no country for old men
Most of the energy that we consume on a daily basis comes from crude oil. Not that there is genteel oil; there is a lot of blood and human viscera involved in the procurement of crude oil: the war in the Iraq, the disregard for worker safety on oil rigs and in refineries, the fouling of the environment (Valdez) , the film industry (“There Will be Blood”), gang wars in LA (drive by shootings).
We as collective peoples could give a shit less about the cost, other than at the gas pumps all across our bloated nation now that we are spending almost four percent of our personal income on, just gasoline. We pout and cry, pull our hair but continue to drive our SUV’s seventy five miles an hour down the interstate to buy another electronic gadget at Wal-Mart and stopping by a fast food place for a grease soaked order of American fries and a Brazilian beef burger. .
The big stink in the news today are the comments by the Chicago preacher, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor at the Trinity Church of Christ. Now the Rev. Wright is quoted as saying: The USA is a racist nation (right), that rich white men run the country (correct) and that the attack of 9.11 is in response to Americas’ (that’s North as in USofA) global, imperialistic, corporate capitalism (that is also correct). So what is Barack’s problem? Maybe we should put Rev.Wright on the ballot; at least he has the guts to speak out against the white, rich bastards that spread the greed.