There's no justice

Drunken man on lawnmower
goes on rampage, breaks
window, and goes to jail

There’s no justice. Some have been saying this for years. It’s true. Consider what is going on right now in Congress. They are spending their time (and our money) going after baseball players. BASEBALL PLAYERS! I mean, it’s like there isn’t anything else for them to be doing? We have a President and Vice-President who are known war criminals, along with their henchpersons, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and more. These people have committed despicable acts of illegality and virtually the whole world knows it. But does Congress spend their time trying to bring them to justice. Of course not. They lied us into a pre-emptive war against a nation that was no threat to us (the number one war crime). They have tortured, killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, hid prisoners from the Red Cross, engaged in secret renditions, war profiteering, illegal spying, doing away with habeas corpus, holding kangaroo trials in Guantanamo, and creating scandals one upon another almost endlessly. Congress goes after baseball players who may have used steroids and may have lied about it. A few in Congress are working to get Cheney impeached and seemingly are getting nowhere. Just can’t let anything that trivial interfere with baseball. This is so sick, so unbelievable, so tragic, so fantastically absurd there is no way to rationally even describe it. It makes one just want to scream and run around banging their head into the wall.

I have to change the subject, I can’t stand any more of the above. Let me ask another question. What happens when we run out of money? The dollar is now only worth one half of a Euro. We are in debt probably beyond our means to repay it (at least without a very painful effort for a very long time). At some point China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia are going to refuse to lend us any more money. Also, at some point, we will have to stop just printing more and more useless dollars as they will fail to be acceptable to anyone. So what do we do then? I guess we could sell everything to eager buyers around the world. I bet we’d get a lot for, say, Yellowstone Park. San Francisco would probably net a good bit. Then, of course, there are our national forests, and lots and lots of agricultural land. Actually, I believe a good bit of these properties are already being sold to people from other countries. I hope they will continue to let us reside here as serfs and peasants serving our new masters. We’re well on the road to that already. Soon the international bankers will have a lot more of our houses to go along with our businesses. Perhaps after global warming gets going a bit more strongly they could allow us to try and settle in Antarctica or the North Pole. You know, like they sent the convicts to Australia and indentured servants to New England. If you think I am joking I suggest you think more seriously about it.

George Bush’s poll ratings have now reached a new all-time low, 19%. No one seems to care. He’s still President. He still gives speeches and travels overseas representing us. Congress absolutely refuses to impeach him or even threaten to do so. I haven’t seen any ratings for Cheney recently, probably because there is no provision for negative numbers. They won’t impeach him either. Pelosi and Reid want to wait until the election because they think we’ll have a new President then. And we will, and won’t it be ironic if it turns out to be John McCain the Bush clone. Don’t laugh. The DLC has cleverly managed to lose the last two Presidential elections even though they should have been able to win by running anyone they could find hiding in an alley. I don’t see much hope for our country unless there is a massive turnover of personnel in Washington D.C., as well as some monumental changes in the way we allow them to conduct business. Vote for Obama and hope that he really will do something to change things. Neither Clinton or McCain will change anything that our corporate masters haven’t already agreed to, like medical insurance.

LKBIQ:
“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
James Thurber