Mississippi Red Queen

About a year ago I read a poem about an infantry company whose C.O. implored his men to keep sloshing across a Vietnamese river. A platoon sergeant and the rest of the company followed the captain cautiously until he was chest deep whereupon the officer was swept away and never seen again. Oh, to see art which mimicked life truly imitate it in our present war. I am sure it will happen metaphorically to the New Big Dummy, but I am afraid it will not be enough to end the war or stop the cretins who feed off of it.

The Rethugs are already shopping their latest meme about; GWB is actually a "liberal." Jettisoning Bush is no problem to a culture with no soul. The corporatizing of the government is nearly complete and the mindless voting of the base of the GOP (christianists) will probably be enough to keep the party afloat until the final curtain. No applause please, just throw money...

I have tried and tried and tried to patiently inform the people I know that republicans have no intention of preserving this republic (irony.) I have done this to the detriment of my relationships with family, friends, employment and career, finances and marriage. Quite the superduperfecta if I say so myself. Anyway, as I mentioned above, the Tholian Web is nearly completed and for the life of me I have no concern for me and only a benign indifference to what our future will be.

I close with a quote I read by Digby.

I'm not big on blog triumphalism, but if there is one thing we bring to the table it's that our distance from that milieu brings some perspective to it. And from where I sit we have a decadent elite who rule on behalf of a political party that finds authoritarianism quite appealing --- as long as they aren't personally subject to it. Pardon me for thinking that might not be the best thing for the country.

Fear as a Break from Greed

The GOP (god's only party) has two, count them , two features that are the crux of their platform and the seeding of their base. From the selfish and affluent to the ignorant, bigoted poor and middle class they screech their gospel of hate and money. They are about physical power without any trppings of intelligent discourse. It is raw and in your face. Some say this process took 30 years and I say that the GOP has been around since even before Roman times in one form or another. The "god people" and the "gated ones" will never be convinced that they may be wrong or that logic, fact or common sense mean anything different in context and truth than their opinion. They are absolutely, positively right because they have MORE god or money than the rest of us.
You know I have never had a dull day because of these two groups. It would be splendidly humorous in a side-splitting way if it were not for the fact that these are the people who create our laws and with straight-faced seriousness refer to themselves as the "grown-ups." Well, keep my ass parked at the kiddy table because I am going to stay a toys r us kid forever. Fuck these people and fuck most of the rest of you schmucks because you tolerate this bullshit. Well, toleration just got you over 3$ a gallon at the pump and god will be coming to a school and public area near you (e.g. Grand Canyon National Park.)
Alas, the irony is all but lost in the feverish pitch for blood and treasure. Fact: the cycle of poverty in this country, and in the world, will never be broken if the majority of its people continue to vote and work under conditions which are against their own self interests. Also, for sublime irony you just have to admire (with a sick feeling in your gut no less) the sheer audacity of the names these cretins give things. "Right to work" state means the employer can fire you any time he wants for no reason; "right to fire" would be more appropriate. "Healthy forests" mean cut the buggers down as fast as we can. "Clean air" means lowering the EPA standards. It goes on and on and on and on...
WAKE UP ASSHOLES, they are coming after your children and grandchildren next. They don't just want your money, they want your service in the never ending war against verbs or things. A final irony: they only make up at most 25% of our population, yet they will bury us in the rubble caused by their blindered rush to jump the cliff. You have been warned again. You were warned each of these previous times by me and my voice was unheard. Nixon, Reagan, Bush !, Bush !!... A common thread is woven at the sheer mention of these names.

One Down, 45 million or so to go...

No more polluting of our brains via god's voice on Earth. It has called him away and I am thankful. Just another grave to dance on before I too shed this mortal shell. I really, really, really did not like this man. He was the carnival barker that spoke hate to millions and in turn made millions off of these shills. I will put aside my liberal anger for a wee nano-second and look skyward in painless bliss for the world is indeed a better place without Jerry Falwell. Good riddance, asshole...

Dreamer, silly little dreamer...

Can you put your hands on your head?
Oh, no!
Oh, no!

Putting all your Eggs in the Handbasket to Hell

Another Sunday, Easter I think, I am enjoying the calm with my two best companions. The conversation is light and they seem to be more interested in the dinner I prepared, so I do most of the talking. They know me well and give a contributory grunt or nod to my soliloguy during the correct parts so I know they are listening. I love these two and can think of no better way to spend an afternoon than in their company. Thank you my friends, without you I am diminished.
Here's to more Sundays spent in the company of those I love. My Dachsund and JRT are very special and they give their love and trust unconditionally.

Boysenberry Jam

Struggling with many conflicting trends in my personal life. There is no turning back, yet I have to make a go of change. Took in a boarder and now I truly have lost my mind. He is a Gulf War veteran with PTSD and he is way beyond my help. I've counted four different behaviors and none know what responsibility is. I have become irresponsible, not because of him, but in spite of me. I have thrown in the towel. I'll write more when I have recovered some sensibility.

A Question of Balance

There are some jobs in this world that defy imagination and then there are some that are mandatory. There are some that create and others that destroy. Humans work to live. There are no artificial rules to living and the rules (behaviors) that we indeed impose upon ourselves are natural. Society attempts to imposes its will upon us in spite of our natural behavior. The need to codify our rules of living emerged because certain humans needed to preserve the artificial and at the same time needed to justify ignoring the natural. The natural was preserved in the "Golden Rule" and this last vestige of Truth is nothing more than a cheapened ideology which has been coerced by our modern religions, mocked by our economic systems and deadened by the hypocracy of politics.


"The philosphers have interpreted the world in many ways. What matters is changing it."

What has happened is that the natural is no longer inherent within us. We deify the artificial with false myth and immodest hope. Our faith in ourselves is crushed by the seeming immensity of the artificial while apathy and cynicism become our sole (soul) defense. Our charity is measured in bank notes and we can't fathom how or why we feel empty. If there is anyone in this country who is not embarrased and disgusted with our government in at least one of its functions (I really can't think of anything our political parties, especially the Republicans and the neoliberal Democrats, haven't tainted with their backslapping, backsliding back to a time that can never happen again tunnel vision view of a world that is dying.)

Our foreign policy (State) and military (Defense) our two prime examples of this phenomenom. Since when has war become the first option in our diplomacy. Since when are the intelligence branches of our defense department ignored and then belittled to propagandize a war that's only justifications are both too cynical to be spoken aloud because then the men and women who serve honorably in our armed forces would surely feel a bit resentful. Oil and/or global conflaglation are the only two logical explanations I can think of that even come close to rationalizing why the Executive branch unilaterally invaded Iraq and is presently sowing the seeds of war with Iran. We are governed by a cabal of thieves, murderers and liars who have no conscience and, based upon the last six years, no critical thinking skills beyond repetition, no desire to change or admit error.

There is no balance. I'm beginning to question if there ever was. We are not the wonderful democracy loving people we are constantly being told we are. The American Myth is a trip to Disney's Fantasyland complete with marching dwarves, wicked witches and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride off the cliff of reason and into the depths of a Hades Storybookland of hypocracy, hate and selfish Imeminism. Truly, history is meaningless and any thoughtful discourse is ridiculed as we shop and shop and shop. I need to get away before I am translated into the Borg collective.

They truly exist...