pledging to dump it in another generation’s lap, free "speech" and stop not asking...

in a move that surprised peoples across the globe, the "Group of 8" - everyone's favorite economic superheroes - got together (including the boy king) and made a promise that will save the world for future generations. that's right - they agreed not to hold themselves to an agreement to maybe cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 and to not agree on which half they were talking about. pundits are pointing out that it is great step forward by world leaders in agreeing to sort of try, but not necessarily promise to do anything, to make a difference in a growing problem. in a world with increased natural disasters of alarming strength and regularity, where mother nature is pimp-slapping the human race every chance she gets for taking what is rightfully hers, eight of the most powerful men in the world agreed to make it the next few generations problems. the classic "I will be dead so why the fuck should I care" move which has been ever so popular from the "free" market crowd. by 2050, when we all are getting cancer by age 40 and our lungs are black by age 5 and our skin is literally melting in the sun while those of us that are lucky enough die in a natural disaster while those of us that aren't simply starve to death, at least we know that this generation of leaders will have pledged to not promise to do a damn thing about it. can you imagine if regular ass people got away with this? its like you going down to the bank and telling them you know they are concerned that you are not paying your mortgage and destroying the home, but not to worry, because by the time you have been dead for 30 years you pledge to not promise to pay half of it back. why can't mother nature ever manage to hit their uppity resorts?

our system is broken...we all know this. there are many causes, the vast majority of which are intertwined. but there are a few simple steps we might take that would make a big difference and allow us to actually address others...one of them is by limiting free "speech" protections to actual speech. I know this may seem utterly insane to those of us bred in a culture of corporations being "people" with all the protections of human beings but none of the responsibilities of human beings and where the pursuit of money is a moral obligation...but what if to earn the protection of the freedom of speech you actually had to use words? try to forget for a moment, if you can, how the world would suddenly implode on itself, and imagine a world where the act of giving money was not speech. now imagine a political process where you had to actually use words if you wanted to influence it rather than pouring money into coffers....and now you are beginning to see a better country and a better world. one where you and I matter, one where one person - one vote means something and is not drowned by the one dollar - one representative theory of modern american capitalism. and now that you have seen the light, it may be best to drink yourself into oblivion to forget the image...because otherwise you will spend many evenings watching newscasts in horror (trust me on this one)...

hold the presses - a new study shows what the brits and the israelis figured out years ago...openly gay people in the military does not undermine the "fighting spirit" of forces. of course some are still claiming that having a poop-chute poker in the foxhole next to you will "undermine trust" - because we all know that when the bullets start flying you can trust a trained killer to have your back as long as the anus he likes to put his penis into is accompanied by the vagina of an underage asian girl, but you cannot trust him if it happens to be accompanied by the penis of a person he is in a committed relationship of years with. this coming from folks in the same organization that send known crack and herione addicts back into warzones. but in a reminder that by and large our military is filled with more than a few good (wo)men, Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Minter Alexander, a member of the original "don't ask, don't tell" panel realizes the ludicruous nature of assuming that our soldiers cannot get along with each other because of something so not-even-tangential to combat and Navy Vice Adm. Jack Shanahan told it like it is - that making sexual orientation an issue in the military means the armed forces cannot focus on the task at hand - "everyone was living a big lie -- the homosexuals were trying to hide their sexual orientation and the commanders were looking the other way because they didn't want to disrupt operations by trying to enforce the law." and don't forget..."don't ask, don't tell" was one of the wonderful things clinton gave us while he could have been focusing on providing you with health care.

my dick's bigger, that you'll see by the size of my artillery...