WHO IS HOLIER THAN WHO? VOTE THE MOST HOLY ONE!

WHO IS HOLIER THAN WHO? VOTE THE MOST HOLY ONE!

I looked at my tag list again, and since it has politics; liberal and conservative in it, I get to read how humbly but absolutely certain we are, that we are on the side of good and honest. You, on the other hand, I do not wish comment from. I write my polemic and you keep your punditry out of it. At least I have seen examples today of this proclamation.

HYPOCRISY

Most of us think we are true to ourselves, unless we are purposely lying to someone online. I do not tend to see my own hypocrisy in areas I have not scrutinized closely enough, or where the self protection psychological defense mechanism called cognitive dissonance kicks in to avoid my looking into incongruities in my philosophy or beliefs. That doesn’t make me right however.

Since I value liberalism for its freedom loving, and for some, responsible interconnection to all things, I tend to let liberals slide on our contradictions or blind following of what is said to be a liberal value by someone on liberalism’s side. I do believe that liberals overall, need to listen more closely to conservative interest to try to get to the heart of the matter, which is often a somewhat camouflaged insecurity fear, behind a conserved superiority notion or liberal blame buzz frame.

THAT SAID:

As a human being, I cannot comprehend being against health care for all. Sure, have special care for those who want the freedom to pursue “better” care. Keep the private health care system going for those who can afford it, of course! But do not leave people to die or not have preventative care out of some callus so called moral reason. Who said money equals morals? It was once a conservative tenet, in some old circles, that money if the source of all evil.

LIFE OR DEATH OR IN-BETWEEN

I do not care if for some emotional or dysfunctional disturbed reason, that you cannot or will not work. If we are human, we still care, even if gratitude is not returned. Since when is love and caring a strictly reciprocal “deal” or contract? What kind of humanity is that? Seems like differing space aliens using sign language to trade spaceship parts for their robots.

People who are alive but supported by a society for whatever reason, still pass money on to eat, or one way or another, all the other necessities for existing in society. That contribution does not dead end there. We are willing to spend more on defense than all countries combined, for our insatiable fear of everyone else. But what of helping our own citizens for a tiny fraction of that, who are in trouble for one reason or another? No. I cannot go with you on that, cause I have heard that is not conservative values.

It ends up we help farmers some, yep in “conservative” states. We bail out corporations, some. We get pork deals for our votes, some. We take money from the public till; and as we have seen under the so called conservative breed in recent years, the reality check is, that they are the biggest pork and wildest spenders of all. (I have come to call much conservatism, hyper liberalism.) But do not help someone poor out! That would just encourage them to do nothing!

What kind of consciousness lives in such dichotomy, yet still has the time to point the same finger out at liberals. Would we help pick up an old person who asked for our aid if they fell on the street? Or just walk on by as to not interfere with Gods will? Well check the hand while pointing, cause three are pointing back at your own heart.

THE WEDGE CUTTING MACHINE

Since World War Two, conservatives (their manipulators) have been out to “warlordise” the population into post industrial feudal systems. Especially in the last thirty some years, huge fortunes have been spent to breed conservative “ideals” or “values” into the direction of the opportunist and predator. It has become lazy and easy to be conservative because there is such a deep well of ad hominem logic poured into the airwaves and out of “think tanks” and even pulpits, to make sure money and blame seems to be closer to Godliness.

I can get my teeth fixed and my heart looked after if I inherited, stole, have a rich relative maybe, or hard earned enough money to. If not; too bad loser. Is that the high ground conservatism sticks its post into? It is, if one is against health care for all. Or else one is a misanthrope. Much vocal conservatism these days, seems more founded on quicksand.

THE DRY ROT OF CIVILIZATION

I have come to call conservatism the dry rot of civilization, because it eats away ones humanity from the inside out. You can look responsible, dress nicely, have a golden home over the sea, go to church and agree at the terrible state of a permissive society, do all that and be hollow inside.

Someone posted recently, quite a list of prominent conservatives who changed sides on specific issues as soon as it hit their family ( ex. Mrs. Reagan and stem cell research). I believe many conservatives are hiding stealthily behind a hardened heart, listing, thanks to propaganda, many attributes about withholding here and withholding there. The whole tax and spend wedge frame is fraudulently placed solely at the liberals door. Are soaring oil profits not putting any dent in your wallet? How about global warming and depletion of resources and pollution?

But when the storm hits, or a beggar pulls them out of a burning car and gives them the shirt off of his back. Well then, some floodgate opens inside. Our common humanity and connection comes rushing out.

It is not about tough love or hard love. It is what happens when one allows into ones life; unconditional Love.

78 DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM ZERO

(Scorpion in my cereal bowl photo at bottom of post.)

It is starting.

The warm weather is turning winters corner, and careening into us early next week, up to 78 degrees.

Good that I am finishing my window and wall around it block project before heat becomes a diverting issue. In summer, as they say in the southwest; “But it’s a dry heat.” Then someone might say; “Yea., but so is a blowtorch!” or “Yea, and so is a hot oven. Doesn’t mean I want to live in it.”

