Dire Straits Indeed...

I've been trying to make heads or tails out of the whole condition of everything that has transpired since Obama took office,and frankly,it's well beyond my pay grade.

Bailouts and bankruptcies,
Wall Street,and GM.
Pirates and potentates,
Gitmo,..and something that rhymes with GM that I can't really think of right now.

Oh!..Iran!
..Close enough.

It all just seems quite nebulous and out of control somehow,making it difficult to try and reason out if anything being done to rid ourselves of all these socio-political alligators is having any real effect.
Perhaps it's too late to think about draining the swamp,but I guess the alternative is to resign ourselves to being eaten alive.
..Which is just what the Republicans are bent on having us do!

How is it they can wake up in the morning to the same world I do,and take up all that oxygen railing incessantly against late-night talk show hosts,and the ethical implications of swatting a nasty ass fly in the Oval Office?

Their strategy is simple.
Wait for Obama to actually DO something in an effort to climb our way out of the abyss eight years of Republican leadership has plunged us into,..and then run frantically to the nearest crowded theatre to shout 'FIRE!'.., at the top of their lungs.

That's it...That's their job...It's what they know how to do.

Take this whole Sonia Sotomayor thing..

Here's a fine candidate for the Supreme Court.
More qualified than many who've already served,or are currently serving.

In the nearly thirty years since she graduated from Yale Law School,she has been a professor of law at the NYU School of Law,the Columbia School of Law,..and as an Appeals Court Judge she's heard over three-thousand cases,and drafted some 380 opinions on Constitutional Law.
..Pretty damn impressive!
But the mere fact that she was nominated to the Supreme Court by Obama has negated anything she may have accomplished over the course of three decades,in the tiny minds of the far Right.

She's a 'racist',an 'activist',(since when did being an activist become some kind of terminally immoral disease?),..and someone who has managed to keep her hidden agenda of overthrowing the white man a well kept secret for an entire generation,against the day she might be nominated to the Supreme Court,where she could finally put her evil plan into motion.
..An Obama-nation??

**'FIRE!!'**

You know what it's like??
..I'll tell you what it's like.

It's just like back in my beloved bar tending days,when I was at the height of my dating prowess..(Okay,..for the purpose of this analogy,'dating' means scouring the clubs for that special someone with whom I could have a meaningful and intimate relationship,..for one night).
I would often have conversations like this;..

She: 'Do you know that girl over there?'..

Me: 'Yeah,..we went out a couple times'.

She: 'YOU DATED THAT SLUT??'

Apparently,..a woman achieved the malevolent status of slutdom,by virtue of having dated me!..

Now,I'm pretty sure Sonia and I have never dated,..but hey,..it was the 80's,and we weren't all that into first names.
Still,..somehow I expect all of this is gonna end up being my fault!

It's after five p.m. in Sling's Domain,..and if I don't start drinking now,I'll be up all night..

(Cue Bartender's Theme Song)..



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