Michael1942's Blog

We are still being represented by elected officials chasing their tails and hoping we won’t notice. In several states there is redistricting going on and while the guidelines appear to state that the divisions should be drawn according to natural boundaries, the states are having a problem just performing a simple act of creating a graph that would divide the state in as near equal parts as possible. Instead we have politicians who are concerned with how many votes they will gain or lose, the party they associate themselves with backs these thinly veiled machinations and leaving their bosses (voters) out of the loop.We have legislators who are crying like children because of cuts in their pay, well get over it and serve as you said you would when you were knocking on doors and blitzing us in every available media. We have a group of folks who are lawyers,business people and other areas of industry who should know how to conduct themselves in this government environment yet act like children. It is time for the voters to take back control.

Years ago when I was younger (many decades), the most common line to young wannabe smokers was , “smoking will stunt your growth”. The truth is the growth part has more to do with the mother smoking and being around second-hand smoke. This still has implications altered by the genetics of the parents. So smoking after you have gained most or all of your adult growth has no effect in your final height. What it has to do with is your lifetime health. As we all have heard and will continue to hear will be the effects of actually smoking, second-hand smoke,etc. Think about the cost of smoking on families having lost a loved one due to a lifetime of smoking and breathing second-hand smoke not to mention the cost of smoking products and the oral types of tobacco. Smoking is a bad habit that goes beyond the smoker and their health, it includes families, friends and relatives. So smoking does not directly stunt your growth but it certainly is not healthy.

After trying every BK in this town I have concluded that I cannot have it my way.Each individual restaurant got my order wrong at least twice. This reminds me of some lines from one of the “lethal Weapons series” ( they F**k you in the drive through!). They also get you when you go inside! After watching the person at the counter punch in the correct information, I felt sure my order was correct, well I was wrong, I still got my order the wrong way. When I discovered the error I was miles away and obviously could not return to get the order corrected. This last goof was not bad enough so to top it all off, I fell victim to the onion ring scam. This was the dumbest scam I have ever seen! This is how it works: there are two sizes of rings, one from the value menu and the other from the regular menu. The packaging for the value rings is a paper open end envelope and the other is a cardboard container. The look of the 2 packages gives the impression that they are different sizes but after a less than scientific test, they hold the same amount of product (I dumped the value size into the regular package and there was no extra space in the package). This so-called difference in size costs .77 cents and the staff at BK take no time to explain the difference (or they don’t know the difference). All of this on top of the zombie like actions of the employees at each place, they appear to want to be somewhere else while they take your order. So My BK days are over.