Sunday, October 31, 2010
Witch's Brew
America sure has one hell of a smelly steaming toxic cauldron a brewing! This election has bubbled nothing but toil and trouble. Some of it is classic Halloween camp, think of Christine O'Donnell's political ad claiming in that eerie serial killer voice, "I'm not a witch." She was dressed in black with a smoky black background and speaking in that weird tone all that was lacking was a gnarled leaf-less tree with a screeching bat flying across a big ominous orange harvest moon. The latest spending report according to CBS news puts this year's mid-term election costing upwards of 3 billions dollars..... that looks like $3,000,000,000! Which to me looks like Count Dracula moving in for a little midnight snack! Ironically I am not scared by who might be elected into office this year as much as I am scared that in such a shaky economy we sit idly by why 3 billion dollars gets sucked into some big black vortex. The scariest about any of this is the empty words that both sides utter. No one has a game plan except how to win a bull shit election. No one has a recipe for getting things done. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are sucking the life blood out of democracy. If Sylvia Browne or Dionne Warwick's psychic friends connections could hold a séance and bring the spirits of our founding fathers forth for a round table congressional butt kicking it sure would be helpful right about now. As the 2010 election comes to its climax on Tuesday I believe it will go down less like a tea party and more like a Tim Burton version of the Salem Witch Trials. Unfortunately this year looks more like a trick than it does a treat. Finding a shred of dignity and democracy this election year was like bobbing for poison apples. All I'm saying is don't drink the Witch's brew this year!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
American Pie: A Killer Filling!
I love a slice of pie. I believe my Granny Pop's homemade pies hold a special place in heaven. A warm slice of her blackberry pie in the winter made from blackberries we picked together in the summer and frozen or put up in her unbeatable preserves was my favorite pie piping hot out of the oven. Her rhubarb strawberry pie in the summer was my favorite pie to eat cold. In fact I've not really ever met a slice of pie I didn't like or least could cover with ice cream and trudge on through. However I believe a slice of the metaphorical American Pie has too much filling and quite honestly has no taste.
The flood of political campaign ads for the mid-term elections this past year has reached an intolerable fever pitch. On both sides of the political fence and right down the middle of the political landscape I am ashamed of every political figure head we the people have supposedly put in office. During a time of our country's shaky economical foundation in which millions remain unemployed and foreclosures across the land threaten to break the back of the American dream of home ownership these political ads are costing millions and millions of dollars. I find it sickening that everyone of these ads spin out of control exaggerating facts and bemoaning the out of control spending of congress and the government at large however spending millions right in front of our faces for TV airtime, robo-calls, mailers, etc. It is not only insane but stands as a slap across every hard working American's face that hopes they can pay the rent or mortgage and put food on the table. All these millions and millions of dollars flushing down the proverbial toilet to put people in office who continue a cycle of saying much but delivering little. Yes, it has been this way for a long time; but honey darlings the American Pie has been stuffed plum full of toxic energy and poisonous greed. The pie burst open a long time ago and the filling has oozed out over our common sense. The so called "tea partier's," have this big smug idealistic trumpet sounding that they are wanting change however they too have joined the masses in the mud spending millions. When do we simply unite and stand in front of Congress and our government; Republicans, Democrats and every thing in between and say "Enough, we forbid you to spend any more money on elections, you raise that money and pay off the national debt!"
I know it is easier said than done; but I am firing the warning shot today if anyone is listening. We have already begun swallowing the poison slices of pie. The so called middle class is being swept under the rug daily. Wake up America, it's time to throw out the pie we've been mindlessly stuffing ourselves with and start from scratch baking a new one. It is the season to demand WORK, not words from our elected officials. If we want to get this recipe right we are going to have to go back to the blackberry patch and weather the sun, heat, snakes, and thorns to get to the ripest and juiciest fruit. As the old cliche goes, "don't throw good money after bad," and as my Granny Pops always said, "you ain't gonna get a good pie with store bought berries, ya have to go pick 'em in order to do up a good pie!" Start baking with fresh ingredients America, the store bought stuff is killing us.
The flood of political campaign ads for the mid-term elections this past year has reached an intolerable fever pitch. On both sides of the political fence and right down the middle of the political landscape I am ashamed of every political figure head we the people have supposedly put in office. During a time of our country's shaky economical foundation in which millions remain unemployed and foreclosures across the land threaten to break the back of the American dream of home ownership these political ads are costing millions and millions of dollars. I find it sickening that everyone of these ads spin out of control exaggerating facts and bemoaning the out of control spending of congress and the government at large however spending millions right in front of our faces for TV airtime, robo-calls, mailers, etc. It is not only insane but stands as a slap across every hard working American's face that hopes they can pay the rent or mortgage and put food on the table. All these millions and millions of dollars flushing down the proverbial toilet to put people in office who continue a cycle of saying much but delivering little. Yes, it has been this way for a long time; but honey darlings the American Pie has been stuffed plum full of toxic energy and poisonous greed. The pie burst open a long time ago and the filling has oozed out over our common sense. The so called "tea partier's," have this big smug idealistic trumpet sounding that they are wanting change however they too have joined the masses in the mud spending millions. When do we simply unite and stand in front of Congress and our government; Republicans, Democrats and every thing in between and say "Enough, we forbid you to spend any more money on elections, you raise that money and pay off the national debt!"
I know it is easier said than done; but I am firing the warning shot today if anyone is listening. We have already begun swallowing the poison slices of pie. The so called middle class is being swept under the rug daily. Wake up America, it's time to throw out the pie we've been mindlessly stuffing ourselves with and start from scratch baking a new one. It is the season to demand WORK, not words from our elected officials. If we want to get this recipe right we are going to have to go back to the blackberry patch and weather the sun, heat, snakes, and thorns to get to the ripest and juiciest fruit. As the old cliche goes, "don't throw good money after bad," and as my Granny Pops always said, "you ain't gonna get a good pie with store bought berries, ya have to go pick 'em in order to do up a good pie!" Start baking with fresh ingredients America, the store bought stuff is killing us.
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