Note: Some were uncomfortable with the former title. Far be it from me to make anyone uncomfortable.
Note: It’s been scarcely two months since I ducked outta here. Apparently that’s about as long as I can stand to go without saying a word or two. I’ve equivocated about posting this. I realize it doesn’t add substantially to the conversation - more in the line of lancing a boil really. So anyway, please forgive...
The ‘climate’ cap and trade bill is an insult. The h-ealthc-are ‘reform’ debacle is a joke. The ‘bail out’ is a rip-off. The promises made us by our own politicians are vapors in the wind. Jokes, insults, rip-offs and vaporous promises signifying nothing are all we get for all our troubles. Welcome to the United States of Goldman Sachs...and fuck us if we don’t like it.
Some say the cap and trade bill is a step in the right direction. Nope. It’s hocking a loogie in the right direction while continuing merrily down the path of planetary ecocide. How foolish can a supposedly intelligent species be? Don’t answer that. Congress answers it every day, and the answer is: foolish beyond all belief.
The h-ealthc-are reform kabuki (IMHO) is just another fraud perpetrated on the American people by their supposed representatives. How will we pay for it? Hmmm, we could give up a useless war or two. Those three trillion dollars would come in handy in lots of areas of American life about now. Or we could strip the obscene profits out of our so-called h-ealthc-are system thus saving hundreds of billions and paying for it wouldn’t even be a question...but hey, we can’t do that in a system where blood-sucking vultures are given preferential treatment over mere people, so forget that. Single payer? Nahhh, not fair to the vultures. How ‘bout a cheap bait-and-switch to a watered down public option instead? Now we’re talkin’. How ‘bout we just let the lobbyists and the blood-sucking vultures decide...as we normally do? Pure buttah.
The great bailout ripoff seems to have worked out pretty well for the better connected Wall Street banksta gangstas. They’re swimming in dough. Those million dollar bonuses have been saved and the DOW is up bigtime. Zippity doo dah! Oh happy day! Of course things aren’t going so swell for the rest of us as we continue to lose half a million jobs a month while our states go belly-up and middleclass wealth in the form of our homes melts away like so many polar ice caps, and our good-for-nothing congress critters continue to ruthlessly fuck us over at every turn. But things are looking up on Wall Street baby. Rejoice.
But there is some bad news on the economic scene (believe it or not). The oh-so-generous raise in the minimum rage is due to kick in. The smart people in charge of things are very concerned about the timing of it too. Can the economy stand it? Won’t it eat into the Wall Street bonuses? Something like this could end up giving aid and comfort to the American people wretched of the earth. This should be very concerning to us all.
Today I read that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is royally pissed off about our mistreatment (shall we say) of our detainees (shall we say). That took long enough didn’t it? Talk about a long fuse and a slow burn. Who rattled that fucker’s cage? He says it could result in the mistreatment of Americans who’ve been taken prisoner. Huh? Why hadn’t we thought of that before? Go figure.
Yep, the good news tsunami just keeps on coming and the mainstream media have completely lost their minds...along with the most of the rest of this infernal country. Michael Jackson? Still dead. Obama? Not born here. Legalize marijuana? Not on Obama’s watch. Prominent black man arrested in his own home? Good police work. H-ealthc-are reform? Socialism. What have the banksters done with the hundreds of billions they stole from us? Who knows? Who cares? Withdrawal from Iraq? On track for 2011 (or there abouts)...honest injun (you can believe us). Changing tactics in Afghanistan? Yep, gonna stop killing them and start protecting them (mostly by killing them). Gay rights? Yeah, you betcha (just don’t hold your breath). Michael Jackson? Still dead.
Please don’t let my cynicism discourage those of you who are courageously fighting the good fight. More power to you. I’m proud of you all. It is always appropriate, however hopeless it may seem, to try and do the right thing.
Sorry I don’t have anything more cheerful, helpful or hopeful to say...but look out...and bend over, here it comes again.
P.S. This is a video I started to go with a diary I wrote to be part of Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse’s and Meteor Blades’ DailyKos green blogathon, but it took me forever to do and I didn’t get it done in time, so it’s just been sitting around gathering dust...so I thought I’d drop it in here. Hope you like it.
Special thanks of course to Sarah Brightman for the song Deliver Me.
P.P.S. Please don’t add any tags that would cause you-know-who to slap a stupid advertisement on the ass of this diary – and if they do anyway, fuck them.