I was almost afraid to look in during my morning coffee today. I was so afraid that somebody would have come in during the night and tried to cut and paste me until I could not even move. I was afraid I would be in real trouble. I try so hard to stay away from this forum.

But my heart, it is broken.

And while war is Hell, always has been, always will be, I do not begin to try to understand all that is associated there.

It is the economy.

There is a thread that I cannot stay out of. It's the one called "US Home Values Bottomed Out?" In that one, I used the quote "Unrestrained greed is not only bad morals, it's bad economics." And you know what, I suppose I could have quoted, "We reap what we sow." But I did not sow this. Or did I? I am guilty of voting for some of those :edit: who let banking and healthcare lobbyists destroy so many. As long as those lobbyists keep slopping the hogs, we will continue to be a Nation :edit: ed.

I am not trying to sell a house. For now, Mr. Boomer and I have our retiree healthcare coverage. I did not buy banking stocks. Mr. Boomer and I would not be retired had we not been able to figure out how to afford it. But I am completely furious and oh so lost because I guess I must be a big picture thinker.

Dems will decide we are all rich, even if we are not even close. But you watch, if we managed to hold onto a couple of bucks, we will suddenly find ourselves in the rich category. Dems will tax what they should encourage and subsidize what they should discourage.

And the whole "NO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE" crank 'em up and to the polls battlecry is nothing more than a way to mobilize a chunk of the vote without offering any solutions.

Too many people that I know are terrified over what is to happen to their healthcare if they find they must retire or want to retire. Too many find themselves with no access to buy into good plans. Like I have said before, "The people I know are not looking for a free ride where healthcare is concerned. They just want to be able to buy a ticket to ride." (and that one is a quote from the actual Boomer. I think it sums it up pretty well.)

Oh, and have you looked at the cost of college tuition lately? That's another one.

I was told years ago that I was a closet Democrat. Don't know for sure. But I rarely acted upon those closet urges. My daughter Boomette, the Democrat, tells me that I brought her up to be a Democrat. I did not know I was doing that. I think she may be confused. But I think what must have happened is that I brought her up to be a big picture thinker and to work hard and to care about others. That's what too many Dem political types want to think they are. Or worse, want us to think they are. Oh if only that were really, truly a Democrat, I would so be there.

In Orwell's "Animal Farm" at the end of the book, the pigs have thrown the farmer out of the house. The pigs have set up inside, all cozy and warm and more bloated than ever. Well, you know what, the pigs are in the House and in the Senate.

Maybe what we should have been doing this century is making sure we voted in gridlock. But now, it's too late for gridlock. Things could be worse, you say. Well, yeah, maybe. . .

(I cannot believe I did this rant. And that is only the first chapter. And I am going to try so hard to not write the rest. What's the point? I come here to TOTV to play around a little. I better get back to that.)

But I will tell you what. If ol' John Boy caves to the far right, he's not takin' me to the dance.

And then, for thie first time in my life, I will probably have to be a wallflower.

(Let me tell you a little secret now that I have told you so many others. Mr. Boomer looks very much like a younger version of McCain. It is getting downright eerie. Some people think he looks like Steve Martin. I think I'll go with that one for now. And there was a lady in Macy's the other night who said he looks like Anderson Cooper. But she did not say that he looks like Alice Cooper so that's good.)

Sadly I remain,
Boomer the Abandoned, the Forsaken, the Girl Out in the Cold

(You know what's getting too weird around here is that I never know what I am going to write and in what thread I am going to stick it. This is getting to be crazyworld for me. I thought it was how I was passing that cold, dreary, snowed in winter many, many months ago. Guess I can't tell myself that anymore.)