I don’t know if the bailout has been passed yet in the Senate. I don’t like it. There should be responsibility taken. This is like a war crime or something. I posted a couple of letters that have been forwarded to me. All of it proves money is like heavy duty science, if you don’t know what you’re doing the experiment could go terribly wrong and mutant alligators might be coming up from the toilets at a very inappropriate time.
This painting is another in a series my brother, Ben, has made recently. I dig it. This one looks like it could be an album cover. It’s like she’s been attacked by a tanning bed fueled with Red Bull and nuclear waste. I think she’s going to have a glass jaw by the end of the night. All the pundits are saying Joe Biden has to be careful how he responds to her. She gets to do her thing. She’s good at insulting, undercutting, and making her opponents feel embarrassed based on what I’ve seen of her clips.
The special treatment is bullshit. Look, these are tough times. And we’re living in an era of technology and immediate gratification. Screw the piddly youtube debate. So called up-to-the-minute coverage is nothing. Reality shows are jumping the shark left and right. Movies are not doing it anymore. Let’s take the best of all this and make it really interactive. I demand a put up or shut up actual test of them all. Here’s how it will work: both teams of Presidential and Vice-Presidential in two virtual reality rooms where a graphics department can change the walls. Both teams are then given the exact same scenarios to test how they will handle them. They will have to deal with domestic and international meltdowns, egregious diplomatic foul ups by heads of state, financial problems, a Canadian invasion (just music because, come on, they’d never invade us. Or would they?), an assassination attempt on an important figure and any other serious areas. Things they could never expect. That 3am call stuff. Also, there would be a deck of wild cards. Maybe the President would die and the Veep would have to take over. Wouldn’t it be good to see how that would play out? We wouldn’t have to deal with talk or slogans or dirty campaigning. We’d just have to make sure the game wasn’t rigged.
Then they’d have to do a mega round of Jeopardy on American history, how government works, and applicable knowledge questions. Finally, they’d have to do a stress test on a treadmill. Because this would be televised live, we could stay at home and vote from our cell phones like American Idol. We’d also have to have a way for that not to be rigged.
In the meantime, I guess we have to keep dealing with what we have for 34 more days. I’m going down to Philly to help out on the Obama campaign. They’re getting close to having to have all the registrations done and are prepping for the Springsteen concert. Any NYC peeps want to go just take the NJ Transit train to Trenton and switch the SEPTA train to Philly and the Alleghany stop. The address for PA for Change is 1804 E Allegheny Ave.
I have to say I’m not happy both candidates are pushing for the “Rescue Bill” to go forward. What if they put that little 700 Billion dollar item on the ballot so we can all vote on whether we should approve this little piece of spending for THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY? They’re both doing it to show they can work with the over side. It’s a real damned if you do and damned if you don’t place to be. McCain doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying and Barack isn’t stepping up to the plate here. CEOS should not be making money if the company tanks. They should be paid on commission. The company does well, they get a piece of that. Not 400 times the pay of the lowest worker. People should be charged with crimes.
I just want all of this over with. Why do we have to think so hard about this kind of garbage? This should be already taken care of. I feel like my entire life is put on hold while this goes on. I really do. It’s too complicated. No one understands the math. “Bernanke’s a hero.” “Bernanke’s a fraud.” No one really knows it seems. What if the richest one percent got together and fixed this?
I’m writing about all this to distract from all the death in my life right now. I can’t handle it. My next post will be about beekeeping.