bits and pieces

It's Monday March 9th 2009.

The U.S lost another 650,000 or so jobs (what's 5 or 10,000?).

There's a run on the English Pound. (Can you say Iceland? -- just kidding)

The global crisis wiped a staggering $50 trillion off the value of financial assets last year including $9.6 trillion of losses in developing Asia alone, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.

There are already tax protests in Ca. : "While the turnout at a recent anti-tax rally in California, detailed by the Fullerton Community Examiner in "Over 15,000 Descend on Fullerton to Protest Higher Taxes," represents an infinitesimally small fraction of the state's 37 million population, I expect it won't be long before the trickle of angry protestors turns into a flood -- in California and elsewhere."

I guess everyone wants services, everyone wants the economy to improve -- but no one wants to pay for it. We all want someone else to pay. We also blame it on "those people", while at the same time talking about "personal responsibility" -- for other people.

We don't know our history, don't know how the government works, think the USA is a "Christian Nation" -- even though the founding fathers were not Christian, and we were founded on principles of The Enlightenment. We were, and are a SECULAR nation.

we're afraid to teach our kids about sex -- so now, they're doomed to know less than their parents, and are doomed to make the very same mistakes we all made. The difference is that today the stakes are higher.

Our Media is a creature of its corporate overlords -- there is almost no news broadcast -- it's mostly propaganda.

One of our two major political parties is being run (defacto) by a fat, misogynistic, drug addict, who doesn't know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.

In order to fight the "horror" of "Gay Marriage" a formerly respected lawyer says a simple majority vote can strip away any and all rights from anyone. Talk about consequences.

There's talk GW Bush will be charged with war crimes. In addition folks are now saying the last eight years were a dictatorship.

Aside from those few things, things are getting worse.

Happy Monday.