SOS

OK, so I've been keeping my thoughts to myself for a while. ‘Fraid I usually stop paying attention so closely to politics after an election, because no matter what the result I feel basically helpless to affect anything once the ball gets rolling—not that I ever have any power beyond my one little vote. But, this blog is only for my personal gratification anyway, so I guess I’ve just been lazy.

I’ve been watching the Israel-Palestine conflict, like I always have. This article and many others like it are particularly disheartening. I am glad to know that so many Americans feel the way I do about it—that the US has been enabling the oppressors and that we need to stop if there is to be any justice and peace, but I’m blown away that the administration fails to grasp our undermining role. For all of the positive and negative “internationalist” finger-pointing, Obama is after all either a poor student of the I-P conflict or he is on the wrong side of the philosophical debate about US’s role. The US has a moral obligation to support the underdog and when it fails to do so, it is usually if not always for transparent political or economic motives. Turkey has been a much better ally than Israel, WTF do we need Israel for? Are we trying to keep them paid off so that we don’t have to fight them? The ass-kissing is one-sided. When do we get something back from them for our support? Idunno.

The whole domestic sustainable power thing is looking like a hamster wheel. We have all this money we just said we were gonna inject into the economy. But, the guys with the power are bickering about investing through deficit spending—Yeah, it sucks, but ya got another idea? I want my goddam sidewalks, so I can walk to the store. What’s it gonna take to get you jackasses to gimme my goddam sidewalks!?!? I see no reason why we can take a chunk of that money and put it directly into wind turbine factories and the purchase of property to put ‘em on. Yeah yeah. Socialism. Blah. The private sector aint doin’ it. The gov’t forced me to pay for the Iraq war and subsidize Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians, they can damn sure force some SUV-driving Limbaugh listener to pay for a sustainable energy system.

SOS. Same ol’ shit.