in the rearview

I finally found Daddy's grave today with a perfect brown square topped by a grinning Billy G.  Lauren picked that picture out along with our dear one the FD who was close to him as well.  Little did we know when Aunt Granny passed what the summer would hold for us as a family.  Two weeks later, Pnoler died.  Mama broke her pelvis and Daddy got sick soon after.  The monument folks are on vacay and Bubba has the bronze plaque from the VA.  That, at least, was prompt.  The rest of it has turned into a nightmare of paperwork where if the form numbers don't match ( and you can't really know that until you have help ) you are screwed and it will be rejected multiple times delaying payment to survivors like MY MOTHER the widow lady.  She has weathered the losses with the best of us, only once or twice calling me the "devil" child and I probably was at the moment.  As a family we were stretched so very thin with their care that it took all 3 of us around the 'hood to make it happen for them.  We are definitely a home care team, including Ms. Faye and Lori and all the various nursing agencies and physicians.

T is in weather heaven with roaring floods up around his house and, in fact, the entire state of Virginia.  I read a piece today about *gasp* politics and was amused to find that the GOP is polling "ahem" badly but then so is Hillary.  If Biden would just give it up and let somebody fire that party up, we'd be just fine.  If my candidates do not appear on the ballot, I will write them in.  I never thought about having to declare a party in order  to vote as a hindrance but um....Bernie.   He is radical and basic in the way that our country needs to be reminded of at this point.  The capitalists hate him and the ones who are thin skinned enough to fight back when they get called out on #greed are just pitiful.  If you guys think for one minute that your American dream will survive when the zombies come, you will be quite shocked at that outcome.  Just saying. Americans have fought and died for our right to select our government officials.  Lobbying, party pandering and Wall Street ( plus the church ) have no place in basic government functions  like healthcare, resource distribution, housing and education.  We shot ourselves in the foot with the Kochs with all that petroleum worship and now it's time to pay up.

Which brings me to Plan P.  We sit on the verge of shutdown of basic government services that include all sorts of benefits, some of which are squandered.  Just the other night some gang brotha' shot a guy at the chicken store.  MY chicken store!  Anarchy won't be pretty and shouldn't be our response to what's happening right now.  Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest and most respected provider of basic women's health services including preventives like birth control, pap smears and mammograms.  The entire government of the USA is being held hostage  by tea party Republicans, most of whom their more moderate party members wish would just go away.   The abortion issue was dealt with in 1973 and the law still stands, regardless of how many churches take care of pregnant girls.  Which is what Jesus would do, by the way.  Not the government but the church.  Your tithes are tax-exempt and if  you are not giving back to the least of these in some way, shame on you.  See: Joel and Benny and a whole lot of others.  I'm not just talking vacation bible school but honest to goodness get-out-there amongst 'em service.  

It's almost dark but at least it's not flooding.  Yet.  

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