It's Getting Crazy!

Obama and the Clinton's going at each other like caged pit bulls, Mexico's drug war starting to look like a civil war, George Bush advocating more free trade from Columbia and South Korea as a solution to the failing economy, the continuing Iraq War, both ice caps melting at frantic pace, and finally millions of Americans facing the prospect of losing everything because of corporate irresponsibility; this country is in real trouble and the politicians have their collective thumbs up their collective rectums.

Going back to the Mexican Drug War, did you see what happened in Gaza when Hamas blew up the fence separating the Gaza Strip and Egypt? Ten's of thousands of Palestinians rushed across into Egypt to re-provision and some to get out of the crazy hellhole called Palestine. If Mexico's drug war which is raging on our border gets worse and we have a combination of war refugees joining the economic refugees, the situation in Gaza by comparison would look like a (pardon the pun) hat dance. This passage from a recent article by James C. McKinley Jr. of the New York Times:

RIO BRAVO, Mexico — These days, it is easy to form the impression that a war is going on in Mexico. Thousands of elite troops in battle gear stream toward border towns and snake through the streets in jeeps with .50-caliber machine guns mounted on top while fighter jets from the Mexican navy fly reconnaissance missions overhead.

Gunbattles between federal forces and drug-cartel members carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers have taken place over the past two weeks in border towns like Rio Bravo and Tijuana, with deadly results.

This is cabinet meeting crisis stuff and our commander-in-chief talks about cucumbers from Columbia. Where are our troops on the border? The question is rhetorical but you know the answer.

The economic stimulus package proposed by the president and congress is a bandaid for arterial bleeding. The leader of the free world is not taking a leadership position on the real issue of global warming. My perception and probably a lot of people's is that no candidate has even "thought" about the immigration crisis let alone come up with a sensible plan on how to tackle it.

This year isn't politics as usual folks, it's politics for survival of the Republic. When are Independents going to get on ballots and when, for God's sake, is an independent presidential candidate going to come along who can herd the political goats and corporate hogs who are destroying this country?