Saturday, September 18, 2010

ELITE TEABAGS DOPE(S) AND DELUSION




The bituminous and bumpy road to 2012 is starting to bubble and boil with trouble and toil.

America...
Of what stuff are ye made?

Who shall we Americans put our trust in next?

To whom will we throw our precious marbles in November and 2012?

Will Ethics ever trump the quest for political power?

Will more or fewer politicians transcend their own thirsty Greed for position and power?

Will the election of new Senators and Congressman in November result in those who will defend and fight for the strapped and suffering poor---for the struggling and stymied Middle Class---instead of defending and fighting for the more than comfortable Super-Rich?

Tax what we consume and not our jobs!

Will fear continue to be the dominant sound that is vomited out of clangorous trumpets?

Will the ranting voices of radicals continue to be louder than the calmer notes of humanity and reason?

I fear for America.

I am fearful not because I believe those---or believe in them---whose arrogant and inflated egos are shrieking...

I am fearful because I fear that a growing number of Americans are suspending their critical thinking, and are now swallowing---hook, bait, and sinker---the radical, ruthless and disingenuous rhetoric of demagogues.

If you can't reach out to or teach people with facts, then just keep scaring them with fabrication!

You betcha!

Americans who are out of work will be voting for CHANGE AGAIN, but the change (and changes) that they are yearning and yelling for will not be as important and propitious as the current (and future) HOPE of the Obama administration.

The Tea-Baggers bellow a lot, but mostly for naught.

Their bellowing is not so much for the majority of the American people---or for social-environmental improvements---as it is for just kicking out an authentic and hopeful American who just happens to be black.
Oh, and one must not forget that their braying is also for the very wealthiest who have feathered their nasty nests.

The bigotry and racism of the Tea Party are more powerful than its humanism, but for the sake of the nation, hopefully they are not more persuasive.

The Disaster of the Bush Decade will not disappear with a Tea Party or Republican victory, but if victory is had, the effects of their return to power will repeat a history that cursed our nation in the previous decade.

I'll take the Hope of Democrats over the Change of the Tea Party and GOP anytime.

Friday, September 10, 2010

TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN






He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln

We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln


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To love or not to love?

To understand.

To forgive.

To Transcend...to Transform...to increase the better angels of our nature.

We can tolerate others if they do not harm us.

We cannot tolerate those who want to do us harm.

America was once founded on religious freedom---and yes, the Creator---the Divine Spark, etc.... was mentioned by more than a few of the "Founding Fathers" more often than not.

But things have changed.

Regardless of whether 9-11 was an inside or outside job---THE UNITED STATES DOES HAVE ENEMIES.

All conquering empires have.

But it seems that we now have a surplus.

There are too many reasons to enumerate here in this short letter of (clichés?) aphoristic thoughts.

Is it because of our own expansive and expensive consumption of things?

China would probably say yes, but not criticize this Raison d'être for their own expanding Economy.

We are number one in the World as Over-Consumers.

We must exploit and conquer and contain real estate ( and oil), in order to maintain our expansive and abundant lifestyles.

This might not be bad in itself, except for Wars, Ecological Destruction, etc.

And in order to continue these commodious and consumptive ways of living, we must keep our enemies (competitors?) at bay.

But today, the day before the "anniversary" of September 11, it is as Pogo has told us:

We have met the enemy and he is us.

But more precisely, Pogo, the enemy is Florida preacher Jerry Jones, and all of his (unkind) kind.

Ignorance, Intolerance, Closed-mindedness, and Hatred are as strong an enemy as Al-Qaeda.


IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

Saturday, September 04, 2010

SPEWING SPIGOTS FULL OF BRAIN FREEZES & 2012




bigoted evangelistic
politicians
babbling hate and fear
making people
fearful and hateful
pining for perfect order
for beds of roses
for this and that