Where Do We From Here

The Supreme Court has upheld the Obama administration's health care reform act, for the most part. A question still hangs over the individual mandate. The majority ruled that Congress cannot impose a mandate as such, but it can do it in the form of a tax.

The logical conclusion would be to push for a single payer system financed by a taz but American politics have ceased to be logical a long time ago. What we really need is to throw the Repubs out of Congress, so we can get a shot of fixing the system.

Another Right-Wing Faker Exposed

Neil Munro, the Daily Caller reporter who heckled President Obama accusing him of "favoring" foreign workers, is actually an Irish citizen. Faith Begorra! These people are so arrogant they think they can pull stunts like these.

Munor's point is they right wing lie that high unemployment is caused by illegal immigration. Unemployment is actually caused by policies of the corporate interests who basically own the GOP. All this hysteria about illegal immigration is just a smoke screen.

The Summer of Burnt Mesquite

The wildfires continue to burn throughout the Rocky Mountains. The Little Bear fire continues to burn north of Ruidoso New Mexico. More than 10,000 acres have been burned so far. The smoke can be smelled in El Paso about 140 miles to the southwest.

These wildfires of course are caused by drought. It's odd but we've been having all kind of weird weather events since the drought of 1988. You'd think that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 would have settled the matter once and for all. Oddly enough some people still say that they don't "believe" in global warming.

Global warming is as much a fact as the world being round and revolving around the sun. Is is possible that the deniers have been lobotomized by Fox and the other corporate media? If we wait until the coastlines are under 10 feet of water, it's going to be too late.

What's At Stake

The widespread obssession with nostalgia that pervades the political culture that afflicts even the Liberal movement or what's left of it. They cling to some misguided wish to return to the consensus Liberalism of the 1960's even though that time is gone and nothing will bring it back. We are living in an era of confrontation. The Right wing has become the tool of the corporate interests aligned with the religious right and the yokel mob known as the "tea party." We can no longer afford to think that it's "going to be all right." If the Rightists get their way they will turn the world we live into a miserable, ignorant, polluted and disease ridden hell hole.

So what are we going to do about it?

Fighting the Future

The "birthers" continue to spew their nonsense supported by the arch-charlatan Donald Trump. Even though President Obama has released his birth certificate, these cretins continue to persist that the President was actually born in Kenya. It would seem that it is impossible for anyone to prove that they are a natural born citizen because these morons won't give up. Even if you disprove one of their allegations, they simply make up another, and another.

I think the world view, not only of the birthers, but much of the right-wing was really shaped by the "X Files." I must admit that I used to watch that show back in the 90's, although in the end it turned out to be a shaggy dog story; a mish mash of conspiracy theories based upon anti-government paranoia ("Trust No One.") The Birthers are basically a gang of deluded numbskulls who think they are Fox Mulder. The reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories are various and complex; ranging form politics, psychology, and even sociology. I think that the American Right have come to see themselves as some kind of "Master Race" who are under attack by everyone and everything. Anybody who doesn't agree with them is automatically considered an "enemy." Which means that these people are impossible to deal with.