There's No There There

Torture. Poverty. Governmental debt in the trillions of dollars. Thousands of dead American soldiers, and an Iraq that is moribund and full of horror. The rich get richer, and the poor pay taxes for both. Not one of these stark realities is treated with any seriousness by the news media in this country; ninety percent of our elected officials seem to pretend that nothing awful is happening here. The reason is, I believe, that we no longer live in a serious democracy. We live in a hard-hearted, soft-headed simulacrum of one. The presidential primaries are analyzed (in every sense of the term) and discussed endlessly; faces smile and glad-hand, while the bullshit continues: Nothing grave or presssing, or even informative, is touched on. When are we going to unite and tell those bastards who own our lives that enough is enough, and kick this rotten system to the curb?

The Minutemen: Sturmabteilung of the Falwell Set

The Minutemen are coming! Last night, at the Conway, South Carolina High School* the Minutemen, or as I prefer to call them, the Minute [my-noot] Men held a rally to decry illegal immigration and nail Senator Lindsey Graham's ass to a wall (verbally, at least). I guess his winking at torture is still okay, but his "pro-illegal alien" stance is not, although the crowd seems to forget that politcians are often actors and double dealers (Say it ain't so!) Be that as it may, some bright bulb bemoaned the danger Mexicans pose to "our culture and our way of life," and for the life of me I couldn't discern what culture he was alluding to, since the Euroamericans in the crowd, in my experience, know breathtaking little about the culture of their forebears, and when presented with the liberal, and for the most part tolerant Europe of today seem to react with disgust. As for "our way of life," that's been eroding for decades thanks to the very people the Minutemen idolize: Reagan, the Bush family, white CEOs in general, and tax dollars which pay for huge military boondoggles that only serve to line the pockets of, well, the very people who throw the likes of the Minutemen out of work. But this whole sordid tale is really part of a bigger history, one of divide-and-control that is even more tragic because this one seems voluntary, i.e., the formerly quiescent Heartland has decided to allow the Rich White Gated Community Crowd (TM) that loathes them to once again get richer and more corrupt with nary a complaint from the true Amerkins.

Senate Bill 1959

S. 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Hola, Guerra Sucia*...goodbye Liberty!


* The Dirty War, waged in Argentina for several years after a military coup in March 1976: Some 30,000 people were "disappeared" due to their opposition to fascist control of the country.

Guy-ded Missile

It seems that Mike Huckabee is an avid hunter (Recreational: He doesn't live in the Amazonian jungle). I hope he resolves his sadosexual problems which are closely tied to his hobby. If he ever becomes president, ol' Huckabee Hound just might decide to launch a few rounds of uranium, followed by a messy orgasm. I don't think we need that...