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I'm afraid to look at the front page of the Washington Post, or turn on and watch the other corporate media. I go straight to the Post's comics -- it's the only part of the paper worth reading.
If it isn't the nightmare of senseless bloodshed in Iraq, it's the nightmare of senseless bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel, or the senseless bloodshed elsewhere, or the mass starvation, disease, and ravages of climate change.
Every day brings new, frightening news about global warming. Melting glaciers, shrinking Great Lakes, vanishing species, killer storms, deadly heat waves -- the list never ends.
The Bushistas and the Repugs in Congress continue to do all the rotten things they possibly can, from propping up vicious regimes, to ignoring starvation and poverty. They take away funds for environmental protection and education, and use them to pay Halliburton insane amounts of money on no-bid contracts to feed garbage to our own troops. They fail to properly equip our military, and they treat our returning veterans and injured like dirt. Who the hell is rotten enough to charge an amputee soldier hundreds of dollars for losing their weapon during combat?
They wipe our consumer protections that took decades to create, and allow big corporations to graze on our money with impunity. They allow companies to wipe out pension plans and replace American workers with cheap labor from India and Mexico and elsewhere.
AND NOBODY CAN STOP THEM!!!
They cheat in elections by manipulating electronic voting machines, disenfranchising people of color, reducing the number of voting machines in Democratic districts, and pulling dirty tricks like jamming Democrats' phone lines so people can't call for election day rides to the polls.
They make a mockery of our precious Constitution by spying on us and taking away our freedoms of press, assembly, speech, voting rights, and more. And they stack the Supreme Court and federal judgeships to make sure they can get away with it all.
AND NOBODY STOPS THEM!
Lackeys like Joe Lieberman and Mary Landrieu keep enabling them, and even those brave Democrats who do challenge and object get ignored by the corporate media.
"Religious" zealots move to control women's bodies, school textbooks, school curricula and so much more, with the aid of the Bushistas. And now they're giddy with glee, hoping this Middle East war is the prelude to Armageddon. They hope their version of God will swoop them up to some kind of heaven, while we get left behind to live in an earthly hell.
Frankly, all these nasties are what's been making life on earth hellish, and the sooner they go, the better.
But there are other people, like myself, who believe something entirely different than their "rapture" theory.
I would like to pray to, and believe in a Goddess or God of Justice, who will swoop down and remove these depraved monsters from the face of the earth they are trying so hard to destroy.
I don't believe in Hell, but it would be nice to think there is a cosmic re-education camp where they might be taught some genuine Christian principles, such as "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you," "Turn the other cheek," and "It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than it is for a rich man to enter heaven."
And maybe some nice Pagan respect for all living things on Mother Earth, instead of worshiping fetuses and seeking to destroy every other living plant and creature and being.
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