The weekend draws nigh…but not fast enough. Just scanning the news makes me want to climb back, under my covers. But I wouldn’t sleep, would I? I’d be busy asking questions like these:
*WHY IS MARK STARR AT NEWSWEEK SUCH A MEAN, PETTY ASSHOLE? In a world where people hack babies out of women and leave them dying while stealing infants, Mark thinks disgraced Olympic athlete Marion Jones needs to stay in prison for using ‘performance enhancing’ drugs. Holy shit, Batman….the world is going to freaking end over this? Tell me, Mark, have any of those wonderful ‘boys of summer’ gone to jail for this, yet? How dare a female athlete engage in such things. Newsweek, of late, can’t focus on any news of note—noooo, they keep flinging silly-assed distractions at us and covering up shit that even any well-mannered cat would know stinks to high heaven. Why not, in the online version of the mag, don’t you talk about things like people dying of being tasered more than half a dozen times, tasered cause some cop was pissed off, not because you were any danger to anyone? (google Baron Pikes, anyone?) Can’t Newsweek find any stories with real MEAT? If you want corruption, Mr. Starr, why not find some that is fucking up the lives of REAL people, not the sports elite. Or is the betting pool in the financial stratosphere all you really care about?
*WHY IS RYAN CROCKER A COMPLETE IMBECILE, YET HE IS EMPLOYED AND I AM NOT? Ryan is a “veteran diplomat” touring Iraq just now. And guess what, he has GOOD news for me. The Iraqis, having endured “years of sectarian violence” and now tired and won’t go back to slaughtering each other when America declares victory and leaves. Years, Ryan? Did you take even a minor course in Middle Eastern History, Ryan? Try the word “centuries” in that sentence. You are an idiot with a whitewash brush trying to paint away the cock-up job the current Administration has done. Go home, crawl under your bed and pray to your dear and fluffy Lord that nobody remembers your name. Veteran dipstick is more like it!
*IF I AM AWAKE, WHY DO I FEEL STUCK IN AN OLD STAR TREK MOMENT? Well, because Raytheon has developed what looks and plays like a video game–except the joystick is controlling a drone that REALLY kills REAL people. The guys sit in “virtual cockpits” in Nevada and kill people in Iraq! I know, I am old, but reruns are forever—doesn’t anyone else recall that episode with the warring planets that did it by computer, printing names of the dead so they could walk into incinerators or something like? (Yeah, now Trekkies are gonna bang me up for not putting that well…tough shit!) And imagine, the next phase won’t need a joystick…they are working to make it so the THOUGHT alone kills. Wow. Next time you go to a protest over, oh, I don’t know…not being able to feed kids or afford gas to get to work, keep in mind, Raytheon only sells these things to governments like yours. Crowd control is going to be way different if mere tasers, tear gas, and fire hoses don’t suffice. Whoops, I slipped out of Star Trek right into a set from “Running Man”. Be afraid, be VERY afraid. You won’t even see a helicopter over head….just a harmless looking little drone. Gee, maybe this is a fighter plane that even George the Chimperator could really fly. Yeah, really, BE AFRAID!
*WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ INFRASTRUCTURE—DO WE? Cause man, Dolly was only a category one storm, and yet the headlines, they are shocking. Texas may wash completely away the way some of them sound. Not to be insensitive to Texans, really, but holy shit folks….if your government can’t dike you up against the Rio Grand flooding you out with a Cat One storm, what the fuck is going to happen if another Katrina comes up the Gulf? But how much, how many billions a day are being spent in Iraq to make sure those oil companies get nifty contracts so they don’t have to bother drilling on the acres of leases they already own here stateside? None of that money going to shoring up dikes, or fixing bad bridges, or making health care a reality. Never mind that a PITTANCE of the war budget would insure every man, woman, and child in the nation, let alone Texas. If I were a Texan, I’d be asking my Congress Critters when we will stop “rebuilding Iraq” and when we start rebuilding America.
AM I THIRSTY? Because, if I am, I can go draw a glass of clean water that is piped from a well less than 200 yards from that kitchen tap. How about you? If you live in America, your water bills may rise and rise and rise….but it still runs, right? Do you know why the cost goes up? Because, get this, water is no longer a human “right”…it is a mere “need” now. Being downgraded, it is now, even as we speak, being “privatized” away from being public utility—water companies sell shares now and some have the stated goal of owning ALL the fresh water and water rights in the world. Do you know, only 3% of the water on our blue marble of a planet is fresh, not salt? And of that, much is polluted and disease bearing. Buying up all the good stuff left is a big deal with “unlimited profit potential” right now. And desalinization? Costs LOTS…not only in energy costs, but it puts truly horrifically toxic pollution back into the ocean it works from. If enough plants keep doing that, we will KILL the oceans. Forget thirst…do you like BREATHING? Because, you see, the oceans MAKE the oxygen you breath….so if you kill enough of the biosphere in the ocean, you kill the PLANET. But perhaps the folks making the money don’t care, I get more movie flashbacks here: this time of Bladerunner. Maybe the ones with the cash will just go somewhere else and leave us in a sink of pollution and death? Oh, and did I mention that these private water companies sell water from America not just to Americans? Did I mention that they fill the greedy guts of empty oil tankers with AMERICAN WATER and send it back to the Mideast for big bucks in their pockets? More on this when I finish research….I just threw this one in because I wonder why Newsweek doesn’t care about something like this that shapes planetary existence as much as they care about some track star’s prison time.
And that’s it. I need my weekend early because I am feeling so pissed off and snarky over the bullshit that passes for news…..under most of the radar. And this little bitch-fest is not even the tip of the iceberg. GET INFORMED and GET PISSED OFF. Sheeple, like sheep, end up as fluffy slippers and barbequed dinner.
Forget Calgon. I think I need something higher powered to take me away. When I feel like sitting down to a breakfast of strong red wine on Thursday, it is not (in spite of movie flashbacks) a sign that I have been watching Sophia Loren films. But I wish it were.
