A great weekend was had by all who attended the St. Pete Grand Prix. Even the teeth grinding references to “revving up for race weekend.” And; “roaring into town for the race,” performed on queue all week long by the local TV talking heads could not screw things up.  I did not get as up close and personal as I did last year, but had a great time anyway. Got to see the REAL lady racer, Simona De Silvestro put on a really great driving display while  Danica the Diva did her usual driving around the track, staying safely out of trouble. Simona is still a bit of a bull in a china shop on the track, especially on the road courses but my lord that lady can flat drive a racecar! Too bad that does not go as far as the almighty dollar does…see the above mentioned GoDaddy diva for further edification on that subject. Hopefully her new engineer has some good oval set-ups, that is where the real money is needed to compete properly. The start was a bit of amateur hour, a certain driver who I will not mention by name, only to say that he is a third generation racer from a very famous racing family, pulled a stunt at the start of the race that would have flunked him out of driver’s school. But once everything got settled down there was some good hard racing going on. Bottom line, looks like the Indy Cars should have a pretty nice season in front of them to “roar off into.” I couldn’t help it……..

One of the little irritants of modern internet life is the ubiquitous chain letter. You know what I mean, they tell some heart rending tale, some tear jerker about how little Billy, born with (insert some terrible birth defect here) then  overcomes  the loss of everyone in his family to an attack of rabid raccoons,  as well as the death of his pet goldfish, and is now being raised in a third world  slum.  Or more recently, something to the effect…”And so, its true, Barack Obama is a true alien, he is a space alien, he’s the true leader of the V’s. Michelle is really planting alien eggs in that White House garden, they are not who you think they are.” The punch line is, that besides the inevitable pitch for money, its always, “foreword this to at least ten people, and eternal prosperity and bliss shall be yours. In the case of the letter from the  right wingnuts, its usually something like, “if you do not send this letter on, when the rapture comes you will be the first one to be cast down into the pit, and all of the entries and drop-outs from ‘The Biggest Loser’ will land on top of you.”

And I always seize the moment. I most certainly do, you bet ya! See, THAT is when you hit the big Delete tab, not to mention the junk mail tab as well. What is with these people anyway?? Does anyone really believe this shit?? Are there folks among us so stupid that they actually think that something either good or bad will happen if one would either foreword or delete a piece of internet clogging nonsense?? And what about the fine print? The ifs, ands or buts: What if your internet connection craps out? What if your spam filter did the right thing and caught it , so you never saw it in the first place? What if your computer crashes just as you were going to either send it, ignore it, or were getting ready to delete it? Would the divine invisible friend dispensing fame and fortune or eternal hellfire  know what was going to happen? See..ya gotta  think this thru a bit…NOT!!!  There is nothing to think about here, just delete the damn thing! Screw em! Trust me, you will feel better for it, and be doing your part to free up a little more bandwidth for us all.

Ever notice how each disaster is a “once in a lifetime” event?  When  hurricane Andrew hit south Dade, all of my friends down there said;  “…….its a once in a lifetime event”.  When New Orleans got creamed by Katrina, it was ;”….this is a once in a lifetime event.”  The huge floods in the Midwest a couple of years ago were referred to constantly this way, as well as “the Flood of the century.” Naturally the monstrous actions by BP in the Gulf was also called not only  “a once in a lifetime event.” But also “an act of God”. Right, sure pal.  If God happens to be the greedy, amoral head of a rapacious, arrogant conglomerate feeding a national addiction to its product, I’ll buy that one. Now the same talking heads are gurgling the same platitudes about the terrible series of events in Japan. And something tells me that they are going to be so very wrong.

First off, as with all of these events, they were all foreseen…to a point. For years experts, yes, real experts, you know scientists, real ones, not fake ones that say what oil companies, city planners, etc want them to say, said that huge hurricanes would hit both New Orleans and South Florida. Naturally, nothing was done. Every model for global warming pointed to massive “once in a lifetime” floods in the heartland. Of course, nothing was ever done.  Its all an evil UN plot, don’t ya know? And anyone who has ever gambled, not to mention anyone with a brain could figure out that as greater and greater numbers of oil wells were put into deep water, it was only a matter of time before a major accident would occur…even if God never took his eyes off the things… he can’t watch all the oil wells all the time, right? Guess events proved that one.

And far across the ocean, in Japan, they planned for the earthquake, they knew that was coming, and unlike us, they did do something to mitigate the inevitable.  Buildings withstood the earthquake, but folded under the billions of tons of water moments later. That led to the Nuclear disaster that is still unfolding at the Fukushima power plant. I’m not going to go into all of the details of the Japanese disaster, all that is necessary to say is, that sometime or another, we are going to get nailed with every single piece of the trident from hell. The  “once in a lifetime earthquake”. The “once in a lifetime tsunami”. And  the “once in a lifetime nuclear disaster.” And possibly not all at the same time, no reason to think that.  But the West Coast of the United States is going to be wiped out when the Cascadia Subduction zone ruptures with what will most likely be a 8.9-9.0 quake.  Besides the destruction such an event will generate on land,  it will also trigger a Tsunami of biblical proportions. A wave 30+ feet high will slam into the coast from British Columbia to San Francisco. The area that I lived in for a few years not too very long ago will be completely destroyed and  likely most of the new friends that I came to know there will be dead or missing. Don’t believe me? Think “that crazy  slutty girl is at it again?”   Google “the Orphan Tsunami of 1700”, buy the book, I did  . And  “Cascadia subduction zone”.  I guess this is as good a time as any to mention that our Republican friends  have slashed  funding for Tsunami preparation.  Are those guys a barrel of laughs or what??  And as the weeks of CNN coverage would roll on, we’ll see the destroyed City of Seattle where almost no buildings have been build to withstand even a moderate quake, much less the monster who’s epicenter will be just off of Vancouver island. We’ll get to know  the vanished  postcard towns of Cannon Beach, Astoria, Seaside, Grays Harbor, Ocean Park, Long Beach, Ocean Beach, Manzanita, Warrenton, Tillamook, etc.  they will be burned into the national consciences.  And we will hear  the mantra “..this has been a once in a lifetime event.” Yes that is true, they are once in a lifetime events. That have been accurately predicted. Who’s effects could be lessened with a little bit of planning and forethought . But they never are….here anyway. Apparently we believe that the tooth fairy will save us and how’s that worked out so far?

