SNOWFLAKES IN SUMMER

So this week the decider decided to have another photo op with adorable kids, not the ones dead in Lebanon or in Iraq or the ones in Israel, no not those, silly, the "snowflakes," those ones. Congress in the last few years has done few things noble or necessary. But, passing a bill to allow stem cell research was certainly a win for the good guys [in fact a win even for the bad guys, since every person in the country will benefit from the research the legislation proposes to support].

It is almost predictable now. Rove comes out with phony science to support his right wing puppet; I mean really what will they do if they lose that 30% nest of vipers? Hope, they can scrape together a few more to put with that, enough to manipulate another election? That remains to be seen. Hide the religious folks at the signing of the veto, wonder if there was any Crisco (trademark?) involved in that little fiasco. Gosh, Karl why not expose the public to the craziness that goes on in right wing religious services. Why? Because even though KKK-Karl does not know science, he knows you will agree with DeLay and other GOP “pay to players” that these folks ARE whackos if you were ever to get a load of them in action. He is right in keeping that under wraps. In that he earns his salary.

But, here is the meat of the issue. Even though most Americans do not realize that embryos are tiny masses of undistinguished cells, the majority of them are for stem cell research. Most in the country do not see a frozen embryo as a person, nor do they see the use of embryos in research as murder. And, even if they are a little squidgy on that point, they certainly understand that many are simply thrown away, and they rightly cannot see the difference between that and research that has the potential to cure some of our most heartbreaking diseases.

And, how many genetic lines will be manifest in the population... whose children will we later be forced to rescue?

Predictably the children of our nation, the children with Cancer or Muscular Dystrophy were not invited to the deciders big moment in the sun as he posed as a doer of good, as the savior of the snowflake babies, nor were the adults who suffer from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Diseases invited to witness the momentous occasion. That would not do. No, it was every bit as unwise as a photo op with dead Middle Eastern children would have been or the ones of soldiers carrying out torture condoned by this wonder of a human being.

Out of sight, out of mind? Really?

What does it mean when the 20 something percentile begin to call the shots in our lives? What does it mean when the obviously choreographed photo ops and erroneous science is passed off as reality? How long before it all collapses as webs of lies are wont to do? How long do we tolerate a slim minority of folks who have no grip on the real world to create media dioramas representative of the world they wish existed?

The world is growing heavy on one side. I am afraid we may fall over soon, and not be able to recover our equilibrium. Sanity may not be so easy to regain. The ones who have seized power seek to recreate us all in an image that resides somewhere in their imaginations. The sparkling images of Stepford, the ideal world come to mind here. Seems the right really will settle for a robotic and artificial form of just about everything.

What about the rest of us?

As we gather some steam to criticize we will be labeled murders by Tony Snow, or worse yet, terrorists. Another prepared attack, Rove’s solution to the problem the problem will create. Where are the real photos? Where are the voices of the leaders who have the ear of the press? Certainly that is not me. I write messages in bottles (Thanks Ken). We deserve more. We deserve better. That this president vetoed a bill supported by a majority of this country says something, and you know what it is.

Call someone. The link to your Senators’ and Congress Critters’ phone numbers and emails and goings on is here:

http://www.senate.gov/

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/   

We have to keep demanding to be heard. I know it seems long and difficult, but we must keep talking. We must keep calling. We must support any movement out of the clutches of Rove, Cheney, and Bush. We must call the right wing on their errors.  They are not going to go away voluntarily. Neither will they voluntarily do the right thing, EVER.

When it comes to putting away wishful thinking, I say we make the first move. Be heard.

-Mags

AFTERTHOUGHT FROM HOWIE: BOB GEIGER HAS THE ANSWER

My friend Bob is one of my favorite writers about all things political. And yesterday was his first day on the Huffington Post. He tackled Mags' dilemna from a different point of view and I'd like to recommend it. He suggests that The Right Wing Adopt 400,000 Frozen Embryos.