Conserve this!

Satire- well my way of saying it is humor but is all true and sooo very wise ;0

I saw an advert for a Conservative group vowing to fight on after the elections, fighting to put business leaders in charge of guiding our nation…they were quite serious…

Leave our future to Entrepreneurs...are you out of your F***ing mind!

I watch so many apparently bright people join libertarian and conservative movements with the idea that government is a Great Satan and we must purify our society by abandoning public policy and turning over our nation to the private sector-- hmmm

Lets see  Private Sector,  I think these were the same guys who invented chattel slavery as a fast way to billions( aka kidnap, rape and murder, and working humans like an animal into an early grave). They even imprisoned their own children in slavery--some were our Founding Fathers. James Madison, once murdered 30 men who tried to escape from captivity, was later elected President-- well, as my non slave descendant friends often remind me-- it was legal to rape,  kidnap, and murder  then, ahhhhmeeiii--

I can find no evidence anywhere that the marketplace governs with wisdom, if an idiot has billions-- judging by the last elections there are a lot of them here-- and if there is a little profit in it- game on! For example: burning oil, then we will burn a lot of it, heat the globe to the point that only the billionaires will be able to afford clean air, water, and a reasonable life expectancy.  The social side of things I guess would be left alone, unless there were a profit in it-- brides for sale, young boys...ummm.   You see, every evil we can imagine has been connected with uncontrolled greed.  So what is it that draws these apparently bright minds to the conclusion that government and taxation are the path to destruction--  well, what is being Conserved here?.  I mean this brand of freedom is like 4th Century Athens-- a man on a hill speaking  nobly of freedom and sacrifice-- while a slave stands next to him holding a goblet of wine. It was a Golden Age of Freedom indeed where Six of Ten were slaves.

In the election cycle just past we saw the effects of warm air around the globe- and even in the face of a 500 mile windstorm people said--it could have been caused by something other than climate change.  Well, it is no longer rational to say that-- we have changed the air-- warmed it. We will do even more so now because so much ice has been lost that the sun will warm much more of our ocean surface-- and the sun btw has awakened from a long period of low energy emission.  Sooo are we ready for constant war, for policies that make enemies of every darker skinned nation or group, are we really ready to kill people who want a different form of government than our DOLLAROCRACY, and what of the nearly criminal activity that many rich people have engaged in to get those billions-- friendly bankers, derivatives trades, influenced bond and securities ratings-- and the same people who rated junk bonds and liar loans as AAA rated paper  have down rated the US government?  I mean -- dont they get it-- we can raise trillions any year we choose just by getting them and their Corporation Peeps to pay their fair share of taxes!!

Anyway, as flawed as the judgments of political leaders, as deep and deadly their mistakes have been, as corrupt and partner-friendly their use of our military and assets-- they are but fleas on the ass of a running dog compared to the devastation an uncontrolled private sector can bring. By this  I mean: do you really want to see the USA taken over by vulture capitalists, ripped apart and sold to high bidders? I'm sure there would be a lot of profit in it(--) I mean the nuclear arsenal and drones alone must be worth a few bucks(--)just sayin'...hdm

Tell Don't Ask

The so-called Conservative Right, the self described soul of the Republican Party has given the best political issue yet to the Democrats and President Obama- IT IS their social agenda. Instead of Don't ask , don't tell- (that strange deal with being Gay as if being gay was just discovered instead of being as old as people)- this is some Republicans telling the rest of us:  DO AS WE SAY, WE KNOW HOW YOU SHOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE.

They want to tell us to give up sex until we marry, that we must only love someone of the opposite sex and the same race; they want us to accept that white men are often frightened of dark skinned people and should have the right to shoot anyone who frightens them; and they want us to generally accept that women should be subservient to the men in their lives.  They also believe that the federal government is the root of all evils and that war is the solution to any problems that frighten a Nation of White  men.  This is so much like the 50's when the cities experienced White flight- now is White fright, and integration, busing, and Women's Lib showed that the country was truly going to the dogs.  The problem with all of this is simply- who are these jerks who think they ought to tell anyone else how to live the one life we have been given; I mean: when I want to worship someone i get down on my knees and pray.

