Crazy

Is everyone crazy? Or is it just me? What is going on in Gaza is just plain “sick.” And the fact that the U.S. Congress voted overwhelmingly in support of the Israeli attacks on the innocent people of Gaza is every bit as sick as the behavior of the Israelis. There is no excuse for this mass slaughter, and don’t give me the crap about Israelis having the right to defend themselves. Of course they have such a right. Everyone does. But not everyone overreacts so egregiously as to engage in the bloody and deliberate slaughter of women and children. These deaths are not just accidental, just collateral damage. The Israelis are out to rid themselves of the Palestinians no matter what anyone thinks. And due to the immorality of the U.S. involvement in this holocaust they will likely get away with it. I cannot possibly describe my rage and disgust at this inhuman, racist, murderous behavior that is being carried out in full view of the entire world, nor can I possibly express my shame over the involvement of my country in this bloodbath. There is no excuse for what our Congress did with this vote. Either they are totally uninformed as to the history of the conflict, or they are blatant racists, or both. Do you believe for one moment that if the people in Gaza were Western-Europeans the world would tolerate this? I am quite certain they would not. But these victims are Palestinians, Arabs, non-humans in the eyes of the Israeli military, just as all others who have been destroyed were first defined as non-humans. That this is the Israeli attitude toward them has been obvious for years and there is no way it can be denied. For our Congress to sanction this is to admit they share in this view of the Palestinians. What the Israelis are doing is an obvious and outrageous war crime, every bit as bad as the holocaust, although granted on a smaller scale. There is no justification for it, and it cannot be explained as anything other than an attempt at genocide. If they cannot kill them all, the Israelis will decimate them to the point where they will be so defeated they will agree to the reservations the Israelis have in mind for them. You can forget a two state solution. The Israelis have now made that quite probably impossible. And as they will never agree to a single state that would inevitably have a much larger Arab population, there is no solution to the problem except continued violence until one or the other ceases to exist. And as the Israelis, thanks to us, have overwhelming military superiority, it’s not hard to guess at the outcome - unless the U.S. and the rest of the world come to their senses immediately and force the Israelis to give up their unfair and unwarranted treatment of these helpless people. What is happening in Gaza is not a “war,” it’s a hate crime.

There is a lot of other crazy stuff going on. For example, I had the misfortune to overhear a tiny portion of Bush’s speech about his father’s aircraft carrier. Basically all I heard before I could reach the control was Bush the Little talking about “integrity and honor.” What the hell does he know about either of those things? And why is he still allowed out in public when he obviously belongs in jail?

Then I heard an ad about something called “Lend America.” Supposedly there are billions available for people to finance or refinance their homes. I gather that this program allows one to finance up to 97 & ¾ percent of the value, and, and, and, there is no minimum credit score necessary. I thought that was how we got in this mess in the first place.

If this isn’t enough, think about Blagovich. If that isn’t crazy enough, think about Sarah Palin who claims if she had run as a Democrat she would have been treated with kid gloves. Then there is the U.S. Senate versus Illinois. The Senate won’t accept him without a signature from the Illinois Secretary, but the Illinois Supreme Court says the Secretary’s signature is not required. And now Yoo and Bolton (of all people) think the Executive should not have so much power. Dick the Slimy, when asked why the Supreme Court has ruled against him and Bush so often, simply said, “the Court is wrong.” See, crazy. And perhaps the craziest of all, in my opinion, is Obama’s belief that he will be able to work cooperatively with Republicans. If he tries to do that he will achieve none of the things he has said he wishes to do, and while he is trying to cooperate they will be scheming in every way possible to bring him down. If the past eight or ten years are looked at carefully one can only conclude that the Republicans gave up the right to call themselves a political party when they joined Bush/Cheney to become a criminal conspiracy, the Brafia.