Greed + Fear + Fundamentalists + Microattention Spans =

What we have today. An imbecile president that is surrounded by criminals. A public that considers a blow job worse than a multitude of scandals that directly impact their well being. A media that is so bought by big corporate money that they are a mouthpiece for the slime in power. A country filled by people who couldn't tell the truth from a lie - and are more comfortable with the lie anyway, since it fits into the fear-filled belief/"values" system. Religion and fear combined into a strategy that runs counter to the true teachings of religion, or the well being of our citizens.

We are in deep, deep, deep shit...with no apparent end, save things getting so terribly out of control that we are all adversely affected. We need so badly some heroes, some whistle blowers, some traction, some truth!!!!

Sorry, I was finishing my "Christmas" shopping...

Could you repeat that?

we need our revolution RIGHT NOW!! And we need our own Marat to incite and lead it:

"Fighting all the gentry and fighting every priest
businessman the bourgeois the military beast
Marat always ready to stifle every scheme
of the sons of the arse-licking dying regime

We've got new generals our leaders are new
They sit and they argue and all that they do
is sell their own colleagues and ride on their backs
and jail them and break them or give them all the axe

Screaming in language no man understands
of rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding hands
when we wiped out the bosses and stormed through the wall
of the prison they told us would outlast us all..."

I had the same argument with a nutter this morning - I wanted to know how a blow job was worse than shredding the Bill of Rights. And the stupid fucker said the government could spy on him all they want, he has nothing to hide.

Truly amazing how fucking stupid the Kool-Aid makes you. I asked what it was like to be impervious to the truth. It further deteriorated when I reminded him that bush was supposed to be a christian yet he thought it was OK to torture people.

It's simply amazing they still have the stomach for this group of thieves and murderers.

A substantial percentage of people in this country are simply too stupid to be considered to be human any longer. Chimps, not to mention most members of the animal kingdom and some higher forms of plant life, ARE smarter than these idiots. An animal never consciously acts against its own self interest, while these morans have made an art form of it.

"rock bottom" as the twelve steppers say before we can begin to recover.
I hope I'm wrong because as bad as things are today I REALLY don't want to be around for rock bottom...