Truth, again lifted from Der Spiegal….
What a nice club that is. A club of liars, cheaters, adulterers, exaggerators, hypocrites and ignoramuses. “A starting point for a chronicle of American decline,” was how David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, described the current Republican race.
The Tea Party would take issue with that assessment. They cheer the loudest for the worst, only to see them fail, as expected, one by one. Which goes to show that this “movement,” sponsored by Fox News, has never been interested in the actual business of governing or in the intelligence and intellect that requires. They are only interested in marketing themselves, for ratings and dollars.
So the US elections are a reality show after all, a pseudo-political counterpart to the Paris Hiltons, Kim Kardashians and all the “American Idol” and “X Factor” contestants littering today’s TV. The cruder, the dumber, the more bizarre and outlandish — the more lucrative. Especially for Fox News, whose viewers were recently determined by Fairleigh Dickinson University to be far less informed than people who don’t watch TV news at all.
Maybe that’s the solution: Just ignore it all, until election day. Good luck with that — this docudrama with its soap-opera twists is way too enthralling. The latest rumor du jour involves a certain candidate who long ago seemed to have disappeared from the radar. Now she may be back, or so it is said, to bring order into this chaos. Never mind that her name is synonymous with chaos: Sarah Palin.
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December 5, 2011 at 10:26 am
anonymous
Ignore nothing.
Republicans – chaotic and greed driven: The deadliest bad actors of the lot.
A popular TV freak show, is the obsessive/compulsive hoarders. One wonders that republicans are consumed by the disease and compelled beyond rational behavior, to ignore the fate of their own families, fellow Americans, all mankind and life on the planet – by the hope of collecting and hoarding millions of dollars yearly, accumulating billions, in an attempt to shield themselves from their innermost fears and demons.
Republicans remind one of the rodent hoarders, rotten food hoarders, trash hoarders of TV fame who would ignore all safety measures, the safety of their (loved? ha) ones, their neighbors, the attempts of government to regulate such violations, as they are compelled to climb across their stinking, ceiling high stash of rags, excrement, plastic bottles, dead vermin and abused pets, choosing instead – life ruled by their almighty hoard of necessity.
Hoarders will put safety of children, family, structures, life itself, after… their hoard of contaminated wares, if at all.
Earth is the home to seven billion humans, (not to be ignored, along with other forms of life of the earth’s natural environments.) If not compelled by the senselessness of their diseased minds, why would republicans have their files and record overflowing with demands for more smokestacks to the sky when clean energy must be developed; why the contaminated battles to keep deadly dioxin chemical by-products, (that earned them billions,) in unlined, illegal dump sites to compromise rivers, aquifers? Why the bloody oil war in the wrong country? Why was a plan even pushed, to bring hazardous waste VX across the country, to a ‘industrially’ contaminated (once grand) River? Why dump radioactive and dioxin wastes in drainage ditches and say it’s OK? Why plan for massive LNG shipments with uncontrollable security, explosive, 2 mile wide, flesh burning capabilities, along schools, towns, important infrastructures, a half mile from nuclear reactors in populated areas? Why still unfathomably rail against clean energy start ups; fight for more CO2 greenhouse free releasing; endlessly demanding de regulation and lobby influence for lack of governmental supervision? To make, hoard more money.
As man made CO2 has surpassed the tipping point; when uncontrollable, un calculable amounts of methane is being presently released from melting tundra bogs, oceans and lake bottoms; when forests are dying, burning; dead zones are forming; wildlife is vanishing; when ice caps, the Arctic and areas around the globe are melting faster than imagined possible by the world’s leading scientists; as droughts, floods, monster storms are starving multi millions made homeless, as millions are forced to migrate – why do republicans still demand, that climate change is a hoax, clean energy isn’t necessary; spending multi millions to keep the lies alive, as their hearts still pound greedily to the republican chant, drill baby, frack baby, burn baby. Thar’s money to be made burning them fossil fuels and ain’t it grandly, repulsively obnoxious?
Should we ignore the deadly, insatiable, mindless, soulless – money hoarders contaminating the earth’s natural systems?
One sees that with psychologists, therapists, family, trash hullers, empty dump trucks in tow, the common trash hoarder will eventually break down, come ‘clean’ and expose themselves as forsaking all, over a handful of crumpled cellophane, a contaminated, empty plastic ‘necessity’ of choice, (and will resume re-hoarding as soon as possible.) Imagine the energy needed to convince one pollution, wealthy, hoarding republican; one poor, propaganda crazed tea partier or hungry, obliging official, of what is actually most important – that life of the planet comes before enabling the deadly, money hoarder. Now imagine an entire political party controlled by money hoarders who have and seek continuing control of our government. This is not to be ignored.
Surely the money hoarders are wholly aware of the fate of mankind yet their pampered minds imagine that they will be able to buy their way out of it, much as they are used to buying their way through life’s little un pleasantries. Certainly they are the most dangerous class, deeply, catastrophically out of touch with reality.
Vote-needy republicans will not ignore the power of each tea vote as the show hit the road.
Nothing gets republicans up, cheering, stumping their feet, waving the flag for pollution rich money hoarders, like drill baby Sarah (and her ilk.) who would not ignore all that hoarded cash but instead get on the travelling bus tour for a star role in the theater of the freaky/comedy/reality/republican/horror show – As the World Melts.
December 6, 2011 at 10:12 am
Duffy
“A man who does not read the newspapers is uninformed. A man who reads the newspapers is misinformed.” – Anon