The world is one seriously messed up place right now.
Cities in the desert are buying hovercrafts.
Cops are assaulting children, arresting Harvard professors for daring to be at home, and tasing people up the @$$ for trying to breathe while multiple officers sit on his back.
The news media is reporting on how many Republican votes Ms. Sotomayor is likely to receive for confirmation, when all she has to do is carry the Democratic votes. That’s the point of being the majority.
Mayors, legislators, and — get this — Rabbis are caught up in a money laundering and organ-legging scheme! It sounds more like the beginning of a joke than an actual FBI sting. You couldn’t run that as an episode of Law’n Order because it is too incredible.
Seven more banks failed this weekend, and nobody is asking how it is that the biggest banks can possibly be doing so well. Could it be that some of those big banks are skimming money off everyone else’s transactions? And of course, screwing all of us little people in the process.
It turns out that Former Vice President Cheney was all for sending troops into American homes and streets to root out terrorists, and he was very upset with President Bush for refusing to pardon Scooter Libby (by golly, Mr. Bush did two things right!). What I hope this is a beginning for is building a mountain of evidence against Mr. Cheney so there are limited political overtones to prosecuting his misconduct.
Jimmy Carter, who I thought was an idiot when I was 11, is now a wise man thirty years later. And he has gotten tired of religion being used as a club with which to beat women down.
Which brings me oddly enough to 4 boys luring an 8 year old girl to a storage shed with a promise of chewing gum and then raping her until her screams attracted attention. When the cops told her parents what had happened, they told the cops to keep her! She — by being a helpless victim who couldn’t possibly have known better — had brought them shame! Even the leader of the country they came from said that was just plain wrong.
That last one is just wrong on so many levels I have no idea where to start. It’s just picking at the yarns until the whole sweater unravels. The nicest thing I can say is that at least it happened in this nation, where we have services in place to help victimized children. In her homeland she would have become homeless, and very likely victimized over and over.
Every time I look at the news, there is something else. I should seriously step away from the computer if things are going to be this way very long.
Next time, stitching together employment, wages, health insurance, and the impending screw-job that politicians are calling health care reform.
In Closing: Pass ID is really no better than the Real ID it may replace; some people will only believe false things more if you try to reason with them; global warming is really real; and this guy claims to be allergic to WiFi. Um, sure.