January 2008 archive

OK, this has nothing to do with politics…. but… well, what the heck

An English Laxative

Today I eat what I once ate

But I don’t heat the things I hate

And while we meet before we mate

We do not greet before we grate

I fly the places where I flew

And then I sigh, and then I sue.

The things I buy do not go ‘boo’.

And then I cry to all my crew.

I sit the places where I sat

I still can fit – I’m not too fat

Then I flit off to my flat

Where I will slit one of my slats

I don’t know everything I knew

I go to where there is no goo

I flow the places where I flew

I did the things that now I do.

I don’t want to hear about what Bill Clinton thinks anymore. I don’t want to hear how McCain “wants to be in Iraq for 1,000 years”, that Romney may have wanted a withdrawal date, that any of the candidates is more or less pure on whatever issue or any other chest thumping drivel.

I want to know what each candidate really thinks or if they haven’t actually thought beyond tough talk, suck up platitudes and bumper sticker slogans, when it comes to addressing the extremely fucked up foreign policy path that this country has taken over the past decade.

No more “would you take anything off the table”.  No more “they may be able to restart a nuclear weapons program”.  No more “we have to kill them before they kill us”.  No more “we will not allow [X] to occur, under any circumstances”.  No more “we must be strong and we must also be flexible”.  No more “we must always stay on the offensive”.  No more “we’ll smoke them all out”.  No more “nothing short of victory will do”.  No more “either you are with us or you are against us”.  No more “spreading democracy and freedom”.

No more fluff.

If anyone has links about the ruling elite of this world having their own separate classes of medications, please post links now.

We got sick – very sick – on what we came to understand is an “adenovirus.”  It was the first time a sickness has taken me down in about eight years.

This instant pneumonia strain came down on the gringo express, sickening all kinds of people for weeks, an illness that gladly makes limitless deadly encores for those who overestimate their convalescence, and has emptied restaurants, leaving people gaping 20 feet away from the adenovirus’ victims for fear of succumbing to the racking coughs themselves.  People are terrified of this cough, which others tell us will linger for weeks.

Ah but not doctors.  We went to a Mexican/American doctor who speaks perfect English, and my husband suggested he even stand back, that he not get what we had.  The doctor smiled as if the questions of contamination by his own patients had never occurred to him in his life.  He was fearless throughout the examination, dismissing our worries for his health with a remark that he saw so many patients he “guessed” they gave him immunity.

I call bullfeathers.  It doesn’t work for teachers.  They are shutting schools down for fear of viruses in the US, because 40% of teachers are falling sick in some schools.  If mass exposure to sickness brought immunity, teachers would benefit the most.

Which leads us to larger questions:  why don’t members of Congress die of common things like cancer more often?  How can candidates campaign fearlessly, gladhanding with the masses without catching the epidemics going around?  How can they have no fear, mingling broadly with a largely sick public and yet never fall ill themselves?

I’m not even going to argue the point with anyone as to whether there are separate classes medicines available to the ruling elite of the world (and doctors) which are not given to common people.  I have not a doubt in my mind, after seeing a doctor laugh at what was almost killing us.  He KNEW he would not get what we had, but certainly did not offer us a shot of whatever protected him.

So tell me, who has any links on the separate realms of medications available to rich elite versus the rest of us?

This is funny, and probably deadly accurate.

This is really part of Pluto’s bailiwick; I hope that worthy soul will come by and comment, perhaps on the $7B fraud in France.