Gerrymander Is A Pit Viper

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Gerrymander Is A Pit-Viper

“I’m very grateful to live in a country where I can really

believe in my elected officials, in their ethos & competencies.”

--Chelsea Clinton

Somehow we survived the 21 hour filibuster

delivered by GOP Senator Ted Cruz, covered 

completely by cable news, who succeeded 

in creating more confusion & skepticism 

about health care reform, on the tired heels

of the stone-aged Tamany-Hall Boss Tweed

Republican elected officials who still threaten

a complete government shutdown in order

to somehow defund Obama Care, & the

rabid Tea Party Patriots have eagerly slipped

into full fundraising mode, applauding as

Cruz went directly from the Senate chamber

to an interview with Rush Limbaugh. 

Bill Clinton appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan,

& he tried to convince us that he had no clue

as to Hilary’s intentions toward running for

President in 2016, but he lost no time in

extolling her virtues, “She shows up for work

every day, gets stuff done, & is very strong about it.”,

telling us that Hilary is still a good bet for the immediate

future, but down the road apiece we need to look

at his 33 year old daughter, Chelsea, who is

“So smart that she takes me to school each time

I talk with her about anything.”

Today the Iranian press hailed President Obama’s

UN speech as “hopeful”, even though we still live

in a “messed-up broken world.”

Barack Obama spoke eloquently to the UN Assembly

for over 20 minutes, proud that all of our troops

have been pulled out of Iraq, where we were

shown that “Democracy cannot be imposed by force.”,

that by next year some time all of the American troops

will have been pulled out of Afghanistan, but then added

“America is prepared to use all elements of our power,

including military force, to secure our core interests

in the region”--so how long before American brogans

will be on the ground in Syria, Egypt, or Iran?

We have been told incessantly that America cannot be,

nor should it be the World’s Police Force, that we are not,

nor have we ever been, empire builders, that we are no

longer dependent on Middle East oil reserves, that as

a nation we are not, & will never be controlled by the

wealthy 1% with their mammoth corporations, armies

of lobbyists, conclaves of banks, choke-holds on

Wall Street--that the government is not, & will not

listen in on American conversations with their cell phones, 

nor will it be monitoring all our chatter on social

networks & personal blogs--that the entity that is

Homeland Security is not a Black Ops, just another

version of SS troops or government secret police--

and that by God, “America should not, cannot disengage

in the Middle East, because this would create a terrible

vacuum of leadership that no other nation is ready to fill.”

So what can we believe?

Is the Truth always so devastating

that it needs to be splintered & camouflaged,

so amorphous, so convoluted that at all times

on any day, only tiny portions of it can be

carefully sprinkled on the public; we must

face the fact that whatever leader we have elected

will be praised & vilified in equal portions, & that

today we are so accustomed to getting our news

on full-spin that we no longer have any need for

those motion-sickness bracelets while watching

CNN or Fox News--and hey, what the hell

is the deal with this new American Al Jazeera

that promises to offer us “Unbiased, fact-based,

in-depth coverage of global events.”

At least now we can quit worrying about, can take our

focus off of global warming, since we are immersed

in a 24/7 shit-storm that continuously rages all around

the planet, and I know for a fact that special

BS Head Gear can be purchased on Amazon.com. 

Glenn Buttkus

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