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The Decline and Fall of the Democratic Party?

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While the Democrats constantly hum the refrain in the Eagle's song about a fellow who spends his whole life locked up in chains only to discover that he has had the key in his hands all the while, the Tea Baggers are desperately hoping that those folks don't read Edward Gibbon's magnum opus, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," because if the perpetually stymied Democrats do peruse that example of literature, they might suddenly have a solution to the riddle of how to finance a country's essential services while fighting capricious and strategically unnecessary foreign wars.  

 

When the Democrats eventually suggest not fighting optional wars, the Tea Baggers will quickly defuse (bellicose pun?) that argument by responding:   "World Peace will be a "Jobs Killer!'"  

 

Think of all the jobs that Peace would eliminate.   Then think of the "Age of Aquarius" and how many jobs that spawned.   Aren't "Head shops" illegal in many states?   Once folks have listened to the "Hair" album a hundred times, then what?  

 

Recently when we learned that Willie Nelson was starting a new political party called "The Tea Pot Party," we sent the link to the web site to a fellow who knows George Clayton Johnson (of Twilight Zone fame) and asked that the information be forwarded to Mr. "Kick the can."   Did that get us any new regular readers?   No!   Would Hunter S. Thompson endorse Willie's political endeavor?  

 

When we imitate Merle Haggard and make fun of the "hippies out in San Francisco," the column gets twice as many hits; so (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) expect some more columns with more sarcastic references to "drug addled morons."

 

Speaking of the Hippies out in San Francisco (Hey, stoners, have you heard:   It's just like the Jim Morrison song says; the Vietnam war is over!), they are just the kind of people to think that the recent "Kids for Cash" trial in Pennsylvania is proof that the privatization of prisons was a bad idea.  

 

Does the fact that a judge was convicted of doling out excessive jail sentences for minor drug offenses (in return for a "finder's fee"?) provide conclusive proof that privatizing jails was a bad idea?

 

Speaking of getting children headed in the right direction, on Thursday, August 11, 2011, on his radio program, Mike Malloy had a story about how the corporate farms were providing berry picking jobs for kids.   It was Malloy's assertion that a seven year old kid had an entitlement to ten more years of public education rather than an opportunity to live out a "rags to riches" success story that is a basic ingredient of life in this "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" paradise for motivated citizens.

 

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