"Terra Nova" and "American Horror Story" . . . . . . . and some bad news

I watched Terra Nova Monday night and was wondering if our world, as we know it, will be like what it depicts in 2149 when people leave our desecrated planet and flee to Terra Nova which is 85 million years in the past. Supposedly, things should be calm and peaceful compared with the old country, but they're not. They have the same problems only with dinosaurs in the picture! There are battling factions; the Sixers, a group of renegades, keep trying to overthrow the Terra Nova colony. And there are bad ones in the Terra Nova colony itself. The story centers around one family who is a good family, not dysfunctional like so many are depicted these days. So that was a good show Monday.

Then I read the newspaper which was a complete downer. The Occupy Portland group was finally kicked out of the two parks they had ruined for several weeks and was now wandering around downtown, tying up traffic and throwing rocks in the windows of the big banks. The republicans had one of their 500 scheduled debates and they all looked like idiots. Herman Cain and Rick Perry really look like idiots (probably because they are) and Newt Gingrich is just as sleazy as he was years ago. And then I read about the fees that all those "consultants" receive for whatever it is they do. What do they do anyway? Someone will work for years at a company, making a fantastic salary, and then retire. But he doesn't retire - he becomes a consultant. Just what does that entail? What does he actually do? And he makes a big salary doing whatever the hell it is. The common people, like me, just try to get by while the consultants rake it in. The whole business makes me sick. But most of the government these days makes me sick. If the republicans would get off their asses and try to work with the government, things might move along. But their only intent now is to get Obama out of office. How would they like Cain as president? What a disgusting thought!

So tonight I'll watch "American Horror Story." I think they are maybe finding a buyer for their lovely home. Maybe they should hold the next republican debate there!