Short time today. Lots going on with travel, work and writing but I’m also finding ways to waste time that I don’t have.
Earlier this week I came across the greatest spam-phish I’ve seen in a long time…
“WARNING!!! Follow this link to update your account settings on or before February 30th or your account will be locked out.”
For those of you who didn’t get it the first time, read the date slowly…
I tried to read (listen) to a book last week and I didn’t get past the first paragraph before my BS alarm went off. Of course, it is normally my own bias that rings the alarm but when a politician, one who still plays the religion game and smiles nicely for the camera on Sunday opens his book with;
“Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions? The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy even in the face of massive and well understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.”
How can I take anything else this guy says serious? This lines weren’t speaking about religion (and neither does the book) but when I heard that passage all I could see was him sitting with his family in the congregation of a church waving to the cameras so that all those voters would see him as a religious man. And he wants to talk about basing decisions on falsehoods in the face of reliable contradictory evidence? I lasted through the rest of the opening chapter but couldn’t take it any further than that. After that opening it was all white noise, buzzing in the back of my skull.
The other day Teresa pointed out that I am now 35 and can run for president… Is she telling me to “put up or shut up” or is she part of my “evil master plan”? I could never be president. I actually think for myself and come up with my own opinions. That is not always a good thing, sometimes I form opinions too rapidly and they are wrong, requiring amendments as I learn more of the facts. But I don’t go with the flow just to keep people happy. They’re making a big deal about Clinton and Obama because they’re the first of their minority to have a real chance. Those minorities are superficial. They aren’t any different and if you think it matters then you’re the one with the bigoted issues. Who cares if he’s black or that she’s a woman… They are both life-party Democrats and not much different on the inside where their cold-dead hearts should be. We need someone in there who will fuck things up, shake up the daily routine of the living quarters. Nothing changes when a black man or a woman is in office. But can you imagine if we had someone in there that was actually different? Our first Atheist president?
Not that I honestly think I’m the right guy for the job but I DO think the job is no longer what it should be. Too much posturing and politics. Not a lot of stuff getting done because of the fear of a re-election campaign or a legacy. We need a guy (or gal) in there that doesn’t give a shit about making a name for himself and has no intention of getting re-elected. And the system is stacked so that we will never see someone in that chair that has much of a spine. Not under the current system. After the revolution maybe we’ll get someone good but until then you won’t see much change. Same old crap, new wrapper. Everyone is watching to see if the Democrats put up black or female. And they like that you are watching that. Because it is a superficial difference that seems so big that you don’t question whether either one is any good. The first black man, the first woman… the 44th bag of shit.
Black or woman, they are still the same inside. Dead-eyed, broken-spirited politician. We need to pick the president by throwing a dart at a phone book and limiting the term to one year.
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