One Tree Hill
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the super island of Nantucket! Great to be with you on this Wednesday morning, the seventh day of September, 2011, another soggy one on Cape, as you look above at an ancient cedar tree sitting atop “Faith Hill” here in Osterville, the tiny seaside village that is a mere football toss to Hyannis Port, in the background to the east, former home to our thirty-fifth President of the United States of America, his beautiful wife Jackie and his brother’s Teddy and Bobby, who, in their lifetimes, MADE a difference in the lives of so many ‘ordinary’ citizens of this great land, striving for high ideals that had nothing to do with corporate money, the lust for power, or a general sell out of those same, now talking point, “American People”… As we get ready for tonight’s debate in California, broadcasting at 8 p.m. EDT, on NBC, where republican Presidential candidates try and “out Christian”, or “out Mormon”, as it were, each other in an attempt to show the world just how big of an as$hole(s) they really ARE, falsely claiming they stand by the American worker, who has taken it on the chin for the past three decades or so, we must take a step back to comprehend just what their philosophy has done and will continue to do to our most vulnerable citizenry, as well as the middle class itself, a dying breed at the moment… James Hoffa Jr. put it best when he called them out, at a rally in Detroit with our current President Obama following, with his words, well spoken sir, “sons of bitches” and called on the crowd, and indeed all Americans, to ‘take them out at the ballot box’. FOX NEWS, of course, jumped all over this one, the same FOX NEWS channel that PROMOTES violent rhetoric, proving once again that our ‘fun friends’ over at FIXED NEWS (credit Keith Olbermann of Current TV’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann, airing every week night at 8 p.m., 11, 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., EDT) are full of proverbial horse$hit. Oh, Roger Ailes, is their nothing your tubby being can’t do? Following the much anticipated debate between the two front runners, Romney and Perry, will be President Obama’s speech on Thursday, where he will propose a 300 billion dollar jobs stimulus package, designed to break the gridlock in Washington, gridlock by design, via the obstructionists the republican party has become–a speech regarding ‘getting America back to work’…a tall order for any President in this toxic environment, you know, with all the ‘young guns’ and such. The President, at the behest of many of his supporters, including this one, will call out the republicans on their TRUE intentions, thus, bringing light to all who live in this nation, what these guys are really all about–“IT’S THE MONEY ARTHUR, THE MONEY.” “Burt Johnson, he’s a criminal!” “We’re all criminals Arthur, congratulations, you are going to be a wealthy man for the rest of your life” “That’s all I’ve ever wanted to be…” (credit the classic film, “Arthur”, starring the incomparable, late, great Dudley Moore, Sir John Gielgud, and Liza Minnelli). Of course, in that metaphor, Arthur is one of the good guys, opting for LOVE in the end, and still winning his fortune nonetheless. A good moral for this story in 2011, where so many republicans, many of them good men and women, have sold their soul to the Devil, coming in the form of this puppet “Grover” Norquist, who acts as the corporate liaison, or leg breaker, for the plutocratic interests that have taken over this nation. Don’t believe me? Take a good look around your town or city today, I mean really LOOK, go down to places where people have NOTHING and tell me something doesn’t STINK in Denmark. From the evisceration of the EPA to the dismantling of our education system, we are creating a country that will soon be full of stupid and heavy on desperate, an easily manipulated and crushed electorate, who gets hassled now even at the voting booth, i.e. tough new voter ID registration in states like Wisconsin where a puppet of ‘the brother’s KOCH’, not to be confused with “The Brother’s Grim”, Scott Walker, current Governor of that great state, recently introduced a policy that makes it very difficult for the poor, the elderly and the young to exercise their RIGHT to VOTE, thus allowing for the possibility that a “man” like Rick, “I’ll shoot you if I have to”, Perry could become President, a position on par with a Jack Kennedy…what a JOKE. So, get your popcorn out, per the orders of Mr. Olbermann, the Dean of Journalism, sorry Keith, it’s the TRUTH, pick up those styrofoam bricks you use to throw at the television set and enjoy, for there is nothing better than watching grown men LIE to 308 million American citizens, as they attempt to explain just how “good” corporations are–”for they are your neighbors, your friends, indeed, your family”… giving so much back to the community by way of 596 deadly chemicals used in the fracking process of attaining ‘natural gas’, I’m sure you have seen the ads by Madison Avenue wizards, another example of profit over people as corporate monsters continue to rape and pillage our land for their gain, at the expense of OUR water, OUR air, and OUR right to ‘pursue happiness’, pursue it not in a rigged system, rather, pursue it in the name of little ‘d’ democracy, something the Kennedy family embraced for their eternal grace. Have a nice day folks and keep the people on the Somalian/Kenyan border in your prayers, all 12 million of them, for they are starving and need all the help they can get. Much like it could be in this country soon if things don’t begin to change for her people, whose names are not Exxon-Mobile, Goldman Sachs or United Healthcare. If you wish to help in that epic FAMINE, please Google Oxfam, a great organization, or visit savethechildren.org / care.org…humanitarians who get the point of helping a brother and sister in need. For in the end, their need is yours as well. PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