There is a deeper problem to all of this, the Arizona Syndrome- where Whites feel the shrinking power of their disappearing numerical majority, and the fact that logic and reason have decimated the White voting bloc.  We are no longer a nation of White Men. It is too difficult now to convince women they need a man to control their lives, it is impossible to convince young people that being selfish helps their country, it is totally out of the question to get many normal people to trust big business after they have seen their assault on our jobs( gone overseas to low bidders); home equities ( the housing crisis and credit crisis); wars for Republican profits ( i mean how else can you explain Iraq-- that a group of thugs with box cutters exposed our miserable leadership and therefore we spent 3 Trillion dollars and 8 years at war) They still control the money and have invented a game only they can generally play- trading derivatives-  one Hedge Fund Manager earned $3 Billion one recent year- while we cut schools and teachers, and trash pickups, and healthcare, and food to the hungry, housing for homeless---ahh what would Jesus say..? or Budha? or Muhammed? or Bubba the local homeless Vietnam War vet now begging under a bridge? (probably saying Ohh myyy Jesus!)

We are not the first country to have a weird Right Wing attempt to take over a society, and like the others ( oh, say Germany with Hitler, Brazil during the military dictatorship) there is a corp of deep pocket wackos who are using a political party to advance interest which i think arise straight from their frustrated sex drives--well i am giving a great deal of credit which may not be due-- they may simply be more or less insane or power mad.  The point is that they want to control behavior- who sexes whom, who decides to give birth, who marries whom, what kinds of sex, whether she submits to a man or not.  They are not content to wage wars, destroy lives around the globe, convert mankind's few opportunities for progress into bloody venges and revenges( is "venges" a word?- should be, anyway...how can you have re venge without first having a venge).

We live in a golden age- glad captives of a time when the globe can be easily embraced. It can be further embraced by a global pollution, excess of automobiles, carbon fuel burning, ocean trashing, woman bashing, rule by petty dictators and machine guns every goddamn place! OOOORRRRR it can be embraced by progress such as the incredibly rapid adaptations to computers, the internet, smartphones--technology puts us to the lie when we say we cannot change,  fundamentally change-- we already have, and in record times:  what maybe 10 years for the embrace of the internet and maybe 7 years for the embrace of the smartphone technology.  Wireless communications mean we don't have to wire-grid and pave-over the world in order to industrialize enough to feed and employ our swelling masses.

This is a Golden Age of opportunity for social Greening, progress on the things which deeply trouble our societies- on a global basis- water, food, the safety and equality of women- putting an end to war, creating productive capacity to give business and careers potentials to millions more ...it is in our busy little hands. Hands which can turn palms up in surrender or grab something we all know is true--the moment to realize we are what we do; and we can be so much more than we now do.

Republicans and the full moon...

there is always a full moon over Republican-land, it is the way to explain the ravenous appetite for power and so little effort to use it for the benefit of the country.  The recession has savaged America, it was brought on by a Governmental indifference, and  needless, pointless $2 Trillion spending spree in Iraq---oh, you remember, the ringside seat in the Iraqi bloodletting, civil war, get rid of Saddam and turn the country over to terrorists. Yes, oh the wisdom of that choice---I mean it re-elected Bush, but Court-appointed Presidents are maybe prone to hyperbole- Weapons of Mass Destruction threatening America...hmmm. If there were a droplet of a poison in any country in the world, then we are threatened by a weapon of mass destruction.  Kind of makes you wonder why we bother to have 2, 000 nuclear warheads primed and ready---when a few ounces of toxin might provoke our enemies to consume their economies and ruin their futures...like Bush did. Maybe we need to Plant a Bush among our enemies.
Ahhh but the Full Moon-  howling the Constitution as if we should return to rule by rich white men and slavery, and obedience to the almighty dollar. Ruining healthcare reform because Insurance Companies want to kick sick children out of coverage; .convincing Americans that they have lost freedom - to dump their illnesses until death upon the public by not having healthcare insurance [ I suspect next will be a lets all start smoking and drunk driving while fondling our big guns] and when the finally invent the laser gun that can incinerate a man or building...they will be there to insist there is a right to bear arms.I am surprised we don't all get to own a nuke.
Turning down rapid rail funds in Florida- thousands of jobs hundreds of careers, because it was a Democrat idea...well if you had any ideas besides becoming a pimple on the butt of progress GOP, you would not be who you are--- howling at full moon, always a full moon in Republican-land

