...So went the song by Cat Stevens. If only Homeland security could exercise the same authority over Hurricane Ike, as it did four years ago over Cat Stevens airline flight into the US. He was denied entry because his name was on a federal "watch" list. What? Cat Stevens on a federal watch list? Not exactly. When a man changes his name to Yusuf Islam, as Stevens did, don't you think he might just arouse a little bit of suspicion? Certainly. Now, if only we could get Ike to change it's name to something a bit more insidious, Homeland Security might be able to deny access to the US mainland in the morning.
In a short six to seven hours, Galveston, Texas, may not exist, we are warned by the weather Service. The city of Houston also lies in the path of Ike, and in a while, a lot of Texas may indeed be "Broken in the morning". Lost, momentarily, in the rush to calamity, is the effect this storm may have upon the oil supplies to much of America. Approximately one fourth of this nation's refinery capacity lies in the path of Ike. Once again, the shortsightedness of our nations Congressional representatives looms as a direct threat to our ability to adequately, and efficiently, deliver our economy's life blood. As it is, our economy is already on life support, guaranteed by a Congress reluctant to buck "Big Enviro", and their unhealthy plans for America.
Were we able to have built new refineries within the past thirty plus years, such facilities may have been located in less hurricane threatened areas of our country, but no, we can't have that, can we? So, in effect, what we have now facing us is a disaster plan developed by our government, and ready for implementation. The plan is disaster itself, promised, and ably forecast by those charged with protecting our country. All that is left, is to once again blame "Big Oil" for somehow not planning adequately for the future safety of their facilities, nor being ready in the midst of one hundred mile an hour winds, to keep the pipelines open, and delivering their product to market. Is there a phrase that approximates, "laughable sadness"?
Jeremiah Wright would probably say right now that, "America's chickens are coming home to roost!" Truth be told, America's "chickens" have never left the Congressional coop in Washington, D.C. Somehow though, the mess they are responsible for creating has, itself, indeed come home to roost. The mess is an economy crippled for lack of decisive action by those charged with the responsibility to protect that economy. The mess is what we find ourselves mired in on a daily basis as we go to work, and return to a home that might not be there waiting for us. The mess we find ourselves in, is a mess for which we share at least some of the responsibility. The mess we are in, is one we most definitely can repair, if only we dare to not return those charged with our protection, back to their "roost" in Washington.
Cock-a-doodle-dooo! Morning has come, and morning is very much broken.
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We literally puked after reading
this bs on Cat Stevens, Come on
now man, get your ass together.
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now
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