Liberty Gone Awry

There must be some philosopher who discovered every action, with time, becomes a parody of itself.
Our nations' intertwining use of the words "liberty" and democracy" are as farcical as the myriad of "God Bless America" advertisements taken out by major corporations after 9-11.
Sincerity becomes an advertising player, as are words used to describe precious American concepts.
When Beatles songs sell advertising  the Baby Boomers have made their last stand.

Tragically, Humans think

Humans are animals who have the misfortune to think they are superior to other life on earth (or anywhere else for that matter)
The unfortunate aspect is not that we are human but that we think-
-our problem is just because we know how to think
it doesn't mean we do it well.
The blessing ? because we all know how to think
thinking poorly is done en masse
and only a few aberrations in the food chain notice
and they are considered anomalies and must be destroyed
Darwin's finest theory at work keeping human survival right up there with the pigeons and the cockroaches.

Oil Spill Won't Hurt National Economy: Report

Oil Spill Won't Hurt National Economy: Report

Gee that sure is a relief, eh?

Men, What does she really look like underneath all that...

Aging men don't realize they aren't a pretty sight. Those stooped shoulders, the belt under the belly, the thinning hair.
Nice for men that they in their superiority from day one and it never wavers-right up to the walker, wheel chair and Attends.
Woman don't fare so well either. Oh, Helen Gurley Brown and Joan Rivers thought they could fool the world with those onion skinned face jobs and oozing of Botox, enough to paralyze the face and look like something out of one of R.L. Stein's scary stories. The Pumpkin Heads or something like that.
Woman are so indoctrinated with hiding and secrets, from infancy, they won't show you the real stuff-mostly because they don't recognize it.
God forbid, men would see them as less than perfect-whatever perfect is supposed to be nowadays.
Women hide stuff -obvious stuff, we have make up and face creams , foundations, concealers(can you believe we buy "concealers", we have hair extensions, breast enhancing bras with water or gel,  ass girdles, stomach girdles, even false toenails (did you know that?)
We can grow, replace or add to our eyelashes, tattoo eyeliner and eyebrows, make chipmunk cheeks with plastic filler, pull our back teeth to make our faces look thinner, hide fat on our back with full length spandex, and even wear leg make up if we are too lazy to get an artificial tan.
We use perfumes on our skins, in our vaginas, our ears, our hands and behind knees and elbows.
We have special creams for face, hands, feet, and even knees and toes.
We spray our vaginal areas with "deodorizers", shave the hair and do cutsie things like leave a heart shape.

Guys have no clue who they are really with-they really don't.
If Nature gave us   Pheromones to attract one another,  women have killed them  a thousand  times over. No wonder they complain about guys who use soap and water and scentless deodorant-they wouldn't recognize a sweat gland if it called to them.

Immigration Anger? Losing the bigger picture..

We do have a serious problem with illegal immigration. I know. I work in a public school system where my elementary school kids cannot always remember the name by which they were enrolled. They don't have addresses or phone numbers, (which constantly change by the way) because parents don't want to be found. Families move around the city frequently to avoid detection. Many live with legal relatives or friends-two or three families may live together, sleeping in shifts, waiting in the Kmart parking lot for an employer looking for cheap labor.


We can't have it both ways. Large employers hire illegal immigrants because the deal is good. Immigrants are hard workers, the pay it worth fourfold in Mexico, the employer pays no taxes, social security and below minimum wage. Many times laborers are cheated in the agreement, but employers know they can't do anything about it.
Employers need to feel the consequences of hiring illegal immigrants. Ignorance is no excuse. Neither is the greed employers harbor when hiring illegals.  Americans need to ask themselves-"At what point do we acknowledge the need for fair and equitable treatment for workers, a fair profit for employers, and a just employment system?
At the present time the greed in our country is so rampant and blatant, citizens have a right to be angry.
But they seem to be killing the wrong messenger.
Illegal immigration isn't the biggest problem we have right now.
It is our willingness to forfeit our own freedoms to address a problem which could be easily dealt with.
George Bush made the invasion of our privacy quite palatable to us. We still haven't made a peep about the fact we can be arrested under the guise of terrorist, placed in confinement, refused the right to be told of our
crimes, refused a trial, and held indefinitely. In addition, our phone calls, emails and any other correspondence can be monitored without our knowledge at any time.
US citizens, forget the wired and bugged White House of the Nixon Administration. History is not exactly a priority of standardized testing, so we seem doomed to repeat our mistakes.
The McCarthy era spread the same paranoia, anger, and ignorance as the Rush Limbaughs of the present day craziness.
When an entire state legislator votes to required a birth certificate prior to placement on a ballot, all based on the bizarro birth certificate fairy tale concocted by crazy media, we are out of control.
These are frightning times for Americans. Misdirected anger , fueled mostly by ignorance, is leading us down a cliff, lemming like, and the obviousness of it is seen by the entire world, except for those it will impact the most-us.
Profiling of any sort leads to the era of "armbands"-shall we continue to lead to our destiny?-Hitlerish choices, to segregate and isolate our nation?
The simplistic philosophy, "You don't have anything to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong" is a great and deadly fallacy.
Not all Hispanics have carmel colored skin and dark hair.
It could be you-picked up because you don't carry your social security card, or "proof" of citizenship by some disgruntled cop, locked up, unjustly, until you can prove your citizenship.
Of course, you don't believe it. 
Therein lies the frightning prospect of making laws which oppress rather than fixing a problem.
I wish I could understand better how perfectly reasonable people , some of whom I love dearly, fueled by fear and anger, are willing to give up the liberty and freedoms we all hold so dearly just to feel like they have a modicum of control. 
Vengeance does not steer well, my comrades.It moves full boar ahead into any obstacle, ignoring the helpless and the innocent. 
Anger is a dangerous engine to drive any decision. 
Think about that. When was the last time you made an excellent decision in the midst of rage?