ready to take aim

There is a movement on Facebook to urge the Discovery Channel to not permit Sarah Palin to host a show about nature and Alaska. The “drill baby drill” ex-governor, current tea bagger extraordinaire, best selling author, don’t look me in the eye when speaking to me royalty, has her million dollar per speaking engagement coals in yet another lucrative fire.

This IS America after all in the ought’s of 2000 and mediocre, bland, vitriolic vile histrionics are popular and anyone providing meaningless mayhem to the world is a sought after star. (We worry more about Kate Goslin’s sex life, fret over the Real Housewives of any city, allow demonic discourse from an oxycodone abuser like Limbaugh, and cling to the ranting of an elected official with no knowledge of the Constitution of the nation, Michelle Bachman).

It seems fame and fortune have little class or conscience, and are the cornerstones for average and obnoxious. It seems depth and quality are replaced by despair and quick, and just and fair are voided by stupid and dumb. It seems we like those who spew our private biases, and rally behind anyone who sounds like they speak for all the ills others have enacted and encouraged making us the victims.

More and more it seems Americans have an average attention span of 5 minutes. We demand change and if it does not come fast enough we demand someone else provide the catalyst for change. (This is manifested by the pollsters who predict the nation is ready to vote back into office the Republican bums who gave us 8 years of selfish self-serving government). We no longer demand honesty or fact, but rely on conjecture, assumption, and innuendo. (The entire list of lies accumulated by the party of no from “death panels” to abortion pills regarding the Health Care Reform debate). Our leaders no longer have to prove any point except the point that they agree with how we fear, how we worry and how we can blindly avoid helping others because helping ourselves first is the true Christian way. (Watch Glenn Beck with his blackboard of blasphemy and bigotry)

If common sense was more than a cliché, or a cultural dinosaur of days gone by, if conscience was more than a laughing matter, if concise and correct were more than disposable dalliances, then stopping Sarah Palin from speaking about anything nature or natural would be a slam dunk. But bottom line, instant stardom, lack of integrity, quick sales quicker revenues dominate the headlines and wrong and ridiculous reign over right and serious.

I of course signed the petition to beg Discovery Channel not to allow Sarah Palin to speak about nature and Alaska. I joined the thousands of people asking the Discovery Channel to have a heart and live with reason. I did my duty in trying not to stop free speech, but hoping to harness “free for all” speech. But when the show premiers on Discovery with the smiling face of the ex-Ms Wasilla, I will not be surprised.

I won’t watch the series, but the millions of viewers who do will once again hear from an idiot who is laughing her way to the bank on the backs of people who have no clue how she is using them and abusing them.

I can’t blame Sister Sarah for this opportunity, or for any other opportune moments in the near future. David slayed Goliath, so I suppose the only way we can win back our sanity in this country is to find some skinny little kid with a sling shot. I hear the giant steps of doom marching louder and louder. Are we ready to take aim?