Two Years?

I've been lax. That's nothing new, but having my most recent post up since 2008 is ridiculous. This is supposed to reflect a cynical view of the world, and I've got plenty of fodder for the job. Lots of new stuff since 2008! Back then nobody knew who Sarah Palin was. Now we do. People with a reasonably well rounded grasp of history know better than to laugh at her. If our recent eight year dance of death with the village idiot and its disastrous aftershocks are insufficient evidence of irony, we can all take a longer glance back to Munich in the Nineteen Thirties. These so-called leaders, Boehner, Palin, Bachmann, Gingrich (Yep, he's back!) are all guilty of the crime of sedition. The folks they encourage to armed insurrection call themselves Teabaggers, but they are in actuality a small group of delusional, fat, bearded white men who hate the fact that a "Liberal" is in the White House. A black Liberal (he's actually more of a moderate). They have a problem with the new Health care bill. So do I, but for vastly different reasons. I believe it doesn't go far enough towards a single payer system. This new bill may not work smoothly out of the gate, but it does accomplish some potentially beneficial things. As far as the idiotic tenets of the "Tea Party," go, they seem to lean towards the wrong-headed assumption that the Founders (who are long since dead anyway) were of a single mind as to the role of the Federal Government. They weren't.

Lately in the news is the horrendous damage caused to the State of Mississippi, and the statements by its governor, Haley Barbour (the same guy who is currently taking the Federal Government to court to try to exempt his state from the hideous burden of "forcing" citizens to purchase health insurance) that he is unsure if his state will be able to repair the damage caused by the storms. Where might he go for the extra money? Right, the Federal Government. Or he could secede from the Union and deal with his problems himself. Ironic, no?

To the Teabaggers: Lose some weight, stop carrying semi-automatic weapons to your events, read some history, take a deep breath, turn off your radios, and give Obama a chance. To the "leaders" of the Tea Party, stop inciting to armed violence. It's illegal.