Since before our exceptional inception as an ideal nation of ideas, redefining Freedom, Democracy, Government, Capitalism and Empire, we were hung up over thoughts of SEX,  MONEY, RACE and MENTAL HEALTH, shunning the cure in favor of betraying our self-professed desire to inspire.  No matter the pain, we only a pace gain, by facing down fear induced proclamations, by greedy slimes shoveling us to throw yet another heap of graveyard dust, onto our original dedications, in their final resting place.  Some of the people you can fool all of the time, have taken over “The Party of Lincoln,” and joined GW’s club of, “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on,” and declared America is now Ben Quayle, Alan Simpson, Sharron Angle, Andrew Breitbart, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Jan Brewer, Rick Scott, and Sarah Palin, unless the truth can save us before we’re gone.

Our historical national hang-ups leave us botched in a brewing “boil, boil, toil and trouble” pot of fear in our crotch, stirred to witchcraft perfection by the “Double, Double Toil and Trouble” with a little “eye of Newt” thrown in, from the brothers KOCH.  This Charles & David tag team are the masters of the universe of “money changers,” Princes of Thieves, Kings of puppeteered politicians, governments and nations, notched.  Hear them laugh as they prove with every shout of hate, that “We the People” are on the take, or duped by “what’s in a name” bait, thus labeled sent, “Americans for Prosperity” and “Citizens for the Environment.”  Much like GW’s “Patriot Act,” a lie, less patriotic than motivation for a country invasion, more for apple pie than 9/11, we destroyed its infrastructure, sending its dictator far from Heaven.  Now seven years, 4,400 Americans dead, and 32,000 more, damaged for life, we depart with little notice, from an Iraq we broke and “Left Behind,” on orders from “POTUS,” war torn & fatigued, without a government of any kind.  So off we go to the next KOCH Brothers production: a violation of religious freedom of American Muslims, from almost near “Ground Zero” to the zero land of key changed McCain hymns.  Oh how marvelous it must be, to double down and dirty, as the men behind the curtain, strings in hands, playing a double duet in the sands, with our singular recession, no doubt humming in procession, “The Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer,” is Right in our plans.

Desperation and Hypocrisy are the father and mother of Political Projection and “people who are hungry and out of a job, are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” The Hammer and the Hair are out.  Foreclosures up, employment down.  Murdock using his Census, has enriched the RIGHT Govs.  It’s the American way, so STOP ignoring that we’re being media manipulated in lockstep celebration of backward thinking.  LOOK around you.  Why would the Board Room boys hire you, when not hiring you keeps our economy and us needy, and keeps Obama in his place.  LISTEN to yourself and turn off corporate owned media, that programs us, into a programmed non-reasoning, out of control mass of reactionaries. “The tie that binds” us, is our freedom to choose how we respond and think:  seeing all things connected;  one village of one human race, mind and body politic; each an essential part of the other, or else, streets flowing with the red tea of mob mentality.

Oh, “Come On,” Eric Cantor, why is it that those who scream the loudest about God & Country are the first to dismantle our very foundation:  The Bill of Rights – most notably the First Amendment with its five different exceptional promises:  Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Expression, and Freedom of Assembly.  Even Harry Reid, who is running against a most un-American candidate is free to cowardly make a fool of himself, just to win.

JAMES D. WARING, a CUA Professor of Drama, died Aug. 2 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 77.  He was not a special interest, but he made his students feel like “special interests,” and I was one of them, so “Death Be Not Proud,” for these takes:  Ten medical angels gunned down; Biblical like floods in Arkansas, Nashville, Central Europe, Pakistan; Earthquakes in China, Haiti, Japan, Chile, California;  Gulf region attacked by BP, leaving black gold as “What Lies Beneath” hiding from fingers crossed inspectors praying at fish oil wishing wells; Ted Stevens, last flight; Red baked Muscovites choking on smoldering peat.  “A Pale Horse” walks among us.  Is God breaking or keeping his promise to Noah?  Should we fear God, foot in mouth brain dead Ben Quayle or, are we just reaping the climate that the bad seeds of greed have sown?

2012 Nostradamus deadline looms.  Shall we replay an Exodus of wandering in the wilderness or, choose our targets in memory of those who died under attack, September 11, 2001 or, shall we just remain duped by the great Dick of “so,” and continue to reap what The Bush League sowed, while the shadow government of the financial elite, like Americans for Prosperity, hold court, dictating the script to political & media puppets, reminding all, their bread is buttered on the RIGHT side.  Formerly the Statesman like leadership of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F, Kennedy defined us as the nation of hope for all nations.   FDR saved the world from Hitler and JFK saved it from nuclear annihilation.  What was it Bush/Cheney “Left Behind?”  “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth," "You Betcha.”

