Have you ever wondered?

Have you ever looked at something and said: "Now wait a minute, how in the heck... this just isn't possible".

Well I was sitting on my porch this mornning having coffee with a few hummingbirds and a rather large herd of dogs. After filling the feeding trough and letting the food transmuters that make up my herd finally settle back into their daily routine of sleeping and my mind started to wander a bit, again. Then it dawned upon me just how lucky we as humans are. Here in the good ole U S of A, we are particularlly fortunate in my opinion because we have the absolute greatest group of sleazy, egotistical, sweet talking sycophants who ever graced a pair of legs working in our government. We all laugh when we pass road crews and see one guy on a shovel, four of his co-workers standing around the hole offering advice, and three guys in white shirts off in their own group in the distance discussing how efficent they are working on the placement of the next hole. Well no different when you work for the government as a Congressman or Senator, or, or even President. Now as we all know, down here on earth it is the road commissinor and a group of fella's he calls his "base" that always seem to have the nicest drivways, curbs, and well maintained sewers. Well, here again, once you reach the level of President, not much changes, well other than who is cleaning the sewers.

Now the folks that live in this great land (and it is), have settled into a comfortablly apathetic life where as egocentrism is rewardwarded with frequent flyer miles and a chance to win a free latte' at Starbucks. Afterall, we really don't care that there are nine men standing around watching one of them scrape roadkill off a remote country road. Nor do we seem to care that our government garnishes smug chuckles when you mention what a crooked dirtbag __<insert politicans name here>___ is when they engaged in one of countless borderline illegal activites, let alone ethical. Now knowing the nature of man, and being that there are more different kinds of lobby groups throwing money and favors at these men than there are grains of sand on Clearwater beach, that it would take a person of solid character to resist temptation and to do the right thing. Add all this on top of the fact that they are bombarded on a daily basis with request from the people for things like,action for the bad service at the drive thru at Arby's or the need for disability for those with split ends and bad hair. Then to top it all off, politicans have to be concerned with getting their parking validated when they speak at the Witchita Falls Moose Lodge.

Now let me see if I have this covered, despite the fact that politicans are basically used car salesmen with better tailors, many are lawyers who golf on Wedsndays so they can all gather to decide how to split up the spoils from fleecing the American public. We have a public that don't really give a nickle that these men act in this manner, and this was evident by the stunning turn out of the last general election where just over half the folks cast a ballot. Now I know not ALL politicans are nasty vile little trolls, because I once heard of a pretty decent fella in office over in Horses Crack, Idaho but he is in danger of losing the next election to a hairless badger since he voted to raise the tax on beer.

Now you are asking, so how come you think we are so lucky Flip, well its like this. As I drank my coffee and considered that somehow we manged to make it for some 229 without destroying ourselves despite the fact we run our country the way we do, and I am not even taking into account of that jerk who nearly ran me off the road yesterday either. We are all lucky that we live in a time where things like the internet and blogs serve the cause of democracy through nothing more than the exchange of thoughts and ideas. We are lucky that because of this, the truth is becoming harder to obscure through nothing more than curious conversation. Time for another cup of coffee.


Flip