What next? A Plague of Locusts?
by TnutMcCain must stop this, for the sake of America.
Tnut.
p.s. The vote is the antidote.
Cashews and Coconuts
Produce, Politics, and PunditryEnter The Sunlight
by Tnut
“All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try.”
Ray Bradbury quotes
The neoconservative devilution is over. Like all failed ideologies based on greed and propaganda, it is falling from the grid. The neoconservative pipe-dream is spending its last hours under the heel of a hockey mom. How appropriate for the tattle tails.
The rain of school yard bullies, the cats and dogs of discord, is over. A new sun rises on America. The graven images of excess, reigning over these failed demi-gods have wilted under the light. They sacrificed American honor and Americas’ best sons and daughters upon their altars of contempt until the blood got too deep and it swallowed them up.
They have raped the fair haired damsel of commerce and are attempting to steal her riches. They can not escape the light.. Failed banks and unregulated avarice are their legacy. “Blame someone else” is all they can say.
They forgot, America loves its damsel, loves its honor, and cherishes its’ sons and daughters, lied to and left unprotected by failed minions of a failed White House. These little men with big ideas, gleaned from the sad and cynical writing of Machiavelli, have become toads boiling in their own water. These self absorbed “Princes” are choking on the very words they fed a trusting public for 8 torturous years.
I say fare thee well usurpers, your time is over. The slurs and slanders you bring to the table have been tasted and rejected. The lust for power, only the weak embraces, has been your doom.
The devilution was doomed to failure before it began. Your propaganda tide of demonization has become an undertow and it is sweeping your worn out ideas and excuses for greed, out to sea. The “hockey mom” will be your anchor.
The name calling and fear mongering falls on deaf ears.(except the base, you have created them). Your high pitched shrill and the soft sell of disguised hate is like an open sore that will not heal. It has pained America for 8 long years and will no longer be tolerated by those who still carry the Dream within their hearts.
Sunlight will heal the wound. America has always turned to the sunlight and denied the storm clouds of division.
Tnut.
p.s. The vote is the antidote.
Vermin Takeover
by Tnut
“Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age” Seneca quotes
“Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them”.
Thomas Jefferson quotes
What has John McCain done? Has he sold his honor to the Neoconservative failures from the White House? The very same men that despise him.
He has become a parody of all that is wrong with Washington while portraying himself as a reformer and a righteous man. Is this man truly running for President, and if so, how could his judgment be so askew?
Sarah Palin, you have got to be kidding me. John, what have those handlers made you do? You have stooped into the filth and it is clinging to you and dragging you under. You have lost and you do not know it. Your age and your illness has clouded your judgment, and your ambition is naked to the world. Sadness follows you and hate has overwhelmed you. You must regain your dignity and call out those frauds and snake oil sellers that have invaded your campaign. They have have made it an engine of despair.
You are inciting violence and destroying a country already divided and on the verge of suicide. You must stop this if you are truly an American. You must end this neocon hate fest, only you can do this John.
If you are spoiling for a mud fight you have chosen a formidable foe, and you will leave the contest sorely dirtied. Much more than you think possible. You have become George Bush’s fool and are dancing ever so clumsily toward a dishonorable discharge. The men that pull your strings are failed usurpers who have already dumped you for a newer fraud. Don’t you know that? Mr. McCain. Your days as a politician are at stake and you are gambling with card cheats.
You even stood by your wife as she knowingly lied, and did not have the honor to stop her. Hiding behind women is very unbecoming for a graduate of Annapolis, even if you were at the bottom of the class your daddy got you into. How disheartening to see you flail about and evoke your imprisonment as if you were the only man who suffered in the tragedy of Vietnam. You were in the air, they were on the ground. Your blatant lies are most unbecoming and tragic.
Sen. McCain, you have lost your soul, but it can be regained. It is not too late, expose the minions of deceit that have enveloped you. Or is this what you truly are?
Tnut.
p.s. The vote is the antidote. The rats must leave the White House. McCain must sweep them from the bus.
The Debate, My Take (3)
by Tnut
Publilius Syrus
“He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.”
I felt something strange happened at the debate tonight.
It appears to me that McCain’s handlers have given up on John McCain. They have embarrassed him and have dragged his campaign through the mud in which they live, and now have found a willing accomplice in Sarah Palin and are dumping McCain, and any chance he had at the presidency, into the dust bin of history.
