When All the Similes and Metaphors apply

Looking around after reading the daily newspapers of today, watching a few news programs, and nosing around on the internet, it becomes clear that the best and worst of things are happening these days.

The best things happening are that the man on the street, Joe the plumber, Jane the mother, and their brethren, are all finally deciding that the time for apathy and indolence is over.

The worst things happening are the discoveries that the people who work to remain out of the spotlight, have been working so feverishly to remain that way, because the damage to our lives, our freedom, and our habitat has been to the extent that reversal might not be possible.

The abuses of government, in this administration, are intolerable. (For the snivelers, this goes beyond being partisan – remember, whatever was done to erase personal freedom and justice under one administration, can be furthered by the next, and the targets change with the change in affiliation.) The excesses of the administration, to remove the public from the decision making process, have been chronicled clearly in this last year of the current term. Constitutional scholars are calling for the restoration of proper adherence to the balance of powers, with the power grab of the executive branch, and the surrender of the legislative branch, to never be repeated.

The abuse of the financial system, from the local level to the mind numbing excesses of Wall Street, is now being presented in the manner of high theater on Capitol Hill, and it is illuminating to see how much the people who are leading the legislative branch of government do not know. Perhaps this is what allowed the executive to steamroll over our lives, as the protectors in Congress were not moving to stop anything, and the judicial branch remained occupied with things of little consequence to average citizens. The willingness to offer up $700 billion to Wall Street, while refusing to help Detroit (to the tune of  2% of what was given to the bastards of the financial district), is the sort of pig-headed, self-directed greed that pervades Washington, D.C. Clearly there was influence a level of magnitude higher coming from New York. I’d say a check of financial transactions for the Congress would be more in line with what AT&T, and their friends  at the NSA, should focus their concern upon. We should be paying more attention to one of the core statements of the Communist party that to what some Arab, alone in a cave with his dialysis machine, does. The rantings of Osama are not  the largest or most prescient problem , the problem is that this nation is being gutted from within by a few, now in plain sight.

Oh, now for the hyperbole.

The fox is in the henhouse. Figures don’t lie, but the liars have been figuring, and cooking the books while they are at it. Change is coming, it is right around the corner. The wool has been pulled over our eyes, but like Earth, changes come in the spring. The time of reckoning is coming, and, oh yes, the jig is almost up! (Thinking of any more? Think a bit longer, and I’m sure it applies to the world situation somehow!)

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p.s I am not an automotive worker, nor do I play one on television. I don’t own any stock in Chrysler, Ford, or General Motors. But for those who cannot see why the auto industry in this country must survive, as a company rooted in the national borders, please seek psychiatric help ASAP. Those who do, please call your Congress person. Those living in Alabama, please tell Richard Shelby to think before he puts his foot in his mouth yet again.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.George Bernard Shaw