Turn the Page: 2016 and Better Days By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34239-turn-the-page-2016-and-better-days



US Air Force joint terminal attack controllers and US Army forward observers direct air assets during a close air support training in Djibouti, December 13, 2015. (Photo: Senior Airman Cory D. Payne / US Air Force)


Friday, 01 January 2016 09:46

Holy great galloping Jesus on a turkey track, but man, am I exhausted. I mean exhausted down to a core place within I never even knew existed. Tired to the sub-atomic level. My damn toenails are tired. My earlobes are wiped out. The hairs on the nape of my neck need a nap. My eyeballs are about to go on strike, and my pillow haz a sad from the lack of attention it has received.

Why? Well, let's see ...

The so-called Tea Party took control of Congress three days into the year, giving the rest of us 72 hours to breathe normally before the crap hit the fan and sprayed. Every Republican on the planet is running for president. Another Planned Parenthood clinic got shot up, and then a pair of scumbags riddled San Bernardino with death. An amazing number of Americans got angry at the simple argument that Black lives do, in fact, matter, even as hundreds of Black people got shot by cops up and down the calendar year. The seas rose higher, the glaciers retreated at speed, and they talked about it in Paris, because talk is cheaper than the water that is coming for us all.

Pretty standard stuff, really.

FULL story at link.

[2naSalit]

1. Thanks for posting this!

[abakan]

2. Oh Thank You OS...

I love to read William Pitt, he sure is missed here. Happy New Year, Omaha Steve

[zeemike]

3. The real problem is when you turn the page

It keeps saying the same damn thing.
We need to trash that book and get another one.

[Duval]

4. Thank you, Omaha Steve!

<3 for you! I read this on Truthout and am thrilled that you posted it. I laughed out loud, especially "the hairs on the nape of my neck need a nap".

[hopemountain]

5. well, i just watched democracy now and amy

was interviewing refugees at a camp in calis, france. and now, i am even more angry and frustrated.

however, if we can shift everyone's energy source to solar and wind and crystals, it would pull the plug on the fucking wars in the middle east. fuck oil and fuck gas and fuck exxon and the money grubbing war hawks.

i forgot to mention congress - as we speak, the gop and phony democrats are dreaming up ways to privatize ALL of our public lands and resources - and export them to china. fuck them, too.

we can do it, people! we can and we must!