The Inadequacy of Language

After a year of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, and others screaming epithets, hurling insults, telling lies, and the whole Faux News Network Propoganda machine trashing President Obama 24/7 as an islamonazi communist socialist fascist dictator illegalalien borninkenya whohatesamerica, their latest line is that President Obama is a divider not a uniter ........... It makes my head spin and my hair hurt. The breathtaking hyposcrisy of this pushes the bounds of the BIG LIE to even more astounding levels of deceit.

This behavior begs for the creation of a new word to describe it. Our language is not keeping up with the advances in propaganda in this new century. George Orwell said, "language can also corrupt thought." And "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." I was looking for synonyms for "lie" and found: aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, and whopper. For Fox (Faux) News, they all sound about right........

Sarah Palin counsels against armed insurrection by an Alaska militia "at this point." Our arms should be, "at this point," she says, our votes. I go back and forth between she's dangerous - or she's an empty vessel way over her head but making some big bucks while she says stupid things without really understanding what she's saying. She's not the most lucid speaker so I would be inclined to cut her some sloppy thinking/inarticulate slack, except that husband Todd was part of that secessionist fringe movement up there in Alaska...... I think for now I'm concluding she's an air-headed huckster who reached the top of her potential as a quitter as Governor and an unsuccessful candidate on the national stage. Now she's just trying to figure out how to exploit people's fears for money. And I can't believe The Learning Channel hired her. She's anathema to learning and knowledge. She's a pure ideologue. I won't be watching the show..........

After winning the Presidency in a modern landslide, a large majority in the House, and 60 and then 59 votes in the Senate, the best President Obama and the Democrats could come up with is a health reform package like Mitt Romney did as the Republican Governor of Massachusetts a few years ago, and the Repubs are still going looney toon bonkers lost-their-marbles to repeal the thing. It's a wacky world......... But I still think Ted Kennedy is smiling.

And speaking of smiling, I've got this idea for a cartoon. An angry mob wearing Tea Party hats and bristling with assault weapons and ammo belts wrapped around themselves, snarling and yelling racial epithets, and spitting at Congressmen, throwing bricks through windows and screaming "islamonazi communist socialist fascist dictatorillegalalien borninkenya whohatesamerica"......you get the picture.......all the while President Barack Obama stands calmly in front of them with his big ears and bigger smile. And a dialogue balloon from one of the outraged snarling protesters armed to the teeth is screaming about the President, "He's dangerous!"

So there you go......the state of the Republican Tea Party.


All for now,
Bud

Ted Kennedy is Smiling

After winning the Presidency in a modern landslide, a large majority in the House, and 60 and now 59 votes in the Senate, the best President Obama and the Democrats can come up with is a health reform package like Mitt Romney did as the Republican Governor of Massachusetts a few years ago, and the Repubs are still going looney toon bonkers lost-their-marbles against it . It's a wacky world......... But I still think Ted Kennedy will be smiling if/when it passes this weekend.

If I didn't have to buy crappy expensive catastrophic health insurance on the open market and see my premium cost go up 20% this year, all the while watching a Republican strategy of FEAR MONGERING, NAME-CALLING, MISREPRESENTATION, and OUTRIGHT FABRICATION against the various Democratic proposals, I might not have gotten so into it all. But here we are. There was very little rational discussion from the opposition. And after 8 years of doing nothing while holding the power in government, their final argument was: Let's start over........ Egad.

So I guess we can thank Republican Mitt Romney for providing the model for the rest of the country should the current legislation pass. I hope Democrats will continue to improve on whatever passes this weekend. The long national nightmare may soon be over!

And I won't have to pay attention any more!

Regards, Bud C

Living Life at the Speed of Time

I'm living life at the speed of time,
while listening to some old John Prine;
I'm painting a nice cool ocean breeze,
and doing just what I damn well please.