Delusion's Blog

Drunk driving is an epidemic in this country. And yet, beer advertising is rampant throughout television. Ironically, rarely are drunk drivers shown on television programs. Also ironically, there is a push to lower the drinking age.

Unplanned pregnancies are rampant in this country among our youth. And yet, there is no advertisiing of condoms on television. Ironically, sex is commonplace in both television advertising and on the shows themselves. Also ironically, there is a push to include condoms in middle schools.

Why is that?

All of the coverage of the Democratic Convention seems kind of pre-packaged. That's to be expected. And yet, we aren't seeing the protesters. Why is that? They are there, of course, which by itself makes you wonder since the Democrats are the protest party and so protesting this convention is kind of like preaching to the choir.

Yet I wonder . . . when the Republicans hold their convention later on this month, you can bet the main stories will be about all of the protests, protests for the wars, gas prices, saving whales, killing babies, whatever. This upcoming Republican convention is a protester's dream, I should think. And yet . . . and yet, we hear very little (and see less) of protesters at the Dems Convention.

Interesting, the way news outlets cover the news, isn't it? It's not that the electorate is uninformed, it's that the electorate can't get the truth without really searching for it..

And that takes work, so the electorate ends up with what they deserve. Sad, no?

This should be rather interesting . . .

Okay, so America as we know and love is a great melting pot. Multiculturism and Diversity seem to be here to stay, which is just another way of saying Political Correctness is here to stay. So, I wonder about the following, using news channels as the example:

1) There are more women than men in this country (of all races), and yet women are not represented in the majority in most things.  Most newscasts have (at least) one man and one woman.

2) Afrrican-Americans represent around 11% of the population, and yet there are more African-Americans on television news channels than Hispanics, which represent anywhere from 22 - 35%.

3) One in five humans on this planet is Chinese, and one in five are Indian. So that means 2 in five humans are from Asia. That's 40% of the world population. And you will be hard-pressed to find many Chinese or Indians on news channels (although to be 'fair' that number is increasing).

4) There are less and less white men in this country every year, and yet they seem to always be the main anchor. NBC and ABC, of course, CNN, MSNBC, and SkyNews.

This is the age of political correctness, right? These are the days where words are weapons and any mention of race or quotas is like a knife in the neck, right? These are the days where a television show can show horrific amounts of blood and autopsies and corpses and dismembered victims of crime, and yet a movie cannot use the word 'retard' without being protested, right?

So, you would think tokenism would be alive and well. We're told it is, and yet the numbers don't bear that out.

How about that?

Another beautiful day in America where our Georgia seems to be somewhat intact and free of incursions. And the big news on this day, with all of the other news in the world and in this endless universe, is the return of the Hack.

Hillary Clinton has muscled her way into the convention not only as a speaker, yet also as a candidate. Her name will be put into nomination, apparently to 'appease' her 'supporters'.

For the record, it is standard practice to include any (and all, if need be) candidates in the roll call. It is not often done, yet it is considered a rule. For such a divisive figure as the Hack, though, I wonder what she (and the DNC) thinks can possibly be a positive result of this.

Anyway, I say 'appease' and 'supporters' since those who truly believe her, and believe in her, have a very loose understanding of truth and logic and reality.  Yet I will not gainsay them or disparage them (although yes, hillaryfans, we are ready for a woman to be president. Just not the Hack). Instead, I will only say this to Hillary:

A woman who mismanages and bankrupts a campaign which raised over 200 million dollars and then blames sexism, the media attention, the lack of media attention, everyone in the Obama camp, everyone who ever thought or said one word against her, her campaign managers, her overrated husband . . . a woman such as this who will not see her own faults and see reality as it really is and not as she wishes and hopes it to be, will do more damage at this convention to Obama and the Democrats that anything anyone else could imagine. 

This is not an 'Open Convention', as her supporters are saying. If anything, this closes the book on the Democrats this election and opens the door for Clinton to waste our time in 2012.

What this says about her and her ego is self-evident. What this says about the DNC (Do Nominate Clinton) is also self-evident.

What this says about Obama's passivism and leadership is something we will have to see . . .

Strange how history repeats itself.

On this day in America we still have almost $4.00 gas and more and more billions of dollars sent overseas in the form of money for oil or cheap goods. And Congress, our elected representatives, is on vacation. They seem strangely out of touch with America and Americans and seem only concerned with their own re-elections. And yet, we the people still pay for everything they do in our name. Many of us will agree much of what Congress does is not in our name since they seem to have a stunning capacity to be ignorant of the average American taxpayer.

