The government: WTF

In a new poll by the Pew Center, 4 out 5 people don't trust the government. That is an amazingly high number and one that spells trouble for everyone here. Distrust at this level is at record highs with a majority finally realizing that both the dems and republicans are both worthless. Not from the tea party it seems though which for all tense and purpose appears to be the fringe wing of the R party. At one such recent rally an organizer was booed off the stage when he pleaded with the crowd not to support Sarah Palin. They responded that dems were worse, that she felt their pain. Right. She's a high heeled demagogue who could be the worst leader of a country ever. I said it. WORSE THAN HITLER. Why you ask could she be worse than Hitler? Because Hitler may have been clinically insane but he wasn't stupid. She is brainless and could possibly blunder us into an all out nuclear war or total economic collapse. This woman CANNOT be allowed to become president no matter what the cost. She is way too dangerous. Anyone you know who admires her should be beaten within an inch of their life with a stick (I'm being facetious here. NO violence should be done against anyone, including Palin. However a good shun might be a good start). So who are these idiots in the tea party? According to some news outlets, white, older and better off. In other words racist (we want out country back is code for we want a white guy to tell us what to do), pissed because they have to pay more in taxes (no wait they pay less. Fox news strikes again for the disinformation war), and that their taxes to go to projects they don't support (more closet racism). They hate big government but support libraries, schools, the police, the military, the firemman; all the stuff they like but give free lunches to poor kids and watch the venom fly. You can't have it both ways. Either you want smaller government with less services or you want big government to "socialize" their tax dollars.
I watched Glenn Beck for a few minutes last night before my brain forced to watch something more educational like Lost or America's Next Top Model. In it, he used his famous blackboard to convince people that socialists were akin to Nazis as they called themselves socialists. They weren't. They were fascist. They just hijacked the name like they did the swastika which was actually a Sanskrit symbol used to ward off evil. Just because I call myself King John doesn't make it so. Socialism has it problems, but it also allows the people to get what they pay for in taxes. Ask anyone in socialized countries what they think of their government and no way do 4 out 5 people there not trust them. Why? Because they get things like free health care, livable wages, nice places to live, six weeks paid vacation, sick days, paid maternity leave for both parents, free education including college. Yes their taxes are high but in the end they live better than we do. So shut the Fuck up about socialism you fat crying bastard. I hope your blackboard falls on you one day.
At least he's not swayed by the lunatic fringe who claim the Holocaust never happened or that Obama wasn't born in this country. His birth certificate is on line for all to see. It's not a fraud as confirmed by multiple, non-biased organizations such as Factchecker. His college transcripts aren't released because NO politician releases them. I don't see you hammering Palin for her shoddy school grades. Or McCain. Or everybody else. It just isn't done. Get over it. And for the Holocaust deniers out there, I'm fairly positive Treblinka existed, Yes I know ground probing radar found nothing. But as an anthropologist, you are forgetting one of the cardinal rules. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. There is enough documentation, including that by former prison guards and the commandant, that it was there.
Obama gets a big shout out this week for extending unemployment benefits, although I am so confused as to how all this works. No article adequately explains including the MA unemployment website. Awesome. At least for those out of work the checks will keep coming. For how long is anyone's guess. And I still don't know about the Goldman Sachs ponzi scheme or the new regulation bank bill as contradictions abound on both sides. But as the Republicans are dead set against it, I figure it might be worth something. More research will be needed on this subject before opinion can be weighed but for the moment it seems like a good idea.
In a quick entertainment news, James Bond 23 has been put on hold indefinitely (and possibly the Hobbit) as MGM woes have hit critical mass. Here's hoping another company will come to the rescue.