Plagued

We're a declining world. China and the U.S. use 40% of the "world's" energy, much of it from greenhouse house gas producing coal. Austerity measures are being enacted across much of Europe. Sub-Sarahan Africa will be a lifeless wasteland within 20 years, quite possibly much less. Rain forests continue to be slaughtered at an alarming rate in S.America. There is a plague on the planet. It walks upright and with the combination of "superior ambition and superior ability" will sooner, rather than later destroy, the only place we ALL have to live. This "plague" breeds rapidly, in virtually any environment and has not freed itself from many of the dogmas and superstitions that "plagued" its ancestors. There ARE antibodies to the plague. But throughout the plague's history these antibodies are more often than not outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outsourced as both "expendable labor" or "cannon fodder" for wars of empire the virulent strain of the plague has an unquenchable thirst for. The "plague" of course is mankind. The "cure" will be its eradication. The "injustice" of the solution is only matched by the "justice" rendered to a planet that will once again(eventually) teem with the diversity it had before the plague arrived.

News Flash!

This just in: Donald Trump has demanded to "personally" inspect the corpse of Osama Bin Laden. Claiming a possible ruse by the Obama administration, "the Donald" informed the White House that until HE does a formal autopsy, America cannot be convinced of the former terrorist leader’s death. Mr. Trump brought up the possibility of a Bin Laden clone and said he was "suspicious" at the timing of the killing. He then applied six-and-one-half cans of hair spray to his over-sized head and was last seen boarding a private jet bound for Italy where he was said to have granted the Pope an audience.

Osama is Dead

For ten years Osama Bin Laden was the "visible" face of our alleged "war on terror," the recruiting "poster boy" necessary in all conflicts. There's a whole new pantheon of possible replacements, even now, lining up in the Middle East. The only question left to answer is: who'll be the next Boogeyman?
O.K., so we've allegedly killed "Public Enemy No .1. It's time to pop the champagne corks. Short term memory, not politics, is the one thing Americans can truly share. Let's forget that there were NO WMD's. Let's forget we killed hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT people in what was really a neo-conservative quest to engage this country and its voracious MIC into perpetual war. Let's forget the millions of Iraqis who fled their homeland, their lives changed, perhaps, forever. Let's forget about the atrocities committed at Abu-Graib and elsewhere. Let's forget all the lies and distortions perpetrated upon us by the Bush administration. Let's forget the 9/11 truth commission's "hurry up" job at "closing the book" on the events of that day. Let's forget "Mission Accomplished" and the sight of our President sitting in a Florida classroom for over 7 minutes AFTER he'd been told thousands of his fellow Americans were being killed. Let's forget Colin Powell LYING to the United Nations and Tony Blair brown-nosing and Dick Cheney talking about how we would be greeted as "liberators." Let's all hang effigies of Bin Laden next to "Old Glory" in our yards and from the sides of our apartments. Let's metaphorically "bathe in the blood" of another human being and exalt ourselves at how clever and resourceful we are.
Let's forget that while we're "celebrating," forces are at work in our own country that will ultimately lead to enormous hardship and untimely death for millions of our OWN citizens. Let's forget the video I watched in '08 of a 10-year-old Iraqi boy sitting in a hospital bed, stumps where his legs used to be, playing an XBOX game given to him by a couple of U.S. Marines. In all reality, I don't believe I'll EVER forget that. God Bless America? Somebody please explain EXACTLY why that should occur. So let's dance around the fire of yet another "ritual killing", the flames flickering in our depraved faces, much as our antediluvian ancestors did and tell ourselves how "superior" we've become. To quote Ronald Reagan, another "great" American, "The sun shines on America today."

Freedom Served

This is a nation that has lost all sense of priorities. One suite at the Stupor Bowl cost $277,000! We've military bases in over 135 countries the last time I counted. The right side of the Supreme Court has become the living embodiment of the "judicial activism" many conservatives bemoaned for decades. Government/Business is actually one in the same entity. We send kids off to die allegedly to "spread Democracy" while we bankroll any Autocratic/Totalitarian bastard who will do our bidding. We ignore science at ours and our children's peril, claim to be a "Christian nation" and have made Las Vegas (Sin City) one of America's favorite "family" getaways. We export more firearms than any country on Earth and spend more on the military than all other countries combined. Yet many want to gut programs for the poor, sick, old, unemployed, women and anybody else without a big, fat stock portfolio. We bomb around in over-sized gas hogs affixed with American flags and Support the Troops stickers without having the slightest idea what the people of the Middle East are REALLY mad about. We play video games, listen to I-Pods and talk incessantly on cell phones about anything or nothing, often the latter. We're eating ourselves to death and many of us still believe the world owes us something even though they can't tell you why. We're Rome on Steroids, Fast Food and Caffeine. Freedom served.