CHOKE ON THIS, FAUX PATRIOTS!

Unfortunately, I suspect this blog doesn't get many visitors from the right. I say that's unfortunate because some days I really feel contentious and would love to be challenged by the misguided, self-delusionary, pathologicals and duped.

Many days I question why I even come here; why I continue to do this. Those that drop by and read this are the choir. You don't need to hear my preaching. Many of you have your own pulpits, preach your own sermons. Those who don't come in here, or the occasional few who stick their heads in but for a second then get the hell back out, are outside running with the hordes hell-bent on vandalizing the nation, its institutions, its libraries, schools and citizens whom they presently claim dominion over. Us! For now, we can blog our discontent. They'll be back for us later. Or so the bastards think.

Unleashed wild-eyed and frothy mouthed greed driven fungi now are in control. They run rampant, unchecked, through the streets of small town America and it's cities, chipping what gold remains from the streets and store fronts that once, at least, contained a modicum of dignity for ourselves and others globally. They wipe our blood from their feet on our Bill of (dwindling) Rights.

They're joined by their lackey radical extremists of fundamentalism duped into thinking they, too, will share the end-values of the blood thirsty marauders of ever more wealth, of absolute power. They are wrong. But that doesn't prevent them from devouring the steady diet of fear tossed them, thinking they will ultimately attain some kind of Bush--Rovian neocon gated nirvana. Still wrong!

The sickness of their evangelism lies in their ability to discern the fallacies of other extremists but not their own extremism. They can't content themselves within their own reality tunnels. They need to pull you in as well.

Simply put. fundamentalists and their extremism stinks but, sadly, they can't smell their own stench. And in their sanctimony, they facilitate the dismantling of the land they so fallaciously espouse to defend.

How is this possible? Because as an unnamed Bush official told Ron Suskind, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality--judiciously, as you will--we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Or, as put more succinctly to Suskind by another Bush adviser, "Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read the New York Times or Washington Post or the LA Times."

See, at one time that would have been way too over the edge and brazenly audacious to admit publicly. But not today. Because the "big, wide middle of America" is too busy just trying to keep their familiy's heads above water to listen, or to read. "We're screwing you and you approve!" our leaders admit. Then pouring a little salt into that deep gash, they add, "And we don't care!"

Those are hackneyed platitudes we've all heard before from some of the world's greatest despots. It reveals a kind of ignorant arrogance of history that will ultimately occupy just another chapter in the long saga of totalitarianism. That is, if there's another chapter in this long history to be written. This is the first bunch that I know of, however, who've had their fingers on a nuclear button.

But in the event we transcend this dark period in our history, I'll continue to add a few words here almost daily. After all, it's the stated purpose of this blog to provide "observations from the middle of the largest mass extinction since the dinosaurs."

Keep in mind, if we don't make it through this, it's just Nature's way of moving on. If we DO make it through this period, we may emerge better than we were. Either way, I guess that's evolution.