Poetry

Now I lay me down to blog
another Right Wing failure to flog
but it is is not so satsfying you see
their mistakes come with a heavy fee

and somehow the point of blame is lost
when the least of us must bear the cost
and watch our futures drift out to sea
to fill ambitious eyes in some other country

and weren't these the same oil brained folks
who cracked our heads like eggs and yolks
to make an omelette of a world of pain
and now they've gone and done it again

first New Orleans sunk beneath the sea
then they hanged old Saddam for our security
and the people who really brought towers down
make GOP campaign footage in turbins and frowns

and there we sit naked, befuddled, and not amused
its our own government got us feeling so abused
and now someone inflates bad mortgage debts
walks off with billions of dollars, no regrets

no... those are left for us to hold near broken hearts
where the sun don't shine, just like some other parts
of the anatomy my left foot would like to see
ohhh, don't let this Administration anywhere near me!

I'd forget about rhymes, and niceties
and remember old grey heads, salty seas
and how my only dearly beloved country
became a hog trough for the GOP

oh man...this election is getting to me!

Something Nice...

I promised I would say something nice today, after being rather...honest ... about Governor what's -her- name... so here goes...

From deep in the bowels of the body of diminished expectation, rumbled the McCain Campaign and a flighty air of wind emerged to paint the election in a color like polluted water from failure to control chemical runoffs; like tinged sunsets from the lack of improved air pollution controls on auto emissions; like the feeling over the human body when exposed to spent kerosene from buses and jet planes. Like the miasma over a nation when mortgage calls dismantle neighborhoods, and the flat blunt hammer fall on the skull of the country when proud financial institutions seem to crumble and fall...like the uneasy feeling when espying rust on an aging bridge or feeling it wobble while idling next to a eighteen-wheels and two containers of cargo that gets more expensive by the mile as oil prices increase during our business day.

How the evening ride home from work can cost more than the ride in, and the little man who changes the gasoline price board has a permanent crick in his neck. From the spasmodic death throes of a misadventure in Iraq, ending with the birth of yet another nation to drain our wealth for oil, and all the forgotten families who gave the lives of their children for a war in error, for the vast portions of the wealth of a great nation now on deposit in the accounts of the friends of a purely political day; now rises the sound of the man who would lead us, and the free world into the future....

he said...TIME OUT!

Well ....time out can be something nice, especially when you are hopelessly confused and overwhelmed.

The Bail Out...!!!

I know I promised to deal with guns, second amendment ya-da yada- but something else caught my eyes, and kind of...hmm... set my thoughts on fire... From the proposed financial bailout legislation:

Section 8[ no kidding it's really called section 8]
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

So lets see, we give $700 Billion dollars, [well hundred billion here , there pretty soon it is serious money,] for the cleanup of financial collapse amongst some large ...huge institutions; and those pieces of commercial paper, notes, financial instruments to be dealt with, assets worth $billions...and the stories they might tell of excess and crimes...and even more the Executives... a few Republicans in the bunch, might even have a special "dubya" on the MSN contact list...well they might walk away with golden retirements and bonuses and new solvent companies, debt free; all wrong-doing buried away, forgiven and forgotten...Oh, so much food in this trough ...its like Christmas in September... It's like Iraq without bombers...and the watch word is TRUST ME ....

I THINK WE NEED TO MOVE THE ELECTIONS CLOSER, I THINK WE CAN DO IT TUESDAY...DONT YOU? uh, Mr. Obama...sir, are you busy next Tuesday?

The Red Sea

Looking at the electoral map theses days is the feeling of Moses and the Exodus, the Red Sea looms like a great obstacle and there are long knives at our backs, thundering hooves, armies and minions of...Yikes !! I scared myself!!!

Republicans, not much use to themselves these days, crumbling economy, wall street collapses, failing confidence in the Son of a Bush Administration, he seems to be in hiding considering how many urgent things need his attention: Housing Mortgage crisis, housing mortgage crisis part 2[Fannie Mae], banking crisis Midwest bank failures, Bigger financial institution crises... it rained in Houston and gasoline doubled... If only we had a government to look after at least a few of these.

Now to the elections and Republicans in a punt/give up year put McCain out there, the sense was that Obama/Clinton would be undeniable, and in four years blame the whole mess on them...and win then...McCain names Governor What's -her-Name...and suddenly all those people who wanted a way to avoid voting for a Democrat, a progressive, a brilliant and able man, A GOOD DANCER, a family man whose family actually seems to love him...and a Black candidate now they have an excuse...elect the first woman, Vice President. Some ideas sound good until you look at them, Rosa Parks, Fannie Hamer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Jordan, Barbara Boxer, Eleanor Holmes Norton...so many strong worthy women...but Governor "I promise I will learn about the Bush doctrine/Iraq war" ... no, not the woman we had in mind, more like the Mother Teresa story played by Betty Boop.

