Dec 19

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12/19/2009 12:18 PM 

There is this racetrack and these four Jockeys.  The Book of Revelations had it that Conquest, War, Famine and Death were  neck and neck.  But in today's news Death is in first place and the other three are in second place riding the same horse. What prompted that take is the unnerving revelation that no matter how bad the news is on a given day it will be worse the next. Clearly, we Americans  are not connecting the dashes. If we were, we would have placed our list of jockey woes in the context of the 450 silos in the US Midwest each containing a bomb capable of killing every soul in a city of two million people.

 

The "dash" that set me off today was the pentagon setting up shop in Colombia to terrorize all of South America http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/eva-golinger-obama-is-preparing-for-war-in-south-america- It was then I remembered what I was doing at Boeing in the 1970s.

 

And off I go. The health "reform" putsch is a full step back painted as a half-step forward, no matter what Sam Smith says (he's grudgingly for the Senate bill). Copenhagen is a disaster. The House financial reform bill is a can of spray paint. The war in Afghanistan is criminal, was from the start. The Pentagon is a concrete weight sinking the United States: Defense? Give me a break. Finally, effort to get Congress to about face, to knock the derivatives market down Bernanke's throat, to shut down the insurance lobby --  let alone institute health care as a human right --  and to pull out of Asia , such effort will fail so long as it rides on getting good guysngals elected. There simply is not enough time to create the kind of majority it would take to push back the lobbies of war, drugs, finance, and Israel.

I know, I know, you out there trying to bump off Patty Murray, to remind Jim of the Hippocratic oath, and to blast a hole in the Democrats big enough to shove a third party in, ouch, you out there deserve three cheers. It is obvious that ousting Murray would be a tremendous boost to morale, and  might even domino somebody. And, yes, I am unhappy to be screaming futility. The point remains that we do not realize what we are up against.