WHEN BALLOON ANIMALS ATTACK (AND OTHER DIRE THREATS)

The very fabric of our society is unravelling due to:
(A.) The prospect of a Democrat in the White House
(B.) Al Qaeda
(C.) Drunken young blonde entertainers
(D.) Balloon animal attacks.

If you said (D.) Balloon animal attacks, you'd be just as right as if you picked either A, B or C. Notice there's no (E.) None of the above option. It's my quiz and I never liked (E.) None of the above, so that's that. But getting back to my categories, we've been hearing a little too much hysterical nonsense about options A through C, various talking heads on TV and Op-Ed columnists waxing idiotic about how America is going down the tubes in a hurry. Sure, we've got some big problems, but nothing of the magnitude of say, the Great Depression, The Second World War or Elvis Presley getting drafted into the army for a couple of years and leaving rock & roll in the soft hands of the likes of Pat Boone and Fabian. Those were crises.

Granted, Al Qaeda struck a terrible blow to America that sunny September 11th in 2001. It was my home town that was hit first and hardest. But to think that they could ever overthrow the United States is ridiculous. The most dangerous result of those attacks was the passage of a series of anti-American laws by Americans themselves, the cynical Bush The Younger Administration fueling public fear of further attacks to take the opportunity to begin dismantling the Bill of Rights. One result was the ludicrously named Patriot Act, the first salvo fired by the Bush The Younger Administration against the American people. It is those poeple who have been the most effective enemy of this nation, not Osama bin Laden and his assorted franchise henchmen. They are just delusional thugs who will eventually be killed or captured by a smarter president than the one we have now.

A different president would have attacked them unrelentingly until they were dead or in custody, having no interest in using a traumatic attack on this nation's soil as an opportunity for making billions of dollars for his corporate cronies by attacking a completely innocent nation that had a lot of oil. Well, that's what our traitorous president did, abandon the attack on a proven enemy in order to attack an invented one and then proceeded to steal their oil and hand out billion dollar contracts to elite government-connected corporations, all the while passing the costs of this treachery on to the American public. A different administration would not have repeatedly cut taxes to the very wealthy or stopped searching for bin Laden or tried to terrify their own population in order to pass laws that make America less American.

Soon we will have a different administration, and hopefully a Democratic one. The Republican party as currently constituted has proven itself to be full of unbending ideologues, incompetents and corporate thieves. These larcenous goons who used fear tactics so well to advance their agenda now cry like little girls that the Democrats will surrender America to the terrorists. This from an administration who can't find a 6 foot 6 Arab living in a cave or defeat a nation like Iraq. Seems that the Democrats did okay winning World War 2 against the two biggest military machines ever assembled, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

That took only three an a half years, or about 3 years less than Osama bin Laden has been enjoying his second career as an inspirational video star. And it was managed by a country who had a small and ill-equipped army when that war started as opposed to today's American armed forces that are the best trained and equipped fighting forces on earth. America was also just coming out a decade of poverty that was the Great Depression. By contrast, Bush the Younger inherited a balanced budget and a booming economy from a Democrat. He proceeded to get the nation into Reagan-style multi-trillion dollar debt and ruin America's economy.

Not only that, this administration orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth from the working classes to the super-wealthy to the point where less than one percent of Americans now own over ninety percent of its wealth. And they want us to fear the Democrats? No wonder the blond bimbos are drinking so much. They probably read the newspapers and came to conclusion that this administration and the terrorists are partners in a scheme to steal America's wealth and turn it into a corporatocracy where only the wealth have civl rights. The greater enemy to America by far has been the current administration. They are the ones in the position to change the laws to favor the corporate wealthy elite and to limit the freedom of average Americans, not Osama bin Laden.

They are also the ones who decided to abandon one our great cities when disaster struck New Orleans because there were no huge money-making opportunities in saving our fellow citizens and rebuilding their stricken city. At least not at first. Now that the city is drowned and partly abandoned, the Haliburtons and the real-estate speculators are moving in to cash in on what used to be peoples' homes and neighborhoods, planning gated communities for the ruling elite and forgetting about the 40% of the city's population still disbursed like Oakies in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. To their credit, however, they are planning modest servants' quarters on the estates they plan to build. Thanks, Massa!

So, if you answered A, B, C or D, you were correct since none of those things are anything to tremble about. Al Qaeda is not Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. The Democrats are hopefully a better deal for running the country. It would be very difficult to do any worse. They will at least be a different deal than the traitors and thieves running the country right now, and we need things to be as different as possible in Washington next year. As far as the drunken blonde young bimbo entertainers, well, why complain about that?? If some young hotty wants to flash some slippery triangle at us, well, nobody's forcing you to look. Me, I only look a such things because, well, because I like to. Let the sexy young things have their fun. I don't know how anybody can overlook having a president that's public enemy number one and complain about half naked beautiful women. Where's our priorities?