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Even the sky is sad today. It’s the first really dreary overcast day in a long while. It looks like it should rain any second but not a drop has fallen all day. I think it’s God’s way of telling me he is disappointed with us. As he should be. When I read stories of world leaders saying this is a black mark on our history, I agree with them. I agree that the person who claimed ownership of the Oval Office has his own agenda, American citizens and the World be-damned. I did not vote for that man. He does not represent me. He does not speak for me. And hell, he doesn’t even care that he doesn’t. I have lost all respect for him, period.

That being said, my prayers are with each and every person whose life he has put on the line. For the parents and husbands and wives who had to kiss someone for the last time as they were shipped out to the desert. I couldn’t bear it if it were my son, and yet I would have to. Our President wouldn’t have gone, I’m sure his Daddy or his Daddy’s friends would have gotten him out of this, just like they got him out of everything else. I wonder if he’d have been so quick to go in guns blazing if his daughters were out there with an artillery group. I seriously doubt it.

Maybe if his facial expressions didn’t imply that he was bullshtting us every time he gets on television, I’d have started to buy in to the need for this. But we get the little monkey face with the half smirk and I feel like he’s giving me a good old boy act pretending to be my friend while making rabbit ears behind my head. It enrages me.

So that’s my post on this atrocity. I see Iraq may have set fire to 3 or 4 oil wells. Ooopsie Daisy Georgie, that’s gotta be a big ouchie considering you’re so tied to the oil industry that you sweat it from your pores. Do I sound bitter? I am. I’m embarrassed to be an American today. We are the aggressors. We are the bad guys. We dropped the first bomb.

After showing me the “ninja dance” this evening, Junior added “You know why we do that kick at the end? Because the grown-ups only want to see the cheerleaders.”

He also introduced me to his invisible girlfriend Julia. When I said hello to her, he informed me that he doesn’t speak for her, she does her own talking. This should be a quiet evening.

*newsflash* Oh, wait, it isn’t his girlfriend…it’s his WIFE! He told me the reason I didn’t get to go to the wedding is because “you weren’t invited.” Wow, I already hate my daughter-in-law and I just met her.

Junior announced to me this morning that he had to go to work, get into his ninja costume and do the ninja dance (that his boss had taught him) with his girlfriend the cheerleader, Julia.

I had no idea he’d finally found a job.

I was at the grocery store yesterday, picking up the basics, and I needed to get bread. Well, apparently there’s a storm coming cause the shelves were pretty barren. A bread guy (you know, he works for the bakery that makes the bread, not the store, that kind of guy) was standing there and I asked if he handled the brand of bread I was looking for. He told me no, but that delivery guy was there, he’d probably be out in a few minutes. Then he explained that they all deliver on Tuesday because they don’t work on Wednesday. If you buy bread on Tuesday look for the green twist-tie because that’s the stuff right off the truck, and not stuff left from the last delivery. Oh, and if you buy on Sunday, look for the yellow twist tie, for the same reason. He was very helpful, considering I wasn’t going to be buying something from the company he worked for. On the other hand, I used to do grocery merchandising for a cereal company, and it was a long, lonely summer driving from store to store, and I think if someone in the store had started talking to me I would have had a conversation as well.

Oh, and here’s an interesting thing – gas prices dropped 2 cents at my favorite place. Don’t know if they did it to compete with the new Hess, which at one point last week was FOUR cents cheaper than the next cheapest place. But I’ll take a price drop of any kind, thank you. That puts us at $1.59 for regular unleaded, if you’re keeping track.

Looks like I might be moving the Big DumpTruck to a new host soon. I was trying to support a local company, but my hosting fees jumped $25 this month (and I’m still trying to figure out why, because something looks very fishy to me). Look, I love you guys, and I love writing this blog, but I cannot afford to spend THAT much money just to amuse myself.

If and when I make the change, the site may be temporarily unavailable. If you subscribe to the Dump newsletter, I will post the IP address so you will have no downtime while the change makes its way through the DNS servers of the world.