AIG has some frickin’ gad damn chutzpah. You mean to tell me after all the billion$ they needed to buttress this “cancer of finance” they want to reward their legions of disease? They may be huge, so huge that they need to be shut down. But they’re never going to pay back the money in full that the government stupidly threw at them. If those in charge decide to grant AIG the permission to blow frickin’ million$ on their minions you can be sure an ugly contempt will further brew in the public masses. And the nation will likely not forget this vile debauchery come voting time. AIG is morally no better than the insane nurse who polluted patients just so she could get her fix.
I’ve often daydreamed lately…that if the politicians had ever decided there was an education crisis of prolific magnitude threatening this country…and had decided to spend a fraction on education of what they’ve minted for these pig f*ckers in our financial system. What would our nation look like? Or what if they spent it on medical research or medical coverage for all? What if the system had such a vested interest or cared so much for every individual person that their every potential could be put back to work for the greater good. But…alas. Humans are savage creatures. For all our gadgetry and science we still prowl on our own like dumb prehistoric thugs. For all the might in our governances the system is breaking down. In ways nobody saw coming. The leaders better get hip. There are too many swells of grief in motion here. Too many lives clinging to weak yarns of hope. Beltway “business as usual” won’t weather this front. The backs of states are breaking. This snake eating its own tail has to sever the cycle. Obama and his people better be right…because as things get worse you know more of the innocent will get ravaged in the fight to the finish. I have hope, but I’m pretty damn terrified at the energy stewing these days.
Wow, who knew…not much can be said…other than the latest news (yep, Marion was 11) brings a whole new dark side to that line: “…I was a child, I was in love, it was wrong AND YOU KNEW IT!” Inside the Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Meeting
So, it seems, for better or worse, the times have irreversibly changed. Not only has the Internet brought leisurely smut browsing to the home computer in the locked room of every lonely young guy (thus saving many men from that embarrassing moment of trying to buy skin mags for the first time)…but apparently, high school & dating ain’t what it used to be. The conservatives are probably having a field day criticizing the frivolous behavior of today’s youth. South Park even had a great episode spotlighting Paris Hilton. But you can’t take the jungle out of the lion. People have been procreating, getting into trouble, & challenging authority at a youthful age for thousands of years…there is a formidable foe in battling eons of evolution, but they (the conservatives) don’t believe in evolution anyway…so it’s a moot point.
Yep, it’s been a long while…but somehow I’ve found my way out of the fog. I hope to be back in action regularly…as this noob has to familiarize himself with WordPress & all that jazz.
I’d feel strange not noting the anniversary of a dark day 7 years ago…I didn’t see it happen, but I watched the smoldering demise:
