Too Long Between Posts

OK, so it's be almost a month since we created this site and while I'd like to say we've been too busy to put anything on, that wouldn't be completely true. It's almost like there's so much happening, so much stimulus overload when it comes to politics, the country, our children, our lives, that trying to put any of it down just seems overwhelming. I mean, what can you say when 48% of the country thinks a small town mayor turned governor of the most sparsely populated state in the union, who thinks looking across the Bearing Strait qualifies as "foreign policy experience" (now that would be bridge to somewhere....she could drive across to have high level diplomatic meetings with Putin) is qualified to be President of the United States? PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

Maybe the trick is just staying in the now and focusing on the things that actually are in our control. My son turned 18 a week ago today and last night called to ask how upset I would be if he got a tatoo. Since I got my tat when I wasn't all that much older than him, what could I say? At least he called to get my opinion, the tatoo is pretty nice, and he did get it on a part of his body that he can cover when he goes for college or job interviews (his upper arm), so maybe that's what I should be concentrating on.

Nah....I can't think of my son without thinking about what will happen to this country if we're consigned to another four years of the same disregard for the rights and interests of the American public. Four more years of judicial appointments (including at least a couple on the Supreme Court), of unending war, of using the politics of fear to drive this country towards a one-party oligarchy, of saying goodbye to my son as he heads for Canada (or Vietnam, which I hear is a wonderful country these days - wouldn't that be ironic) to avoid losing a limb, an eye, a mind, or a life to a useless war.

I watched a wonderful, but terribly scary, speech by Robert Kennedy, Jr. about the corporate takeover of America, which is only possible because those corporations also control the media from which most of the public gets its information. You can watch the video here It's totally worth taking half an hour, then getting mad enough to do something. There is so much wrong with this country right now, it's feels like shoveling against the tide to try to do anything, but what choice do we have? For our children and theirs, for the millions of Americans who have given their lives to prevent other countries from imposing on us what we're doing to ourselves, we must not give up. I have to believe we can take this country back, we can restore its greatness in the eyes of the world, we can again earn the respect of those who now despise (or pity) us, and maybe I can start being proud to call myself an American again.

Wow....maybe I shouldn't wait so long between posts!