I’m Mad As Hell...

It seems like the old movie was prophetic. It seems like with just a match, America will light up in a great ball of rage. So many people I know are just boiling over with it. So when are we all going to stick our heads out our windows, or run out into the street and say what is on all our minds? “I’m mad as Hell!!! And I’m not going to take it anymore!!!”

What’s stopping us? I think one of the problems is that there are so many things to be so mad as Hell about. The administration of Bush, Jr. has conducted an all-out onslaught against every virtue we Americans hold dear.

We all believe we are charged to be stewards of this earth. But this administration has laid bare our forests, our public lands, our rivers and the very air we breathe to rapine by the worst polluters. We hold human liberty to be self-evident. But this administration has deprived not just foreign people but American citizens nabbed on American soil of the most basic human rights. We believe that all Americans should have a decent chance in life, starting with education. But this administration has raided the entitlements that we all pay for to give obscene benefits to the wealthiest American citizens, both individual and corporate.

Even our language is under assault - the Clear Skies Act, the Healthy Forests Act... my God, the PATRIOT ACT... Truth, it seems, is not to be found anywhere. So where do we start? How do we get over the despair we all feel? After all - it appears that we voted for this administration at least once... And that after we had every opportunity to understand just how bad these people really are.

We need to start somewhere. So, start here. Pick a card - any card. Or actually, let’s make a pack. There must be at least 52 great egregious lies the Bush, Jr. administration has told. Let’s make a card game out of it and sell it. I’m sure we can find a printer - and I have no doubt we could find financial backing.

It would be a kinetic way to express our anger and the profit generated could help do something to bring the liars to justice. Just add a comment and list as many horrible lies of this administration that you can think of. Put some sort of order to it so we can sort them deuce to ace, and by house: Diamonds, Shovels, Clubs, and Crosses. It’s important that the pack reflect the Bush, Jr. administration - it should be utterly heartless.

I’m sure lots of people will buy the Bush Jr. Pack of Lies.
After all, lots of people already have.

rbs