Not Your Daddy's USA

Our president is threatening to veto a bill to outlaw torture, millions of foreigners violate our borders, parents are buying armor for their loved ones serving in Iraq, our military uses depleted uranium tipped shells, corporation lobbies finance our elected representatives' campaigns, we drive right by homeless people who "choose to live like that," the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (an agency of the U.S. government) subsidizes American factories who move overseas, illegal aliens go on strike, prominent members of Congress are behind bars, we send women - even mothers- into combat, our justice system is often unjust, civility is disappearing, colleges are graduating illiterates, we outsource good jobs, privacy is endangered, the discredited NAFTA/GATT scams proliferate, foreign nations lobby the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon orders amputees back to their stations in Iraq, the middle class is vanishing, health insurance is not an option for 50 million citizens, and the home of the brave knows no fear of pesticides, herbicides, microwaves, cell phones, diesel fumes, mercury, plutonium, sodium fluoride, or sugar. Oh, the boss wants to send us to Mars.

Our grandparents wouldn't recognize the place.


Thoughts While Jaywalking

* Smog in the sky. Or is it a mushroom cloud?

* Proud CIA alumni: Noriega, Saddam, bin Laden.

* Bird Flu is coming on strong. Fear is mounting. A vaccine is on the way and if Uncle Sam (who isn't always very bright) makes it mandatory, I'll fly the coop. A friend of mine was killed by the Swine Flu shot, although no one died of that "disease." Long lines of people (no doctors) waited patiently for those deadly shots. This was another example of your government in action.

* Zacarius Moussaoui was convicted and sentenced to life although he committed no crime. Now he says he lied when he confessed to trying to be a terrorist. Let's pardon the character for that non-crime and then send him up the river for perjury. Most of us want him behind bars, and now we have a valid crime to charge him with.

* We bomb it. Haliburton rebuilds it. We pay for both.

* At a local wedding reception, the first tune the dance band played was "I Will Survive."

* Violence and chaos are on the rise again in Iraq. I hope Ann Coulter goes back soon. We need another book from her explaining the rosy scene that she witnesses.

* We should not forget that in 1952 four major oil companies were fined by the Justice Department for overcharging the federal government on oil shipped to Europe under the Marshall Plan.

* The Bush people are steamed over Iran's switch from dollars to Euros in their oil sales transactions. This might be a major factor in our dispute with the Iranians.

IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.