a complete idiot:

But she is our fucking idiot.

I heard you loud and clear! Thank you to the thousands of people who called and e-mailed me letting me know what you thought about the Majority’s cap and trade legislation. Today, I voted against that tax hike and job killer.

Oh, that amazing mind that is composed of numerous sleazy greedy staff calling themselves Congresswoman McMorris-Rogers (R-WA). She (the summa of too many parts) is known for her inability to actually create anything of substance, relying, in toto, on such entities as the WSJ, FoxNews, AEI, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, et al, to produce her public statements and views on all issues. Today she uncorked the trifecta in talking points of the GOP/FOX alternate reality in claiming her important vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act: it will cost each family thousands (nope); it will make jobs disappear (approx direct increase in employment = 1.7 mil); and it is a tax (energy producers would pay to capture carbon, and will choose to pass costs directly onto customers as they continue to do today anyway to guarantee their continued profitability).

She of course mentions the erroneous data on cost per household, the complete abject lie about taxes, the AEI and API claims to job loss (imagine the petroleum industry losing jobs in a local semi-rural economy with minimal public transportation?), and the rest. Lie lie lie lie and more so, hoping that her Fox breathing minions, only listen to Rush and Bill on the radio, will continue to support her. She refuses to debate anyone on any subject--albeit, debating fifteen staffers (her composite being) at one time might be a bit complicated--because she is essentially clueless and dependent upon the chosen talking points and choice of information (constructed and framed from the "alternative reality") that is at best untrue and without factual substance. At her worst, she spews only lies and misinformation to promote the agendas of big energy, big agra, big pharma, and lots of fascism.


I am sure "she" would completely agree with Glenn Beck when he said:

And these people know it. They are either the dumbest people to ever walk the face of the Earth, which I think some of them are. They are just greedy and just want their own power and their own control, which I think some of them are. Or, they believe in a different system other than the Republic, which I think some of them do. They are, they have exposed themselves as incompetent. They have exposed themselves as wicked. They have exposed themselves, quite honestly I think, as treasonous. I think some of them are treasonous. They have exposed themselves. Now the question is are there enough people in America still that believes in liberty and freedom and the Constitution?

I've been waiting for a long time for the Death of the Amurkin Dream

At this time of year i hear a great deal from the students i tutor and mentor (across the spectrum of matriculations) about the struggles they are having with balancing reality (Earth) with earning money to acquire even the most basic needs (Amurka). Early this morning, toodling along the highways of Eastern Washington i was shuffling the music deck and up popped a 35 year old Jackson Browne song. Backed by CSN and the Session, along with the maestro of lap steel Mr. Lindley, this song was the statement of that same set of feelings i am currently hearing expressed. Sadly, too many of us are still trying to be happy idiots and asking ourselves to pray for one another.


I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
And when the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen

Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight

I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put out dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender
Say a prayer for the Pretender

FUCKin' damn it! When Kesey reported that the Dream was Over back in the Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, i promised myself i would live long enough to see the death of the other dream that has destroyed the planet for generations to come. I am just getting old i guess, but that damn dream is doing its damndest to out survive us all. American exceptionalism indeed, fuck you bastards.