Politically Grumpy

I woke up politically grumpy today, thinking about money and hornets. W took a stick to the nest, Obama lets the agitation continue, and Arizona (and Vermont, and...) have to close rest areas because there's no money. Why is there plenty for anything Defense wants while the bridges are failing? "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Indeed. This foolishness in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Guantanamo and who knows where the other prisons are) is very expensive business. Osama bin Laden won. The US is bankrupting itself and keeping the Islamic world enraged. It's what he wanted. If it's about revenge, when is it done? On 9/11 about 3,500 people died, and the American armed forces have lost about 4,500 so far. They've killed many times those numbers combined.

Villager: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth!
Tevye: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless.

Really, all I want is an explanation. OK, an explanation and for it to stop. Well, actually, an explanation, for it to stop, and for the instigators and facilitators to be prosecuted.

The world went through The Looking Glass on
December 12, 2000 when the Supreme Court set us on this track by giving the keys to the country to Dark Lord Cheney and the poster child for American Defiant Ignorance.

I don't want to take it.