Barack Obama keeps writing to me. At first I kinda liked it, you know? But then I got tired of it, and now it’s just kind of annoying. I didn’t even bother to read this one. The subject was “Change,” so I’m assuming he’s trying to tell me he’s changed and from now on things’ll be different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might start to get my hopes up, but in the end he’ll just hit me up for money, and then I’ll realize yet again what a fool I am for thinking he could change. It’s not that I hate you or anything, Barry. Honest. I’m just not that into you any more. I mean, when we first met – even though I knew you weren’t the “perfect” man (hey, who is, right?), I thought you were really cool, and I hoped I could change you. But that never works, does it? And now we’ve just kind of drifted apart. We just don’t seem to have anything in common anymore. <\/p>\n
I wanted us to get out of Afghanistan, and you want to keep us there. I wanted Single Payer health care, and you took that off the table from the start. I wanted strict financial regulation, you hired Wall Street insiders to write it. I wanted you to use your electoral mandate to make real changes and undo all the damage Republicans have done since St Reagan, and you wanted to give them a reach around across the aisle. <\/p>\n
Oh, I know. I should have known better – all the signs were there from the start – so it isn’t you, Barack. It’s me. Just, you know, quit it with the writing and the begging. You’re embarrassing yourself.<\/p>\n
Big weekend here in CNY as the Oswego Harborfest begins today. This is a huge event (that I’ve never actually gone to because Oswego is too small a town for so many people to gather all at once) with a Midway, tall ships, music (including Kansas – or as Jim Earl would say, “that crappy fusion band from the 70’s” – the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and the Little River Band; I guess there are geezers like me in charge of booking the talent), and a carnival atmosphere with much drinking of beer, all culminating with the world-famous (so I’m told) Grucci Brothers fireworks display (set off from a barge out in the harbor) on Sunday night. Then the 40 or so miles between Oswego and Syracuse turns into a parking lot for a few hours.<\/p>\n
Hey, what can I say? We love us some beer and fireworks up here in the provinces.<\/p>\n
First, a NJ woman said a man with a gun stole her car and drove it into a tree. Next, she said she made up the carjacking story<\/a> to cover up the fact that she picked up a stranger and let him drive her car, which he promptly drove into a tree while they were engaged in a “sex act.” Now, however, it appears that she made up the car sex story<\/a> to cover up the fact that she and her man stole a laptop from another car, and were fleeing the police when they crashed into the tree. They then set the car on fire, because, um…well, just because<\/em><\/strong>. No idea what they’re trying to cover up with the whole stolen laptop story.<\/p>\n Well, shit. I guess I gotta go to work now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama keeps writing to me. At first I kinda liked it, you know? But then I got tired of it, and now it’s just kind of annoying. I didn’t even bother to read this one. The subject was “Change,” so I’m assuming he’s trying to tell me he’s changed and from now on things’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}