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No funding (city taxes) forced big cities to cut city services (fireman doing county maintenance, snow removal crews picking up garbage).
New York City cut their budget and the mayor's neighborhood got cleaned of snow but the outer boroughs are still without city services because of the heavy snow during the Christmas week.
Taxes work but they are expensive.
When you take your worn out shoes to the shoe shop the cobbler repairs your shoes and you pay him for his work. When a city employee repairs a broken water main or remove the snow from your street you pay for the service (either out of pocket or by taxes).
When folks loved the idea of the Bush Tax Cuts they all applauded and smiled, "Whoopee No Taxes!" No taxes means no services, no city grants, no bonds. Wheres the beef?
More snow is expected this week in New York.

We have cloudy skies, frost and 32 degrees this morning at 7AM. I feel great and mom feels better.
I awoke at 2AM and took my medicine and stayed up until 4AM then back to bed.
I setup mom's new Blu Ray Player in the living room, put her DVD player back into her room ( she likes to watch movies while I watch sports out in the living room). I had to find my spare HDMI cable and replace it in my daughters room (where the kids watch Romper Room Goofies and Toones). The Blu Ray works as well as our High Definition Stations from our Satellite Dish (DirecTV) and High Definition Sony TVs. Our High Definition is pretty spectacular and everyone that sees ours says, "WOW!"

We Are a Very Big Union

It is 19 degrees outside this morning and a hard scrap for any windshield in the area. The skies are a partly cloudy stratus of blue skies and a light pink horizon.
Mom is off work today and taking medication for
her upset system and a strong antibiotic to confront the worn out feeling of battling her upset system. Our doctor is very nice and comforting and mom does believe in what he says.
Today The United States Congress will read the United States Constitution and I have to state to you that the Preamble does not start out by saying, "The Federal Government declares ....", it starts out by saying, "We the People ....."
I am alive and I am principle part of that Constitution as are the folks that grease the wheels of our automobiles.

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Good Morning. It is 30 degrees here in Marion Kentucky and very cloudy. I feel fine but mom went o work and got as far as Princeton (25 miles away) before turning around and coming back home. We will go see the doctor today and see what is bothering mom (other than me).

My aunt Kay at our home in Pasadena California

Good Feelings

The Emperors New Clothes and The Pied Piper of Hamelin are wonderful stories to read on a day like this. Yes we have blue skies in Kentucky this morning and the temperature is just below the freezing of water.
I feel great but mom is still under the weather with her stomach. I saw her water bottle by her bedside and I asked, "Is that was the same water bottle you drank of two days ago?" and she said, "Yes." I said no more but brought her a cup of tea and hoped she felt better today.
We wanted to go to town today and spend my "Gift Card" but that can wait until she feels better. She wanted a Blue Ray Player for Christmas.
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My mother could sing and I am tone deaf but I can spread good cheer and tell folks that they are living on god's greatest gift, The Planet Earth our "Garden of Eden".
The fact that we have flaws makes us better each day we survive on the planet, that imperfection inspires greatness and moves us closer to perfection. We have not been able to reproduce our self no other way other than by love and the union of our being.
I know that feeling called love and it brings me to tears of happiness when visions before me give me the time to understand that feeling.
Wanting is our greatest sin and it dooms our days. Just be as you are.
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Points of view

I have seen a different religious point of view from just about every person that I have ever meet.
Just about every point of view speaks of peace and good behavior toward their fellow man with a few exceptions.
How can I possibly tell each person that their view is wrong when in their heart their view is correct?
If I listened to their view point, I or we would come to an understanding that their view is correct and realize that we were saying the same thing only using different nouns and verbs to explain the same things.
If their view is correct and my point of view is correct then that tells me that we are all right in our views about life and that I have failed to understand their viewpoint in the past.
So I must see each person as being alive with a viewpoint that is correct and to the point.
If that is correct then I must see each of us as being an image of god and understand their point of view as the same as mine.
This space that I occupy is very grand and I believe that each one of us occupies the same grand place.
This implies that all matter as being in the image of god.

"Matter: Something that occupies space and can be perceived by one or more senses;
a physical body, a physical substance, or the universe as a whole."

So must I worship the ground that each one of us occupies?
I guess if you were standing in front of me I would have too?
Whatever I like the idea that each one of us is correct in our points of view.
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Those &These
We would all just love to form our own personal group of friends.
Choose who fulfills our needs and place them on our invited list.
Of course we would have to completely ignore the idea of equality between women and men, rich and poor, smart and ignorant, thin or fat, meat lovers and meat haters, no gods and lots a gods.
And of course everyone else that falls in-between those lines like Doves and Hawks.
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This morning is clear and bright.
There is a cloud cover toward the north and a clear sky to the south.
The sun is coming between the two variations of the early morning.
The sun is reflected in the morning water.
Turbines can be heard off in the distance.
Those sounds have traveled across the water from a great distance.
It is nice and I feel good about myself.
My body is heavy but my health is good.
Complicated matters and simplicity adorn my environment.

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If I sat on a mat in a ritual art form, clearing my mind of unneeded clutter, placing my being onto another level of spiritual wealth could it compare with the description above about being.
My thought and body says it the same and different at the same time. Being aware of the space we occupy places us well in the space provided by life. Remember the Quote "Seeing is believing". We have read a million words that describe the truth about our environment and we as individuals add our own statements to the lengthening list of cliche's that enlighten our lives.
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We read poetry and sometimes a great novel. History and biographies pass along our paths.
Sometimes we meet a human that is a novel, a human story, a biography, and a person with a life that is a story.
Could it be that each one of us is indeed that great novel?
We as individuals are cloaked in suspense and drama, veiled in insecurities and peaceful oblivion.
We share what all great writers write about, we carry our novels in our souls as we walk into that great storeroom of good words.
This is a nice thought.

Out the window I see a red sky this morning. It is 20 degrees outside and a comfortable 71 degrees inside our home this morning and the yard and windows are covered with frost .

This home is very economical. Our first year here it cost us 81 dollars to heat our home for the entire year (1975) and that included gas for cooking and heating water. The price of fuel has gone up but the quality and economics of the home I have maintained.
I did buy a new furnace because the old one died. The new furnace is bigger and it blows up a storm when the fan blows.
Mom is up and we are staying put because mom has a stomach virus ( she said the folks at work were calling in with the virus). I will ask our daughter if they have it now. I expect to get the virus in the next few days, as of now I am fine. Mom is off today and tomorrow and that should be enough time to get over it since it moved quite fast.

23 degrees in Marion Kentucky. Our windshields are very frosty and may be hard to scrap.
Mom is off work sick today and she is in bed resting as I speak.
"I feel great" as Tony the Tiger says. Today I drink coffee and that is a pleasant thing for me because of the memories it brings to the forefront of my mind. I was looking at the photographs all of my brothers and sisters posted on FaceBook and memories came flooding back. I find that very pleasant and may/can write about it.
Our tree normally comes down today but we have other plans for the tree this year so I may wait a couple of days.
Our skies are clear and yes I did see the Rose Parade. I have seen quite a few of them because I lived within blocks of the start of the parade. I have roamed the area as a child because it was on my turf (so to speak), my play area , backyard. If you clicked on the link you could see where I was born though the hospital is not there anymore (it was called the Women's Hospital (where the cancer center is located) adjacent to the Huntington Hospital on the map).

Home Address 40 Bellefontaine St. Pasadena California 91105

Nothing is as it was when I lived there. My grandparents owned all the land from 40 Bellefontaine to Allessandro Pl. (that whole parking lot, at that time a rail spur divided the area from Fair Oaks).