did. Against the law, but then I'm sure he didn't care.
This is just a small smattering of things that have happened in the past month. I am sure it is also just a small smattering of the thing that have happened nation or even world wide.
A lot of this kind of thing is taking place, and the general populace is getting fed up with it. Hillary nor Trump, with the help of congress, will not put an end to this. It will be the "uprising" of the general public that will finally stand up and say enough is enough, and put an end to the madness that has taken over the nation and the world.
And that is the View From the Ditch Bank
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