Posted by
Jay Noble on Friday, October 06, 2006 10:14:57 PM
North Korea has conducted a test of what it contends was a nuclear device. Iran is working feverishly to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Terrorists are working day and night to acquire a functional nuclear device to explode in an American city. The polar ice cap is melting and cities lying along the ocean may be flooded. (O.k., I borrowed that last one from the liberals.)
Meantime, back in Washington, D.C., the two political parties continue to play slight-of-hand with the voters for short term political gain. Republicans deceive conservatives with a border security bill promising a 700 mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. However, the bill is riddled with qualifications and triggers which make it highly unlikely a fence will actually be built. The bill grants the Bush administration
broad discretion as to where, when, and if, any real barrier is built. Since on this issue President Bush is the best president Mexico has ever had, any steps to built a true barrier and secure the border will be slow, grudging, half-hearted and purposely ineffective. On the left side, Democrats, desperate for an issue to bash the Republicans as mid-term elections loom, have seized on sexual rectitude (!) to lambaste Congressional Republicans for ignoring the activities of former Congressman Mark Foley. This is rich indeed, when one considers that many Democrats have committed sexual peccadillos more serious than Foley's. The Democrat platform on other matters appears in flux, i.e., "finger in the wind."
We seem to be living out the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. The barbarians are gathering their forces for an all out assault on the forces of civilization while the so-called civilized peoples are paralyzed by internal feuds over inconsequential matters and distracted by modern day bread and circuses. A pencil-necked geek in Thailand claims to have murdered Jon Bene Ramsey and the media goes nuts. The same people to argued that the president of the United States having a sexual relationship with an intern was a "private matter" now argue that a congressman forwarding impure thoughts via the internet to a House page is a matter of surpassing national importance. Nations ruled by crazies are warned repeatedly to refrain from certain behavior (detonate a nuclear device) and they do it anyway - and will there be any consequences?
The ability to engage in cold blooded rational thought seems to be melting faster than the polar ice caps. Insanity reigns.