Hump day in more ways than one, about four of them...

The HomeOwners Association leadership decided that safety was needed from speeders on our little street, and installed four speed bumps and slowed me right down. Of course my wife driving home in the rain saw three of them and slowly took her CTS over them, but missed the fourth one in the gray rain and thumped her perturbed button soundly. It was still ringing as she got out of the car in the garage and I had an earful. Reminds me of the fool things people will do in the name of safety - Kevin has a long post about England's weapons safety and America's kind of lack there of. I wonder if all the words are like the speed bumps, meant to slow the thinking down so it has a chance to be absorbed, still I did want the gentleman that thought freedom from fear was a right, to eliminate the governments that I fear so much - I have much more belief in the goodness of real people than any government and its worker bees.

At work my workers continue to do wonders, and have more time than I do for other stuff, by the time the leadership got them off of printers, and access to certain places and things I seem to have more than enough to do that they once performed and I supervised - now I do most everything, except basic circulation functions and shelving. Like the NATO woodland camo GoreTEX rain gear I can't wear to the island because an inmate might steal it and use it in an escape, better I get wet. I feel so protected, none of the better escape attempts ever used camo clothing, but they could have since we do have Army Guard and Reserve members on the island.

I had great parents, they did make me and care for me, give me rules to live by and break when I thought I knew better, and re-establish when I decided they were pretty good rules - all on my own. They kind of encouraged independence of thought and deed --- more so my father than my mother, men understanding fool boys better than women. Hearing the government noting that more unwed mothers now than before - means that marriage isn't well monitored by government, that the culture continues to experiment with social norms and that real love will provide the best life for the children - and neither the media nor government has control of that.

I do know that family is the base unit of humanity, not the individual (for all the cloning and conning of some of us). I do believe that boys and girls do better with both sexes caring for them and treating them like they were going to grow into maturity one day, boys do need a older male to model from, several good ones are always better than none. I have no idea of how girls become women, and no opinion, I always look to see how much heart they have (yeah, right after the eyes, smiling lips, curves and long legs) don't know how they got it but feel that it is critical.

Those thoughts are important to me, but I am conservative in my view of life -- speaking of which, for some reason I am supposed to be a dinosaur or long dead GOP Republican pachyderm? The media announces that the Republican Party is over, Dick Cheney thinks Rush Limbaugh is more Republican than Colen Powell (while I would always go to war with General Powell leading me and NEVER go to WAR with Mister Cheney - didn't he duck Vietnam? - he doesn't know anything about war, but then maybe most Republicans don't either). But then I shouldn't base all my values on WAR, or the Constitution, nor History, or the fact that I will die alone in the sea of swimming humanity. For the record, I vote for people not parties - one of the reasons I don't like Unions, they have too much in common with organized crime and their enforcers look like thugs (although I do understand guilds and unions as a commercial enterprise).

Strange lump of thoughts in the blog, probably from riding my Trusty Triumph home in the rain, with my raingear on and careful of the automobile texters, twitterers and cellphone addicted - and the slippery surfaces and those four magnificent speed bumps that protected the lives of all those people no one has run into nor over in the fourteen years we have lived on this street - but it could happen, it could happen.