worry

I get worried. I worry when a bully can beat up and batter boldly without anyone stopping his actions or making him accountable for his behavior. Only for the bully to find yet another victim without any remorse.

I get worried and I worry when someone yells fire in the theater right before he/she stands up and heads for the exit. Awaiting amusingly for the panic stricken crowds to push, pull and pulverize each other to try and flee for safety. Only to laugh at his foibles and smugly smirk at how those crazy people react to a mere suggestion.

I get worried and I worry when a truth is turned into a lie through suggestion or innuendo. When fact is shoved aside for something with more drama or disgust. When fiction suits the moment as too much honesty might make some thinking people wonder why and ask why not.

I get worried and I worry when Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh, or Sarah Palin, or Senator Demint lay claim to bigotry and bias and base it on the American way, and never get questioned by their Republican followers. When they indirectly encourage their lemming like followers to carry signs proclaiming President Obama like Hitler, or Stalin or like an African animal in the White House.

I get worried and I worry when protesters carry signs bragging about how lucky we are that this time they did not bring their guns or ammo to the rally.

I get worried and I worry when those who disagree with anything different than they, decide that militias, anarchy, intimidation are better causes for change than democracy.

I get worried and I worry when Liberals educated intellectuals, the average American thinks that the charades and scripted dramas shown on television by Evangelical right wing radicals are humorous and silly, non threatening and harmless, done only by a bunch of buffoons; and that all their actions mean little to the landscape in which we live.

I get worried and I worry that we have let the dumb decide out future, we have allowed the angry to set the agenda, we have decided the lowest common denominator in their demented way can push all limits of freedom, democracy and fairness.

I have gotten worried and have worried for 8 years with Bush/Cheney, thinking with Obama/Change the worry would end.

I am so worried we have so much more to worry about now. Now that the hate has been released, the bigotry unbridled, and the poison pulsating in perpetual lies.

It worries me and worries me.

family values?

Family Values. Lots of groups have risen to protect the values for families, all assuming that if anyone does not share their indoctrination, ideological propaganda, or illogical antagonistic definitions, those in disagreement have no values.

Family Values. If you place the word Christian in front of any irresponsible communication, the word Christian next to any denial of free speech, or choice, the word Christian by the lack of respect for difference, it becomes more valuable and less questionable or need to be questioned.

Family Values. Always for the children. No matter if you deem the child a "fag", or "queer" if he or she expresses a part of their personality which is homosexual, its for the children. No matter if you deem the child anti Christian or anti American because he or she asks why and how come, and does not follow like a lemming like his lemming like parents, its for the children. No matter if he or she has loving parents of any gender, or one or two of the same sex, he or she is going to hell, because how can he or she really be loved by anyone but a heterosexual man or woman, its for the children.

Family Values. Always someone else's values never yours or anyone who at least orally subscribes to your clan or group or family. Never for a Republican, no not like Mark Sanford, who quotes the Bible as he sweetly quotes the sonnets he sang for his mistress. Never for Senator Ensign who even over the objections of his adulterous coquette's husband continued to cheat and swoon and dribble. Never for Senator David Vitter, who found more solace and pleasure paying a prostitute for all the loving and snuggling he did not get from his wife.

Family Values. Seems they are lacking in anything the President of the United States even offers, to aid and assist a population which so much is in need of values. Seems they are missing in a Health Care Plan, which is designed to provide care for members of the family so they can have more time, money and health to promote a valuable life. Seems lies and fabrications are all the values needed to dissuade anyone from finding refuge and help. Lies like death squads for the elderly, abortion clinics for young girls, and sex change store fronts for any young adult.

Since when do family values, ignore the unique values each individual possess? Since when do family values only become valuable when preached to by biased, bigoted, Bible based bullies who claim to know God, but really only lay claim to knowing the devils work better? Since when do family values become valueless if not followed by a a strict script, with selected passages by a self selecting few?

Family values. Too bad those who seem to find a soapbox or ownership or possession of, never really seem to value the family at all; just their own distaste, disgruntled denial, and disregard for anyone who is a part of a family with love.

how about the three of you?

