Sunday is my favorite day of the week. A big, fat newspaper and CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. When I started watching this Sunday morning program Charles Kuralt was the host. I loved the sound of his voice. He looked like a bit like the Michelin man and his voice was amazing. He could, and did, make anything interesting. RIP Charles Kuralt. Charlie Osgood has now become the voice I hear after the opening trumpet. The show is still great. Like 60 Minutes without the venom.
I noticed this morning that, of course, the news everywhere was all about Irene. Major hurricane. Really, a minor hurricane all and all. I'm sure that if you rode her out it was plenty hurricane one way or the other. NYC Mayor Bloomberg was all over the news talking about the precautions NYC was taking. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie must have had a hard time keeping up with all his interviews.
Then it hit me. They are politicking. I can see keeping the locals informed, but the nation? When they talk about The Battery in New York I assume they mean something about the Bat Signal. I personally thought the cast of Jersey Shore should have reported on the storm. From the eye. And perhaps been the sad part of the story. Stupidity swept to sea....
The sad truth is no one wants another Katrina. At least not attached to their name. Obviously no one wants another Katrina but I mean no one wants to be the elected official where the big one hits. Those of us in Texas have been surviving one of the worst summers on record. The national news isn't here asking us how hot we feel. They don't stand in the blazing sun to demonstrate it's power. I would have taken some of the rain from Irene. The wind you can keep on the east coast.
This last week was bizarre. Earthquake and hurricane in Washington D.C. Why is Congress NEVER there when a natural disaster hits? Representative Cantor, Virginia, Bane-R Toadie, apparently couldn't wait to tell the people of Virginia that any federal relief money would be offset by spending cuts. There you go. Never show empathy for those injured and/or suffering. That is a sign if weakness. He flew in from Israel to check on his district and stated that the people of Virginia obviously need more earthquake insurance. Wonder whose pocket he is in?
SO, let's review insurance in general. Home owners is mandatory as long as your lender holds the title. Automobile insurance is mandatory in every state I know of. Flood insurance and apparently earthquake insurance is a good plan. Health insurance is socialism. Got it. It makes perfect sense. Property, important. You, not.
Then came Irene. I think maybe Mother Earth, Father Time and/or The Creator of the Universe might be upset. Not about people being gay as Pat Robertson said this week. Gay people cause all these problems with The Lord. Those people in Pompeii must have really been sexually open. I think it's us. We suck. Have you noticed? Not all of us, just the majority. Maybe not the majority, that could be a slight an exaggeration.
Maybe it is just me but it makes me ill everyday to realize how cheap life is. A human life is worthless. Collateral damage. Drive bys, gang wars, family squabbles, armed robbery gone wrong or just because. At least once a week in the Metroplex someone dies on the freeway system from hell. A trucker goes to fast, dumps a load, crushes a car, drunk driver going the wrong way, selfish driver thinks the road is theirs, gotta send that text or chat on the phone.
Just this week Dallas County saw a father kidnap his children and wife. He drown two of the children. We had the lovely couple who deprived their 10 year old son of water, he died too. The two year old left in the car in Irving. Also dead. There were other shootings and deaths and accidents but those few are the ones that stick out.
What else. Wall Street had GAINS and LOSSES. I thought that was called instability. Bernake asked that Congress insist there be hiring. Ben, no one will hire until Obama is out of office. It's an evil plan. Paranoid? Unfortunately, no. The GOP and the banks and the BIG Corps will not move until they have their own puppet in the White House. Oh, Ben, please. You have been around a long time. Nice try but we are doomed until 2013. THEN the rich will be getting even richer as there will be no regulation and the Supreme Court will make a decision that no company can ever be sued for any reason ever. The middle class will be taxed to death and the poor will disappear. "Are there no work houses? Are there no prisons?" E.Scrooge.
Dick Cheney wrote a book. He says, "heads in Washington will explode". You already made mine burst, Mr. Cheney. No offense. I hope your book is the first in history to sell zero copies. Go soak your head. Let us know how that feels. I was wondering if you actually cackle? You sure look like you would.
It's a beautiful nation. We are about to lose it to either our own stupidity or disaster. Man made or natural or both. If that doesn't get us some nut job with a gun, a grudge, a cause, a jihad will take us out. We've made our nation so safe. Our citizens are not people they are numbers. I love sentences like, "only 23 people died". Only? It used to take a village. That was cool. Apparently all we have left are the village idiots. And we keep electing them.
Sad all the way around.
LBB
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