OpEds
By Ernest Stewart
Global warming is real, and getting realer all the time. But a lot of things have to happen before humanity can act.
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find The Cost Of Freedom ~~~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” ~~~ Mark 8:36-37 KJV
“I didn’t think it was possible for cheerleading to look any less appealing to me — but, thank you, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for proving me wrong,” ~~~ Tracy Clark-Flory.
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” ~~~ Albert Einstein
Well, if you believe Obamahood, we got the mastermind behind 9/11, and it wasn’t George Tenet! No, Barry pegs CIA henchman Osama bin Laden as the culprit. I say, six of one, half dozen of the other!
Well, then, if we got him, then it’s “Mission Accomplished” so we can surely start packing up and bringing our children back home, and cut the Pentagoons budget by at least half, as our part of our peace bonus. It’s cost $3 trillion dollars so far in Afghanistan, most of which went into the elites’ pockets both here and abroad. Consider that our tab for WWII was $288 billion. Sure, if you put it in 2011 dollars then the cost was $5 trillion dollars. Which means that the one dollar in 1945 is now worth about five cents today; ergo, our money is worthless!
Another similar tab can be laid on Iraq in which we had no reason to be there to begin with as they nothing to do with 9/11, but they did have all that lovely oil which made the oil companies about $1 trillion in profits as they paid nothing for the oil but charged us like they did, and then some!
Of course, that’s merely the cost in money, not the cost of blood, minds and turning those countries into something that resembles the craters of the moon. Let’s not forget all the people that went from being friends, or at least neutral, into enemies that will be trying to get revenge on us for the next century or so, just what our leaders and their corpo-rat puppet masters want, a never-ending war and never-ending cash flows into their pockets. Oh, and did I mention the cost to our freedoms that are no more and a gutted Bill Of Rights! Nor should we forget the broken families, not only here but all around the world that these war crimes have caused and will continue to cause until we “pull out!” That’s not the cost of freedom–that’s the cost of fascism that we allowed to take over this country. Part of that cost will be the chickens that come home to roost for us, our children, their children and their children too! Those trillions are just a drop in the bucket of what this will eventually cost us. Rust, like tea baggers, never sleeps!
In Other News
So how do you like global warming, so far? Folks along the Mississippi river are finding all about the joys of corpo-rat climate change. Just like they found out way down yonder with those hundreds of tornadoes last month. Still deny it? The House does! Our “brain trust” under Boner and company voted with a 56 vote margin to deny that global warming exists. Can they really be that incredibly stupid? Well, of course they can! Of course, most of them have a financial stake in this as they’re being bribed with billions of dollars to see that their masters who are making money hand-over-fist with their various types of pollution that cause Global Warming. Boner and the boys are killing Americans and people all over the world to stuff their bulging bank accounts with the blood of humanity!
The US Army Corps of Engineers that can’t build a dyke to save their asses are now blowing them up, undulating tens of thousands of acres to save Cairo, Illinois — a town that should have been allowed to drown under its own stupidity decades ago. Let’s build a town at the confluence of two major rivers that are both prone to flooding on a yearly basis. A town that sits just a few feet above the rivers, a town that will be going through this from now on, on a yearly basis!
All this is caused by just one degree in overall temperature rise. That one degree is causing glaciers all over the world to melt along with the Arctic and the Antarctic. When they’re through melting, we’ll have the Northern Passage that they looked for, for centuries. They’ll also have most of current eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida under water. As Frank sang, “I’ll Take Manhattan” and in a few years you’ll have to take it by boat. The same for Florida where most of the state will be under water. Texas, our most polluted state, seems to have run out of water and is quickly turning into a desert. Meanwhile, instead of cutting back on its pollution, the governor old “Good Hair” is leading prayers for rain. You Texans are so screwed; but like the rest of us, you have only yourselves to blame!
Global warning is just in its tipping stage. At its current rate, by the year 2100, the temperature will have risen 5 degrees, and if you think you’ve seen bad weather this year from a one degree rise, believe me, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Get used to a hundred tornadoes in one day in a single state, or biblical flooding and vast stretches of fertile land turning into desert and blowing away like it did in the 1930s, new dust bowls all over.
So come on Boner, let them blow the top off of whole mountain chains for more choking coal and billion dollar profits. Keep buying giant SUVs that get worse mileage than a tank. Build some more nuke plants next to the sea or on fault lines with nowhere to put those rods that will be deadly for the next quarter million years. Make the insanely-wealthy even richer over the bloated bodies of your victims! I’m sure there’ll be a spot for you and your family on some mountain top where the elite will go to watch the rest of us die!
And Finally
Just when you thought education couldn’t get any worse, along comes the state of Texas to prove you wrong. You may recall my last two columns where we learn just how evil school systems can be, and along comes the tale of “HS,” a girl on the cheerleader squad down in Silsbee, Texas.
HS was 16 when she was raped by some students at a house party, attended by dozens of fellow students from Silsbee High School. One of her assailants, a student athlete named Rakheem Bolton, was arrested, with two other young men.
Bolton: Slap on the wrist.
Bolton was not charged with rape after ratting out the other two and copped a plea to misdemeanor assault. He was still supposed to do a year in jail but it was reduced to two years probation because he was a star athlete! That charge allowed Bolton to return to school — and the basketball team. Texas law said he should have been sent to another school, but he wasn’t, as he was too important for their team. Now here’s the kicker: when the victim traveled to a basketball game in January 2009 to cheer on Silsbee’s team, she participated in cheers and when Bolton was attempting a free throw, she stood silently with her arms folded. And then she was punished by this week’s Vidkun Quisling Award winner Richard Bain, the school superintendent and one sick son-of-a-bitch. (I wrote Richard a letter but I can’t print it here as we have young folks that visit) He told HS to leave the gymnasium. Outside, he told her she was required to cheer for Bolton. When the girl said she was unwilling to cheer for a man who had sexually assaulted her, she was expelled from the cheerleading squad! I’m going to repeat that again for those of you on drugs!
The Rape Victim was thrown off the cheer team because she wouldn’t cheer for her rapist!
Oh, don’t worry, America, it gets worse! When her parents sued the school system for violating her free speech rights, the coach demanded she cheer for her rapist. Two courts ruled against her, arguing:
“As a cheerleader, HS served as a mouthpiece through which [the school district] could disseminate speech – namely, support for its athletic teams,” the appeals court decision says. “This act constituted substantial interference with the work of the school because, as a cheerleader, HS was at the basketball game for the purpose of cheering, a position she undertook voluntarily.”
And with that, came the $45K fine for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit against the school.
WTF?
Until the next time, Peace!
(c) 2011 Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 10 years managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit me on Face Book. Follow me on Twitter.
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