Category: Daily Life

These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.

FAKE

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Sam wants a FAKE Christmas tree.  I’ve repeatedly had to tell her how FAKE Christmas trees are not allowed in my / our apartment.  FAKE Christmas trees are evil.  They pretty much come to life at night and suck all that is good out of your soul.  FAKE Christmas trees were the original inspiration for transformers.

I cannot abide by a FAKE Christmas tree in our apartment.  I told her it was real of nothing.  I want the pine-e-ness of a real tree.  None of that FAKE Plastic Trees (saddest song ever and Sam wants to relate it to our Christmas).  So we are currently looking for potted small Christmas trees that we can put in our bay window.

Sam is anti-murder so she does not want to cut down a tree.  But I’ve seen her rip down a branch from a live tree before (technically that’s maiming not murder).  So its a potted live tree this year, not a cut down tree.  I’m ok with that.  As long as its not FAKE.

Small Christmas

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I am trying to do all of my shopping at smaller stores and businesses.  I’ve been scouring Etsy and Kickstarter, looking at local Cleveland businesses, and generally trying to keep my money going into places where I will feel good I spent it there.

Its not easy, but there are tons of options.

In line with my small Christmas ideals this year I am excited to read about a Cleveland Cash Mob.  May have to join some time.

Super Committee

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Did anyone really think the Super Committee would solve the debt crisis?

Wasn’t the whole point that they could get above the partisan rhetoric and ideals behind closed doors and make compromises that couldn’t otherwise be done without party fervor getting in the way? (mmmm…. Fervor)

It’s sad.  But I like that Obama is going to stick to the consequences of no deal being reached.  That needs to stay as a both a consequence and an incentive (negative one though) to make deals in the future.  I would respect Obama a lot more if he called out his party along with the Republicans for not making a deal.

I suppose no deal is actually good for each party.  Republicans can say “We didn’t give in on taxes, and Democrats couldn’t make the cuts needed for the economy.”  Democrats can say “Republicans want to keep giving tax breaks for Millionaires, and want to cut entitlement programs.”

Whatever.  I would have been impressed and reassured in our government if for some reason the Super Committee came to a huge deal with compromises on both sides.  In my mind politics was about making compromises and deals that were good for the whole, with both sides giving in.  Instead, with gerrymandering  and general voting apathy nothing will change.  I sure hope I get 32 more years of this exact same thing in American Politics.