A Funny Thing Happened . . .

On the Way To the Throne

Deborah Venable

02/01/08

What a year so far, huh? One-twelfth of the way through already and things just keep getting weirder. I suppose it helps when you don’t start the year by being sick as a dog with the latest “designer” stomach bug that seems to hang on far longer than the last one, but then nausea would still be an ongoing battle these days if one is paying attention to the news at all – whether or not there is a physical malady accounting for it.

I’m not just talking about the daily assault on the senses from politicians seeking, above all, political party power to “rule” the peons in this free nation of ours. No. The roller coaster ride sponsored by those trying to control the economy through any means but free market ones also takes its toll. The Fed has crawled out of the shadows more often this year already than usual to push the speed up or slow down buttons on that ride, but they get away with it easier now than they would have a couple decades ago before everyone was sufficiently dumbed down to accept such a sleazy organization as perfectly normal in a “free” society.

Hello – does anybody else remember the good old days when a $20 deposit in a passbook account, (welcomed at any bank large or small) would earn you five and half percent interest??? And if you wanted to lock up $100 for a year or so in a CD, you could actually go out to dinner on the interest earned!

But I digress. That money invested these days in banks, and in turn invested by banks, doesn’t do the people’s work any more, does it? It’s out there doing the power brokers’ work. The power brokers. That would be those “elites” we’re always hearing about. The filthy rich, overly decadent, insanely selfish few who seem to benefit from failure instead of success of a robust, free market economy. Those folks who don’t need tax breaks, (and generally don’t get them), but certainly don’t worry about the tithing they supply to their big government god for the privilege of controlling all the little people’s personal finances. Those folks had their dues paid a long time ago by their evil ancestors. Now they just have to sit back and watch the Fed pull the strings in the puppet show we call the American Banking System.

Then there’s all the media coverage of how bad or how not so bad the economy really is. All of a sudden more attention seems to be drawn to the trade deficit and outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs. Duh. Why do you think I came out in support of Duncan Hunter for president? Anybody ever check out what he has been saying for a long time on these subjects? Who benefits most from the American economy going sour? Well, let’s just say that China hasn’t held any wakes in our honor lately. Nobody, including the oh so smart enemy regimes truly understand just how dependent they really are on America remaining at the top of the pecking order, (thanks again to the aforementioned dumbing down), but they still wait with bated breath for us to fall. It truly is nauseating.

Presidential politics, from the outgoing to the incoming, has become a fascinating sideshow of freakish behavior lately. Bush seems intent on proving that he is every bit as devoted to big government spending for compassionate reasons as all the liberals he beat out over the years. (Even though, thank God he is still Commander-in-chief.) And the so-called “number one issue on the minds of the American people has turned out quite like the weather – if you wait around a couple of hours, it’ll change. So far this year we’ve gone from national security to illegal immigration to “it’s the economy, stupid” at a truly whirlwind rate. No wonder the flip-floppers on policy have a hard time keeping up!

The analysts and pundits are having a swell time trying to predict, edict, and convict all the data being compiled on the various presidential candidates. The front-runners are having a hard time keeping their footing, the come from behind folks are scrambling for money to stay in a race they might actually win, and personalities are sickeningly on display as the mud slinging is anything but therapeutic this cycle. We have a whole new groundswell of racial and gender ire growing out of the Democrat contest between the “first viable Black”, (half white) going against the “first viable woman”, (testosterone challenged) contestant. All either of them can do is promise change and hope as the jewels they would bring to their crowns. The fact that so many folks can be sucking this stuff up is sickening to say the least. At least Edwards pulled out before his hair got too messed up.

Conservative Republican voters, on the other hand, have had to watch the only possible conservative leaning candidates drop out because I guess nobody wants a conservative president (in any sense) this time around. We’re left with some pretty strange examples of Republican thought as mere possibilities for the handover next January.

So, as I self medicate, try to keep up, and build up my strength to hold my nose and vote, I am reminded that the whole country is sick. The social disease of accepting the unacceptable, prohibiting the free flow of truth if it offends, and rewarding the guilty via the blood of innocents on a daily basis has turned on us.

The throne may really be a toilet after all.

Even those who are not political junkies, have no real interest in keeping up with anything but entertainment issues, (i.e. what made a promising young hunk end up dead, a role model, sexy young mother end up in a psyche ward, and the most notorious “innocent” murderer in recent history end up in trouble again for the lesser offense of armed robbery?), and wouldn’t mind giving their country away if they could just keep their big screen T.V. must occasionally feel the rumblings of nausea when they happen to see or hear about innocent children being brutalized by “ordinary” citizens. (You did hear about the young mother that did away with her crying baby by putting it in the microwave, didn’t you?) Pause. After that one, I’ve all but given up eating forever!

In case you haven’t noticed, this is a rant. The events I referred to are facts, and my illness is real. The nice thing about illness is that you eventually get over it or die. Either way there is relief in the end. So, if the whole country is sick, I guess the real question is; what version of relief will the American people settle for?

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