Dear Mister Ex-President Bush, Mr. Ex Vice President Cheney, Mister Ex Defense Secretary Rumsfeld,

Today is the Eighth Anniversary of the horrible, terrible, ghastly, unnerving tragedy of 9/11. You GUYS remember don't you, as it fell on your watch as President and Vice President and Defense Secretary of the United States.

9/11 changed the way Americans viewed the world and the way the world viewed us. All three of you were in charge of the way we handled this crisis, and all three of you left office without once apologizing for the way you did not handle the whole 9/11 horror.

None of the three of you were or are man enough to admit your mistakes, your oversights, your selfishness, your greed, or you Political maneuverings in not dealing with Osama Bin Laden or Al Qaeda. None of you ever acknowledged why we begrudgingly went into Afghanistan to hunt the "number one most wanted criminal"; but spent more time, more propaganda, more hate and anger to invade Iraq.

None of the three of you have made any sympathy call to the families who died in the tragic bombings, or to the families of the men and women who fought and still fight a war in Iraq in which at least one of you, Mister Cheney have received great revenue from the profit made by the corporation you worked for, Haliburton.

All of the three of you have however moved on with your lives and are are or will make great profit from your misdeeds, your days of lying, your selfish self serving, self loathing, days in public office. All three of you suppose you fooled the public, and all three of you somehow sleep at night without the worry of a conscience getting in the way.

It is the Eighth Anniversary of a day no one will ever forget. Somehow the three of you GUYS, have forgotten what your inactions, your indiscretions, your irresponsibility your disregard for democratic process and most disgusting how your contempt for lives American or Iraqi, or Afghani have left the world.

It is the Eighth Anniversary of 9/11, I remember where I was, the shock I felt, the overwhelming sadness that encompassed me. How about the three of you?

when?

When did truth and honor, conscience and care, respect for debate intelligence and education stop being the norm for the American public, and fiction and fable, disregard and gluttony, screaming and harassment, ignorance and absence of knowledge take charge.

Why, when we need smart do we see silly and insincere. Why when we crave thought we are thrown into mass hysteria based on baseless bigotry. Why when we strive for change we get charades and quick tempered, uneven abruptness leading to chaos and hooliganism.

Why is it when Politicians are caught in the act of ugly, they only haphazardly apologize, never admitting the misdeed, but suggesting that if in fact anyone was offended then well begrudgingly they silently say sorry.

Why can people like Glenn Beck suggest poisoning the Speaker of the House, Evangelical Leadership admit that if the President were to be assassinated he wouldn't be upset, that those who say they are closer to God, because they are a Priest, Minister or Rabbi, speak for their God as a non caring entity, Godless in power and Godless in understanding equality, fairness and humanity. And why does no one speaks out loud against their inhumanity?

When did mediocre become cool? When did those with reason rhyme and rationale become silenced?

When do we begin to take back an America that believes, that includes, that strives for more than mediocre excellence?

I get so tired of the maniacs managing the manger. So tired of the thugs taking the streets. So sick of the insane running the asylum.

Too much, too little and if we don't begin to challenge the change we voted for for too late!

"...it's only WORDS..."

"...you think that I don't even mean a single WORD I say. It's only WORDS, and WORDS are all I have to, take your heart away...", lyrics by the Brothers Gibb from the song Words.

Tonight once again for the first time, the President of the United States spoke to the citizens of this country (those of whom) for the most part have NOT decided that he is in the midst of developing death squads, setting up abortion clinics, opening sex change store fronts, or destroying the very foundation of greedy gluttonous capitalism with devious socialistic mad men medicine.

The President spoke WORDS from the heart of great depth and desire and hints of sincere intention and honest approach. He spoke WORDS that sounded like a man with compassion who truly understood the torture, the tedium, the tremendous angst and stress anyone in this country must confront when ill, sick or dying; dealing with hospitals, health insurers, and hidden administrators ready to pull the plug because of preexisting conditions, being too sick to begin with, or just too expensive to cover.

