Waiting to host freshly grilled burgers are whole wheat Kaiser rolls, avocado, tomato, onion, and romaine lettuce. We’ll put mayonnaise on the buns and I’ll add some Dijon mustard to mine.
There are six bottles of Harpoon IPA in the pantry. I bought them, primarily, for cooking. Depending upon my mood at dinner, one may find its way from ingredient back to beverage. Or I may uncork the 15 year old Laphroaig bottle which graces the single malt shelf and reduce it in volume. I won’t consume enough to render me unsteady in gait or unable to escort the dog outdoors later. But for purposes of this title/header, it will have to do. The other word I might have plugged into that space is “un-paired.” I have no idea where I would have gone beyond that as all my socks are properly mated and my gloves and mittens have no lack for company.
Since I no longer work in a technical field where my co-workers or employees might bring technical questions, seeking answers not found in required manuals; I am rarely called upon for advice these days. Our neighbors, those who farm in particular, are knowledgeable in agrarian matters and adept at living happily here. Once in a great while Mike or Henry has asked a medical question. I rarely am called upon for advice and that’s mostly a good thing.
The lack of questions does not mean I don’t feel that I have advice to give.
The 1st Tennessee Congressional District has been a GOP fortress since the Civil War. Only one Democrat has represented the district in Washington D.C. since that war was declared over. The previous Congressman, David Davis was often the target of my advice in written and verbal format suggesting that he should vote in the best interest of the people rather than the business interests that supported his campaign. I also advised him that he was elected to represent all the people in his district, not just those who prayed in the same fashion as he prays. His replies indicated that he thought he was elected to represent Jesus more than people. After an answer like that, I found it easy to write some note once or twice a week that was calculated to annoy him and his staff. I felt no sorrow when he lost the primary election to another candidate.
Congressman Roe, who won the 2008 election and unseated Davis, may have been the beneficiary of cross party voting in the open primary. Davis certainly believes that to be the case. Since the Democrat’s candidate had not the ghost of a chance to win, it may well have been local party strategy to attempt unseating Davis for the slightly less fundamentalist Christian, Roe.
I’ve found lots of reason to offer advice to Roe as well. He pretty much represents every political position I oppose. He’s a retired OB/Gyn, parrots the party line whenever his mouth is moving. I’ve had to resort to sending him my advice in hard copy form. For some reason, his Congressional e-mail account seems to be in failure mode. Several times I’ve laboriously keyed in a page or so of advice only to see it rejected by the system. I don’t know if Congressmen can block e-mail addresses or not. This has happened over sufficiently long a period that I suspect it can be done. My advice to the Congressman is that he should not block any citizen of his district from the electronic communication network he is supposed to make available to citizens. We’re paying for that system, we taxpayers. The tea party mob has come down on Roe’s side of most things. But if they found out e-mail was being blocked, that might alienate them a bit.
I still send advice to our President, too. We even offered him an afternoon fishing our creek and dinner afterward. I’m pretty certain someone else advised him to avoid having a beer and a cheese burger here.
The turkey was back today
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