So happy new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BEST WISHES TO ALL!!!

Teens use lighter fluid
to set sleeping friend’s
hair on fire, videotape it.

Thankfully, the first decade of the 21st century, the NIGHTMARE YEARS, is over. And as far as the past year is concerned, I know how awful it was and I don’t need Olberman or Matthews or others to review it for me. I prefer to forget all about it, other than for purposes of holding Bush/Cheney and their band of war criminals accountable for their many crimes. It was an awful year in almost every respect: politically, militarily, economically, morally, ethically, productively, internationally, and in most any other way you might think. About the only two positive developments I can think of are the election of Barack Obama, who will soon become the 44th President of the United States (and our first black and white President), and Rachel Maddow who manages to kind of cheerfully and cleverly point out what a bunch of hopeless half-wits are pretending to run our country. Obama is yet to be tested, but that doesn’t keep us from hoping and hoping and hoping that he might be able to actually do something about the incredible mess Bush/Cheney and their minions have made of our once great nation. Even if he were to fail miserably he would still be a thousand percent better than those he is replacing. Maddow is wonderful in spite of the fact that she insists on dressing herself like a character out of Charles Addams (I know, picky, picky). She has the marvelous ability to smile pleasantly while slipping the knife in between the ribs. Matthews and Olberman are being consistently upstaged, the former being too egomaniacal and dim-witted to understand it, the latter being able to escape to the sports desk.

I am trying to think of anything, even one single thing, that the Bush/Cheney administration did to help the citizens of our nation or the nation itself. What positive achievement can they point to, other than stealing from the poor to give to the rich, and driving up the price of oil for their friends in the industry (if you wish to consider those in any way positive achievements). You don’t have to look far on the negative side: an unnecessary and criminal “war,” torture, illegal spying, myriad war crimes, constitutional violations, chronic lying and stonewalling, treasonous “outing” of a CIA agent, the list goes on and on. Historians are going to ponder for years and years how it is these criminals got elected in the first place, and how it was they were allowed to continue for so many years. The danger is they may have placed the nation in such jeopardy there will be neither time nor funds available to bring them to justice. I believe this should not be allowed to happen, no matter what the cost. If this does not happen we might as well open all the jails and penitentiaries and let everyone go free because “it all happened in the past,” and it’s time to let bygones be bygones, thus admitting for all the world to see that we are not, in fact, a nation of laws, or at least that the laws do not apply to everyone equally.

I guess by now we have demonstrated time and time again that laws and international sanctions do not apply to our Israeli “friends.” They apparently enjoy shooting fish in a barrel so much they won’t even consider a temporary cease-fire. There is obviously either a serious lack of intelligence among the Israelis or they just plain and simply do not want any cessation in hostilities. I am pretty sure they do not lack intelligence, and I am equally pretty sure they need permanent hostilities to keep milking the U. S. of billions each year. If hostilities ever stopped they would have to face the reality of their situation and actually have to give up some of their stolen lands. As long as the Palestinians are kept relatively powerless so they cannot fight back with any reasonable chance of success, permanent chaos suits them just fine.

LKBIQ:
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sir Winston Churchill

TILT:
Elisha Cook Jr., who played Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon, lived alone in the Sierras where he tied flies and fished for trout between movies.