They have despised this aging Senator, and may I say with all sincerity, “a hero of Vietnam”, ever since he invaded their territory in 2000. He called them out then, but with the aid of despicable slurs and terrible innuendos they trashed his 2000 Campaign and left him bewildered. He fought back while in Congress and earned the disrespect of the entire Neo-Conservative wing of the party he represents. Well, tonight they have done it again, they let him seem aged and wandering without a clue except that he must at all cost not answer any question. That is all they gave to him tonight. I fear they let him be himself.
They have made this man sign in his blood their nefarious compact of 100 yrs. of neocon rule. They made him to do so on bended knee. He had to hire the same men that slurred him, and consort with the Religious Right who abhor him, and use the tactics used against him. They have made the brave Achilles kneel, and dare I say they, could not have done that in John Mcain’s earlier years. But tonight they let the aging warrior show America how unfit he is to serve as President.
They have dropped McCain in order to groom another willing puppet. Sarah Palin won tonight. She has become the new Dark Queen of the neocon pipe-dream new order.
Obama was concise and presidential, a representative of the change that America is so desperate to embrace.
Tnut.
p.s. We are not done with Sarah Palin. She is willing to sell her soul for an agenda she thinks will save all souls. Her Way, because she believes she is on a mission from her God(s). An illusion born and bred while killing things…. Another victim for the NeoConservative play ground.
PUSHING THE CORE
by Tnut
“The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that you have got it made.” George Burns.
How much more embarrassment can Senator McCain take?
He has willingly allowed the failed bottom dwellers from the White House, invade his campaign and in doing so has traded honor for ambition. These minions of deceit are trashing him and his campaign and I feel he may never recover from the dumpster they have placed him in.
They destroyed his one chance for the Presidency in 2000 with dirty tricks and swift boat attacks and now they are destroying him.
They truly despise this man, and now have brought him to his knees in 2008. They have portrayed him as a foolish old man, frantically running from issue to issue grasping for headlines to catch Obama off guard. A poll driven gadfly making vain attempts to revise and extend his remarks daily.(Nobody is buying his puerile definition of the “Fundamentals of the Economy.) It was so odd to see him let these vipers usurp his honor in the most belittling ways. He sold honor for campaigning and it weighs heavy on his shoulders as we see him stoop lower and lower every day.
They knew the brave Achilles’ weaknesses and now they have made their little man heel. Now they have exposed his true character in all its dishonorable and ill tempered glory. A vindictive curmudgeon who holds women in low esteem, noted by remarks about rape and his disgusting comments about his wife that he wrote in a book for all history to see.
How humiliating for McCain to be denied his own choice of a running mate, and be forced to take a runner-up broadcaster hopeful, as a refuge for his age. A backwoods phony for a trashed campaign.
They have chosen an uninformed and unprepared far right wing Religious zealot to be his running mate and she has made him a laughing stock in the eyes of not only America but the eyes of the world. It matters little to her, for in her hubris driven ambition, like the dark queen, she dares not look in the mirror. This right wing affront to women, thinks she is hustling America with backwoods sleight of hand when in reality she is a parody of the ignorant snake oil sellers of the past. She is offering the apple of sleep to a public that is wide awake and wary of these right wing shenanigans, and she thinks she is fooling us. It would be funnier than it is if not for the consequences of this election cycle.
Mr T. once said “I pity the Fool”. Well I can forgive, but pity is not in my blood. There has been too much blood shed in these last 8 years and I want it to end.
ENOUGH.
Tnut.
p.s. the vote is the antidote. These last 4 weeks will be gruesome but the patient can heal.
BAILING
by Tnut
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others” Lewis Carroll quote
With all due respect, I write this note from the tea party.
The bailout has passed congress and been signed by Bush.
A distasteful and bloated mixture of pork and perks.
But it is a done deal and now we must monitor this creature.
After all, it is a creation of all of us collectively who have dived into the the dark pool of “Caesars Bank”. “Let him who is without sin, toss the first silver dollar.” Let him who lives without “Caesars wages” and has not lived on profit and loss, tighten the noose and pull the switch.
In my mind “the hypnotism of Democracy” is just another refined attempt at crowd control. The same illusion of freedom that the Greeks, kings, communists and socialists and myriad churches and mosques use in a failing attempt to tame the beast that resides in the hearts of man. A worthy ideal but an impossible task. The tamer himself needs taming. Is this our legacy to the future generations?
