t-12 days

Nice afternoon yesterday, in the 70s but today was 50s and rain and tomorrow won't be much better temperature wise with cloud cover too and with some rain. But, Sunday is supposed to be sunny and in the 70s. Yea!!!!

Well, what do you think about congress letting the government shut down? I don't want to go political on anybody but, you know these guys get paid better than most of us and they still screw us all over. They will not do the jobs they were put in office to do and then they play games with the budget. If any other person or group of persons placed this country in danger like the US Congress is doing now they would be declared terrorist and arrested and sent to Cuba. They should all be fired or arrested and sent to jail for this foolishness. Then we could elect a new congress and give them 90 days to complete a budget and if they don't send them to jail too. Maybe we need to make it automatic that if a budget is not approved by July 1 of every year, we put the Congress that did not pass a budget in jail and what ever budget was submitted by the president goes into effect for 90 days until new elections are held and a new group gets to try.  Passing a budget and keeping the government working is Congresses primary job and they are obviously not capable of doing it. I for one will not be voting for anyone currently holding US office in the next election regardless of party affiliation. OK, I will get off my soap box. But, I sure would like to know what change the clowns were talking about.

Pretty cool analogy follows:

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

 Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

 Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.  The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.

 Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth.  Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will  try to climb the stairway for the banana.

 Why?  Because in their minds... that is the way it has always been!

 This, my friends, is how Congress OPERATES...... and this is why, from time to time, all of monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.