Climate Change?

The US Republican Party has resisted the idea of climate change & global warming while the richest segment of its rightist cabal markets fossil fuels. Perhaps via stormy Katrina & Sandy, the Wrath of God will be better appreciated -- she ain't Republican...

Climate change in the political realm is still minor. Too many Americans are dumbly upset over the weaselly poor, while their nation and wealth are shamelessly looted by the weaselly rich. There's been no accountability for the collapse and bailout of the banking system - where politicians pushed trillions of dollars of everyone's wealth to the 1% ultra-wealthy. We're easy pickings for big financiers, and scared by their armies of hired goons (police; military; politicians). We're manipulated ruthlessly by corporate media; and still the swindle continues...

Rube, schmuck & schlemiel, it's time we unite & fight.

Japan in the Toilet

BBC News reports (link) that among Australia's "Top Ten Inventions" is the dual-flush toilet.

The backstory is appealing:  "In the world's driest inhabited continent, water-saving measures are religiously embraced. The dual flush loo has two buttons to dispatch different amounts of water from the cistern - a half-flush for liquid waste and a full one for more heavy-duty deposits.It was invented in the early 1980s by Bruce Thompson and is a ubiquitous feature in Australian bathrooms..." 

But dual-flush toilets were widely used in Japan since at least the 1970s (my introduction was as a homestay student there in 1979). Further, the Japanese designs were superior: in many versions, fresh water runs from a tap into a mini-basin before draining into the cistern -- allowing a rinse of hands or contact with a disinfecting / deodorizing agent. And Japanese home designers typically separate the toilet from the bath / shower into two adjoining rooms, so two people can easily freshen-up at the same time (both logical & an aesthetic improvement - it's gross & uninspiring to bathe looking at a toilet).

Anyhow, Wikipedia, the BBC, and Sydney's Powerhouse Museum must cleanup their reports -- the invention of the dual-flush toilet preceded 1980 and is probably not Australian.

 Choose 大 for big or 小 for smaller jobs... 「水を流すトイレのレバー」

 

Entitled to Swindle?

Much was said in this election about a part of our great nation (fully 47% of society according to Romney) who feel entitled to supports, beggars trying to scrounge other people's energies.

Parasites.

But I personally know more people who are wealthy, yet scrounge other people's energies. They claim to owe nothing to nobody. They believe their successes are wholly self-created. Family, friends & community are betrayed for narcissistic wealth. In the midst of their plenty they defraud, strike out & stab others. Too many Americans living in the midst of community angrily snap at suggestions they've not paid their way.

Parasites.

Perhaps two types of scum, like ticks & fleas, or rats & crows, are similar competitors?

Let's note the words of Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-MA):

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along..."

Election... No Comment

Romney Ryan Revealed

They couldn't carry their own home states, where they're best known. Corporate charmers. Empty smiles.

Romney & Ryan, rich right-wing robots, would have recklessly ruined us all. Thank the Lord they lost.

Brown to Brooks Bros.

Scott Brown is out of work in January, after Massachusetts voted Elizabeth Warren into the Senate. Brown reportedly owns homes in Wrentham, Massachusetts & Rye, New Hampshire. He has a further three condominium units in Boston rented out; and is also part-owner of a timeshare on the Caribbean island of Aruba; he also has Washington DC lodgings -- which presumably he'll be leaving.

Anyhow, he's a fancy dude who can soon hitchhike over to the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets to work at Brooks Brothers Factory Store.  Good luck to ya Scottie !

Willard Burikko

Somebody told Mr. Willard "Mitt" Romney that round eyes and an empty face are appealing. This is the "burikko" look in Japan -- trying too hard to appear cute.

Rich Mitt reeks of insincerity. He's truly still a preppy bully.

Vote Hirono

Obedient Linda Lingle wants to be Hawaii's Senator. Vote for Senator Mazie Hirono.

Lingle is a Republican political operator. As Hawaii's Governor she vetoed Hawaii's civil unions bill, supporting the sanctity of marriage while herself twice divorced - selfishness over sanctity.

Lingle was enthusiastic for Sarah Palin leading the world into ignorance, aggressiveness & oblivion.

Avoid Lingle, a costly mistake. Senator Mazie Hirono will be hard-working for all families in Hawaii.

Rich Man Right

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.

You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along..."

--- US Senate candidate for Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren
(responding to Romney, Ryan & Scott Brown's Winner Deserves All narcissistic greed)