‘Dock on a Bay’
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the great island of Nantucket! So good to be with you on this Monday morning, the twentieth day of June, 2011, a gentle one out today, with no real weather to speak of, other than seasonable temperatures and a warm, late spring sun. With the dawning of a new day and week in Washington D.C., distractions behind US, hopefully, the congress will be busy at work doing what they do best–nothing. Nothing will be done this week regarding raising the debt ceiling, nothing will be done about the horrible unemployment situation that many Americans face on a daily basis, nothing will be done about the lack of REVENUE coming into the U.S. Treasury, save for removing the ethanol (agriculture) subsidies that should have been taken out years ago, nothing will be done about our crumbling infrastructure, nothing will be done about our continued involvement in five armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Pakistan, costing the American tax payer upwards of a trillion dollars, thus far, on this so called ‘war on terror’, which is code for fear mongering, the fuel that keeps the military industrial complex chugging along, nothing will be done about our failing schools and the fact that we are falling behind every other industrialized nation on planet earth in math, science and reading comprehension, nothing will be done about the systematic and calculated culture war that is taking this country backwards, not forwards, nothing will be done about climate change and the destruction of our environment, as one more species vanishes from the face of the planet forever, and nothing will be done about the crooked tax code, that favors that top one tenth of the top one percent, a rigged system (Wall Street) that put this country in the mess it is in today. Until some of these questions are addressed, until some of these issues are tackled, it is just more session of hot, carbon dioxide choked, globally warmed air from D.C. again this week, from republicans and democrats alike, as the nation struggles to put food on it’s collective table, educate it’s children and continue to provide a safety net for our seniors, who, after all, were the one’s who took care of US when we were young. Who knows, perhaps stage actor Will Ferrell, I mean Rick Perry, Governor of the great state of Texas, playing this past week end to a standing room only crowd in Texas, auditioning his best rendition of George “W” Bush, will ’save the day’ as he dawns his bright blue boots and his red cape…I just can’t wait for that huge prayer breakfast that is going to be held this upcoming week at some baseball stadium in that Lone Star state, I’m sure Jesus will give old Rick some divine HOLY SPIRIT intervention and show US all the way! Have a great week folks and please, for GOD’S sake, don’t take any more wooden nickles (not meant for human consumption) from the likes of FOX NEWS–they have not been approved by the FDA, and come with some nasty side effects including blurred vision, numbness of the lips, ringing in the ears, becoming a complete moron and believing in the tooth fairy. PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
