Awakenings

Isn't it amazing that it took the election of America's first black president for people to sit up and notice that there were things that weren't quite right in this country?

Did you know, for example, that we are being TAXED TO DEATH!? When did THAT happen??!!

Everything was fine on January 19th of 2009. Then, the next day, all holy hell broke loose with taxes, depression/recessions. TWO WARS! Where did THOSE come from!!?? Unemployment. Two thirds of the big three automakers went bankrupt. Banks failed. Wall Street collapsed. What a horrible day!

Worse than all of the above, we overnight became a nation being forced on a death march into muslimness/communist/fascist/socialist/gay-marrying/abortion-having.FEMA deathcamp-living...liberalness...

All in one day! When the sun rose that dark day on the 20th, America as we knew it, ceased to exist.

There are threads were I can write shit like that and excite people as long as I sign myself in with a nom de Topix like "I HATE LIBS". Some people swallow that hook, line and sinker because they want to or because so many people post such nonsense that even the free-thinking among us have become so desensitized to the radical right that, well, stuff like that no longer surprises.

Can you imagine that a word like "progressive" is now being uttered as if it were a perjorative? I wonder how the folks at Progressive Auto Insurance or any company that has advertised itself as progressive feels about this. I had never heard the connotation or denotation of the word as a bad thing in my life until I saw a clip of Glenn Beck denouncing liberals as "progressive".

Progress. When in the history of the world has THAT ever been a bad thing?

I get 99.9% of my FOXNEWS from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. He presents it in such a way that I can stomach it. I've watched enough of FOXNEWS in person to know that it's not for me. I don't care much for MSNBC or CNN either. They have 24 hours each day of programming to fill and that only leads to talking way too much about nothing. They are selling fear along with cars and soap and whatever else the advertisers have to market.

But now progressive is a bad word just as liberalism is a "disease". People on the net proclaim liberalism to be a disease as matter a factly as syphilis is a disease, as if the CDC in Atlanta decreed it as such. Common knowledge. Everybody knows it.

Of late, Beck is pandering to the element of folks who long for the wonderful days of this nations founding when we battled a king across the water who desired only to control and tax us. There are people who want to live in that time right now. They want the freedom from big government of yore. They want 1776 again only with the fully automatic weapons of today. Serious. Because a few can hunt and string a trout-line and feed themselves as Ted Nugent claims to, they think EVERYONE in this nation of 300+ million can and should. They are willing to kill to achieve this. However, they- like our glorious founding fathers- are revolutionaries, NOT terrorists. And there is no king across the water. There is a president in the White House. And he's a nigger. I don't think so but, THEY DO think so and, yes, our president being half black IS the reason for the hatred of him no matter how clumsily these assholes dance around it. Neverminding the hatred that white democrat presidents like Clinton and Kennedy "inspired", Barack Obama is worse because he is black.

By design in this country, we take turns letting one of two parties "run" it every four to eight years. Since FDR died in his 3rd term of office, we decided to limit a presidents terms in office to two chances to hinder one parties shot at absolute control. Al Gore could have kept the democrat string alive if not for the Supreme Court stepping in as if they were NASCAR just changing the rules every race "for competition..."

But, I digress. Don't want to live in the past like the fundie constitutionalists do even if it is a more recent past. The point is, if Barack Obama is to be a one term president like some folks proclaim him to be, why not let it happen? It's embarrassing enough that the mainstream republican party chooses to be The Party Of "NO!" but, that's to be expected. Finishing second in a two man race tends to do that to people. There are people in the American south still fighting the Civil War. Oh, pardon me: "The War Of NORTHERN Aggression". But, just like anyone else on the "winning" side, I expect the "losers" to "get over it".

Really. Train harder. Rebuild. Be...progressive...

If you lose a promotion at work, learn from it, deal with it so that you are ready when your time comes. Don't plot to kill Earl because he took "your" job. Don't plot to destroy the company because they chose Earl over you. If you can, go off and start your own company. Anyone in this country is free to leave at anytime. If you want to start your own country, leave. Do so. Good luck to you!

You just can't do it here. No matter what history says, no matter how you interpret the writings of our founding fathers, there is no need for revolution. Not yet.

It could become necessary in what is left of my lifetime. People may be waking up now but they just haven't had enough coffee yet. They are not thinking clearly. I'm a wonderful, clear thinking man but, if you've ever lived with me, you know that wonderfulness doesn't begin to show until I get a little caffeine and nicotine into me. I've never killed anyone but that's because I've been long aware of my super evil un-medicated powers and have tolerated loved one's conversation until they figured out I don't NEED to be spoken to ABOUT ANYTHING, first thing in the morning. Unless the house is on fire. I'll have it out by the second cup.

Barack Obama has done NOTHING TO HURT THIS COUNTRY. It could be argued that he hasn't done wonders yet to HELP it either. It's only been a year and he hasn't had much help from his side or from the second place finishers. We may not have liked BushII but we gave...accepted...his leadership the chance, because we were Americans.

Be very afraid, America, of those that warn you with new fears each day of the "intentions" of Barack Obama. They are foreshadowing their own intentions. They are creating an atmosphere of fear in America so that "they" can save "us" from it. The only man who can save us from them is in office right now. For how long, who knows? Be VERY afraid of what comes next.

The coffee's on, America. Care to sleep in? They'll keep it warm...