How to vote Democrat

Here is how to vote if you are a Hillary supporter: vote Democrat all the way down the line.
And here is why.  If you live in an area that the majority support Hillary you will want to have Democratic House and Senate members that will support her and send up bills that she can approve.

Here is how to vote if you are a Bernie supporter: vote Democrat all the way down the line.
And here is why. If you live in a Bernie-centric area or state,  your views will be for a more left leaning candidate.  Elect those to House and Senate seats.  They will be your voice.  They will make bills that will be sent to a Democratic President.  It will do not any good to elect Bernie if the House and Senate are not willing to work with him. If Hillary is elected, you will want more Represetatives and Senators that are furthest left leaning to get more progressive bills sent to Hillary.  She will not veto a bill sent up by Democrats no matter how progressive it is.

Past choices

We all make choices we regret. Sometimes those choices hurt us and sometimes they hurt others. Sometimes those choices are the right ones even though we are hurt by them. I think that we often romanticize things in our past as regrets because they were the right choice but we want to believe they were the wrong one because it hurt us or the right choice led to less than spectacular results.
Get over that shit. Seriously.

Space blankets

So they have found water on Mars.  The scientists that drive the rovers around said they would not drive them to look at it even if they were close enough.  They wouldn't want to contaminate the water with Earth microbes.  Really?  It's not like we are sending blankets infected with small pox. Although we probably would if we wanted to colonize. We probably sent pox blankets on the Voyager space craft.  Here aliens! A pictograph, a record,  and smallpox.  Hooray!
We are assholes.

Chem trails and mind control.

Some people think the government puts chemicals in the exhaust of planes to spread a mind control drug. They call them chemtrails. What they really are are contrails. Just water vapor. It would be ridiculous to try to spread chemicals through the exhaust of a plane. You could never hit the mark. The wind would blow the chemicals all over the place. And rain would bring it down to quickly. I think the idea is idiotic.
Besides,  everyone knows they put the  mind control chemicals in fireworks.  Duh.

Rain forest in Iowa.

The other day I was in a meeting where we were being lectured by a dude about safety. He made the point that some states have OSHA run by the federal government and some by state government. The money from fines goes to the state if the OSHA is run by the state. They use that money for roads and schools. If alicia is run by the federal government the fines go to the federal government where, as he put it "we don't know where that money goes, it could go to fund a rain forest in Iowa. They spend the money on all kinds of ridiculous things."
As we left the meeting I commented to my coworkers about the comment. After some poking fun of the reasoning that states spend their money well while the fed just blows the money on stupid crap one coworker said that a rain forest  in Iowa  was a pretty good idea.
We all agreed. A rain forest in Iowa seems like an awesome idea. I've been to Iowa. It is a bunch of flat. It could do with some heavy forestation. I understand  that it couldn't be a rain forest because of the climate but heavily forest it enough and it could get close.
I think a petition is in order.
Iowanian rain forest.
I like it.
Someone get on that.

Asshole

It doesn't matter what tomorrow brings, if you are an asshole today,  you will be an asshole tomorrow.

Business and marriage.

Here is what I feel about businesses denying service to anyone. Businesses are people, people whose business it is to make money over all else. Do businesses make money denying people service? No. Businesses make money providing services. If they want to consider business people, then they must be altruistic. Serving gay people will not lose businesses money.  Being bigots will lose businesses money.