Thoughts Out Of Season

Leaked NSA documents reveal that the United States bugged German phone calls and emails to the tune of half-billion a month. German lawmakers were speechless when they learned the breath and extent to which their privacy was invaded by one of their closest allies. I mean WTF is going on with this government?  On the one hand we have a Congress that's as useful as a pair of balls on a priest and on the other hand we have a US security agency working like dogs spying on our allies as if another D-Day was fast approaching. Has our damned government become schizophrenic? What in God's name is going on? Stay tuned ladies and gents because it looks like things are gonna get a lot worse before they get any better.

It appears to the world that the only way to prosper in the US government is to be third rate, moronic, misogynist not to mention paranoid, avaricious and downright stupid. Look at the events of just the past week or so: A House of Representatives member tries to bolster arguments against abortion by revealing he has seen fetuses as young as 15 weeks performing "purposeful actions"while reviewing the ultrasounds of pregnant women. These purposeful actions? Masturbation! Never in US history has a Farm Bill been voted down. What is a Farm Bill? It's a welfare handout or, if you like, a bribe paid to US farmers to ensure they do what they do: Farm! And why was the bill killed? Because a group of Republican House members tried to include in it a provision to cut $20 billion from the Food Stamp program which helps the poor in getting food to eat. Republicans knew from the start that no Democrat would ever vote for such a provision thus sabotaging the bill from the star...