Is This the End?

Is This the End?
When the statesmen from the thirteen original colonies, which were to become the United States of America, had compromised mightily, written a constitution, and fought a bitter war, to bring a new nation into being I'll wager they thought they had created something new, special, and unique among the forms of governance upon the Earth. Indeed they had. But where is that ideal, that dream, today? Search near and far, high and low - it is not often you will find it.

The idea of a government existing to serve the citizenry, rather than the other way around, was predicated on having decisions affecting themselves and their neighbors be made by a well informed body of voters. In America, today there is no such group. Although many are legally eligible to vote, only a fairly small fraction of them have spent the time and expended the effort to become even moderately informed. When asked who their governor, or senator, or even who the President of the United States is, many cannot.

Voters today will bemoan the tragic state of our economy, health care, energy, world influence, education, immigration, and infrastructure. Actually, the list could go on at considerable length. They will then aver that we must put a moose shooter in Washington to bring about the needed reforms; and perhaps to safeguard our borders. The result, of course, will be that we will still have a government incapable of changing, but good at shooting moose.

America, WAKE UP! Those who claim you can have change and reform by electing the same party and people who created the current mess, are either crazy or stupid! Any candidate, who says he won't increase taxes, but the other one will, is LYING to you. Do you like being lied to? Do you like being ripped off? If anyone wants to bring about real change, right now, all that it takes to begin is to stop lying; and if this election is decided in favor of the Republican candidate then America will stand in ruins. Will we let that happen?

Should Sara Palin be VP?

Sara Palin has been the governor of the 48th least populated state in the nation for just two years. Only Vermont and N. Dakota have a smaller number of residents (less than 1 million). So what if she has been Commander-in-chief of their National Guard? How often has she called out the guard anyway; except perhaps to spend taxpayer money to rescue those hikers and climbers who are too stupid to take care of themselves?

It is also true that Sara Palin, if she were to become president, would probably saddle us with an ultra-conservative Supreme Court, which has implications for American society for untold years to come.

These are just two of the many questions that ought to be considered. Why do reporters not take these issues seriously? It seems like they just want to see who can cram the most inane questions into the time they are given. Real reporters would tell the truth, the true implications of the voters' choices, and tell us what is really at stake here for our nation's future.

A Year Later and We've Still Got 'em!

Real active Blog, huh? Here it is about a year from my last post and we've still got Bush and Cheney. I suspect that Rove, although officially out, has actually taken up residence somewhere in the Whitehouse; possibly under Bush's pillow. From there he'd be in the best position to whisper nefarious schemes into the ear of the Bush who calls himself the President.

The Olympics have come around again, so it seems fitting that I post something that I wrote four years ago:

If hypocrisy were an Olympic event then Bush, Cheney, and Rove would sweep the medals. The only question would be “In which order?” I was thinking, specifically, about the story on “No Marriage Left Behind”, but just about anything that crew has done would qualify. First they mount a campaign to economically destroy the American middle class, then they produce thousands of war widows, and then they say they want to save marriage. Anybody that can’t see these people for what they are is dumber than a box of rocks. Sadly that encompasses about half of the American electorate.