And then the talking heads took to the airwaves to add their WORDS, suggesting that this time for the first time, they, the men and women in white (the good guys and gals), will make reform happen.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D), of California went on the Rachel Maddow Show and spoke WORDS of how NOW she will challenge her cronies in Congress and ask them if the public option is not good for the PUBLIC, why is it good for the elected public servants. (Try to reach Senator Boxer via email and all you get are pre-recorded WORDS of how wonderful she is as Senator.)

And then the WORDS started to reflow and regurgitate from the Republican spin machine and the lies, fabrications, and excuses fell so fast that one might have thought a Tsunami just happened. And those WORDS continue to stop the motion of any health care reform that aids and abides the public, but just keeps the corporations coffers healthy and stuffy. (How many more people need to suffer, go broke or die while these WORDS are spoken?)

And now the few hours after the WORDS were spoken, and rebuffed, and lied about and heart wrenchingly embraced, the WORDS of anti this and pro that are flowing like lava from an eruption of Mount Kilimanjaro.

And if you watched the televised presentation of the Presidents WORDS, all the Senators and Congress People, who ARE receiving Government Run Health Coverage, kissed hugged, patted themselves on their respective backs, and had WORDS to share with one another.

You know what I do think..." I think that YOU don't even mean a single WORD you say, and by it just being WORDS,"... you just might take my heart, my breath my life away..."

grandma said

My Grandmother used to tell her minions of grandchildren, think before you speak because once you say something it will echo like the tremors of falling trees on a very high mountainside. She added that gossip is like an unofficial curse, it can cause harm and hurt until the next foolish spit and splatter is said. And because it is unofficial there is no way to stop the curse from taking its toll.

The Republican propaganda soldiers have once again started echos that never cease, never stop and only seem to lead to results which are taking their toll and may, if unchecked translate into something terrible and troublesome.

The lies and fabrications, the tales without fact, the suggestions without merit, the cunning display of Politicians enjoying innuendos without any consequence, are like the unofficial curse my Grandmother warned her children of. The evil of fiction, the availability of vile, the acceptance of bigotry all used as a divisive tool will linger and live longer than those who perpetuated them.

And the lemmings and self loathing idiots who need an excuse to hate out loud will use any and all irrational and unreasonable information to intimidate threaten and desperately despise. and to seperate and split apart a nation in need of hope, harmony and change.

When any of my Grandmothers family was caught gossiping and sprouting untruths, she took them by the cheeks pulled them close to her and were told, God will remember this. Sleep well if you can.

Wonder how many of the "wonder boys and girls" who make up the madness and lies wonder if god will remember this!

I am remembering and hope all sane, reasonable, smart self loving individuals also remember.

imagine, if you can

Imagine if you can. A mother standing next to her husband, crying, sobbing, her eyes painful remorseful. She longingly looks into the camera, and sobs one long and loud moan and says how could she ever let her children listen to the President of the United States. He is going to talk to MY children about staying in school, about setting goals. HIS goals.

Imagine if you can. Questions still flutter fly freely in the wind is HE really a citizen. Did his parents conceive him, birth him and raise him in Africa, and somehow pay the officials in Hawaii to post a fake, phony birth certificate?

Imagine if you can a slight short thick deeply hairy mustache on the upper lip of a man who only asked America to embrace change, to re-open their eyes and renounce the greed and gluttony of the past 8 years. To raise hi hands in a welcoming manner to only have one of those hands facing the crowd, and to have that man called Hitler.

Imagine if you can lies and innuendo, falsehoods and fabrication shouted so loudly, so fiercely, so rehearsed, to be so overwhelming that any bit of truth can not be heard and sounds like someone whispering in the wind.

Imagine if you can stupid people running this country once again. Imagine if you can the intelligent, the ones who crave education who ask why and why not remaining silent while the lemmings, the self loathers, the bigots have the microphone and instill hate, fear and mistruth.

Imagine if you can an America made from bullies, hate mongers and self absorbed men and women who fear truth more than anything else.

Imagine if you can what will become of this Nation if we all don't stop the tide of ignorance and hate.

fabrication

When is enough enough?