This is what I'm worried about tonight:
You know when you have your family and extended family at an event...a wedding or christening or something serious like that...and you worry that your wacko brother or weird cousin or off the wall sister in law won't know how to behave or will do or say something really stupid?...that is how I am feeling about the convocation that will take place in the US House (and maybe the Senate) over Syria. I am seriously concerned that our Congress will make fools of themselves on the global stage for all the world to see. No reason to think any of these people acquired brain cells on their congressional break, is there?
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They lie right there on the Congressional floor.
That is so shameful, and unAmerican.
What they say is forever memorialized in the Congressional Record - except when their aides come back later and have the lies, misinformation or distortions quietly expunged; like it never happened.
Worst case scenario, the UN Security Council votes us out as no longer competent to be on the world stage and hires a caretaker.
Obama gets recieves his second peace prize for containing the batshit here before it spreads.
Best case scenario, the world realizes nothing is as bad as that and world peace erupts to counter it.
In centuries to come, the world's people will look back to say 'We'll never be that batshit again!'
Just sayin'
But worrying will get you nowhere, fast.
It is just about the most useless emotion ever, except maybe for regret.
Only worry about things you have control over. That will help you immeasurably.
I don't mean to belittle you...
Lola I will really worry about, the US House will have to fend for itself! 
BTW, this Lola girl is something. The most easy going baby I've ever seen and her ready smile will melt you. That is where my ballgame is these days!
I'm glad you're having so much fun with the family there.
Partly its due to the drastically different formats, partly due to the different traditions, but imo, USA won't look so good. 
Disgusting! 
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We've destroyed the lives of millions of people around the world, we kill innocent children or their parents with death from the sky in countries we are not at war with nearly every day, we depose their rulers because our freakin' oil companies WANT us to, our banks run a criminal conspiracy doing the exact same thing the Savings & Loan officials were jailed for 25 years ago, and our response is to send them $85 billion a month taking the money from the backs of working people and instead provide 50 million people, many of whom work every day or are children, less for food assistance than we pay private prisons to feed their charges. We allow corporations to keep a couple trillion dollars offshore and give them tax breaks for doing so while we are over 2 million jobs below where we were before our financial crisis started, and while we still don't create enough jobs to employ everyone 8 out of 10 jobs we do create are low-wage, dead end positions with no future, and there is nothing, nothing on the horizon that provides any evidence that it is going to get better for the next 3 decades while we wait for the Baby Boomers to die off, and it may crater in the meantime...
Nearly everyone in the world can see this farce playing out, except for the Americans who read "The Top 5 Vegetables For A Better Relationship" on the front cover of Time Magazine...
and you are concerned that Louie Gohmert, bonehead that he is, is going to SAY something that will diminish our stature?
That's like worrying about whether there will be enough water to put out a house fire in a home that has already been burned to the ground, carted off to the landfill, with the property paved over as a parking lot for the apartment building that was erected next door where children have already been born and are in grade school...
Just go to bed. He isn't that smart.
