The US still has some inspired leaders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcKWF4QZoI

In which we hear Kucinich answer 10 questions from reddit.com.

Too much pain.

I hate myself for even spreading her "fame" but

http://www.slate.com/id/2236477/
Quote from the above:

What is the single worst sentence in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue? According to Slate's Going Rogue index, it comes on Page 102: "As the soles of my shoes hit the soft ground, I pushed past the tall cottonwood trees in a euphoric cadence, and meandered through willow branches that the moose munched on."

End quote.

Moose munched on, indeed. Is this a memoir from a potential leader or a, rather lame, Harlequin romance novel?

Two recent things

I saw these contributions to the maelstrom recently first and second.

Large die off.

I'm not sure what to make of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7XH8lfGMc&fmt=18

My only conclusion is that we are long over due for a mass, self induced, extinction.

USA is a comic book

As a kid and an adult I have read classical and science fiction as well as comic books of a most dystopian sort. It all started with Footfall by Niven. Although the instigator there was natural, the result was very human. Or at least very American. Since then I have been drawn to others telling similar stories of the few profiting at the expense of the many. I always saw these stories as mere fiction and not prophetic. Yet, in the back of my mind I have feared I was wrong to think of them in this small way.

Today I no longer fear I was wrong.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/9/25/steve

Now, I know.

Dumpster Diving in Corporate Consumer Culture

Another inspiring person. But, I wonder if he is simply ahead of his time. As the gap widens will more of us need to steal from the garbage of the haves to provide for the have nots?

Modern Pollock

Graffiti is bad.

Actually, Pollock wishes for this skill.

Japan schools.

I had no idea. Japan education has reached some supreme level.

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Despite the "cultural revolution" of the 60s, the US is still so far behind.

Fiction and blueprint.

I really hate when fiction becomes blueprint.

Patriot, hero.

As someone that has smashed a few (although only with my fist and while I was in motion), I would be happy to call this patriot and hero my countryman. That fact that he is Chinese makes me admire him even more.

Three part harmony.

Mother's eyes open.

My eyes wonder.

My eyes cry.

My eyes hope.

Nostalgia ends, reality persists.

Fant'sy flights of realism.

Time zones rolling under my wings.
Circadian rhythms dictating normalcy.
Stir the pot or else it rots.
Yet, still, I am the same.

Mirror, me?

I've learned that you are there, reading me.

What you see isn't what you are.

You can turn around the mirror.

It will be the same.

Cell Phone

Alarm, gotta work, need sleep.
The phone tells me the day.
I gotta work.
I pay for the privilege to be woken.
My phone, my life.
Slave V2.

End game.

Ultimate power comes from the control of communication.
Mainstream communication today is via the Internet.
Do you communicate with the Internet though a monopoly?

2-stroke

The US of A is a two stroke engine. Democrats provide the intake and Republicans provide the exhaust. Welcome back to the intake. Enjoy it while it lasts and try to notice the difference.

Snapshot.

Today's play....

God, State, and Empire.

Howdy and welcome slaves. I know you have had a hard life but I'm here to tell you that management has decided to cut you a break. Yes, that is right, we love you so much that you can now take a day of relaxation. And while you are relaxing you can pay homage to your new god. The god or relaxing. He, like you, works all the time, but one day a week he rests. So, to honor your new god, you must spend your day off worshiping him, else its back to work, my friends.

Religulous.

Interviewer: "It worries me that people running my country believe in a talking snake."

Mark Pryor (D Arkansas): "You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though."

First thought: OMFG, we are doomed.
Second thought: Hmm, Mark Pryor is a genius.  Senators should have to pass an IQ test to govern peoples of these United States.

Allies and Axis

We now start to regain control of our government (maybe? hopefully?).
While our "allies" restoke their own little, local empire engine.
Who is in charge?  Who is to blame?
Jews, Christians and Muslims supporting the Oligarchies.
My eye is also on you, Scientology and other latter day cults.  
Please, fellow humans, just say no to this opiate.
Reason before faith.