OK, see! See! I've been saying this until I'm blue in the face. I feel like the Boy Who Cried Wolf/ Chicken Little, and whatever else naysayer...Yes, Obama was the only choice. Yes his regime will be better than anything the Cheney/Bushites can put together with all their money and guile. Yes, McCain is a tool- the only maverick in him is the TV show from the 60's. Yes Palin is an idiot, but so's the average uninformed voter...
And YES, Obama is a Chicago politician! With one hand he pats the baby, while the other steals the lollipop! He will do and say whatever he can to gain consensus. He blew it with his lack of leadership in the face of a crumbling Republican party. If he couldn't seize the day in his first year, the next 3 will be hell to pay. And pay and pay. He will finally blur the last difference between the major parties..
Off shore drilling was inevitable. We won't do a thing about our petroleum use until gasoline reaches $6 per gallon. But by then, we will be well entrenched, poised to do a classic pincer movement on Iran. Cannons to the left of them, cannons to the right of them, onward the Forlorn Hope...
31 March 2010
17 March 2010
It does take a lot to laugh and a train to cry....
Why do we feel life is an endlessly boring loop of days crashing into days, indistinguishable from each other? One- two- three- four, as a troop marching in lock step, as a faceless crowd shuffling along a crowded sidewalk, as gray nameless workers trudging into the factories, as if days were marking time to our inevitable end? Why do we feel that some "thing", or some "one" will provide the answers and everything will be alright? "We" hold the only answer.
Why this? Why do we feel this, act this, do this? Modern psychology can find patterns of human behavior, psychiatry can find dozens of maddening theories for individual behavior, but no research measurement can explain why we think the way we do. We are overly complicated organisms, far beyond the daily needs of our hunter-gatherer pre-history. We have modern machinery to perform our most thankless tasks, provide our meals, transportation, and comforts. We are no longer slaves to the animalist fight or flight syndrome. So we think, and we dream philosophies. We see the stars, we reach for the stars. There is nothing left to conquer.
Nothing to conquer but ourselves. We invent gods and demons to guide us. We invent stories to instruct us, we invent knowledge to inform us, we invent ourselves to fulfill us. Life is somewhere between two metaphysical planes of nothingness. We experience time between birth and death, that is all. How we relate to this experience is what we do. As if life were a train trip between borders...Our ticket allows us to sit at a window watching the scenery, or enjoying the ride by seeing other things on the train itself. We can walk along the aisles and corridors, visiting the other travelers, seeing other coaches and berths, watching the conductors and engineers work the train's machinery. We can fill our lives with these travels and travelers, finding our joy and happiness in the journey.
For the destination arrives much to early- and the ride is over...
Why this? Why do we feel this, act this, do this? Modern psychology can find patterns of human behavior, psychiatry can find dozens of maddening theories for individual behavior, but no research measurement can explain why we think the way we do. We are overly complicated organisms, far beyond the daily needs of our hunter-gatherer pre-history. We have modern machinery to perform our most thankless tasks, provide our meals, transportation, and comforts. We are no longer slaves to the animalist fight or flight syndrome. So we think, and we dream philosophies. We see the stars, we reach for the stars. There is nothing left to conquer.
Nothing to conquer but ourselves. We invent gods and demons to guide us. We invent stories to instruct us, we invent knowledge to inform us, we invent ourselves to fulfill us. Life is somewhere between two metaphysical planes of nothingness. We experience time between birth and death, that is all. How we relate to this experience is what we do. As if life were a train trip between borders...Our ticket allows us to sit at a window watching the scenery, or enjoying the ride by seeing other things on the train itself. We can walk along the aisles and corridors, visiting the other travelers, seeing other coaches and berths, watching the conductors and engineers work the train's machinery. We can fill our lives with these travels and travelers, finding our joy and happiness in the journey.
For the destination arrives much to early- and the ride is over...
08 March 2010
Health reform? FUBAR!
There is no health crisis. It's a leadership crisis...
Fearless Leader's latest speech has him casting dispersions on the health insurance companies, accusing them of the sin of taking profits over people.
Profits over people??? No way! Oh wait, isn't that the 'Merkan way? Sure it is. The prez is s'posd to be a tough nut raised in Chicago politics. Too bad it doesn't translate into the national arena.
His influence and abilities are rapidly eroding. Infighting, bi-partisanism, and lack of leadership is rendering him impotent to pull us out of the quagmire the previous regime put us into. Instead we sink deeper into economic malaise and two war fronts that cannot be won.
His effectiveness as a strong and focused visionary is gone. He, and the "new" Democrats have proven once again: Politics as usual. FUBAR.
There really is no difference in the two political parties. One is spend and tax. The other is tax and spend. We have met the enemy and they is us.
Fearless Leader's latest speech has him casting dispersions on the health insurance companies, accusing them of the sin of taking profits over people.
Profits over people??? No way! Oh wait, isn't that the 'Merkan way? Sure it is. The prez is s'posd to be a tough nut raised in Chicago politics. Too bad it doesn't translate into the national arena.
His influence and abilities are rapidly eroding. Infighting, bi-partisanism, and lack of leadership is rendering him impotent to pull us out of the quagmire the previous regime put us into. Instead we sink deeper into economic malaise and two war fronts that cannot be won.
His effectiveness as a strong and focused visionary is gone. He, and the "new" Democrats have proven once again: Politics as usual. FUBAR.
There really is no difference in the two political parties. One is spend and tax. The other is tax and spend. We have met the enemy and they is us.
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