BreakUp2016
Introduction/Definition/etc
Thawing out after a long winter can be hazardous to our health...
Body
A lot of people don't make it thru the long winter, some homeless, and some rather affluent...
Remembering my father, MyFatherPassedAwayLastNight and many others don't make it thru winter, and how many die per day around the world, one thing if you know them, another, if you don't...
Like Alaska shows of thawing and breaking up the ice, travel is limited, commuting impossible, and the mud, gets ridiculous...
Salt and other chemicals applied to the roads go into the streams and runoff, not sure what all is in the modern stuff, regular salt, while hazardous, may be predictable, but adding stuff that one would need to drink is another matter, as we are all up stream from something (even acid rain) and downstream from something, thinking green...
And Obama and others, Gates of the Poison Ivy League, (ref Elvis's Roustabout movie, dealing with preppies, singing in a bar, cycle, and everything, including a loop, at the circus, iirc), campaign reform, not really happening, the trickle down economies, since Reagan, Nancy, just passed, yesterday, the royalty of the Presidency and the White/ Black House, still uncertain... Camelot, it's not, Bay of Pigs, and all...
GroupThink, that nasty yes men type stuff, of just saying what the group requires, effectively killing all, the organization goes under, or is hurt by it, not really dealing with the real issues, just happy talk, and other problems, still exist... Sometimes, fatal flaws...
Trickle Down Economics
Probably the theory, controversy that heavy funding of say the military industrial complex, or even health care economics, the top gets paid well, and is happy, say republican, and all is right in the world, according to Hollywood...
Just Say No
To drugs and a lot of other things...
Homelessness
Homelessness got a public face of Mitch Snyder in the 1970's and 1980's, though it has existed a long time, before, and after...
Grapes of Wrath, is one things, long bread lines, migrations, drought, famine, and social issues, the movies, with WPA, Work Projects Administration, and not basing out economy on just one thing...
CCC
Citizens' (really Civilian) Conservation Corps, building public infrastructure, for the public good, while paying the citizens to jump start a Depression...
Currently, bridges, fall down, water pipes are problem, and other issues, we claim don't exist, or bury, but really still there, and likely to bite us in the arse, collectively...
Seasonal Issues
Schools enter finals, college acceptance letters, March Madness, Basketball, and all the other endings and beginnings, all possibly from the unfreezing of the winter, going into spring, and let's not forget...
Uncle Sam
We want your tax money, so fork it over, buddy, the national debt isn't getting any better, afaict...
But Killing Is Bad
Suicides, homicides, murder suicides, school shootings, and other crisis exist, and probably statistically more significant, this time of year, as we come out of hibernation, in the Northern Hemisphere, realizing the world doesn't revolve around Warshington...
We are reminded, by Wendy's commercials, Where's The Beef?, little old ladies have a say, in modern culture, but maybe not Hillary,
But Trump?
Old White Guys may not be any better than Young Black Guys, and ushering in another era of conservatism, even Bernie Sanders might make a better president, or is the plan to make him Chief of State?
Hiring the competition, and make an all star team?
Which May Explain the GridLock
How many egos are allowed in a room, building, state, country, shelter, household, etc?
Collective decision making, at it's best, hears all voices, and takes them into account...
Consensus, requires all to be satisfied, but hierarchies, and other problems, like facing real issues, also happen and all gets slowed down, almost to a flat line...
Links
Starter links, see how it pans out...
Your research and effort, may turn up much better definitions, discussions of the issues, and related...
BreakUp
http://www.alaska.org/advice/speak-alaskan
https://alaskanvernacular.wordpress.com/
Nancy Reagan
https://www.google.com/search?q=Nancy+Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan
Ronald Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Mitch Snyder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Snyder
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/news/RememberingMitchSnyder.html
Trickle Down Economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
March Madness
http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness
CCC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
WPA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Not sure, assuming no major crises, then it's business as usual?
2006March4
BewareOfTheIdesOfMarch
Ides of March
MarchMadness
and many other things relate to the current seasonal theme(s)...
What does it mean to you?
Personally?
Professionally?
Interpersonally?
Politically?
Socially?
Economically?
Society?
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
How do you thaw out from the winter?
SpringBreak2013 ?
Or is everything rosie, anyways?
What has been on the back burner so long that you almost think it's not a problem anymore?
Relationships?
Got a pregnancy test, and found VDDay has it's cost?
Determined that you were not he only one on the planet, and decided to pick up others trash?
ala spring stream cleanups?
Or just sit by the boob tube game after game until the Final Four gets your pool payoff?
Maybe prep taxes and hate others even more?
Or consider those without, who may be losing even hypothermia shelters and journeying into the great unknown, yet again...
Probably easier, just to write a check to Uncle Sam and let him/ her take care of it, for you...
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Page History
20160308 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to put up something about what has been happening...
- was going to be JustSayNo2MarchMadness2016
- but creativity got the best of me, and it's early am, so little energy, luckily...
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