Incredible World of DIC
Citizens familiar with beautiful, downtown Burbank, California, pass this building regularly. The granddaddy of pop music, Dick Clark, has several DIC buildings scattered around the city each with it's own distinctive DIC label on it. This one is my favorite and with a little photoshop enhancement, it takes on a certain dark glamour. Hmmm.
While listening to the President's State of the Union address, the word "incredible" came to me over and over. After a brief meditation on incredibleness, I saw the DIC building, and reflected on the incredible world order of BushCheney. It was a sober reflection which then coalesced into a nightmare landscape filled with missionary dics banning and imprisoning pop culture icons, Sponge Bob, Buster Baxter, and Michael Moore. I can't image wholesome and wealthy Dick Clark ever triggering the ire of these cultural watchdogs, but who can guess what sets them off. It seems fitting to put their fantastic likenesses on this DIC building and contemplate their world.
This incredible world does not have a place for liberal dinosaurs like me. Indeed, I wonder if it has a place for those endearing radicals, the founding fathers of America. They were so sick of their very own King George and his insanity, they decided to revolt and succeeded. They fashioned the First Amendment to protect future protestors, speechmakers, cartoon makers and newspaper owners from political and religious coercion. According to recent studies of the youth of America, our future leaders think the First Amendment and civil rights are old-fashioned. They dismiss "self evident truths" because they were created when the world was less dangerous, apparently. Ummm, not! The 1600 and 1700s and most of the 1000s were filled with atrocities, wars, religious bigotry, war, rape, plunder, plague, pillage, and did I say war?
I'd trust our Founding Fathers to know what works for liberty and against repression, subjugation and tyranny more than I'd trust GWB and his passel of mathematically-challenged advisors (e.g., link to the accurate math on Social Security) and his unreal-world blowhards (e.g., link to Rumsfeld's latest). Wake up kids! Who benefits from pre emptive wars of liberty? Not you!
Why can't the youth of America feel a draft? Scanning the news tells us that the National Guard is in chaos while it tries to fill a large military chasm of prolonged world policing for which it is ill equipped. Today, the US Marine Corps announced that it did not meet it's recruiting quota for the first time in ten years and admits that waging two wars in two, god-forsaken places has taken the glamour away from being an American warrior. The armed services are offering re-enlistment bonuses of $30,000 to keep some of the ranks filled, and the report that "maybe" troop levels will be reduced in March is greeted with, "Yeah, sures," all across America. Meanwhile, our new Secretary of State is rattling the sabres on her visit to Europe and barely backed off of her rant against Iran with a quip that only a confirmed bureaucrat could love, "It's not on the agenda." Isn't that a comfort though? War with Iran is not on Condi's agenda.
What is on the agenda for the Bush administration is a deliberate knife to the safety net underneath America's high-wire war act. They will continue to bury anyone who doesn't toe the GWB Republican party line like Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.) and bring in the Fallwellian godmeisters to pray them into career limbo for the next four years. They will not tolerate the godless corruption of the minds of our children with an asexual cartoon "Bob" but will tolerate the corruption of our Congress by a heterosexual Tom. Incredible.
Waxy.org offers this method of figuring out the trajectory of American liberty with a link to The State of the Union Parsing Tool. Keep clicking "choose words for me" until you get to God. Interesting that God was never mentioned in George Washington's State of the Union Address and that his speech was the shortest.
