Living in the La-la

It's part of a plot, a conspiracy, to see that I don't blog on anything of substance. Or maybe it's just cuz I be scatterbreained. Been blogging - if you could call it that - about blogging. Starting to sound suspiciously like a guy who wandered off into the desert talking to himself and the voices in his head. Also, I'm drawn, it seems. Like an ex-lover, I was caught sneaking back in the side window of Spazz. Yeah, the tiny blog as crap and there are other problems, but there are still friends there...I still get more comments on a blog there than anywhere else. I am NOT an attention whore, dammit, I just like conversation ariiight! Well. Maybe for now we can have a bit of sharing...I'll try having multiple for a while...the Sister Wives of blogging.

Here's a try at blogging about something besides blogging. It may not be surprising that there is no large newspaper on the planet which does not carry US political news. So it is with ArabNews, based in Riyadh. One of their stories is Republicans vow to block all Senate bills. Yeah, we'll get back to that. Lest ye forget you are reading an ARAB newspaper though, one of the side articles is about how there were 11 women in a four by four vehicle being driven by a woman and it wrecked and five of the women were killed. The second commentor on the story opines, "I think this is a sign that women driving in the Kingdom shall be forbidden." Laaaa, laaaa, la, la-la, la.

Now, about them Pubbies. American politics, like all other kinds, has been full of lies, deceits, personal attacks, etc., at least since George Washington. I am not "an historian" by any stretch in the academic sense. But I have studied a little. It seemed there was a period in there where Democrats and Republicans in general, though their outlook and basic values were different, were actually willing to work together to some degree in the governance of the country. Since sometime before the election of Obama, that has changed. For a little while there, for the first time in my life, I was actually seriously wondering whether George Bush would really step down after his term ended. Before then, that was not even a thought, it was a given certainty, as sure as sunrise.

We are definitely in a very bizarre period in American history now, especially political history. Like everyone else who has lived through historic periods, we have no idea how it will play out, what will happen over the next 3-4 years. But I have never seen a time in which one political side in America publicly announces that its sole agenda, aside from lavishing as much unearned wealth as possible on the rich at the expense of the poor, is to see that the current president is not re-elected.

"In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) didn't yield an inch on his position that the main job of congressional Republican leadership is to prevent President Obama's re-election." Source. There has long been a gap between the haves and have nots, but now we are watching our political system in America devolve into an actual class war, headed perhaps, for a caste system similar to that in India. But it gets weirder still...

Virtually everyone, including his political adversaries, say Barack Obama is a highly intelligent man. He is certainly erudite and eloquent in his public speeches. At the same time, though, most "pundits" on the left, and even a few on the right, are scratching their heads in bewilderment at Obama's reactions - or lack of reactions - to those strange positions stated by Republicans. No matter how many and how often prominent Republicans publicly state flat out that they have no intention whatever of working with him on his political agendas, that there will absolutely be NO compromise - on anything - Obama continually talks of bipartisanism. It has reached the point that some are beginning to watch Obama very closely, to see if he starts to emit smoke and sparks during a speech from the cognitive dissonance generated between reality and what he is saying. Is he somehow a Stepford Wife (they have their own organization, yanno) to Republicans, or what? The Manchurian Candidate designated to preside over the transition from country to empire? Laaaa, laaaa, la, la-la, la.

Many wonder whether Obama is biding his time, waiting for some strategic moment to spring something on the Pubbies, maybe planning a Clintonesque rebirth. I dunno, but it's hard to imagine what he might spring and time is running out. I think it will be fascinating indeed if January 2013 has us in an America any of us would recognize. I have no doubt at all that the coming year will be much worse for average Americans than the previous year, certainly by any financial measure. (See, I can think positively!)

Just in time for Christmas... NO! You unemployed bums may NOT have any more money! Two million more of you can just eat cake...er worms, er whatever. Unless... pssst, over here. Say, you got that killer instinct? I got sumpin fer ya... each one of these babies cost between $25K and $30K. It can shoot a grenade up to half a mile, but not just ANY grenade, one that has a microchip in it so
"if a group of insurgents is hiding behind a wall, a soldier can program one of the XM25's rounds to detonate a few feet past the wall to shower the insurgents with lethal fragmentation from behind." Source. We gotz a gun we can point at their front and it will shoot 'em in the ass!Howzat fer some cool-as-shit boy's toys, eh? fah-la-la-la-lah, lah, lah, lah lah. Let us bray for peace in deed.

TRB