Now, we've been gittin' a good look at tha infrastructure of Texas deer huntin' of late. We've seen the tax-deduction corporate jets flyin' overhead, we just biked past this massive (Terrell) county airport out in the middle of nowhere - unless you count the HUGE private hunting lands with tall fences, that is!
So, ya see, yer Romney-class executives fly in on their taxpayer subsidized Lear jets, get picked up by some local big wig or politician who's "workin'", no doubt, and driven in style (maybe escorted by their own phalanx of Border Patrol? Lord knows there's enough of 'em out here!) over to the Carruthers Ranch, where they get to shoot the species, the gender, the size and, who knows, maybe the political party affiliation of any animal they want to! But maybe there's a default switch to "Demoncrat" on that last one.
Then it's a coupla Corona's and off-color jokes (you know the type, the ones that make "the help" uncomfortable, an git real quiet) before they jet back off to, what was it, house number 6, fer some helicopter skiin'?! Yeehhahhhh!!!!
Now, is that really what we want the deer huntin' in Wississippi to turn in to? Is it, Gov'nor Walker, Texas Ranger?
Well, now that I think about it, what with all his boot-licking the billionaires all over the country...maybe that is EXACTLY what he wants! Changin' state law so foreigners can buy large tracts of land, tax credits not only fer corporations themselves, as "people", but also fer the executives of those "corporate people", and now tax credits for them fancy private schools those poor rich folks send their kids off to in the Escalade in the mornin'. Maybe this is exactly the kind of deer huntin', and society, this particular (Westboro?) Baptist preacher's son wants fer Wississippi. I reckon it darn well might be, after all. Shucks.
(For "extra credit", what was the name of the childhood family ranch of Texas Gov Perry?)
It's so encouraging to read your texts - probably because what you write is so much the same as what thoughts I entertain when I read some of the signs along the road telling about Indian's killing "settlers" - the insanity of blaming the Indians for wanting to keep their own land - which of course they eventually lost. That's just one of the points about which you write.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the important messages and thoughts you share. It warms the heart of this 84 year old lover of cycling.
Keep well and may your ride only get better!
Kathleen Smith, Sunbeam RV Park, El Centro, CA
Thanks Kathleen.
ReplyDeleteI do worry about what I write; I know some people don't like it, don't want to hear it. I trust they know I'm not writing that stuff to be offensive, but to be descriptive, to be observant, to look at our history through "open" eyes. I keep thinking "We have egg on our face; why is no one saying anything about it?"
Well, to be fair, there ARE people saying things about it (like Amy Goodman from Democracy Now) - but not in the corporate, for profit media.
Who is (was at least [not sure if they sold their controlling interest?], during the marketing pitch for and invasion of Iraq, v. 2) the owner of NBC, for example?
GE.
How does GE make a lot of their profit?
War.
Is the "for profit" media "fair and balanced"?
Not even close.
And now did you hear that the kids who inherited billions of dollars in oil, chemical, logging corporations now want to buy up a whole bunch of major newspapers, in their quest to turn the USA into their dream of an Ayn Randian Libertatrian "paradise"? Has the "for profit" media given critical-thinking coverage to the implications of Koch Industries owning the press? (with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes controlling the airwaves - for the Republican "you are NOT invited!" party)
Or is it all Bengazi "coverage"?
Thanks Kathleen.
ReplyDeleteI do worry about what I write; I know some people don't like it, don't want to hear it. I trust they know I'm not writing that stuff to be offensive, but to be descriptive, to be observant, to look at our history through "open" eyes. I keep thinking "We have egg on our face; why is no one saying anything about it?"
Well, to be fair, there ARE people saying things about it (like Amy Goodman from Democracy Now) - but not in the corporate, for profit media.
Who is (was at least [not sure if they sold their controlling interest?], during the marketing pitch for and invasion of Iraq, v. 2) the owner of NBC, for example?
GE.
How does GE make a lot of their profit?
War.
Is the "for profit" media "fair and balanced"?
Not even close.
And now did you hear that the kids who inherited billions of dollars in oil, chemical, logging corporations now want to buy up a whole bunch of major newspapers, in their quest to turn the USA into their dream of an Ayn Randian Libertatrian "paradise"? Has the "for profit" media given critical-thinking coverage to the implications of Koch Industries owning the press? (with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes controlling the airwaves - for the Republican "you are NOT invited!" party)
Or is it all Bengazi "coverage"?