Mean-Spirited BASTARDS

So the REPUBLICANS have the House, and their first ORDER OF BUSINESS is to strip health care from the poor, allowing BIG BUSINESS HEALTH CARE GIANTS and their legion of well-paid lobbyists to rub their hands together and anticipate the money flowing into their war chests once again, and secondly-- to KEEP THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER-RICH. *** [Now that's something new, isn't it??]*** They can hardly wait to steer this ship of state into friendlier waters- (you know, the ones that bankrupted us to begin with but the American people are too damn stupid to see that-- caught up as they are in fearing a black [sic- "welfare"] president, and fearing TERRORISTS and illegal aliens even more.)

And oh Lord, I already sense Obama caving...becoming conciliatory, his programs becoming watered-down into something the Republicans can rubber stamp, and THAT'S PURE INSANITY!! Their only agenda is to BLOCK EVERYTHING, wait out the 2 years, get the fear and the hatred nice and thick --and keep their sights set on 2012.

DON'T CAVE TO THEM! Don't pass watered-down crap that's had all the principle whipped out of it. DON'T!

The reason I'm blogging again so soon is because of something I heard on NPR this morning during their very early morning financial report.

It was a segment on the housing market and the hideous number of foreclosed properties flooding the market. Banks are trying furiously to unload these as quickly as possible--- at auctions. The sound byte was, "It's a terrible time for the foreclosed upon, but a GREAT TIME for the buyer!" Then they went on to say that 36 properties had come up for auction in the New England states where their reporter had gone to cover this story, and they interviewed a couple who had just bought their SECOND HOME, a seaside beach house on Cape Cod.....FOR 90,000.00

The interviewer asked the man what he was thinking during the auction. "My wife and I set a limit of 80,000.00 but we thought we'd go ahead. It's a once in a lifetime dream. And I prayed about it."

"You prayed about it?" the interviewer asked. Then, just a bit more hesitant-- "Yes. I prayed."

What I hate MOST about this country is the kind of things people pray about.

I hate the way Christianity gets thrown in with wish lists and how people who are already obviously well off, pray their greedy heads off in order to own something that was surrendered in heartache by someone else-- someone less fortunate. (Less 'blessed'? By WHO'S theology?) and then have the AUDACITY to announce that it was God's ANSWER to their prayers. My heavens......pray for peace, pray for one another, for God's will be done, pray humbly..... but never, never for a SECOND HOME some poor s.o.b. just lost.

I find it APPALLING that prayer enters into that scenario, but most of all..... that the smug son-of-a-bitch would have the utter insensitivity and cluelessness not to know how that SOUNDS, fer Pete's Sake!

I would hope that Christianity shows us the ways to help our fellow men, not help ourselves to what they've just had stripped from them. Does anyone else hear the stark hypocrisy in that?

No WONDER people hate Americans. It's no WONDER people despise the new face of American 'Christianity'.... because it's mean. It's selfish. It's fearful, and O My GOD, yes........it's smug.