Conversation with a wall...

More deadly than a speeding bullet...the unused ballot; and it is still a problem of great significance. So many have had to struggle to obtain the right to vote. The men and women who fought the Revolution...starved and froze in poorly fed and un-housed winters, I'm here to tell you it is as cold as ice in Pennsylvania winters...well those people were denied the right to vote. Yes they defeated England only to have Jefferson, Washington and others tell them they were not responsible enough to choose their leaders. And it is still true today, a group of Conservative rich white men tell the rest of us we cannot choose the leader...WE DON'T ELECT THE PRESIDENT...the empty spaces in Wyoming and desert in Nevada chooses...Electoral votes choose the President not votes...so now thanks to the brave soldiers of the revolution, who raised hell...after the war too...at least we can vote for the Electors, but the empty land still has more say than people.
So Bush One and the Disastrous Son of a Bush, along with the incredible Reagan were elected by tumble weed- covered desert in the west, and that solid south thing ...which brings me to another THING ...Southern Men, VOTING RIGHT WING ... talk about a group that follows a leader... oh, my!...hope this year they finally lose the lemming act and think, chew gum, and vote...I mean really...is enough...enough!!! WHAT IS SO APPEALING ABOUT WAR AND FAILURE ANYWAY...just for variety, eight years of peace and prosperity... come on guys...health insurance for all deer hunters...what do you say???

Three AM...a Prayer and a Story

Time to get seriously funny here...somebody thinks Governor What's-her- Name is a useful fixture on the national stage...and I agree the race needs a woman principal. Someone to represent the past- to- present denial of national office to women. Frances Perkins was a woman Secretary of Labor, there is now a woman Secretary of State, members of the Supreme Court, U.S. Senators and too many Governors and Congress people to mention...ALL OF WHOM ARE MORE QUALIFIED TO BE ON THE NATIONAL TICKET THAN GOVERNOR WHAT'S- HER -NAME,...so who's on first? Is McCain still ticking and the potential second string leader of the free world is going to read up on the Bush Doctrine and the war in Iraq.

Reagan proved you don't really need a President, Bush proved we can survive the worst of them...but human nature is unpredictable, the future too...crises might develop, and that dread nuclear call at three AM[they always happen at 3 AM] and the hot line is answered by ...oh my...I'm in a sweat, what a day-mare... I dreamed that major banks failed and it rained near Houston...gasoline doubled again...and Governor What's -her -Name was answering the President's phone...pinch me quick somebody... ice water in the face...
It is truly time to pray now... Next winter, late January...Some cold Alaska morning, that we will wake up and find she is still Governor of remedial reading ... Amen

right to bear arms

The founding fathers had not seen my fellow Americans driving cars, sixty mph on the next man or woman's bumper, teenagers with beer or marijuana, behind the wheel; middle aged men in pickup trucks and slow reflexes, with beer and amphetamines, behind the wheel; soccer moms with multitasked lists for their multitask lists, on the cell phone, behind the wheel; and of course: can you say ROAD RAGE...sooo if they act this way with their cars, a State licensed but dangerous instrumentality, why should I trust them with handguns [as an idea i would describe it in two words: IN SANE]. Yet, the wise justices of our Supreme Court ( and this is only a name has nothing to do with how good they are) had enacted just such a thing, but before I get into it, next blog, maybe... back to the founding fathers. They passed the Second Amendment after the Revolution and to give rights to the men who fought the war; something they had neglected to do...the right to vote for example was limited to men who owned property or wealth of certain types or amounts, most of those fellows who shivered and starved at Valley Forge didn't qualify to vote, imagine a democracy where the citizens don't get to vote for their President...oooops... Florida... Bush Brothers...[that could be a movie sort of like the James Gang]...oh well...the right to bear arms, the militia.. if they had wanted every one to have a right to own a gun, couldn't they have just ...said so...Every man has a right from God to own a gun...they didn't; soooo wonder why the US Supreme Court finally found an individual freedom that they liked... they didn't much care for speech, or privacy, or all those freedoms lost to the WAR BY tERROR ... OK ...NEXT TOPIC ...the new right to bear arms, or how much is that armor in the window?