Congratulations!
Survived another year? Good for us!
That's for the glass-half-full crowd. For me, I look at it as another year closer to the eventual end of the world, not to mention one year closer to death for me.
We still have things to worry about:
-- A rampaging budget deficit that shows no sign of slowing the United States' descent into national bankruptsy.
-- We still have a President who lacks any resemblance of common sense or decency. They tried to impeach Clinton for less (Getting a bj in the White House, and lying about it, has no comparison to starting a war on false pretenses - and then lying about it).
-- The media still seems to be more focused on Hollywood gossip than hardline reporting of events that effect the nation. Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins for this generation?
-- The poor are still getting poorer and the rich are still getting richer. Granted, this has been the way of the world since the days of Babylon and Sumer, but the rate seems to be accellerating at an unprecidented pace.
-- We have 6 more years before the start of the next Mega-Ice Age, unless it is counter-acted by Global Warming (though there is some evidence that Global Warming might actually trigger an Ice Age - the debate continues...).
This is just my opinion, of course. You don't have to worry about any of this stuff.
Have some more bread, and enjoy the circus.
That's for the glass-half-full crowd. For me, I look at it as another year closer to the eventual end of the world, not to mention one year closer to death for me.
We still have things to worry about:
-- A rampaging budget deficit that shows no sign of slowing the United States' descent into national bankruptsy.
-- We still have a President who lacks any resemblance of common sense or decency. They tried to impeach Clinton for less (Getting a bj in the White House, and lying about it, has no comparison to starting a war on false pretenses - and then lying about it).
-- The media still seems to be more focused on Hollywood gossip than hardline reporting of events that effect the nation. Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins for this generation?
-- The poor are still getting poorer and the rich are still getting richer. Granted, this has been the way of the world since the days of Babylon and Sumer, but the rate seems to be accellerating at an unprecidented pace.
-- We have 6 more years before the start of the next Mega-Ice Age, unless it is counter-acted by Global Warming (though there is some evidence that Global Warming might actually trigger an Ice Age - the debate continues...).
This is just my opinion, of course. You don't have to worry about any of this stuff.
Have some more bread, and enjoy the circus.
posted by M. B. Dezotell at 1:48 PM
1 Comments:
The reason we cannot seem to select a decent leader is that, in order to place someone in such a position of power, you must first have the power to grant it. The people who have the power rarely have the ability to use it property, but they are also unlikely to give up that power to anyone else.
Leaders do not take power based on their ability to lead, they take it because they can.
Bush is in the White House simply because he had the power to put himself there, not because he is the best man for the job.
If you want a system where the leader is chosen based on his or her merit to lead, you need to set it up like any business - you have a screening process, job interviews, and a battery of tests to weed out the unqualified.
Whenever we get a President who is more than a standard politician - good at looking good on camera - it has been to pure dumb luck.
I don't have any hope that we will improve on our current procedure - popularity contest - anytime in the near future.
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