American Optimism
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the cold, snow dusted island of Nantucket! Great to be with you on this Friday morning, the sixth day of January, 2012, a cold morning on Cape, as some snow left it’s mark, ever slightly, on the mainland and islands with ‘just a taste’ of the good January moisture. Slim pickins’ these days for a real winter wonderland around these here parts, but I know it ‘ain’t global warmin’! cause the good folks over at FOX “News” tell me that’s all a bunch of hooey! Heck fire, if it weren’t for all of that hot air coming out of the mouths of say a Chris Mathews, Ed Shultz, Reverend Al Sharpton, ‘a’ Rachel Maddow over on that commie station MSNBC, or, god forbid, a Keith Olbermann (star of the show, “Countdown, with Keith Olbermann”, the best news hour on television today, airing every week night at 8 p.m., eastern standard, re-airing at 11p.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., noon, and three the next day, only on CURRENT TV, home to real, honest to goodness journalism, journalism Walter Cronkite himself would be proud of), yes sir, if weren’t for those folks and the lefty pinko stations they work for, we might just get some snow ’round here! ‘Yes sir, by Golly, if it were not for all of that monkey business those folks talk about, all the time, like how the republicans, good real men like Rick Perry, or Mitt Romney, or even Rick Santorum, want to create a caste system that serves the plutocratic elite, the ‘job creators’ (more like the new slave owners), creating a system that continues to expand that Grand Canyon gap between the haves and the have nots, thus insuring, via a rigged overall system that is now on steroids thanks to Citizens United, and, moreover, insuring, by destroying public education, higher education, i.e. KNOWLEDGE=POWER, is allowed only to children of those in that elite 1-2 percent in this United States of America, insuring their continued survival and indeed acceleration, as they have seen their ‘incomes’ go up by almost 300 percent in the past thirty years, while the average American citizen ‘worker’, no longer a human being but a number, has seen his or her wages remain stagnant, going down in many cases, and with the few jobs remaining, the republican legislators with a little ‘r’ next to their name have succeeded in creating a 1930’s like Robber Baron scenario, as well as a Stockholm Syndrome (a phenomenon where the captives, i.e. 300 plus million people, American, begin to feel sorry for their ‘captors’, i.e. global banks, energy corporations, insurance conglomerates, ‘natural gas’ profiteers, the list goes on and on, via Madison Avenue wizardry depicting “Natural Gas wells safe for the environment”, one example of thousands, endless advertisements on countless products and services, with live ‘preserve the wilderness’ video feeds of ducks floating by with impunity, horse hockey! This, with the ‘captors’ playing a game that does NOT have it’s captives, the people who vote in the likes of a Mitch McConnell, best interests in mind, AT ALL! For how could they?? They’re CAPTORS! Hello, is this thing on? Brilliantly keeping it’s “captives”, ‘the American people’ , under the rule of law set up by puppets who were elected by plutocratic interests, very powerful multinational interests, to keep a great majority of Americans in the dark and controlled, as those ‘American people” continue voting (via propaganda brainwashing machines like FOX NEWS, Rush Limbaugh and the other haters on television and radio today, you know who you are!) in people who want to keep them down, controlled, and certainly not FREE! Where the likes of a Koch Brothers can BUY elections, such as the upcoming attempt in 2012 to elect Mitt, “corporations are people too”, Romney, god forbid, and, if they can’t buy the Executive this time around, will settle for bought Senators that will most likely take over that government body, making it ever more difficult to accomplish anything of value in Washington D.C.–for said (republican talking point used ad nauseum by that aforementioned Senator, Mitch, “my mother was a hamster” –credit Michael Palin once again and a film by that talented British satire group hailing, of course, from The United Kingdom, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a film named appropriately “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”–McConnell, R-KY) the American People…, ‘yup, that’s why I always vote republican, I don’t want to get any crazy ideas or anythin’ like that, I prefer my ignorance to be left in tact, far away from common sense, all encompassing set of human principals and values, a sense of fairness, or equality for ALL as per the instructions of OUR creator him or herself! Have a nice week end folks, hopefully taking a small break from the insanity that has become modern day politics in America! PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
