Today, I am committing what I resolved not to do - share personal experiences via a blog. I just can't help it. And on the bright side, it is not as bad as the stabbed toe pictures one of my so-called-friends posted on Facebook, warts and all (not literally, though the black and yellow and red colors were worse).
So here are today's revelations.
1. I saw this young woman on the street, with a large cockatoo on her shoulder. She was eating an energy bar, or a rice crispy/granola bar (or both - it had raisins, nuts and something that looked like crisp rice), and the bird was eating it off her hand, one bite/nibble each. When she was done, she took out a plastic bag with coffee or chocolate flavored milk, and again shared with the bird (though I suspect the bird was pulling at the plastic, rather than sipping the milk). People were stopping and snapping pictures with their phones. I learned the bird was called Bobo (or something that sounds like Bobo).
I asked the girl what was the bird's diet. She looked offended - 'It is not on a diet' she said. I paraphrased - what does it eat? Oh, everything.
Chuck Lorre, I hope you are reading this.
2. Hamas and Israel are exchanging missiles again. I can see the point on the Israeli side - elections are coming, and it would not look proper to let Hamas rain rockets on the citizenry. May not be nice, but at least logical. I am not sure it makes sense to launch interceptor rockets to blow up metal pipes, but who am I to stand in the way of anyone's military industrial complex.
What I can't figure out is Hamas, and the people who supposedly elected them. What is their 5 year plan? Let's build an airport, some government buildings, and improve the roads and hospitals first, then let's launch home made, or Iranian made, rockets and invite the Israelis to blow our infrastructure to smithereens?
I can see some internal-political sense in what Hamas is doing. They are paid by Iran to harass Israel, and the UN will rebuild their blown-up infrastructure. What I can't figure out as much is why the fearless masses do not rise and wipe them out. While their salaried and well-fed paramilitaries are building and lobbing missiles, the residents' houses and services are destroyed.
3. I have been reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged ever since the election season started in earnest. It is a long, hard slog - the woman can't write, and the characters make horribly long and convoluted speeches that take ages to get through. Luckily, with the Kindle I can read her one paragraphs (of about 22,000) at a time. I will review her book when I am done, but I felt I have to share this piece of John Galt's speech, whose repudiation took a whole day at the Republican convention.
"When you work in a modern factory, you are paid, not only for your labor, but for all the productive genius which has made that factory possible: for the work of the industrialist who built it, for the work of the investor who saved the money to risk on the untried and the new, for the work of the engineer who designed the machines of which you are pushing the levers, for the work of the inventor who created the product which you spend your time on making, for the work of the scientist who discovered the laws that went into the making of that product, for the work of the philosopher who taught men how to think..."
Rand is clearly saying that 'you did not build it'. Who knew, Obama channeling Ayn Rand, while her alleged disciples railing against her. I KNEW these Republicans did not read her book before adopting it as their philosophy!
OK, that's it. Enjoy.