In the 1760's the Colonists had the same problem. They were asked to pay for the French and Indian War, of which they had no say and no vote (and where the Colonists were asked to shed blood). The Colonists refused, saying they were not represented in London by the decisions made, so they shouldn't have to pay anything. They were rewarded by the Stamp Act, then more Acts which taxed everything from paper to tea. And of course, we know the result. The Colonists felt they were not represented and therefore decided to take control of their own fate.

The Crown argued that the Colonists were represented virtually (as opposed to actually) since they were Colonies of the Crown, but the Americans didn't buy it. Their argument was that London had no conception of the needs or conditions of the Colonists and had no idea what their lives were truly like.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I wonder how many of our elected representatives (and those now applying) know their history and the dangers inherent in repeating it.

Two females from Yale are suing to find out who posted some malicious words about them on an internet site. The posting was done annonymously, of course (as we all do here for the most part), and yet the two women want retribution (as in payment).

Wow.

So now there is a push by some to get all annonymous posters on the web 'outed' just in case a posting is done with malice, or in case the posting is untrue or slanderous.

Talk about a slippery slope. Aside from the fact any 'law' will not be enforceable, how about news organizations and the like. Some are too quick with judgement and too quick to get that big headline that, were this a perfect world, they would be sent off the web entirely.

This is not a perfect world, however. The two students (and all of us) have to realize words are only weapons if they allow them to be. Are they (and perhaps we as a country) so sensitive they need protection from an annonymous post on the internet? Has it truly come to that?

Congress recessed for five weeks without passing any energy legislation. Oil prices, though lower the past week, are still at record highs, and there seems to be no one interested in cutting the flow of foreign oil to our shores. No one interested in stopping the flow of dollars heading overseas, either.

Republicans want offshore drilling, of course. That will end the speculators dreams and that might lower gas prices eventually. At the least it will curb our appetite for foreign oil and keep more money here at home. It will also drive the enviromentalists (a very powerful group) nuts.

Democrats want to add more taxes to the oil companies, which will absolutely raise gasoline prices since that tax will be passed on to the consumer. They also have their 'use it or lose it' law, which commands oil companies to drill on the leases they currently have or lose those leases. The dirty little secret you don't hear is that those leases have no oil. None. Profit-driven oil companies would drill on their mothers if there was a chance of oil, so don't be fooled by the partisanship on this issue.

Forget about partisanship for one moment and use common sense: if these are the only two plans, which is more beneficial to America and Americans?

Regardless, this post is for all of the elected officials we elected (remember the 'change' we thought was coming?). This is for them:

Take that break, Congress. You've done nothing this year that helps the average American, why should five more weeks of inaction bother us?

Another beautiful day in America and another day which sees billions of (devalued) dollars heading overseas. Much of that money goes for foreign oil, of course, and yet many billions go to countries which truly either do not need or should not receive our help: countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Israel, North Vietnam, etc. Of course, there are those who say we have to give these countries money because . . . well, because . . . well, just because.

Other aid, billions of dollars worth, goes to Africa for development and to help fight AIDS. Speaking of AIDS, throwing money at this problem will not solve it, education is the key. And yet, we are told it costs billions for this education. Right. And we believe it, as we believe the billions spend on education in this country does good. Granted, education needs money, yet how many billions does it cost to produce yet another crop of illiterates? An average high school graduate might not know the three branches of government, but they sure do know who won American Idol. Money well spent, that is.

But I digress. All of this money, this money which we do not have and cannot afford, goes away to far-off lands in order to make life better, or at least more bearable, over there. That is what we are told is the Big Picture.

For once I would like us to look at the small picture, which is our country and our infrastructure and our farmers and our cities and our underdeveloped which need 'aid'. It is our country after all, we should be first in line. Imagine a soup kitchen with America setting the table and providing the sustenance. Those in line will bleed us dry, and when America dies of starvation those other countries will just go to another soup kitchen. The New World Order isn't government eavesdropping or secret societies or internment camps (sorry Alex Jones, your fifteen minutes was up a long time ago), it's the starvation of America and the lowering of expectations. This entire world will eventually become the Third World,  and when everyone is at the same base, primal level, no one will remember America as the greatest country in the world. They will only remember America was the first to immolate herself for the rest of the world. That is where this big picture is taking us.

But apparently I don't seem to have a handle on the way this world truly works. I do not seem to be able to grasp this Big Picture since I am told, we are told, all of this is to make our life better. All of this is to make the world more 'peaceful' and more 'stable'. Our schools are a laughingstock, our cities are falling apart, and yet we should feel good for sending alll of this money away to people who are, it seems, for the most part ungrateful. All in the name of their stability and their peace.

Strange, the way some things work.