The Pope or a Condom - Take Your Choice

Condoms CAUSE AIDS? Only in the mind of a snakeoil salesman. How bad can the pope make Catholicism (and Christianity) seem to be to the average person?

Out of touch with science, out of touch with reality, out of touch with problems, out of touch with people, out of touch with humanity.

By his words today, thousands - perhaps tens of thousands - of innocent people will suffer and die; perhaps hundreds of thousands of unwanted babies will be born in an overburdened land.

Your people were kneeling papa, hands outstretched in hope of receiving a fish from their papa, and their papa brings them a serpent.

Shame on you, pope. Shame! Shame! Put a condom on your own head, up over your bishop's miter. Put a condom on your head and pull it down. Pull it down. Pull it ALL the way down!

Help prevent the spread of disease.

AIG? Good Distraction!

Senator Grassly said he would appreciate it if these guys committed suicide. He was joking, he said later but ALMOST ALL of our congressmen and senators have got to LOVE the fact that AIG is a convenient target for our collective wrath.

That serves nicely to distract us from how badly they betrayed the public trust and sold their souls for the grateful coziness with AIG who in turn permitted them to gather up the crumbs underneath their great table. Like the Ibises who succulently pull ticks and other insects off of great beasts in the field, or the Egyptian Plovers that clean leftovers from the teeth of crocodiles, these annelidical things we call congressional representatives of the people have bled the American public again and again for the humble access to commercial power (i.e. political contribution potential).

Now they really appreciate AIG one more time - AIG is now serving as a great congressional heat shield as the Reaganomic Experiment re-enters the atmosphere of reality.

Welcome home - you make a pretty sight. And remember, whenever EVERYBODY is piling on, that's a sure sign that the real culprit has gotten away.

© John Womack, 2009. All rights reserved

The Pope Spoke - Again.

Pope Benedict XV brought into his position of power an admonition to the world, and especially to the citizens of Europe that now was the time for them to return to God, and especially to come back home to the church again. He castigated Europeans for becoming so secular that they were losing their spiritual bearings and their only hope was to come back and worship again and serve the church once more. Religion had made Europe great in the past and it's new Supreme Bishop was willing to forgive its wayward children - but they had to shape up!

Unfortunately the spotlight he turned upon religion has revealed some flaws not attributable to secularism. The 81 year old prelate apparently attributed the drifting masses to the wandering away of the church itself from some of its old traditional assertions. A return to the pre-ecumenistic services clearly pleased the pope even if it upset his Jewish "friends". He also shifted away from the distribution of the elements of mass to some who were not Roman Catholic, thus isolating that church even more. Then came the reinstatement of some ex-communicated priests who had made anti-Jewish comments. One of them had been tossed out of the church for denying the occurance of the hollocaust. Benedict pulled him back in. When cries arose that he should not have been ex-excommunicated, Benedict was dismissive.

Now finally comes the uproar across the internet. Apparently comments, even sermons, given by this ex-excommunicated bishop have become popular across Europe now show on YouTube. Benedict was blown-away. Last word we heard he was commenting to someone about having to start reading the internet.

Well, come on now. Popes have taken any sign of progress as indication of devilment. Birth control is seen as equivalent to murder and serious sin. It is even on a par with Darwin and his scientific theories. The Catholic Church has only recently - in the past couple of hundred years - accepted Gallileo and Copernicus as purveyers of truth. But Benedict was well on the way to banishing the telescope along with condoms and scientific thinking. Now comes the internet? No way.

Socialism Hooray? But. . . ?

So the republicans are screaming "Socalism! Socialism!"? And Obama is a undercover socialist? Well what IS socialism? Isn't that where the government controls all the major factors of production? Sure it is.

In a socialist government/economy the national government runs the railroads, press, airports, farms, food processing, factories, and all the other major enterprises. They set the objectives and plans, they organize the companies they put people in various positions and run the day-to-day operations. That's socialism.

What America has traditionally offered to the world is a different kind of government-economy operation. Under our form of Controlled Capitalism, that is, the way things USED to be, back before Reagan brought his "Voodo Economics" into our world, the large corporations ran their day-to-day operations the way they saw fit. They made their plans, they organized their operations, they hired and promoted their people, they ran their operations themselves. The national government played the role of referee and umpire to make sure the "economic game" was played according to the rules the American people decided it would be run. For example, there would be no child labor. Women and blacks would be paid equally for equal work. Taxes would be paid as determined. Food production would be uncontaminated by germs and mold, accounting would be audited and reported and conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Corporations would stick to their chosen job and not take over unrelated work from other corporations.

These lessons came from a long history of boom and bust cycles, culminating with the Robber Barrons in the early part of the Twentieth Century, and creshendoing in the Great Depression of the 1930s. There would be laws. There would be rules to insure that our nation would never again be ripped apart by savage CEOs, and those rules and laws would be enforced by the might of the Federal Government.

Then Reagan said thing were SO good that we had reached Morning in America again, and that the corporations could be "trusted" and the market would take care of us all. And that was the beginning of the fall.

Republicans in Limbo?

Or is that Limbaugh? Doesn't really matter. They are thrashing about wildly now looking for blame. George Bush is easy to blame. He was a bad man. Brought up bad and empowered by demons. But it wasn't really his fault. There is almost as much blame as there is damage. The entire Republican Party is also easy to blame because they were so proud of their snorting, strutting stallion from Texas. And while we are at it, spreading blame, let's smear a lot all over the democrats too. There were some heros there, but most of them just stood silently around mumbling deprecatingly from time to time and shyly shaking their heads occasionally. They sighed when they should have screamed. So let's make sure they get credit for what they deserve too.

After blaming Bush for their decline, the Republican Party is now blaming Obama and the Democratic Party for taking over control of congress and the White House. That's like blaming the doctor for cancer after you smoked three-packs-a-day for 30 years. The bad news is only the beginning there too.

What can the republicans do? They can begin by talking with the American people. They need to understand that the Entire World has changed dramatically since the 1700's. America is no longer a group of states protected by a great wilderness and impassable oceans. And they need to listen first. Find out Americans don't ride horses anymore. We don't own slaves anymore. Some of us are WOMEN - bet they didn't know. America has changed. The Republican Party MUST change too or die.

Just remember this acronym republicans: "Where Has It Gone". Figure it out.

© John Womack, 2009. All rights reserved.