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The World Is Setting a Really Bad Example
Feb. 20th, 2009 10:54 amI’d feel even worse about my life falling apart if the whole world wasn’t falling apart right along with it.
Netanyahu? NETANYAHU? What are those Israelis thinking? This would be the equivalent of digging up Nixon's corpse and cloning it in time for America's 2012 election. Hasn’t Netanyahu taken enough bribes, misused enough public funds, obstructed enough justice, botched enough assassination attacks? Oh, wait – he hasn’t started World War III yet! Of course! He needs to be back in office so he can bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran now that there’s been a change in the US administration. (It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it.)
Also, I watched that Rick Santelli CNBC snip. At first you might think, yep – man has a point.
Here’s why he doesn’t:
Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Where the same logic – why should we reward bad behavior? – also applied.
Honestly no amount of imaginary money is going to make any of this go away. But if the government is willing to throw bank at uber-rich miscreants, it needs to be willing to do the same thing for poorer miscreants. That’s parity.
Not a whole lot to report on the day by day. I have conquered the eggplant. I have perfected the art of silver leafing. I have a shitload of things I have to do and yet I do none of it, I float above it. Hel-lo! The world is in worse shape than I am, and you don’t see it scurrying about on self-improvement projects! As above, so below.
Netanyahu? NETANYAHU? What are those Israelis thinking? This would be the equivalent of digging up Nixon's corpse and cloning it in time for America's 2012 election. Hasn’t Netanyahu taken enough bribes, misused enough public funds, obstructed enough justice, botched enough assassination attacks? Oh, wait – he hasn’t started World War III yet! Of course! He needs to be back in office so he can bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran now that there’s been a change in the US administration. (It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it.)
Also, I watched that Rick Santelli CNBC snip. At first you might think, yep – man has a point.
Here’s why he doesn’t:
Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Where the same logic – why should we reward bad behavior? – also applied.
Honestly no amount of imaginary money is going to make any of this go away. But if the government is willing to throw bank at uber-rich miscreants, it needs to be willing to do the same thing for poorer miscreants. That’s parity.
Not a whole lot to report on the day by day. I have conquered the eggplant. I have perfected the art of silver leafing. I have a shitload of things I have to do and yet I do none of it, I float above it. Hel-lo! The world is in worse shape than I am, and you don’t see it scurrying about on self-improvement projects! As above, so below.
