DamSpot’s World

My wife is a neophyte when it comes to the World Wide Web. She doesn’t use a computer, email, or anything associated with it.
She relies, however lightly, on the MSM.
So, while the news arrives a bit later, she does get caught up in the ’sky is falling’ way that FOX and the print media spin their news to fit the Conservative views.
She was asking me if what could have been done in the past to have prevented the wars, financial problems, oil prices, etc.
My honest response was that the politicians and the voters then and now, have lost sight of history.
There is very little, in the way of problems we face today, that could have been prevented if everyone took a few minutes each day to review history, and the patterns in war and economics that we are seemingly cursed to repeat.
With the WWW, we are able, at a glance to spot trends in all of the problem areas. But, people are more concerned with their textting or My Space page to take the time to learn something.
And. God Forbid, the schools teach something other than their candy or gourmet food drives.

Basically, we are calling the business people, stock market and politicians to act far better than we are ourselves.
How many people out there are worried about where they are going to get money for the next holiday while their kid is running a meth lab in the basement?

Wanna know why there are no heroes left? It’s because no one has the guts to become the first to stick their neck out.
Heroes in the past may have been on the movie screen, but they were big as life. People listened to them when ever they had something to say.
I personally never liked John Wayne, but when he spoke, people listened and followed.

It’s pretty bad when you can’t depend on Fireman ‘cause 1 out of 5 volunteers, the backbone of most communities are pyromaniacs.
Can’t depend on Police. They see the money to be made in illegal weapons and drugs and wonder why they don’t get paid more to possibly, get killed.
Politicians, once farmers and small business people, your neighbors, are distant, uncaring, and only voice their allegiance to those who throw the most money at them to be a shill for their causes.

It was doom and gloom in 1929.
It was doom and gloom in 1987.
And it’s doom and gloom now.

And what will we learn from this?

Go talk amongst yourselves.

Well boy’s and girls. Somebody finally got the hint that they had better listen to their e-mail.
Is it the fact that the voters are speaking with something other than their votes?
Perhaps.
The more likely hint, could be that the PAC’S are screaming bloody murder about the massive slow down in the economy.
The PAC’S don’t care that Wall Street is having a melt down. They don’t even care if the banks fail.
The only thing more powerful than any of those is the consumer, holding on to their money instead of spending it on, even essentials, such as Health care or, in the case of a lot of elderly, food.
You say, ‘Damspot has really flipped this time’. Health care? People really do ‘put off’ health concerns, operations and essential medicines.
If you think suicides have been bad around the holidays, over the years, wait until this one. As the old saying goes, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Lets look at today’s numbers.

The DOW closed at -777.68 points, the highest in history. Hmm, where’s that history book from 1929?
Dems and Repubs are finger pointing left and right and trying to protect their soft skins in November.

Mean while, the PAC spin machine will have Bush up on his little podium, like the dog he is, and he’ll be barking tales of gloom and doom about what will happen without passage. Even Warren Buffet was in the news crying about it.
But, the people aren’t buying it anymore. All the hype, crying and tales of whoa aren’t stimulating the masses anymore.
All there is left, is to figure out who is going to run to Israel or South America first; Bush or Cheney?

Tomorrow morning I fully expect, that I’ll wake up to find that the bail out bill has passed.
In addition, I expect that before the first of the year, the banks, AKA, the SOB’s who have been ripping off their customers for many years, will be collapsing and Paulson and group will be standing on our doorsteps begging for another bailout.
Will there be an election? Hard to say, based on current information, but, I suspect that if the general, non-blogging folks out there, regular people, who were always told the system would always be there, finally get angry enough to decide to take the country back from the idiots that are raping us, you’ll find ‘ol Georgy boy pulling the National Emergency that all the carpet baggers from BOTH parties handed him in this past July, thus suspending the entire constitution.
When that happens, Americans will be exposed to a type of government never seen in this US, ever. The cry from the state lines and county lines, buses and subways to trains and planes, will be “Papers, please”.
Yeah, we laugh ourselves silly when we hear that in a comedy show or movie. Guess what?
It’s all too real right now.
What most people don’t know. right now, is that Bush has already assigned an Army group for ‘civil unrest’ contingency plans.
He hasn’t realized, for 8 long years, that people have been pissed. Hard to believe he’s figured it out by now!
All of you former Bush Supporters, who now can only say, with conviction (Yeah, I laugh at that myself), ‘All politicians are crooks’.
Well, now that ya’ll have finally got yer lips unstuck from Bush’s ass, only to turn around and vote for Johnny boy, just cause we have always voted the party line. That will be fine, IF we have an election.

Think about that sentence for a while. Mull it over and over, in your mind. THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Of course it doesn’t. So what if we have had the same system of government for 200 plus years.
If you think that, you are mistaken.

More Later.