Two notes and a rant

 Minnesota has it in for their governor.

Apologies in advance for this overlong link, and I recommend You google it on your own.
But for at least a year, they've been trying different tactics to smear the guy.

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If they can successfully, maybe a republican can be elected. Maybe then they can swing the presidential vote, maybe then they can take over the world, etc.

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"this isn't about politics", some republican senators wrote. 
Geez.

Maybe the governor needs a $300,000,000 ballroom.

If the next President turned it into a VA - hospital-annex, who could stand against him??

They need a decent looking hospital anyway

Government waste is entrenched, it's institutional.  
But it's hard to explain and would require many pictures.

And on a related subject, why is that hospital so incredibly huge?
(No, not the "VA" above, looking a LOT like a certain motel I recently was incarcerated in)

50 foot ceilings.
It's "Non Profit".

Why did they dig up all the trees and the plants to turn around and put more trees and plants?
Um, it's part of the contract (for the non profit)

Why do bird-sounds suddenly appear when you're near in the subway station?
The benches, like antique suitcase-trunks?

I know the artist but how much he was paid or how rich he is,
Google is real quiet about.
Also the picture is only a representation of a "steamer trunk"

Someone got a zillion-dollar contract, that's why.

A luxury-train-car, I just learned, is one million, up from 400K

But

an amtrak subway car (no luxuries) is over two milllllion.

Those electric doors must be sooo expensive.
(It couldn't be the seats)

Is it true, Uncle Bob, that rich people avoid subways?
Can it Be??
even with the art and the fancy benches??

There's this hospital, with a hallway so long, so large, facing a window on one side, but with no doors, that absolutely everything inside your house would fit, and your neighbor's house too.
If there was some imaginary future plague, um, or if best buy started selling iPhones in it, 
They could accommodate a thousand people (we're still talking about a hallway.)
I keep thinking, the hallway is sort of an anti-gunman tactic (maybe) or they had a leftover zillion to fatten up the building.

What the hell should they spend all those donations, grants and contract-money on?
Gardens, Fat buildings.

I'm not happy with this entry, it's too f'n vague. 

I asked if "NBC" was republican, which I tend to get from the headlines on Google.

No, they "lean left"

Whadda load.

so not being batshit wingnuts makes you "lean left"?

I followed my slow-moving train, wondering what MAGA (Make america great again.) wanted great, again.

Google said Trump denounced the KKK but the KKK really liked him.

Actually they said a lot more than that, ultimately blaming democrats for the KKK.

Zoot-suit rebellion

Japanese internment

even the civil war.... make me want to draw conclusions about "great again,"

Imperialistic? Warlike? defending slavery?
You could have endless debates about what is great about US history.

Manifest Destiny
The Monroe doctrine

We treat South America like our inbred cousins, and Puerto Rico badly (I think).

We've wanted Greenland since forever.

But no one in US history has pushed harder to promote ugly-Americanism than Trump.

I'm no history buff, and everything I remember is from a really scary teacher...

But I (in my ignorance) am not bombastic on the subject; other websites have reams of bombast.

To the epithet "Bleeding heart" tossers,
I want to point to a bear living under a guy's house, that no one can get rid of, for fear of offending the bear, or his rich friends.

It can go both ways, and I try to strike a balance....but "Politically correct" resembles the really steep hill I live on, and it's hard to strike a balance.

Slip on a banana peel and die, sort of thing.