Building Nukes For Dummies, No More Fish, and George "Ghengis Khan" Bush

To the left, on this oil painting, "Freedom of Speech", by Norman Rockwell, is depicted the view of what freedom of speech is supposed to be like in American lore. See the admiring faces focused on the broad shouldered chiseled featured young American man, standing, having made his point, excercising his rights. The crowd is white Middle America at its pinnacle.

The real Left, way to our left, has spent forty years scorning and dismantling this picture of an American ideal. Did this ideal ever actually exist? No, of course it did not, but the aspiration did. There really was a time, not very long ago when the cynics, defeatists and the moral submariners did not rule, dominate and dictate. The cultural submariners have taken us so down into the slime that every rivet in the superstructure of our society is threatening to pop under the pressure.

There is nothing out of bounds. A real good man like Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania is going down to defeat because he had the temerity to question the morality of a state judge allowing an estranged husband to deny food and water to his wife in a coma, when the parents of the girl wanted to care for her in their home. The press and media and public opinion vilified and politically destroyed a very decent and it seems anachronistic man. The public majority has changed.

The internet today, television and the declining print media, all beneficiaries of "Freedom of Speech" are filled with stories about web sites on nuclear weapons, the Iraqi connection to them, the depletion of all global fish stocks, how every country on the planet thinks George Bush is worse than Osama bin Laden, etc. It is the weekend before an election. Information and disinformational chaff, lies, rumors and rumors of rumors, lies, big lies and outrageous super hydrogenated trans acid fatty mega whopping lies abound. I woke this morning, as is my habit and read them all and do not know which of them to believe. They are all suspect to me. I do know this. Times have changed and so has most everything else, but the human lust for power and control has not. If you are tired of it all, well that is the idea. Your opponents wanted to grind you down and tire you out, beat you up, depress you and have you sit on your behinds. I offer one small piece of advice. Vote for good honest people that have demonstrated common sense and good judgment. Be able to look at them and support them, like the people in that George Rockwell painting look at that young man. It is not that corny of an idea.