I don’t even know where to start with this one.  Do I stop and think about it, compose a coherent statement about the subject at hand, or just post the link?  I think I’ll just blurt something out right from the hip first, THEN post the link.

I’m a lefty, commie, blue-state liberal.  I don’t think that we as people, as a community, or as a country should fear Everybody Who Ain’t Us as some kind of foreign policy.  I don’t think that we should go around the world, striking pre-emptively any place that we have decided has natural resources that we want but don’t want to pay for, or places where different cultures live that we do not fully understand.  I also do not believe that everything  (certainly not politics and not religion) is an Us vs Them sort of game.  Current politics is just asinine in the sense that Republicans and Democrats have so thoroughly drank (drunk?, drunken?, drinked?) the Kool-Aid that they can’t actually do their jobs effectively anymore, it seems.  Whatever…I’m getting ready to go off on a big old tangent.  The reality is that some Americans are so fearful of others and then so loud in their condemnation, that our reputation around the world is taking a wholesale nosedive.  I know this isn’t new, nor is it news, but every so often I see some example of it out in my daily life, and for a split-second I get so pissed I wanna pour Sprite on my own computer ON PURPOSE!

Here’s today’s example of “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, except for those we don’t want in our country, cuz we don’t trust ‘em”.

Fox News gets okay to misinform public

And the problem with this is (other than the completely obvious) that many people believe that if it’s in print or if it’s on TV, that it must simply be true.

Whatever, I’m done with this post…oh waitaminit!  I just got an awesome idea.  Let’s take a bunch of empty land that nobody is using, let’s say Nevada…and we’ll let all the right-wing, militia, xenophobic, .22-ammo-hoarding, bible-thumping groups build a stronghold.  Then, in the opposite corner of Nevada, we’ll let all the Muslim extremist, AK47-wielding, suicide bombers build another stronghold and OH OH OH, wait!  We’ll do like George Carlin suggested, but we’ll take it a step further.

I just looked all over the internet for the bit that Carlin does, where he says that we take the 4-corners area of the country and we fence off the 4 borders.  We then put rapists in one state, murderers in another state, criminally insane people in another, and pedophiles in the 4th state.  Then there’s a gate in the fence that opens up once a month for 5 minutes.  Sit back and watch what happens.

So my brilliant idea is that we’ll take any number of racist, fear-based groups and we’ll put them all in Nevada and let them go fucking nuts….NO – we’ll make a league of it and televise it!  Scheduled skirmishes every week between two or three different hate-groups that eventually leads up to some championship “game” or maybe even a battle royale!!!  Let them just kill each other off, clean up the gene pool a bit and provide advertising dollars that are then used for things like more bike lanes, universal health care, gay rights…oh shit, the list goes on.

I’m a fucking genius!!!  Or maybe I’m not.  I’m wondering if the George Carlin bit already went to that exact place.  Hmmm…well if he did, then of course, it’s merely a case of “great minds think alike”.

Happy Monday!

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