Saturday morning I was trying to clear out of the house before all the mom’s  and kids showed up to attend the play date my wife had arranged.  Somehow we ended up on the topic of the Flint water crisis.  My wife indicated that it could be a possible blog topic.  I confess, I know nothing about the Flint water crisis and any blogging about said topic would likely be completely uneducated and entirely insensitive.  So, why not, I don’t see how I can go wrong blogging about something I have almost no knowledge about.  I’m not sure why I haven’t paid much attention to this, wait a minute, it’s a water crisis in Flint, I will be honest, I don’t really give a shit.  If it was a water crisis in Alto (where I live) I might pay attention, anywhere else, I’m probably not paying much attention.  (to my credit when I checked out at D & W on Saturday I donated a case of water to Flint)

Before I get started here are a few stats that I pulled off from water.org

• 633 million people lack access to safe water (not sure if this means the water they have access to has sharks, alligators, and zombies residing in it, or merely lots of unhealthy microorganisms)
• 2.4 billion people lack access to a toilet (hopefully they at least have a good shovel and a roll of toilet paper, or at the very least lots of green leafy trees)
• Globally, 1/3 of all schools lack access to safe water.
• In low to middle income countries 1/3 of health care facilities in those countries don’t have access to clean water.

I have only been to Flint one time in my life, it was to interview for a job with the City Attorney’s office when I was fresh out of law school.  The place is a third world city in a first world country.  Even though I was desperate for a job, I couldn’t see myself working in Flint and living somewhere near it.  I’m sorry, but when you live in Flint, things are bound to go wrong, even with your water.  Some quick stats about Flint:

• Median household income $23,131
• Median Home Value $29,000
• Population: 99,763

So, what it ultimately comes down to when shit hits the fan in our culture is that we immediately look for someone to blame.  The target in this thing is Governor Snyder.  My question is, who does someone who lives in Zimbabwe blame when they can’t locate clean drinking water?  Probably no one, they figure shit out is what they do, they don’t immediately start bitching about not having clean water because on their list of things to be concerned about its well below getting eaten by a lion or contracting HIV.  I have no idea if Governor Snyder is culpable, nor does it really matter, if he screwed up he screwed up, he’s done a fairly decent job of turning things around in Michigan after Granholm handed him a turd sandwich.  Unless he went to Flint and pissed in their water supply I’m willing to give him a chance to fix this thing and move on as governor of this state.

On a completely different note, Donald Trump seems to continue to gain momentum with his hate mongering and complete douche bagery.  What I don’t understand is how someone who is that ugly inside and out doesn’t get called out for his bullshit.  I’m sorry, but when you have hair that looks like it  has been transplanted off road kill you have no room to bag on other people’s appearances.

Furthermore, he continually makes light of people’s weight when it looks like he may be made entirely out of jelly.  The reality is, the only people who can make fun of other people’s appearances are attractive people.  I have absolutely no problem with people who are moderately attractive and above, being given free reign when it comes to making fun of the appearance of others.  They have earned that right, wait a minute, they haven’t done anything, they are just better looking, it still makes sense though, God has chosen to allow them to feel like they are better than everyone else.

On the topic of attractive people(Donald Trump is not one of them nor has he ever been attractive. So, having become a billionaire is somewhat impressive in light of the fact that he is stone cold ugly), attractive people have an upper hand when it comes to pretty much everything.  If someone is on the fence about a hire they are going to go with the attractive person every time.  Furthermore, if you know an attractive person and they have been fired, they are not only not doing their job they are likely completely nuts.  Beautiful people just have to show up and everything works out for them.  For you men out there, if you are dating an attractive women and you find out she has been fired, run for the hills because she’s gots to be coo coo for cocoa puffs.  They will keep attractive women in a job for years beyond what any unattractive women or any type of man could get away with.

Sticking with the Donald Trump theme, it appears that Planned Parenthood was set up with some doctored videos by some individuals in Texas.  The allegations led to nationwide uproar against Planned Parenthood and companies such as Starbucks that support Planned Parenthood.  So, here is an idea for the Republican leadership, doctor up some videos of Donald Trump doing lines of cocaine off a strippers ass, diddling little boys, or sticking gerbals up his ass (PETA will be all over the last one) to get him out of the race and melt this snow ball going down the mountain that is dangerously close to turning into an avalanche.  Granted, there may be damning video that already exists somewhere, but if it doesn’t this is the recipe to dethrone Donald.  In turn hopefully the newly emerging Republican nominee will win the presidency and as his first act in office pardon the person responsible for creating the doctored videos of Mr. Trump.