Wasted time…wasted people…

I just spent the last two hours of my time looking at pictures of celebrities who are supposed to be trying to fit in to normalcy of “our” everyday life.  Interesting concept, if you can wrap your head around it.  These are people who can have crystals adorn their tubs just because they will be taking a lot of baths…people who can have bird shit, no joke, put on their face to make them appear younger (and once I heard this, also appear extremely stupid and sick!)…and people who can get up and go anywhere, any time, in any ride they choose (well, within reason of a Mercedes, private jet, or the like).  They are young and old, no discrimination as to age; they are from all races; and they are actors, singers, models, and even jail birds.  They are people who have been fired from a job for talking serious trash about their bosses and their job, and then get rewarded handsomely for doing so; they are would be actresses who can’t keep out of trouble for a simple $2,500 theft and find themselves back and forth in court, and then…suddenly on the cover of Playboy!  Lastly, there were tons of Moms and Dads portrayed as they spent absurd amounts of money on their baby’s (not even out of diapers yet folks!) rooms, travel gear, caretakers, and clothes.

You may wonder why I spent this much time pondering all of this ridiculous flaunting of money, yeah, well so do I!  I think it has to do with a year end tally of what was this year about.  We have the group I can’t even remember their name, something about Wall Street, but (Occupy Wall Street, I knew it would come to me…) I, as of yesterday’s ABC News broadcast, have no clear idea what the hell their main purpose is.  Some compare it to Zen; it will come to you as you meditate.  I think we need to be more specific guys, especially if you are going to give up warmth and shelter for this.  Even the Hippies had a sounding purpose: Make Love Not War!  Now people are being moved, against their will mind you as the police are trying to get them off the streets before bad weather hits.  But, again, why are you there?  What are you trying to say, in one sentence without vulgarity, to the world, or just to the United States Congressmen and women?

Then we have the man in Arizona who was shot in his own home, yes he had a gun in his hand but as the SWAT Team Leader said to the press, it was in the safety position.  He was shot over being a possible, and I repeat possible, dealer in Marijuana.  Wow! When did Marijuana become such a drug of target for the DEA or even local law enforcement handling it can result in your death in front of your wife and child, and no probable cause to even shoot anybody! No folks, I am not letting this one go.  The only probable cause mentioned in the report, mind you one report which was quickly submerged under a ton of gossip about Kim and Kris, LiLo, and many others, were weak, very weak, and even weaker than Kim’s reason for divorcing Kris! A cop pulled over this man in his car once, and his cousin sitting next to him in the passenger seat had a small pipe used for weed, and had weed under his feet.  The other was his cousin, or some relative, had a truck, which when pulled over near his own driveway, not the victim’s, had plastic wrap in the back of the truck, “…the same used to package Marijuana…”  Just checkin’ here, but did the real smart Arizona police officers and Court know that same wrap is also used in restaurants to wrap to-go meals, to wrap things to be refrigerated, and can be used for at least 1,000 other things other than wrapping Marijuana bundles? The victim, and he is the victim as well as his two surviving sons and his wife, is a Marine who retired just recently with honors who did not one, but two tours of duty in Iraq.  This is what he got when he got home, got a real job, and was trying to just fit in and take care of his family.  So much for the middle class. 

So, we have covered the uber-rich and stupid, and the middle class, and some people we don’t know where they fit.  What about the rest of us?  I think we are referred to as the 99% now.  There is a whole website devoted to this “I am one of the 99” who supposedly don’t have a job, can’t find work, are losing their houses due to all of this, and who also have school loans out the yin-yang (no cultural disparaging meant there).  We have the news telling us finally the real truth about the Unemployment Rate: guess what, it is not what is reported by the rich and powerful Political big-wigs.  Really?  I am telling you right here, right now, all of us working stiffs knew what the real unemployment number meant a long time ago, we didn’t need some fancy news correspondent to tell us the number shown on the screen is not representative of the real number of unemployed. 

So, as we end this year, and I end this diatribe of my mumblings, I see the uber-rich not giving a shit about anything but themselves, except for the occasional ‘give them bone’ concert or check (U2 not included in this slam).  Somehow we have had multiply, not one or two, problems with exotic animals getting loose and roaming the streets.  We have one man being blamed for multiply (who knows where it all ends) sexual abuse cases which is destroying a very good college.  We have a Marine who served his country, while his family served him and waited for him, murdered by the Arizona Peace Officers simply because one of their guys fell and they thought he had been shot by the Marine.  We have protestors, not many mind you, all over the place but no one watching really knows what the protesting is all about.  Last but not least, we have a President, like him or not, who is trying to get people to cross the lines, but these uber-rich Congress men and women just can’t seem to move their feet over that line.  In fact, they have to meet in separate buildings to discuss the same issues.  And who is paying for this? Don’t you dare raise your hand and say “not me”, ‘cause you is payin’ big time for these fat cats to sit and argue.  Come on now, even the Queen is taking a hard hit here, and she is still smiling? 

Basically, this year sucked!  What was accomplished…please tell me something was accomplished…all I see is stupidity abounding more and more.  Come one people, even on Dr. Phil, people getting “botox” from some chick who has an ass to double or triple the size of Kim’s, and she uses cement!  Are we all eating from the stupid box this year?  The only people not eating from the stupid box are the people up there on the hill arguing while we pay for their fancy hotel rooms, cars, travel, houses, servants, etc…