Moment of Zen:
George Bush (speaking at town hall meeting with supporters of privatizing social security):
"...secondly, the interesting...uh...african american males die sooner than other males. That means the system is inherently unfair to a certain group of people. That needs to be fixed."
Jon announced that today the US officially stopped the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. I hope now that they lost yet another justification for this war that brings us one step closer to understanding the true reason(s), a necessary first step towards ending the conflict. Is it oil? Alternative Energy. Is it drugs? Alternative Medicine! Is it a need for control? Alternative SIMPLICITY! Is it habit, or a family fued? Maybe we should just try an Alternative WORLDVIEW! The easiest thing to change of all is just what we need: a more REAListic idea about the world and how we must spend our "energy" to "survive".
SOCIAL DISTORTION: Lead story about Bush and his proposal to privatize social security by creating "a personal savings account that will compound over time...that you can't buy a lottery ticket with or ... a dice game..." Thats right America, the government is tired of you throwing your money away at useless pipe dreams, and instead wants you to throw your money away into an account they can keep on doing whatever they want with.
Lingering questions: How many Trillions of dollars is this investment banking 'Scheme' going to cost to implement? What level of confidence do you have that it will get to the root of the problems and solve them? And who exactly were the people speaking in favor of this plan (Sonya Stone, and Bob McFadden)? Where were the citizens with constructive criticism? IF we treated every human as a valuable and equal being, and taught them valuable skills to help them take better care of themselves, and stopped allowing the massive amount of chemicals into our air, water, food, to keep accumulating, perhaps the burden of "social security" woud be relieved by some ACTUAL security.
My preference: do as much as I can to meet my needs without money, creating a circle of friends who intentionally network to help each other through the exchange of skills, services and sweat for the improvement and enlightenment of ourselves, our communities, and our world. let abundance come from an outgrowth of my indestructable enthusiasm for positive change. (visit my other blog: http://blisseffect.blogspot.com )
Samantha Bee did a special report on Florida and the educational "crisis" being generated by "The Cary Baker Freedom Act". The schools are being ordered to have a 2 foot by 3 foot american flag in each classroom, and one "unpatriotic" Principal from Ormond Beach Middle School only has flags that measure 1.5 feet by 2.5 feet - apparently he doesn't want to spend the money to replace them. He should get a medal for reducing waste in federal spending. Its not as if the size of the flag has anything to do with true freedom...
Louis Black - Back in Black...
Awesome high anxiety rant as usual, this time discussing "New Years Resolutions for the Democratic Party" Number One, find a new leader...Number Two, Stand Up more... not necessarily standing up FOR anything, just stand up more and fill up time with useless babbling apparently. It was sad to hear all the democracts discussing the recount effort in Ohio as if it nevery crossed their mind that maybe if the truth were REALLY knowable, the outcome would change. Personally, looking at everything the Bush Admin has done since election day, and everything done before hand to skew the outcome, it seems there is enough at stake here to speak up about the truth about how bad things were!
MY ADVICE: IGNORE THE INAUGURATION! DONT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ELECTION, JUST BE THE CHANGE, NOW! Like Jon Stewart of the Daily Show!
Great quote of the night: "its as if Martin Luther King said, I have a dream, not that it'll do any good!" and his advice to the democratic party: "Kill time until the rapture comes, the righteous christians will get called back to heaven and THEN maybe the democrats might win back control of the House and Senate!"
Guest Dennis Quaid, movie In Good Company...my carpal tunnel is acting up so ...no comment at this time.
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