PEOPLE'S COPING SKILLS HIT OVERDRIVE

It is really difficult to listen to the haranguing amongst the 'so-called leaders' of our country.  The media seems to give more time to the Tea Partiers these days.  The reasoning behind this decision escapes me but I sure there is one there since MSNBC has been hosting a House Republican Tea Partier nigihtly.  Never having been one to suffer fools easily, these interviews have sorely tried my patience and credulity.  Some commentators have referred to the Tea in "Tea Party" as the bacronym "Taxed Enough Already"

Today I learned the definition of a backronym.  Wikopedia defines it as :  "It is constructed by taking an existing word already in common usage, and creating a new phrase using the letters in the word as the initial letters of the words in the phrase. For example, the United States Department of Justice assigns to their Amber Alert program the meaning "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," although the term originally referred to Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Texas in 1996".

Amazingly, people who think we are overtaxed seem not to know any math.  They do not know that, if the rich shared in taxes proportionately to income as do the poor, we would need to do far less to balance the budget.  But alas, their deficiencies allow them to spout off as they they had been annointed by God when they were elected to the House of Representatives.

They are currently professing to be seriously disappointed in President Obama but have no idea just how disappointing they have been to the American public.  Instead of coming to Washington to improve the lot of the American people, they march to their own drummer and seem to want to push progress back 40 or more years.

Coping mechanisms are creaking everywhere.  They need far more than the political equivalent of  WD40.It must be similar when a child sees a parent fly off into a temper tantrum.  I will not spout platitudes.  I can only say that I hope the current Administration has a plan to.no longer try the patience of the American people with an attempt to compromise with a party that has openly and firmly states they are only interested in having Obama fail and be a one-term president.

Please, let's prove them wrong!

FREE SPEECH INCLUDES, LIES, PROPAGANDA, MISINFORMATION, AND RABBLE ROUSING

The definition of 'rabble' from Merriam Webster is: 

¹rab·ble  noun \ˈra-bəl\

1: a disorganized or confused collection of things

2a : a disorganized or disorderly crowd of people : mob b : the lowest class of people 

 

We all know the rabble is easily influenced to riot and violence.  We are watching fools under cover of the right to free speech engaged in some very dangerous opinions and directions.  The 'Reverend' Jones in Florida threatening to burn copies of the Quran is among those within the tea partiers doing just that.  Some, like Michele Bachmann, Sara Palin, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Dick Armey, and so many others are worse than any terrorist  threat from Al Qaeda because they are being supported by Americans whereas it is liklely that fewer Americans directly support Al Qaeda.

It is time for me to offer a possible correction to my wild, stated, fantasies about the Saudi Arabian who owns 7% of Fox News.  A friend recently sent me the following:  "The fact that Prince Alweleed bin Talal and Osama bin Laden both come from the same country hardly suffices as proof that these two men collude. If anything, Alweleed's royal background indicates that such collusion is highly unlikely. The Saudi royalty were so appalled by bin Laden's radical views that they revoked his Saudi citizenship in 1992. I would also point out that bin Laden's program would seriously undermine the royal families investments. Remember, not all Saudis think alike" 

 

However, in the interest of 'fair and balanced' which is not often reflected by Fox News, I felt I should share that informatikon.  We can only hope for the best in those things over which we have no control. 

TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT BY TEABAGGERS

The GOP Right wingers are destroying our country, negating and devaluing our Constitution. The latest in a long string of religious wars in our country is over of Muslims, Islamophobia as it termed by some.  David Rosen of Counter Punch has written an excellent article on why  Shameless Schemers Like Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers and Right-Wing Christians Trying to Start a New Religious War Against Muslims.  On 8/22, there were two opposing demonstrations near where the proposed Islamic Community Center is scheduled to be.  Rosen writes: " The construction of the center, often referred to as a mosque, has become the latest rallying issue for the Christian right, Tea Party proponents and Republican operatives in their war to impose moralistic and corporatist values on America."  He cites that over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.

I ran across another blogger, Arthur Sidos, who, I think, wrote quite eloquently much of what I would have written...had I written it first.  But he did, I did not.  Therefore, read him and not me on this.