Babs is in training for the 5k. She went to Lansing and marched. She writes: This is what democracy looks like. These are some of my fellow Democrats demonstrating Saturday in Traverse City at a rally to protest the new laws the Michigan Governor has enacted. So it seems if they can get about 800,000 signatures, there will be a recall of this so called tough nerd. Let’s hope they do it!! You gotta give us points for costumes too!
I confess that I am not moved to go to Lansing carrying a sign or a pitchfork either. These are odd political times. Shall I tell you why? When governance is divided, as it is, with a Democratic Presidency, a Republican House, a Democratic Senate, a Republican Michigan government, and so forth across the nation, all partisans are flummoxed. If things get better, who will receive the credit? If things get worse, there is nothing but blame to go around, falling on all heads indiscriminately.
The People are in a mood, and it is cantankerous.
Torch Lake Views 
kiwidutch
April 4, 2011
Oh, top marks for costumes, and protest too if it’s for a sensible or just cause.
Extra top marks for the walking and training.. ready for the honour board on Sunday 🙂
Himself had a twinge in his back this last week, but I’ve been massaging it and he’s good to go on Sunday, another training run tomorrow.
me? I’m head cheerleader of the virtual kind.
P.j. grath
April 4, 2011
Where do I sign?
Gerry
April 4, 2011
I think it’s only fair to let Babs do the comment-responding.
Heather
April 4, 2011
Cantankerous is absolutely right!
Gerry
April 4, 2011
Yup. Every last one of us. Cantankerosity rules the airwaves and the conversations while waiting in line at the market. (Here Miss Sadie raised an eyebrow—she has heard me declaiming rude poems to the wind on our beach walks.) We’ll get through it, but it won’t be pretty and I’ll bet it doesn’t work out the way anybody expects.
Fee
April 4, 2011
Keep being cantankerous! Sometimes, the politicians need to be reminded that they put their socks on one foot at a time, just like the rest of us.
Gerry
April 4, 2011
Maybe, but I half suspect that they have people for that.
Sybil
April 4, 2011
I’m supposed to put my socks on one foot at a time ????
Not sure what the political to do is in Michigan but I’m in Nova Scotia and I can see Russia from my window ! 😉
Gerry
April 4, 2011
Not by me. I don’t mind what you do with your socks. Although come to think of it, they might come in handy. We could hand them to political opponents politely, as a suggestion to “put a sock in it.” We could tuck our retirement funds in them, thus socking something away for a rainy day. Oh I can think of many things to do with socks. And you are a far-sighted rascal.
Preston
April 5, 2011
I’ve some socks to donate for the cause.
Gerry
April 5, 2011
Now there’s a thought. We could donate all those socks that unaccountably seem to come out of the laundry divorced. You just never know what happened to the absconding miscreant.
La Mirada Bob
April 5, 2011
Waiting in line touched a nerve that was exposed a couple of weeks ago.
We were in line behind a lady? with a purchase in her hand. As the line moved closer to the checker, she called across to her husband to move from the line he was in and join her. Wow! The full cart changed the atmosphere very quickly.
The next morning as I read the paper and there was a suggestion: Just tell the person that such rudeness is not allowed.