Usually July and August are slow and quiet when it come to politics. Whew, not this year! We are seeing just how rabid the right has become, willing to crash our economy to make a point: no new taxes, not now, not ever! Starve the beast. Never mind that the "beast" they want to starve created the middle class, and made us no.1 in the world in almost every measurable category.
Fortunately we've been too busy here to pay much attention to the debt ceiling show. We spent the past week getting the West Virgina cabin in order for family and friends who will be visiting soon. We had to move the kayaks to the lake, and once there we couldn't resist an afternoon paddle on a very hot day. Thursday it hit 88 degrees here on the mountain. I've never seen it hotter than 83 here before. No one out here has air conditioning so we sweated along with the rest of the east coast, except 88 was far more tolerable than the 104 back home!
I'm beginning to wonder when the American people are going to realize that gun violence in America is out of control? I get select Associated Press feeds on my Kindle, updated hourly, and it seems like every day now there are stories of mass shootings. Just from this morning's feed, here is the story of a gun owner at a family outing in Texas who killed 5 and wounded 4, before shooting himself. Here is the story of a gun owner who shot 12 people at a car show near Seattle. Also, the number of cops who have been shot and killed has been escalating for the past year.
Ever since the conservatives took over the country with the election of Ronald Reagan our country has been regressing in so many ways. And this is just the beginning, If the right gets it's way. Our infrastructure will crumble, we will be sponsoring less and less research, and fewer of our kids will ever get a college education. This is our future unless the American people rebel and push the loonies back under their rocks.
--Trakker
Not until the Bill Of Rights has been destroyed can we be safe.
Too much freedom makes bad things happen, right Trakker,
Posted by: Dan D. Doty | July 25, 2011 at 01:22 AM