I bet...

It's electric.

Ever notice...

That when people start talking about lifeboat ethics it's always more of a confession instead of a defense?

Actually...

It's sort of like a union, except much less loyal to its members.  Most folk in the "to be screwed category" won't notice until it's too late, but that's the point.  Indeed, that is the point.

The American Miliatry leadership

Hard at work.

Cool song...

But most folk are pushed.  They don't jump

If they're depending upon America...

Well, three letters... ATF.

Hmmm...

Wonder who damaged him?  Wonder how long ago it happened?  Wonder if it was intentional?  Wonder if the scales will ever be evened?

Doesn't matter if one started it...

It's how many people one threw in it.  Hint:  If the answer is a whole bunch of them, that's very, very, bad.

To the America first crowd...

How many people have to get butchered before you grow some humility and straighten out your own house?  Claiming your pile of garbage is better than your neighbor's pile of garbage doesn't mean it ain't garbage.  Time to take it out, all the way to the top.

Yeah...

It is.  Truth is the enemy of every state, even those that pretend to be the most benevolent and the most democratic.  One should never forget that.  And the biggest lie they ever tell you is "Trust us."

You know...

Freedom from evil is hard.  Freedom from the over credentialed fools who make evil possible is nearly impossible.

Well...

I hope so.  I truly do.  But I still rather doubt it.

Heh...

As the man says.

Still just kids...

It's the manager that needs to repent.

Yeah...

Lots of it out there.

That's Chicago...

It's just Chicago.  And it's only going to get worse, I think.

One reaches a point...

Where it couldn't be worse.  Besides I suspect reports of Syria's demise have been dramatically over blown for the past few months by those who had rather not face the challenge.  Told ya.

Expatriated Americans...

Actually it's Banana Republics, but the idea is the same.  Result is, too.

Been my motto....

Truly, it's public record.

Well...

Some of us haven't been young for a very, very, very long time.   And isn't getting together again something that should only be done after one side stops maliciously hurting the other side over and over and over?

Nowadays...

Everyone gets to be a terrorist for fifteen minutes... except for the actual terrorists.

A dying people...

Doesn't have to be that way, not for a party or a country.

For who?

No, seriously.  It's impossible to tell.

I suspect the average citizen...

Should ask himself  "For who?" while he still has time to ask.

I begin to suspect...

That one is going to have to happen.   Stupid is, is stupid does.

Hard to claim...

That someone who has carried you and yours like a lead weight for over a decade is your son.  It's not going to be alright, I don't think.

Told ya.

Maybe...

I already am.

I agree with the kid...

There's not much before us or behind us to smile at.  Especially behind us.

Isn't there a saying...

About doctors healing themselves?  Yeah I think there is.

The only war NATO will ever fight...

Is against people who can't fight back.

Yeah...

But no one in officialdom does any thing other than attend the funerals.  It's like they want it that way.

Syria

Heavy weapons against innocents.  And the west?  Well, you can tell a lot about a government by who it hides behind.

Ahem...

Yes it is.  History and the current facts both agree.  Don't blame the wing men.

Happy Birthday

A day late.  And have many more.

I had no idea...

Wisconsin must be a strange place.

I don't know...

He's not special in that he's not anything new.  He is special in that he is doing an enormous amount of damage to his country.  Maybe more than Nixon before he's through.

This is one...

Of those things that was a lot easier to fix a few years ago than it is now, and will be much harder to fix in a year or so than it is now.  Time is not our friend on this.  We have to fix it now.

Asking Syria...

To release the political prisoners and stop butchering school children, please.  This is what America has sunk to.

If it were just...

A soccer team wouldn't we all feel much better?

No...

But it certainly would have been an easier fix if so many of us hadn't had their hands over their ears for the past ten years...or more.

Only in America...

And it is always interesting to watch who plays along with them.  'Surprising numbers of Libertarians and conservatives sadly.

Interesting...

Often this seems a politically motivated diagnosis.  And it's always amazing to watch who plays along.

Don't worry...

It's the American government.

Actually...

Republicans and Libertarians are pretty much the same thing.  And if one trusts either of them one has lost one's mind.

America...

Says this to her friends a lot.

Is fungus...

like scum?

Cool!

Notice none of his friends are about.  Wonder if they abandoned him, again?  Yeah.  I bet they did.  Oh yeah.  They did.  And with gusto.

America is Fucked

Yeah it is.  Lousy leadership, y'know.

Actually

What they're saying here is that America was happy to promote and nurture these terrorists careers so long as the terrorists attacked normal citizens and not officialdom.  Sounds par for the course to me..

Bloggers either

Bloggers either.  You just can't expect loyalty from them.  Or if you do you are a fool.

It's because conservative and liberatarian leaders

Encourage it so long as it direct the fire away from them personally.  You'd be amazed who they'll throw under the bus.

This is nothing...

Wait til you finally figure out what conservatives think of  the rest of us.

We've done so well...

In court so far.  Hard to care.  But it is a nice gesture.  Actually, it's not even a nice gesture.  It's a way of stabbing the people that have supported us in the back.  But that's a specialty.

It's because...

We have tolerated the liars and rewarded them for it and ignored the truth tellers and silently watched them be punished.  It's almost like that was intentional.

It's not a comfy home, though.

Too small and narrow.

CNN

They all end up in journalism

Justice...

Or a really pathetic parody thereof.

I'm crying a river...

I really am.

They're fighting a war...

Republicans just want to be members of the club.