…God said, “you broke it, you fix it.”  Imagine, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans,” in a world of nations where, comparatively, we are infants.  No need to act like it, however, for our original mid-wives seem to have thought of everything that was needed to launch an exceptional idea: “a new birth of freedom,” which has stood the test of war, foreign invasion, slavery, the death and destruction of brother against brother, assassination, “Following the Sun” expansion, voting rights for women, Roaring Twenties, Dustbowl, Great Depression, Hitler, 50’s heads in the sand, 60’s tragic turbulence, Watergate, Iran hostage crisis, 80’s corporate takeover of government, 90’s loss of civility between political parties, and suddenly a disgusting irresponsible act of oral in the Oval, and we lose our national balance, overreacting and spiraling down, over the edge of our raison d’être, stumbling into the 21^st century of “a house divided against itself.”  Now, like the frog sitting in a pot of cold tea over a simmering flame, “The Dark Side” begins a slow undoing of what has been the result of an exceptional ideal: The United States of America.

Some think the world is ending in 2012.  Some even hope for it.  I’m of the belief that all have the opportunity for renewal instead, through cleansing, purging and purifying ourselves of what all of us know deep inside, is not so good about our nation, our history and our government’s policies.  Historically, most governments of developed & civilized western nations claim to their citizens, that they are the greatest creation in the entire universe.  So if America is the mightiest of the mighty, why not accept the challenge of Nostradamus, or Jesus for that matter, and “seize the day,” so that what ends in 2012, is what we wish had never been written in our national diary:  hate, bigotry, lies, secrets, assassinations, the Pride of, “America, RIGHT or Wrong;” the Envy of what the board room boys have that keeps us looking the other way, while they continually rape our planet; the Gluttony of “Super Size Nation;” the Lust for the immediate gratification of something for nothing; the Anger in political rallies and on Facebook that erodes civil debate; the Greed of international corporations, who finance limitations on our government’s ability to “preserve, protect and defend” us from their evil; the Sloth of giving up and dying the slow death of apathy.

When I hear Congressman Weiner enraged at Congressional Republicans, I’m reminded of a joke my Uncle Gino told me, long before an age, that would have had any possibility of getting past my Mother’s censorship.  You know the one about the young bull and old bull discussing which tempo to take down the hill for the best end results.  Still, I am an Italian, a New Yorker and, before I lived in Manhattan, lived in Forest Hills. So I understand the passion of New York’s fiery 9^TH District Congressman.  Indeed, I share his passion against those who have decided to serve Party first, sometimes District, but rarely ever the nation, nor “all of the people all of the time.”  I even welcome “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” delivery, especially if it sparks communication between the masses, and not just those who revel in the spectacle of the incendiary.   It’s fun, and at least temporarily gratifying to get in a well placed touché, on the appropriate targets, especially when there are so many deserving in both Houses of Congress and among the gang of black robed nine.

However, remembering I also cheered on Bush’s bombing campaign to bury a recording of bin Laden’s voice under the rubble of Tora Bora, while the real villain of 9/11, took a mountain hike into Pakistan, I now recognize the difference between a President who plays at war for profit and one who has killed more Al Qaeda and Taliban with pilotless drones.  So, now I see the wisdom of carefully planning the journey of the resurrection of America from the devastation of our enemies, both foreign and domestic.  FB’s Scott W., Daniel K., and Randy L, you are so RIGHT and so thoroughly wrong, and though understandable, so are those who jump for joy for one who shouts, as do the mindless Becks, Bachmanns and Palins Rush to do.  Screams diminish the art of listening, and firing up "the Base," will prove less helpful than informing the electorate.

Angry yelling from the LEFT, and a Conservative GOP leadership, who long ago lost their commitment to, for, by or of all the people, can only deliver us back into the evil abyss Lincoln inherited from James Buchanan.  We didn’t believe a 9/11 could happen, even after Pearl Harbor, but it did, and so can a second Civil War. And as in any war, only the undertakers and “money changers,” win.

YES, the RIGHT is big time wrong and the LEFT is too often weak, and President Obama’s big picture, long view of world citizenship that embraces all of humanity and protects our planet, is slow, and vulnerable to those who manipulate and use the struggling 98% of Americans, but remember, the best weapon of team Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and GOBP has, is keeping Americans fearfully fighting among themselves – and they’re winning it.

No matter who you voted for in the past, for our future, I beg of you to ask yourself: who benefits most from our continued derision and division.  You think perhaps, organizations of people involved with Al Qaeda, Taliban, Oil, sales of cigarettes & unhealthy food, over priced Health Insurance & Pharmaceuticals, hate preaching talk show hosts with enormous incomes to protect, Credit Card  Bankstas?  Make your own list. All I ask is that you think between now and November. It’s not “elitist” to be educated.  Otherwise, why educate our children?  Real “elitists” are those in the top 1% income bracket who feel entitled to govern our government and our nation through corporate ownership of Media, Congress, Supreme Court and Military.

So let’s stop the screaming from Red & Blue sides, and recapture our exceptional essence, by practicing what we preach: “United We Stand.”