That said; I have been in 80 degree weather at near 80 dew-point, that will feel more uncomfortable than a dry 105. The heat index is a scale created to suggest comfort of ones bodies evaporative cooling abilities, and how temperature and humidity feel in regard to how well my bodies air conditioner can work. It was not made up by westerners to make the people they left behind back east to feel bad. They can feel bad all by themselves. Thank you very much.

Here in high sun and hot day land, in construction, people may start work at sunrise in many places. When that sun starts getting up around 4:30 am, people will be at the job up on the roof or out at the wall or pavement. It gives you a long afternoon off, but you can be so drained by being out there still at 1pm, probably after just 5 hours sleep, that those afternoons of coffee and staring out in the distance drinking in times are a vacation. You wish! There are home projects to do. Get up on the roof and get the “swamp” coolers going.

MOVING TO TUCSON?

If you do ever move to Tucson I have some advice if you are buying a home. Tucson’s natural disaster is—-termites. They are in ways weather related.

Use both gutters (if possible) and have the ground slope away from your home. Try to keep the roof in good condition, as to not let water into the wood. Most building codes try to cover these issues (except gutters), but you unfortunately may need to have a termite companies service contract to make sure.

NEW BUILDING?

If you are building new, the ground gets treated under slab-code. There are many non wood, or treated wood alternatives, even heavily reinforced monolithic slabs that will not crack (fingers crossed) and let the subterranean little munchers in. Their tunnels can reach up from the ground to a second story in a garage or a plants shade right at a wall, so you do have to keep an eye out for quarter inch dirt lines. Termites are possibly scurrying inside in the controlled atmosphere until they reach something the queen likes.

I suggest gutters since I have seen many a home have its footings crack from the year by year soaking parts of them get by the occasional pooling or runoffs from storms. Get that water some feet away from your homes foundation.

If building during the beginning of monsoon season when the dry wood termites spread, if you are using plain old wood, don’t let them leave it out in the open where it will get extra wet. Probably should cover it and even have a pro spray a borax solution (or whatever they use), or find out how to do this yourself. Every board could end up with a potential “dry wood”queen in it.

A company can come and spray all the boards once the roof is dried in if you feel no one is paying attention to the strange ants walking around, or circular pencil lead round holes showing up. Salt and pepper like small sand on the floor can mean dry wood termites are already enjoying your hospitality. There is an easy finger and palm test to distinguish termite debris from crickets kind, which look a bit similar.

THE ANTI IMMIGRATION WALL

If you get your periphery walls and plumbing inlet areas treated for subterranean, don’t freak out days later and call your lawyer (yet) when stalactite trails start descending over your bed. The bugs have been cut off from mom and are trying to figure a safe way from where they are stranded. Remember, termites are most helpful in removing wood debris from the ground. You just don’t want them thinking your house is really a dead tree laying around your new 60″ HDTV.

I also believe that most pluming ground access has (possibly code) rubber like flanges that act to keep things from coming through what in olden days was a dirt opening in the floor. You might be able to get these retroed in when a plumber does work there.

The good news? Many old buildings that have been well protected never get termites because the woods moisture content, in these deserts, is generally too low for them to live in. Yea!

If you do end up with termites, they can be terminated. Bad damage that you might see can just as quickly be absent from the rest of your home. Don’t completely freak out until a thorough assessment is done by a professional. Then have tissues at hand.

WHEN IS A TENT A WALL?

Dry wood type (the last I have heard) require your home to be tented and gassed. They are a larger termite somewhat independent of ground moisture, but usually have quite relatively smaller colonies than subterranean ones.

I am not otherwise a professional in this area, once worked at termite home restoration to make homes look like they did before they were torn apart to get the bugs out, even cabinets!(15 years ago). It is kinda creepy when you find out termites were crawling all over just behind your wonderful sink tile!

This photo shows dry wood termites evidence.  It looks like sawdust, a kind of salt and pepper.  As I understand it, it is compressed wood.  Cricket droppings are a bit similar.  Those tend to be darker, larger, and squish much easier when rolled between fingers or in the palm.  If what you have looks quite like this photo, it is likely dry wood termites.  They have or had an electrical way of dealing with them in isolated small areas.  You will likely notice a small pencil lead like hole above the sawdust pile, it can look like some nail hole.  They eject this material out of there.

AND THAT IS TODAY’S WEATHER AND TERMITE REPORT

YOU MAY NOW START SWEATING

PS

If you have a nice wood burning fireplace, make sure the wood you bring in and store is bug free. Best to leave most of it outside until needed. But always keep an eye out for scorpions. I have seen hundreds but never been bit or know of someone who has. One was in my bowl of cereal once last year! I felt it brush my finger as it came out of the box. It was the same color as the cereal. I took a picture of that. I don’t have a scanner, so will find the photo and put it on this post whenever I get a chance to.

Here is that picture of a photo

SCORPION NUT GRITS CEREAL

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS; DEAD ONES

Now lets go run blindfolded through the cactus patch!