All I Want For Christmas

The one thing I want more than anything else this Christmas is for idiot America to wake up and realize the shafting they are getting. Our world has become one cold dark place and everyone else seems to think it's a summer day at the beach. Are we as a species so stupid that we can't see changes when they happen right in front of us? The new Republican governments that will take office in just a few months have all ready signaled their willingness to lower corporate taxes in hopes of stimulating the economy. Nevermind that that is the same reasoning that got us into this mess in the first place. And this is what voters wanted. Really, they did. They were so busy warning us about our "evil" government that everyone was distracted from the rise of corporate power (the very definition of fascism) that the electorate was going to give them. Everyone in this country should be rightfully worried because your days of a free democracy are at an end. The new Republicans want to make it easier for companies to fire you, discriminate, get rid of unions, and basically make your life a living hell from which you have no right or protections. And forget about whistle blowing. That "privilege" will be severely curtailed next year. Enjoy your servitude, America. It's your special Christmas present this year.

Tyranny looms and, as some reasonable people on the message boards are writing, these words are our only weapon. Any rise of violence will give them the excuse to crack down harder. Violence cannot win at this point. However if later they do crack down harder for no apparent reason, only then would violence be the last solution to the desperate. We are not there yet.

A 54 year old woman at an Austin, Texas airport was arrested for refusing a pat down. A rape survivor with a pacemaker, she was understandably upset, but to be arrested to. FOR WHAT? I hope she sues sues sues. She will win too. More of our tax dollars at work.

Tell everyone you know what is really going on. It's our only hope.