Gladys used to say years ago, "Don't put
all your eggs in one basket." That was years ago.
Today I have no eggs to put in any basket. I have an
egg shell.
Political and
philosophical differences between us (a number of friends) regarding 9/11 and beyond, served to erode
most of those friendship ties. Friends bought into the Bush lies. I did not.
They believed, they still do, that 9/11 was an outside job, that " "we were hit
hard by outside sources that need to have payback from hell ""
"You can't fight violence
with violence," I'd say. They'd reply, "We can't turn the other cheek.' They bought
into all that Bush malarkey about keeping the Homeland safe from terrorists,
enemy combatants and whatever opportunistic slogan Bush spewed out of his mouth
to get the people to support his evil and nefarious intentions.
These political and philosophical
differences stemming from 9/11 and beyond made a huge dent in our friendship
ties long before Bush started his actual carnage in Iraq. Divide and conquer is
a technique used by dictators, usurpers of power, as well as by power and
control freaks from time immemorial.
I am now embroiled in a
pot shot war with the one remaining friend from those Bush years over our
political and philosophical differences regarding Barack Obama. Her child has
been badly hurt by this Obama economy. Her neighborhood, as well as mine, show
the devastating signs of people without jobs, foreclosed or abandoned homes,
slum lords purchasing as many properties for near-pennies-a-home to move Title
VIII residents in and sock it to the government for thousands of dollars in
payable rent to them.
She remains a staunch
Obama supporter. I am not and never was.
Yesterday she sent one of
those forward-e-mails using Maxine's voice to make an analogy between the need
to clean her backyard bird feeder and the need to clean "the sh*t in our
country to restore America to its prior economic solvency."
The first sh*t in our
country that needs to be cleaned out, according to the e-mail, begins with the
cleaning out of the illegals who have come here, according to the e-mail, for
hand-outs such as free medical care, free food stamps, free housing and
whatever else free social network benefit program they can get on.
Maxine and the e-mail seem
to me to be parroting the words of Newt Gingrich and other politicians of long
ago. I replied to her. I am not exactly sure when the illegals became the
politicians' scapegoat to divert the
public's eyes from the devastation that huge tax breaks for the rich and
wealthy, years of occupation by our Imperial government in foreign lands, bank
and corporations bail outs, offshoring jobs to those lands where most illegals
come from and where American corporations establish sweat shops paying them
starving wages; but, surely those illegals serve said purpose. Why admit to any
fault of our own when there are those illegals we can always cast blame on?
My friend made no reply to
that. Instead, she sent another e-mail with the subject line, "This could be you in
nine years," the e-mail reads,
Story from a
Kansas State
Highway Patrol officer :
I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day
for speeding
on U.S. 166 Eastbound at Mile Marker 73 just East of Sedan , KS.
I asked for her driver's license, registration,
and proof of insurance.
