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I decided to take a vacation during the Memorial Day weekend, visit my best friend in San Francisco and while away, not to listen to or watch anything that had the word news in front of it. I am addicted to the news and politics and wanted to try weaning myself from the current events and issues which plague this nation. I was going cold turkey and had to discover if I had the will power to just ignore the ranting and ravings which drive me crazy.

It was hard not to catch a few minutes of a “talking head”, or some 30 second catch phrase, or some lopsided machination of some politician trying to place fear and loathing in the minds of a few lemmings. But I managed to avoid the news and actually lived a quiet and peaceful four days without too much angst and anxiety.

Then I returned home and like a good addict I needed my fix, so I read and watched, listened and gleaned, and much to my surprise nothing about the news changed. It was as if the news was in a time warp and the like the movie Groundhog Day, it seemed to repeat and repeat itself.

The oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still spewing and spawning goo gunk and political contamination. The President is still acting a little like George Bush with his brief visits to Louisiana making loud noises about this spill but still permitting a for profit corporation to remain in charge. The bit of difference in this epic disaster is that BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward is now beating his breasts and saying HE wants HIS life back and pledges to do whatever it takes (as long as it does not affect BP’s bottom line to remedy the eruption). Mr. Hayward also, now proclaims perhaps BP could have done more to prepare for a deep water oil leak like the one in the Gulf. This is still the same company who told the public it had all kinds of procedures in place for deep water drilling. But then no one in the government from the Bush/Cheney dictatorship or the Obama administration urged BP to demonstrate the fail safe safety procedures they swore were in place.

Sarah Palin is still screaming drill baby drill, but drill on land, and ‘Dickie’ Cheney the king of the oil cartel has still remained silent. Political fingers are still being pointed outward, and no ONE still, is talking about alternate fuels for the energy needs of this nation.

And once again as is the case for all disasters in this country, (health, financial, energy, education), politicians are still taking to their soap boxes and swearing change will surely arise from this terrible event. (How long will it take for amnesia to reclaim the meaningless rhetoric?)

The Catholic Church is still hollering ‘holier than thou’ epitaphs at others behaviors never once admitting to their own failure to follow up with criminals and crime. This time Bishop Olmsted of the Phoenix diocese, and the Vatican have decided to excommunicate Sister Margaret McBride and the ethics committee of St. Josephs Hospital for permitting the saving of a life of a mother who would surely have died had she not had an abortion. According to the Bishop and the Vatican a “direct abortion” is wrong, no matter the circumstances. Excommunication is the step taken, according to the doctrine of the Catholic Church when human life or human dignity are ignored and denied. Following the insanity of this directive a mother of many children could die and her human life taken is of lesser value than her unborn child; all of this while the dignity taken from the innocent boys and girls though the vile actions of Priests and Bishops as they were molested and abused their flock is of less importance of value. The Vatican still has admitted no wrong doing by its employees as it pertains to molestation, but the Vatican is still jumping on the high and mighty bandwagon when it comes to abortion and gay rights. How easy it is for the Vatican to point fingers at others and never once look at themselves.

And Sister Sarah is still shouting fire in a theater while quickly exiting the building never once sighting fact or truth. This time around on her Teflon Facebook page Sister Sarah has incited a riot and thrown terrible tirades against a journalist/author, Joe McGinnis, accusing him, through innuendo and fabrication of leering and spying on her children. Mr. McGinnis is writing a book about the power and presence of Sister Sarah in Alaska. He rented a home next to the Palin’s and Sister Sarah has called out the witch hunters to crucify this man. Her accusations based on nothing but her whims and fancies, state that Mr. McGinnis is peering through binoculars at her children. (Ever notice how Palin is always throwing her children in the mix and always complaining that the main street press is attacking her children). Sister Sarah as usual is hiding from current truths and potential truths of the future for fear of being found out a loser and liar, and as is her behavior strikes a preemptive attack on anyone who may discover her failures and failings.

Her minions of morons and clan of hypocrites have now sent Mr. McGinnis death threats and Sarah still uses the term ‘to reload’ when talking about taking care of this unwanted neighbor. And still she manages to insight fear, lie and deny the truth and her low life lemmings still follow every fabrication and fable as if she was the Messiah.

I was away from the trials and tribulations, the truths and consequences, the mindless meanderings and maddening machinations of the news, but the moment I began breathing in the fire and brimstone still became overwrought and outright frustrated. I am still frazzled with the hypocrisy, the double standards, and the self loathing and self victimizations of people who refuse to address the truth. I am still discouraged by the rhetoric which never leads to resolve. I am still disheartened by the grandiose that never gains ground and only garners greed and gluttony. And I am still waiting for truth and justice to prevail.