as the world burns

Back in the sixties, a whole bunch of us hippie types started huggin' trees and embracing an entirely new philosophy that was at odds with the Cleaver family and the majority of public opinion. It was about peace and love and live and let it be. Forty years later, I don't see a damn bit of change in this country except that there's a whole bunch of us who have family pictures with servants included. That was the south back in those days and we saw water fountains and buses with negro only signs plastered, not very discreetly, dividing the races.

Somewhere between then and now, the ones who run our country have decided that, in the name of being politically correct, we shall invent ginormous government programs to help those who could help themselves, but choose not to. Also, in the meantime, corporate America has taken several huge hits for being greedy. Me and you and all the rest of the middle income folks? We're just stuck with it because hey....more federal government means more job security for more big brother and less individual choice for us schmucks aka tax paying citizens. When we are old or otherwise disabled, there are politicians who decide on what care we will receive and how it will be administered. It all began with Medicare, and the kazillion dollar industry known as insurance follows their lead paying extra to those who manage to get it done quickly and charge out the ass, bankrupting many with the hope of keeping grandma or cousin junior alive for another six months while skimping on the pain meds.

The DEA is a huge government operation devoted to addressing the root cause of drug abuse busting medicinal marijuana users and taking no prisoners. It's pure and simple job security for big ike cop types who get paid really well for their valiant attempts to stop the rampant crime wave that results from eating all the cookies after a doobie. Makes me damn proud to be an American, ya know? Long may she wave.

I'm disgusted with this country and it doesn't have anything to do with Obama Pajama Mama. Looking back over the rise and fall of the good old USA, I blame most of it on we, as villagers, failing to do the right thing at the right time. Lord knows I've tried, but the devil seems to be catching up to me and causing a lapse in faith. Wildfires in California. Dead Kennedys lying in repose while the MSM swarms like vultures over the great state of Massachusetts and the city of Boston in particular. Non-partisan is my middle name. Both parties have shitheads who get elected just because they affiliate with the lobbyists moneychangers at the temple. My Jesus don't care for that at all. It tends to make him kick over the tables in an angry fit rage, if memory serves me correctly. Don't quote me on that...I haven't been to church in a long time.

BG had a bad experience the other day on the way to visit a social service client up in northern Dyer County. As fate would have it she was the first responder to a fatal accident where the driver got thrown from her vehicle. Her pulse was faint and she wasn't breathing. BG called 911 and stayed with her until they got there. We didn't know for sure until today that she was dead..thirty something with her whole life in front of her and it was over in the blink of an eye.

Sometimes, that's the way Big Ernie works. I don't understand it at all, but faith keeps me believing that there's a reason for everything.

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