Saturday, April 18, 2009

NEW ZENTANGLE ATC's



Here are my new zentagle artist's trading cards (ATC's). I went to work on them this afternoon
in the middle of the snow storm of the year here near Colorado Springs. We had only about 27 inches of snow since Friday night. In Denver they had nearly 36 inches and west of Denver a bit more. I-70 was closed due to lot of accidents and an avalanche or two. So, snow storms are good for something. In my case it was good for 4 zentangle cards. If you want to trade send me an e-mail.
George

Tea Party 2009

Anyone out there went to a Tea Party on April 15, 2009? Or any other time? I went to our local Tea Party in Woodland Park, a small town of about 7,000 people. I was totally surprised how many people showed up. It was a lot for a small town. Peoiple were protesting high taxation, government spending in general, stimulus package in particular, and generally wanted to know why none of their elected officials pay attention to their grievances. As far as I could tell, everyone had fun, people talked, compared notes, and went home. A peaceful event. These people were your "couldn't be more average" people. Yet these folks were portrayed on evening news as right wing extermist of the worst kind - the enemies of the people and certainly enemies of the government. The commentator I watched on NBC TV accused these good folks in a condesending and arrogant way of being angry, anti-government, anti-Democrat, anti-establishment, anti-liberal, anti-American, unpatriotic, uneducated, anti-everything gun toting extremists ready to start an anti-American revolution. All reports I have seen were by arrogant commentators (they are not journalists or reporters) who think they ate all the wisdom and they let it be known that the losers attending Tea Parties are nothing more than whinning whimps unwilling to help at a time of need. How do you like them apples? But I have to give one to the networks for being astute observers - These folks are pissed. Me included.

If for a moment we allow that The White House, Congress and our government are really sincere about helping Americans out of the present mess why are they mortgaging our kids' and grandkids' future like there is no tomorrow. Why is it that their deeds do not match their words? Why are those who were instrumental in creating the present crisis allowed to attempt to fix it? Why are those who have never managed a successful business venture allowed access to vast amount of monies? Why are they allowed to make far reaching life changing decisions? Why are those who mismanaged everything they touched in the past allowed to manage our money? These are puzzling questions to which nobody is seeking answers. Are we to automatically assume that those who helped to create the crisis know how to fix it? I doubt that very much. If for the moment we allow that our elected officials have our welfare on their mind uppermost why do they make choices that no one who managed his own household for at least one month would make? Why are our elected officials hell bent on proceeding with policies known to have failed everywhere in the world where they were tried despite opposition from a sizable constituency? Why are they rushing to do everything in the first 100 days of the new Presidency? I believe "they" are trying to accomplish these things on a rush basis because "they" believe they can do all of it before people wake up and realize what's going on.

George
Signature member of Hillary's Vast Right Wing Extremist Conspiracy (read average American just like you)