On My Head...Again

How many times must the world turn upside down before we Americans awake from our self induced slumbers? Can't someone just start the revolution?
I ponder this as we approach the 2nd week of NFL football, the national distraction de jour.
Because some off the field meathead, that is to say, one of the ardent fans in the stands, was able to get into a NY Jet game with a taser device and use it on another fan with whom he had a difference of opinion, the NFL will now require all fans above the age of one week to be frisked from the ankles up before being allowed into any NFL game.

Some suggest this is at the direction of Big Sis, the head of Homeland Security, but in any case it is just one more demonstration of how the phony war on terror continues to chip away at our quickly vanishing freedoms.

Personally, I would boycott NFL games as long as they carry out such an infringement of citizens' rights. Since I don't buy NFL tickets or any other NFL merchandise, the best I can do is not watch any games on TV. A small, pitiful course of action, but morally imperative.

If only everyone with a ticket to a game this weekend stayed home in protest. How glorious a flip of the bird that would be.

If only.

I may as well expect the next Perdue oven roaster I purchase to come stuffed with a golden egg.

                                                                         

All of this, laughably, in the name of protecting our freedom.

How sad it is to contemplate the degree to which we have turned our back on our great heritage. We are fast approaching the point of no return and the powers and dominions behind the curtain rub their hands in glee.

The powers and dominions who buy power with others' blood, mostly innocent for all it matters. To wit, an article about another article that explains this better than I can.

(It is a sad state of affairs when I find myself  agreeing with a liberal columnist who writes for the nefarious NY Times.)  http://www.prisonplanet.com/stuck-pigs-and-presstitutes-squeal.html

FYI, the photo to the right is reportedly of two NY Giant fans from the North Bronx who refused to be patted down before the game in D.C. Their whereabouts are unknown, but the bars were made in China.

We will get what we deserve.

Politicians:They're All Whores

I know, I know. A harsh word with connotations of immorality and willful self degradation, but then again, I am referring to our political class, our leaders and public exemplars. Take the above pictured twosome...please, somebody take them...apologies to Henny Youngman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVGVJGX--o0

Different parties, same corruption. The Washington fat cats and their cronies take turns blasting one another for public consumption, for the folks back home and then go play a few rounds of golf at their exclusive club and devise new ways to rob us all.

There are answers of course, ways to greatly reduce, if not completely eliminate the corruption. Things like term limits, let's say two 4 four year terms for president; one 6 year term for senator and 2 or 3 two year terms for congressmen. And, let's have full disclosure of :
Financial records

Medical records

Educational records

(goes for spouses as well)

If elected, all assets go into a blind trust and upon leaving office, all financial records are again revealed.
all of the above also applies to all cabinet members and presidential appointments.

While I'm at it, judges cannot reverse any thing resulting from a popular election unless they can point out in the constitution exactly where the issue in question is clearly forbidden.

But, I am deluded. I forget reality at times...more and more it seems...and begin to believe that...fill in a name...will prove to be that rarest of things, an honest politician.
Jesus said to beware of false prophets, yet we never learn. We seek salvation in all the wrong places and fall for sweet nothings gently whispered in our gullible ears.
                                                                             
Who will be our next savior? Who will replace the annointed one in our never ending cavalcade of corrupt leaders? Is there a chance that someone will emerge from the current crop of ego drenched would be saviors who will prove to be deserving to serve us as our president?

No News Is Good News

Hurricane Irene news coverage was 24/7 for several days.
What happened to the rest of the news? Did the world stop spinning except for Irene's path?

This proves that with the exception of cataclysmic events, there is really no news worth paying attention to. Existence did not cease when other stories were not reported. Politics, sports, entertainment, etc. are non events that repeat in endless cycles and  only serve to distract us from the issues that matter: raising families, growing foodstuffs, building shelters, helping our neighbors, preparing for the next life and so on.

Stop wasting precious time watching the unnecessary stream of bilge that is not even information in any meaningful sense, let alone knowledge, but only useless bits of radio wave data that should be allowed to pass into deep space without any interference from humans.

Such useless data is bad enough for our mental and emotional health, but there is a fatal physical price to pay as well.

With the constant stream of electromagnetism and radiation passing through our skulls on a daily basis via radio, television, earphones, cell phones, computers, headphones, video games, neighborly gossip, etc., we will eventually burn out our brains and wind up true empty heads.

The End of the World As We Know It

...not really, but consider:
Within the same week an earthquake, a hurricane and a small tornado all in Maryland . Gadzooks!
I am beginning to think the 'end of the worlders' might be on to something.
Meanwhile...

The Mexican government, in conjunction with its leading scientists, is publicizing the 2012 Mayan prediction that the world will end sometime in December of next year. They claim to be deadly serious. They also want  to attract tourists, make money, and help the Mexican economy.

What the hell?

If the Mayans are correct and the earth's poles will shift and everything but life at the equator will be wiped out, why is the Mexican government looking to make money? Are they planning to take it with them?

One good thing about the end of the world is it will resolve our economic woes and rid us once and for all of politicians.
As for me, I'm just waiting for football to begin and looking forward to Autumn leaves and the holidays and when our newest family member, Augie Doggie, is house broken and stops peeing in the kitchen.

Maybe by December, 2012.