Drowning in Shit, Literally and...Oh Never Mind....Sam Seder on the Ball or in Front of the 8-ball?...John McCain Has Really Lost It This Time!

Not to be indelicate here, but what sort of planetary alignment has provided us with such a literal illustration of the state of things in much of the world, than the sewage flood in Gaza yesterday. A sewer collapse caused foaming putrid waste to flood into towns full of tin shacks, many of which remain up to their roofs in the stuff?
Apparently the sewer (and many others) cannot be upgraded because of fighting. Indeed, when authorities rushed to the scene to check out the damage, they were fired upon by locals.
If it really was only 5 people that died, I'll be very surprised...and what a way to go!
I read about this in my local paper, where it was a back page international blurb story. As I sat in a waiting room making some interesting ewwwww/yuck faces, it occurred to me that this must be one of the most particularly bad ways to go...or survive and have to clean it up in the middle of a war zone. It adds insult to injury, the poo.... Yeah, you can have your Katrinas and Tsunamis and mudslides; I'm guessing that the earthen wall that is all thats standing between your tin shack and smelly oblivion...well, lets just say that it was probably pretty smelly to begin with and you run fast when you have to pass it on your way to market.
I don't want to step into the Israel/Palestinian poo at all, but it seems like somehow there has to be some humanity in this crisis that lets these people, on both sides, at least build a sewage treatment plant. What if disease there was gonna come here, for instance? If there is a total dearth of empathy on both sides that extends even to poo-poo, then maybe the self centered and selfish on both sides can try to focus on the down-side of this for themselves....?

I hadn't heard much of the sewage in the news, but was pretty enthralled with how spot on and fantastic Sam Seder was today. I podcast the show later on in the afternoon, so I missed the moment on the Sammy-cam where, I hear, Sam mentioned that he was about to get fired.
I just want to repeat to any Air America employee or suit who might happen by here via a Google search or whatever, that if you fire Sammy, I'm done with AAR and all the crap that you've put your loyal listeners through!

John McCain handed us the best story of the week with his crazy echo of the crazy president, and his butt-boy Joe Lieberman, (and their little dog too,) about how fucking great things are in Iraq.
Even Wolfie Blitzer had to go to, correspondent on the ground (and one of my personal heros,)Mick Ware, who put McCain's story where it belongs, in the poo heap of talking point nonsense.
This is a must see piece of film:



Its not just McCain, though I wonder about him as he seems to fade to white, more every day....he is merely talking the talking points, and this is, incredibly, what they expect us to believe! Someone has to tell these people that the American people are tired of the lies and that even the stupidest of us are startign to wise up. What part of neverland are they talking about?
Sam cuts to the 'World of Pure Imagination' song or his daughter's music, which is so funny (yes, I can say it now because my kid is 13, but its Sam's own fault if he doesnt get her something deeper like the Muppets or Dan Zanes...or even Paul Westerberg's Open Season...hell, the pathos of Cookie Monster alone is enough to bring back all that abnormal psych stuff from your old pot smoking days in college)....If you believe in a land of marshmallow skies and candy cane lamp posts, then clap your hands children....
Even though the wall of shit is rolling towards you...the earthen wall is breaking as we speak...believe hard enough and we will achieve VICTORY!
I really wonder how McCain sleeps at night, knowing what he knows.

I guess its a gift to Olbermann, Stewart, Colbert, Sammy, Maron (wherever he is performing tonight,) and even Wolf Blitzer, at this point, to have these wackos out there spouting nonsense every day, but its more than a little unsettling that Bush is so out of control and no one is able to do anything substantial about it.
I think we gotta start the impeachment thing right away....immediately...

I have to hand it to Mick Ware for his 4 long years in Iraq and his spot on, no holds barred, reporting of the truth that he sees with his eyes. He has been exasperated with the Liebermans and McCains of this thing all along, and hasn't been afraid to say it. Maybe its because he hasn't been tied up too tightly by any one network and is less American (I think he is Aussie, but I don't actually know what his citizenship is.)He is a real old fashioned reporter, and I imagine that like so many others, he has suffered for it. I cant imagine how anyone can work out of that area and in those circumstances without somehow getting wrecked...but then, the citizens of these places have no choice, not to mention the soldiers, and the brave reporters who act as our eyes and ears out there while carrying the burden of documenting history, which is no small job.

Every day has to be bringing us closer to some sort of resolution in this mess. I can't face it otherwise.