How eloquently we speak of freedom, when in reality we live under the yoke of commerce and the pirates that haul its offspring. Those pirates are us. Hypnotized shipmates on a ship of fools, bailing water until we die and face our supposed Gods. Bailing water as most ignore the suffering that surrounds us. A suffering we could alleviate if we were only awake. But no, it is much easier to set our sails for choppy waters. The rescued has become the rescuer and the rescuer doesn’t realize that the problem is the rescue. Rescued from what? Will we turn into cannibals if there is a depression, or will we suck it up and take care of each other. What if things get better? How base are we? Do we need Gods and Governors to guide us or do we guide ourselves? Are we incapable of taming our own beasts or do we need tamers with platitudes, systems, parables, and sticks and carrots?
The anger and disappointment that grips America must be turned into a positive, if we are to survive this “rescue”.
Not only are we involved in two wars and a faltering economy,(The 2 aren’t exclusive of each other) we are also bleeding from partisan, personal, and well meaning agendas that are tearing America into pieces. This division in America, this serious rift in the conscience, confidence, and soul of the American Dream will be the death of us as a nation if we cannot come together.
Why not tame ourselves and then fix the world? First we must stop killing each other. Its easy to do, you just stop. It may kill you, but why exist in a world of death? Is it because we can not let the other guy win. His victory will be dross as surely as ours will. Or maybe we should practice civility first and slowly move towards non violence.
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.” Lewis Carroll.
I’m going back to the tea party. You are all invited.
Tnut.
The Debate, My Take (II)
by Tnut
“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”
Davy Crockett.
The only thing missing was the coonskin cap.
Sarah Palin may have saved her job in Alaska, but she did nothing to save the drowning campaign of John McCain.
I saw a woman setting her own rules and answering her own questions rather than those insignificant, pesky policy questions, that in her mind, were clearly fed to Gwen Iffel by the main stream media she despises. Ms. Palin portrayed herself as a paranoid, pugnacious and dare I say perky and flirty light weight in the ring with a seasoned heavy weight.
Sarah left no doubt that she has stepped into an atmosphere where the air is too rich for her to breathe. She is very good at circumnavigating questions with a wink and a nod coupled with a folksy facade that really emphasises her disdain for the real knowledge of where she is and the gravity of the position she seeks. She proved in her scripted responses that she does not belong a heartbeat away from the Presidency. The very thought of this happening is frightening.
Shuffling through her talking points in a state much akin to frantic sleep walking, Sarah Palin played to the far right base, and I feel, the only crowd that she is really interested in impressing. It seems she doesn’t understand, she already owns them. The 30 percent that have stuck by Bush and laugh at intelligence is already firmly in her corner.
Joe Biden stayed on point, and in a clear and concise way outlined his and Obamas’ vision for a renewed America. His rebuttals were brutal, in a kind way, and they always went unchallenged by the pretender. He proved his understanding of the complexities of Foreign affairs and did not rely on cheat sheets with stock right wing answers. He accentuated his command of domestic affairs and reached out to the middle class with empathy and understanding only a person who has felt their pain can do. He answered her talking point jabs with a vigor that has kept him in Congress and will propel him into the second seat at the White House.
If I sound bias it is because I am. I am sick and tired of right wing obfuscation and one liners that appeal to the emotions while the pickpocket empties your wallet. And does so with a holier than thou attitude.
I would feel sorry for Sarah Palin but it is she who thinks she can hustle us. Enough.
Change is coming and Sarah is going back to Alaska.
Tnut.
The vote is the antidote.
LEGACY (OUR OWN)
by Tnut
Where do we go from here?
Bailouts, rescues and recovery are just the first steps out of the wilderness, back to the true heart of the American Dream. We are not as young as we used to be, 8 long years have aged us. It is not that we haven’t seen this before, it is we just haven’t experienced it in such a personal way.(And I don’t mean our soldiers.)
Our parents and our grandparents did all they could to protect us from the storm of economic disaster, and now we have come to the precipice, led by greed and denial of our own making. Either by non-involvement or a sense of disenfranchisement coupled with a lack of concern, or possibly a blind trust in our elected officials and the punditry on tv and radio, we have succumbed to the siren song of complacency that forfeits honor and truth, to be replaced by divisiveness and a confusion of the soul of America.
Just watching this bitter Presidential campaigning is enough to show us we have gone too far. (I am not blameless in this endeavor.)( I am an old partisan fighter and have bloodied my pen.)
It is time to stop, take a look at ourselves and look to the generations that will follow us.
What will be our legacy?
