Political Rant About Political Rants

Donald Trump is President-Elect and the world is going nuts trying to figure out who to blame it on.  The Russians?  The programmers of the voting machines? Hillary Clinton? The Republicans? The Democrats? Satan, even?

Here's the deal, folks.  We The People are to blame.  We The People bought into the thinking that those two were our only options.  We The People chose between the lesser of two evils.   We The People believed that a mother and grandmother wanted to kill babies because she's Pro-Choice.  We The People believed a man was a sexist and a racist because of things taken out of context.

I "wasted" my vote on a candidate I thought was better qualified than those two.  I'll probably do it again.  The men who designed our system wanted me to do it.  They wanted all of us to do it - not to vote for the lesser of two evils, not to vote against anyone, but to hire the best person for the job.

Also, we are not "screwed" because of who got elected.  The President of the United States does not hold that kind of power.  He has to work with the Legislative Branch - and no matter what their party lines might be, those folks are not going to back anything that's going to cost them their jobs.   Because it will.  This election was a mess, to put it mildly, but it opened a lot of eyes.

We The People are awake now. We The People will be watching those we've elected, as we should have been all along.  We The People - most of us, anyway - are not happy about how this turned out, for various reasons.  Strange as it may seem, this election may be a blessing in disguise.

Sometimes you have to shoot yourself in the foot before realizing you need to learn more about guns.

Another Barbie Rant

Just saw a news story about a woman who made a breast feeding Barbie.  Every now and then another story comes along about the Lammily doll - the normal Barbie is what that one usually gets called.  How pathetic do they think children are?  Dolls run on imagination and if your kid is so lacking in that area that they need all this stuff that's being sold, I'm afraid you have bigger problems.
You want your doll to breast-feed, pop open her shirt and have her hold a baby to her breast.  This is much easier with a elbow-articulated doll, by the way.  You want her to have a period, make her some little pads out of paper or bits of cloth.  There is no need for all these specialized dolls.

I give credit to the toy makers for more realistic proportions, even though I do not agree that Barbie's freakish figure psychologically damages children.

Lammily you can buy scar stickers for.  My Barbies have scars - mostly stray pen marks - and these aren't removable.  Who's realistic now, Lammily?  I've had Barbies lose limbs and explained it away with car accidents.  But some revolutionary out there is making amputee dolls.

I'll admit to having to coach my minions a bit, but I am not going to buy them something they can improvise for themselves.  If your child cannot figure out how to make a Zombie Fighter out of dolls, clothes, and accessories they already own...  I blame you.  Granted, it is more fun sometimes to have the specific character, but I'm referring to generalities.  A lot of these amazing, innovative dolls I'm hearing about are variations my doll-play even as a child. In the 1970s.