David's Tangled Thoughts

My dentist doesn't hide his Christian faith.  Passages from the bible are stenciled on the walls. There is Christian lit available to read in the waiting room and even in the examination rooms. It has never bothered me. If it did, I could go elsewhere but the doctor and his staff are very nice and have always treated me well.  The hygienist I usually see is very talkative and will openly talk about her faith and it is with her that I enter this sort of gray zone. It's not that I don't appreciate her stories but they always leave me thinking, "thank God she isn't my mother."  We were talking about movies this morning. Well, it was mostly her talking I just mumbled along with a vacuum tube in my mouth. Anyways, she got on to Disney movies and how she didn't want to let her kids watch them because of the demonic imagery. The examples were Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog and the Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . What annoyed

Black Friday started at Walmart at 8PM on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday).  My sister went to the one in Niles to check it out.  I wanted to check out the TVs and she wanted to check out the printers.  In this picture we are parked in the last parking space of one of the rows.  Practically every spot in the lot was occupied.  When we got in people were grouped in stations where the merchandise was staged and when 8PM came around, people started tearing into it.  It was crazy.  I got talked out of a TV, Kris was talked out of a printer and we both left empty handed.  Why do I suspect we walked out winners too?

See also:  Fair Food 3 Today is my sister's birthday and I sent her text wishing her a happy one.  I also told her to go buy as many Twinkies as she could.  You see, I learned this morning that Hostess, the company the sells the Twinkies, is ceasing operations .  What Twinkies that have just fallen off the assembly line are the last ones.  Throughout the day some funny stories of people going out to stores to stock up were told.  I remember one guy who said that he went to his local Jewel and cleaned them out.  His plan is to sell the boxes for $20 when the normal store supplies dry up. While it sounds like the Twinkie and other Hostess products are going to disappear forever, that may not necessarily be the case.  Given the popularity of the Twinkie, I'm pretty sure that another company would be more than willing to buy it off of Hostess.  Of course, Hostess may also reverse course and try to remain an operating company. I had planned to go to the store tonight

As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been checking out the election reactions among the right wingers.  Apparently I must've gotten under the skin of Mr. Fischer here as I am now banned from reading his tweets. Oh, don't worry, there are plenty more just like me around to sass this guy.

It's been a couple days now.  President Obama has been reelected.  Generally speaking, my ballot was pretty much in line with the winners.  I was on the wrong side of Proposal 1--the Emergency Manager law.  That was defeated and the law will not take effect.  The rest of the Proposals were voted down much to my relief.  I hope Matty Moroun can take his Proposal 6 and stick it where the sun don't shine . I haven't been paying much attention to the reaction on the left.  I expect them to be celebrating and besides, I get enough of it on my facebook newsfeed.  The reaction on the right has been far more interesting.  This was an election that they thought they had in the bag a year ago.  Now they have to figure out why they didn't succeed.  I think that the excuse most pundits are going with was that this was due to all the white evangelicals that decided to sit this election out. The gay rights issues turned out great. Maine's Question 1 ,  Maryland's Question

My ballot has been cast and the wait shouldn't be too long for the results.  We pretty much only have to find out how Ohio voted and I have a feeling that President Obama is still going to win.  So how the various proposals did are what I'll be looking for.

I've just completed my last minute research on candidates that I will be on my ballot tomorrow.  My selections are pretty much set now. I have struggled back and forth on whether I should vote for Obama and Romney.  I am more convinced by Obama's economic plans and see Romney's as a bunch of smoke and mirrors.  However, I can't get past what I am actually experiencing which is higher costs for medical insurance for less benefits and a job market that is still depressed.  I will be voting for Debbie Stabenow for senate.  While there are policy choices that I disagree with--at least I know what they are.  Her republican challenger has nothing of value on his website other than broad talking points.  I have found Senator Stabenow's offering of policy initiatives and her listing of legislative efforts to be  impressive and I wish more candidates for office would be as helpful. The ballot proposals were pretty easy to make snap decisions.  I will be voting Ye

I drove to Ann Arbor to see my sister where she now lives. She took me to Michigan’s campus, where she works. She’s got a nice place I must say. Blows my sad cubicle away even if I get a nice look out over a production floor and require fellow coworker to lift up their heads to see me. Kris also took me on a short tour. The law college is a beautiful building. It makes me think as if I’m walking on Cambridge’s campus. We went inside and into the stacks. It may be a beautiful building but it’s pretty intimidating inside. The students inside seem quiet, studious, and serious. In the stacks.  Creepy. For a Saturday, the campus seemed busy with crowds of students walking around. I could have sworn it was a regular school day but my sister said that this was nothing. Maybe I’m old but I remember MSU’s campus being completely dead on the weekends. Perhaps Spartans work hard and play hard. Yeah, we’ll go with that. Afterwards, we headed across the Huron River to