I'm back and wound up from my local school board meeting (again, another post) but now am even angrier than before with respect to the hearings tomorrow and the coverage focusing on Clemens ... I just read that the Senate passed that revision to the FISA bill and granted the telecom companies retroactive immunity?!? You have no idea what I'm talking about? Yeah, that's the problem. I just listened to breaking news about Andy Pettite giving up Clemens somehow and lots of talk about the stupid snow but I hear not one word, nothing about how our congresspeople caved yet again to the Bush administration and their unending quest for total secrecy and a bill came out of the Senate today granting Verizon and Comcast and whoever else a free ride for selling the public out to the government?? oh, but why would I expect the news to give me any news? they are all corporately owned now and have no interest in serving the function of a free press. It's all about the company's bottom line and making those shareholders some money and why would the mainstream media want to alert the public to any issue that actually affects their lives when they can keep everyone nice and placated with the latest about Britney's breakdown and a huge smoke and mirrors show about how seriously we must take the news of this widespread abuse of steroids in baseball. Yes, Congress has absolutely nothing else to spend its time on, nothing at all.
AND as if all this were not enough, I hear on my local news that a homeless veteran died on the streets last night in the bitter cold??? One of the homeless veterans that Bill O'Reilly recently denied exist???? And this administration blasts as unpatriotic and America-hating anyone who questions anything about the war or the laws being passed in its wake?!? But we have homeless veterans? Who die on the streets of suburbia after having survived the streets of Baghdad or some place? oh, that's right, there are no streets there, the no-bid contracts were given to private companies to rebuild the infrastructure but those millions of dollars have long since been blown on G-d knows what, all while there is still no water or electricity or schools in much of Iraq ... and let's not get started on the infrastructure right here at home! Collapsing bridges, exploding pipes beneath Manhattan ... it's enough to make you mad (in an insane way, although it certainly qualifies for anger as well)
amazing. now how can I just settle down and go to sleep? how do any of these people in power sleep at all?
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