We have our best and brightest in danger on foreign shores, and no matter how hard we try and deny it, we sent them there under false pretenses. We turned on them when they were in Afghanistan, seeking those that injured us, and we sent them into a fiery cauldron, unprotected, ill led, and lied to about their mission. And they are still there. For the sake of them and future generations of warriors, we must right this wrong. We must also take a look at the injured that have returned, and our responsibility to see they have the best that money can buy. We have not done that yet, but we have allowed our dead heroes to be returned under cover of darkness for political gain of the ruling party. This must be addressed and not allowed to happen again. We must look to our motives and our motivators.
We have closed an eye to torture and accepted it as a reality of life. A reality that is given life only by our disregard of honor. This too must be addressed and retired to the graveyard from which it arose. This cannot be our legacy to youth.
We have allowed unscrupulous and greedy people to dominate our economy, and now we must, at our own expense, repair the damage, try to minimize its effects, and make sure that it does not happen again. This must be done for the generations that follow us along the path laid out by our founders.
We have given up our freedoms for an illusion of safety. We must strike down the restrictions placed on personal freedoms, if not for our sake, for the sake of our children.
We must make Government accountable and transparent and listen to the many voices that come forth from this dream of equality and brotherhood. ( As many political parties as possible should be our mantra, for where else in the world should all voices be heard.)
I believe in America and the people that make it great.
I believe they know which wolf to feed, and that meal will be served on election day.
Tnut.
The vote is the antidote.
FUTURE FAUX AND SARAH PALIN
by Tnut
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.” Lord Byron.
Fox news has a new Anchorwoman to replace Hannity. It will be Palin and Combs when the dust clears after the November elections.
Little Sarah will sign a lucrative contract with the Fox, and leave her beloved Alaska for the bright lights and celebrity of Hollywood, or is that Atlanta. Unknown mayoral sportscaster to pundit in one election cycle is no small feat.
The “Feisty Mayor” will be her new nickname. “Barracuda” just won’t do, Arnold holds the copyright to Governator and “the idiot” is too self deprecating.
Sarah can have a witchcraft segment on every episode and drive the evil Wiccans from their safe refuge in Salem Mass. She has her own “Witchinator” who I am sure would suspend his African torturing to make a few bucks at Fox.
She could have a young earth segment and invite the creators of the Flintsones to give seminars on dinosaur technology the cavemen used. I loved their record players. she could could also sell dinosaur vacuum cleaners and dinosaur steam shovels.
She may not be able to think for herself but “by golly” she will be able to wear an earpiece, and mouth the Fox hate mantra with vim and vigor. She has already shown us, lying comes easy to her, so a slide into a Fox position of fifteen minutes of fame should work out well. Maybe she can come on after Huckabee?
Bay Buchanan will produce the show, and Bays’ brother Patrick will lead a self flagellation segment every evening so the audience can atone for past and future sins. It will be a ratings giant for a couple of months and then fade into the echoes of confusion that the Fox weaves so well.
Tnut.
FREEZING
by Tnut
There have been many breakthroughs in the science of cryogenics.
From the sites I have visited, discussing the subject of being frozen and revived, it appears that it may really work in the future. They have gotten the freezing down pat, its the reviving without damage that needs work.
I believe in science and I believe that this will be a viable option in the future.
I propose that we all pool our money and step into the deep-freeze and emerge into the future.(Kinda like Futurama.)(Well, maybe exactly like Futurama.)
By then all these pesky problems that litter our lives today should be resolved and we can get straight answers.
9-11 will have been investigated and the truth will be known. (I”m thinking 200 years).
Abortion et al will be a thing of the past, and possibly birth. (Unless you are a test-tube).
God may be discovered, who I’m trying to avoid if He is the inventor of Hell, and we might find out that He isn’t as vengeful as I think He is. He may turn out to be Zeus or a white Buffalo, but in 200 years people ought to be able to deal with Him, and each other, in a rational way. Maybe?
The giant Military Industrial Complex may possibly have lost its grip on the world. Unless they want us to dig up gunpowder on Mars, it could be a benevolent world that revives us. (I’m betting that if we are defrosted it would most likely be a good world that wakes us idiots.)
Think of the answers we would have. ( Hopefully the only questions being asked in the future would be “How are you” & “Can I help you?”)
200 years without worrying about elections, third parties, Zionist plots, conspiracies of all sorts and who am I and where did I come from.
As it stands now, all I can afford is to have my ashes in an ice cube tray, but I’m willing to pool my money and I”ll do the legwork. (Futurama ends with A.M.A. and that gives me confidence).
Whats the worst that can happen? You die and meet your maker and realize you wasted your money which you wont need anyway.
There may even be a third political party. (Well, maybe 300 years.)
Anyone game?
Tnut.