And then there is that little matter of the Nuclear disaster that will happen at some future time. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a electrical denier, we need Nuclear power…and  we need oil wells in the Gulf for that matter. You ask why? Well, due to a complete lack of national  energy policy, coupled with constantly voting for those who promise cookies and ice cream and not  having to eat your veggies, we never made the  commitments to solar or wind, so unless you want to throw away your computers and TV’s, man up and admit the obvious. Until we grow a set of collective balls, that is the reality of it all. The thing is,  the nuclear industry  like the oil companies,  have  taken over the agencies that are supposed to regulate them. Safety records have been falsified, reports faked, same shit as what the oil companies were pulling with the Minerals Management Service  that was supposed to regulate them. So when the disaster happens, one of our aging plants springs a leak because of some ancient corroded part that fails, and the safety systems fail because they have not been inspected or maintained right for 30 years, and all hell breaks loose, the whole sorry story will come out. Just like the BP fiasco. Its bad, very bad, do the research and see for yourself.  And of course the inevitable ;“It’s a once in a lifetime event, who could have predicted this?”   As I said, we need nuclear power, that does not mean it can’t be safe…or…safER.

Well here we go again. Another war in the mideast sandbox. Gadaffi has been sort of well behaved lately so  Fox News is really going to have to work overtime to get the populous to hate Libyans, they are working as hard as they can. Wonder if we ever go to war against, say, Canada, how long it would take for enough of the sheep to start hating Canadians to thereby  justify whatever we would want to do to them? Its scary the way we seem to be able to hate on command. Here is one great way to tell if a country/government is in favor or not with the powers that be. Ever noticed how, when we LIKE a  particular government, its called a ‘Government’? But when they are on our shit list, then it’s a “regime”. I’ll bet that if one dug deep enough they could find plenty of references to the Iraq government…and then during the run up, it magically morphed into the Iraq ‘regime’. The leader of the Republican party, Rush Limbaugh, constantly refers to the Obama ‘regime’, but being a loud, over-paid windbag,  that’s another story.

So off to war we go again. Oh I know, its temporary, no troops, out in week, yadda, yadda. Heard it all before. And ever noticed how the countries we seem to be intervening in all happen to have oil? Isn’t that strange? What are the odds of that, right? Yes I know its cloaked in the fig leaf of  NATO, and its ostensibly to prevent genocide and all that. I can make that argument too. But its all based on quicksand. Because this is one thing that the constitution is very clear on, the founding fathers were very specific as to what it took to take the country to war, and who would authorize  that. Only Congress has the power to do that. Not the UN. Not NATO. Not the Arab League.  While he lied to do it, George Bush did get congressional approval for the Iraq war, yes it was stretched, etc., but the thing started with Congress voting for it. Yes I know that took years to get that, and yes I know  that in Libya 2 more days and the whole thing would have been over, but  that does not change the constitutional facts of the matter. I like the guy, but I really think that Obama violated the war powers act big time with this. The only thing that is going to save him is killing Arabs is one big thing that gets the neo cons hopping up and down and  crapping in their cages. You won’t hear much about how they all are for the Constitution over the next few weeks, that’s for sure.  Hence  the criticism will somewhat muted. It will be there though, simply because they all hate him so very much that they cannot bring themselves to say anything that might be construed as the remotest hint of approval. While one expects that from boss Limbaugh and  tea party zombies out in internet land, a case could be made for Congress to  rally around the commander in chief right or wrong.   Isn’t that what the Republicans were always  hollering during the Bush 2 regime? Of course they won’t be doing that.  Because  they are  terrified that if they were to do that, the  cretins known as the party base will rally to defeat them in the next primary.  Is this a great government we voted in or what? And progressives everywhere  are calling for his head for taking us to war yet again. I think Maureen Dowd was right in her Sunday column,  Obama  was henpecked into this by Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice , Samantha Power, and Gayle Smith. You already hear the cries of “we’ve got to train the rebels, arm them,” and wait until we find out we have just shoved a huge cache of weapons up Al Qaeda’s ass. Gaddafi’s not going anywhere, how long is all of this going to take? And does anyone think anything remotely resembling a stable government is going to come out of this latest African adventure of ours? Another fucking mess. I have no idea what is going to bring this reach for empire crashing into the dustbin of history, which is historically where such morally bankrupt ventures always end up, but it won’t be pretty, never is. There is a heapin’ helpin’ of hurt and misery coming down the line, that’s for sure.

Good thing we can laugh or we would all go insane…to paraphrase Jimmy Buffet. Not to mention yell and holler at times. I plan on doing a lot of that at the Iron Maiden concert cumming up here  on the 17^th of April.  WHOOHOO, I cannot wait! That reminds me, shit, I have not gotten my tour shirt yet! Can’t go to the concert without that on! Let me go find something  nice and slutty….cu guys later:)

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