Archive → August, 2008
Greatest Country on Earth, lol
America is not even the greatest country in North America. Poverty, wages, unemployment, health insurance, are all trending in the wrong directions. Read this.
Bush is the worst President in US History and McCain will continue the misery. However, this may just be the America that the majority wants. Maybe the turning point issue is abortion — lol — let those babies starve, not have health insurance when they turn 18, but there better be no abortions. Why? Because God doesn’t want any abortions! You couldn’t make up such nonsense if you tried.
We are going to find out in November who America wants (or at least the part of America that votes). If McCain is the person that America elects then so be it. I thought Bush was Hoover but maybe McCain will be Hoover. If McCain is elected, let’s start putting up the tents under the bridges, along the interstates, and on the grass in front of city halls. Let the police take thousands off to jail because they have no place to live and little to eat.
The Federal government is $10 Trillion in debt. California has a $16 Billion deficit this years and lots of stuff is being cut. Let the poor people starve because if you don’t have money in America then you don’t deserve to live.
America is the greatest country on earth — yeah, right!
More US Spying
America’s demise continues with Bush trying to do even more spying on US citizens. Everybody should be afraid but not about foreign terrorists — instead, people like Bush and those Republicans who say they are for freedom and liberty but really mean totalitarianism. It should remind all of us of Nazis who were also right wing fanatics. America is doomed.
American Dream is Dead
Foreclosures way up and 2.8 million homes still at risk for foreclosure over the next year. Inflation up nearly 6% year over year, as reported this morning. Meanwhile, unemployment is increasing and systemic lower wage trends continue. But that’s ok because in America only the strongest are suppose to survive. Meanwhile, one of the weak lost his job and went down the street and killed somebody else and was then killed by the police.
World War III is a comin’
It now appears clear that World War III will be composed of China, Russia, and Iran against the US, Israel, and Western Europe. The smaller countries will get it started and then the big ones will join in. Plenty of nuclear and biological weapons on both sides. It is going to be ugly, but it will stop the world from worrying about global warming, oil prices, or much else.
No more Mad
Many of my posts have been from an angry place. We’ll — no more angry for me. I am entering the acceptance phase that America is doomed and there is no stopping it. It won’t be stopped by a political candidate, because politics are corrupting even when candidates have the best intentions. Perhaps, it is because money equals power in America and the people with money want their influence and privilege.
I still hope that Obama wins, because I think America will have a better chance if he does. However, I doubt that it will really change anything significant over the long term. I’m not saying that new laws won’t be passed, because they will. It might even take a while for corporations to regroup and they may have to pass a few amendments along the way but in the end America will privilege the few and neglect the many.
The good news is that there are plenty of happy people who have been discarded by America.
The better news for me is I don’t care any more.
I got mine, so screw you
The real American motto:
I got mine, so screw you
This is a variation of the popular
Everybody should just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps
It seems to be pretty easy for the privledge in the US to extort that it was just their hard work and smarts that resulted in their success. Most of us know this isn’t true. It usually involves the family they were born in and the privledges they received before they could even tie their own shoes. Throw in a big helping of greed that virtually all large corporations subscribe to and you have Republicans.
It’s done — Obama will pick Bayh
Put a fork in it — it is done. Obama-Bayh will be the ticket. Well, I don’t like it at all. Bayh is ok but Obama should have picked Hillary. Why? Because the primary was nearly tied and the voters picked Clinton as the VP. Obama should have offered it to her immediately and let her decide whether she wanted it. Instead, there is unending drama over this issue as McCain continues to improve in the polls. Hillary tried to explain in the primary that Obama wasn’t ready for the attacks the Republicans would make. Pretty clear now that she was right. Meanwhile, Edwards little news about baby mama that if disclosed prior to Iowa may have changed the nomination in a significant way. Well, Obama can still be elected but given that this should have been a landslide year for Democrats, it is disheartening that some old war mongering fart like McCain can still be in this and could even win. I guess the old joke is right — Democrats will always fail they just never know how they will do it.
Edwards and America’s Pseudo Morality
Let’s be clear. Edwards was scum for cheating on his wife. Elizabeth should kick his butt to the curb because John is a bad husband. Yet, this is up to Elizabeth and John; however, I think it is ridiculous to conclude Edwards would not be a good President just because he can’t keep his penis in check. I think Edwards’ views on poverty, corporate greed, etc. are all well reasoned and have nothing to do with his willingness to cheat on his wife. Meanwhile, Nixon and W probably never had an affair and they were some of the worst Presidents ever.
I am often reminded that the religious right who are condemning John for infidelity are all in favor of capital punishment, denying health care to all Americans which lead to many deaths each year, and paying employees at Walmart a non-living wage, Each of these examples are more immoral that what John “I can’t control my penis” Edwards did.
America is on some big moral high horse which is just another manifestation of the crazy religious component of America life. I’m surprise we don’t still stone people for infidelity. However, it might be hard for John to be able to tell the difference politically. Meanwhile, Europe scratches their head trying to figure out what was so wrong about what John did.