What The F#*%!

I think I speak for the entire thinking population when I ask,

"What the F#*% is going on?"

In the past year or so we have had the near collapse of the financial market, the near collapse of Iraqistan, the total collapse of several politicians and the tragic collapse of the oil rig in The Gulf of Mexico (11 dead...or didn't you know that...)

But what are our "leaders" doing you might ask?

Not a damned thing.

Well, that's not altogether true. They are holding meetings and talking to subject matter experts and commissioning studies and making decisions.

The trouble is that none of what they are doing is helping the situation(s).

They put on a very good show though, you gotta give em' that.

They bluster and pontificate and hold forth in wonderous fashion. But they are all "full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING!!

We have given control of the ship to a bunch of selfish and, in some cases, hopelessly ignorant idiots.

They parade about as people with great concern for "The American People."

Which "American People" are they talking about, exactly?

The "American People" like you and me? The hardworking schnooks who get up every morning and struggle their way to work in order to "bring home the bacon" (never mind that the bacon itself is too expensive to, in fact, "bring home"...)and provide for their families. The poor slobs just trying to have a decent life with a few moments each week to enjoy themselves.

Or is it the other "American People?" The ones without a care in the world. The ones who bought and sold derivatives and who own stock in Big Oil and Big Money and Big Pharma...who get richer by the minute because the system is rigged in their favor...because our "leaders" are really being led by Big Lobby down the road to the Big Toilet.

Obama was elected on the promise of "change." But what seems to have changed is only the life circumstances of most of the people who voted for him. Sure, there has been a lot of change in their lives...but mostly for the worse.

What hasn't changed is the game that is played in Washington. The same people who brought us the mess created in the Cheney/Bush years still seem to be in charge.

President Obama doesn't really need to worry about what happens in November or even in '12.

He should be concerned about the great hereafter. I hope he lives a long and healthy life.

But Kharma is a real humdinger.

The President and all the others in Washington should be concerned about the afterlife.

If they're not careful they may come back as birds...living in Louisiana...near the shoreline.

Fill 'er up!