ASYLUM USA: THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE SHOW

In today's wacky world, black is white, Justin Beiber has talent and people are STILL eating at Taco Bell, regardless of the fact they they are literally poisoning you. It came out last week that a salmonella outbreak had plagued the awful fast food chain (and I use the word food very loosely) AGAIN. What kind of brain dead idiot says to himself, "HMMM, I feel like eating some substandard Mexican food that I know has a 50/50 chance of making very, very sick."? Even worse, a majority of the cases were in Texas. I've been to Texas. They have the best Tex-Mex food on the planet. What reasonable person who lives in the same area as the best tacos in the world, eats crap like Taco Bell? The same people voting for candidates like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich that's who.

I get why people don't like Mitt Romney. He's slick, pretty and phony. His views change with the wind and ask John Kerry how that attitude worked on his Presidential run. What is with Massachusetts politicians and terrible presidential runs? Romney, Ted Kennedy, Dukakis, Kerry: not a winning field there. But really, Santorum is your go to guy. His views would be great in Puritan America which a segment of this country seems ready to bring us back to, the American Taliban if you will, which is exactly what they are. They want a religious rule to tell us all how we should live our lives, just like the Taliban. This is odd because these people hate Muslims with a passion, but only because I think they are honing in on their religious clap trap. Santorum would be a horrible president who could literally send us back to the dark ages. It certainly seems to be an era he would be much more comfortable with.

In other news, our own government can't decide what is what. If you listen to Obama and the MSM, the recovery is just around the corner, the stock market grows in leaps and bounds, and everything is getting back to normal. Huzzah! The only problem with that is that it is complete and total bullshit. The CBO released a report the other day that shows unemployment is at at least fifteen percent. Here is that part of the report:

“The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The official unemployment rate excludes those individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well as those who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work; if those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been about 15 percent. Compounding the problem of high unemployment, the share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months—referred to as the long-term unemployed—topped 40 percent in December 2009 for the first time since 1948, when such data began to be collected; it has remained above that level ever since.”

But we don't count them because Clinton, in one of his more douchebaggy roles, eliminated counting them from the statistics as a way to make his Presidency look better. He was also responsible for removing core inflation products like food and energy from the SS inflationary report, ripping off Grandma several thousand dollars a year. What a dick. Unemployment would be even higher is it counted people recently thrown off the unemployment dole due to time limitations running out. When you add those in you get an new rate of 22%. These rates haven't budged in three years, the longest period since the Great Depression. Housing is still uber-shaky, with banks ready to send foreclosures through the roof. And wages are steadily declining. My old job at the newspaper group I used to work for has been available now for several months. Know why they can't fill it? Because no one is willing to work for what they are going to pay. When I was there, I made close to fifty grand a year for what I did. The girl that replaced me made half of that. Yeah I want to work seventy hours a week for that kind of scratch. Blow me.

As if all that wasn't enough, now comes word that an attack on Iran is being geared up at the highest levels of government. Sanctions will be given time to work, but as the Iranians seem hell bent to get a nuke, and why wouldn't they, the West is unlikely to let them. Sources within the government have confirmed that attack plans are being readied and should the President give the word, they will be ready. Forces and equipment are being moved into sensitive areas and Israel has all but said look out, although Erud Barack, the Israel Defense Minister, has backtracked on calls for an immediate attack. An attack is said to be most likely between March and June although have said the "sweet spot," would be between September and October. That would be a little late to launch a major operation, but the press would be spectacular for Obama if successful and all but guarantee him a second term. It would be hard to beat a President if he was successful in shutting Iran's nuclear program down. I doubt it would be that easy, but this mentality cannot be discounted.

All in all, Europe is dying, crazy people are driving us further into insanity and somehow, someway, Rick Santorum is new frontrunner for President. God help us.