{"id":20069,"date":"2022-08-18T21:46:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20069"},"modified":"2022-08-18T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:46:41","slug":"walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/walking-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my ridiculous Dunwich post was an outgrowth of a political meeting I went to last night.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting involved in town government for the first time in my life and it already looks to be a nightmare of cosmic proportions.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m happy to say it probably does not include the risk of being eaten alive by a squid-headed dragon from deep space.<\/p>\n<p>But it will involve getting involved with some fairly offensive progressives on a one-on-one basis.\u00a0 Yeah me!<\/p>\n<p>But I guess if we\u2019re ever going to make progress on fixing things, somebody is going to have to get his hands dirty and why shouldn\u2019t that somebody be me?\u00a0 I won\u2019t bore you with the details but it will be directly involved in elections so you might say I\u2019m getting right down to brass tacks.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to my contempt for the Stupid Party in Dunwich, the actual Republicans in my town are good people.\u00a0 Being in New England means we\u2019re always swimming against the current of blue state government and its toxic agenda.\u00a0 But we have managed to stave off the worst of their programs and influence.\u00a0 This off year election will probably not be a good one for Republicans at the state level.\u00a0 The state employees own the state and runaway tax increases seem to be the default position used to keep the pension bubble pumped up.\u00a0 When that dam finally breaks it\u2019s going to be a flood of red ink that won\u2019t be fixable.\u00a0 But until then let the good times roll, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>You know, today I was reading some of the Democrat happy talk about how the \u201cinflation reduction\u201d act would win them the mid-terms.\u00a0 Is it possible they believe that?\u00a0 The only two choices I could come up with is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s just whistling past the graveyard and there\u2019s no substance to the conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>They know that they\u2019ve got the voter fraud thing completely worked out and they don\u2019t have to worry about elections anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it up to the readers to pick which one of these two choices it is.\u00a0 Or add a third choice of your devising.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been ploughing through the Yellowstone photos.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got about three thousand files.\u00a0 They\u2019re mostly landscape and some wildlife but I was happy to see that a lot of the plant and flower shots look good.\u00a0 There are some very interesting flowers in that locale and they make good macrophotography and close-up photography shots.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still going to take me a while to make much progress.\u00a0 With end of summer activities and all my other responsibilities breathing down my neck it\u2019s slow going.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019re about eighty days before election day.\u00a0 Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating has soared up to 40%.\u00a0 And the Democrats are flogging the inflation reduction meme as hard as they can.\u00a0 I guess they have to do something.\u00a0 Maybe they plan the October surprise to be an indictment of Trump right before the election.\u00a0 I\u2019m of two minds whether that would make things better or worse.\u00a0 Maybe that goes under the same idea that doing something is better than doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, I was thinking about how nice it must be to live in a state like Florida or Wyoming where the majority of people are like me and get to have the state government that I would want.\u00a0 I\u2019d just like to say for the record how much I envy all of you in the solidly red states.\u00a0 I 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