Come on guys' time out! I got something in my eye. Oh yeah what is it? I don't know but it feels like an economic crisis. So, time out. That's the word from the McCain campaign today. McCain is suspending his campaign to go back to Washington to fix the economic crisis. Yeah about 26 years late! Lets call it what it is FEAR. McCain wants to cancel the debate on Friday. Well not so much cancel he wants to post pone. We can have the debate but we should most likely cancel the VP debate, there might not be time. He'd rather not let his brain trust of a VP pick go unscripted in front of the country.

Well Senator McCain, Gov Palin being unqualified is about a big of a shock as the recent discovery that Clay Aiken is gay. She is however a tap on the shoulder away from being President if this relic is elected. So bad news we're gonna want to see if she can string words together to make a sentence.

The economic crisis is very real. We need our politicians to treat it like it's a real crisis. Not some note to get out of gym class. Or remember when you used to go to the dentist and you'd get to leave school at lunch? These are peoples lives you are screwing with. Nobody is going to fall for your crap. Those who do I don't want to talk to anyway. I was at work while Obama was trying to be President. Well guess what? You are going to have to multi-task. The war is going to go on time out. I could see the notes now:

Dear America,

            We realize that things are going tough for you at home. Wall St. is being difficult and you just don't seem like your heart and mind is on bombing us right now. Well to make it easier we are going to stop. No terror attacks, no suicide bombing, and no more terror videos from Osama Bin Ladin. In fact I hear he's getting a part time job at El Pollo Loco. Have you tried the Ultimate Pollo Bowl it's to die for. I'm seriously looking forward to eating that in paradise with all my virgins ,so you know we'll just chill just until you're ready. We all have to keep busy. Hoping things get better.

                                                                                Love

                                                                        The people who hate freedom

P. S. We still don't have food, water and electricity in like half of our country. You know when you get around to it.

Yeah not gonna happen learn to multi-task John

A fast one has been attempted. Some nefarious plan has been hatched by our government. WHAT? You say. That's impossible! Sec. of Treasury Paulson went on the Sunday shows with a plan. Give me a trillion dollars and I will fix the economy. Well that sounds expensive, how will you do it? I'm not gonna tell you. In fact there isn't going to be any oversight. Oh and it won't be reviewable by the courts. So we are just supposed to trust you? Yeah.

Give me a fucking break. Paulson came up with the national equivalent of let me hold your wallet a second. I just want to look at it. So who is this guy? Well he was former CEO of Goldman Sachs and financial counsel to the White House.So you are saying he was a former CEO? I wonder how his portfolio is doing. While good friends with the CEO of Morgan Stanley (who by the way will get a part of the trillion) he has made no mention of those CEO's who get great big bonuses. Paulson has no intentions of eliminating those million dollar bonuses for CEO's.

I remember so many things about that day. Nothing sticks out like a fighter jet circling the Sears Tower. I remember that day because it shook us at our very foundation. It didn't just change our country, it changed our entire planet. I mention this because after that event we vowed we would never forget. However I don't remember us vowing to politicize it until the end of time. A video montage was played at the Republican Convention illustrating the events of 911. I ask you, is that really the time? We will never forget. I'll never forget that the very party showing a clip show was mostly responsible for that tragedy. I say this because it was a republican administration that ignored intelligence that someone was going to try and attack the country.

I don't want a bunch of ridiculous comments spewing conservative bullshit about how I'm unfair and George W blah blah blah .If you don't like my opinions feel free not to read. No comment will be posted agree or disagree. This is my opinion and that is that. It is absolutely insane to think the one party who was watching while it happened, can be the only one to protect us. So this September 11^th stop and think about the people who perished in the tragedy. Would you want your death to be used as a political stunt to gain votes? I realize that both candidates will be at Ground Zero I don't approve of it being a campaign stop for either party. However the Democrats didn't make a slide show of the deaths of American citizens.

You ever go back to a place and wonder why you were ever there before? This past weekend has been a lesson in introspection. I saw a once loved one, and returned to a place of recreation. I wonder what makes these things change. Is it time? Is it the things I've done? Or is it merely a sense of growing out of whatever we once did. I no longer feel the need to be seen. I don't care if the hot blonde looks at me as they walk by.  Watching all those do what I have done leaves me to wonder if there was a 29 year old watching me when I was 21-25 thinking the same things. They say the one eyed man is king in the land of the blind men. I'm unclear if I want to go back to the darkness.

We stop and look around through eyes no longer clouded by whiskey and shots. Unclear if the places and the people ever change, or is it just me. It all feels as repetitive as the thoughts that come out. Those who don't review the past are doomed to make the same mistakes. However if the world is forever changing the chances to repeat are few and far between. I watch as the cities around me burn taking the past to the ground.

Walking in the ashes of my youth wondering what the fuck was the point. Was all the hurt, and pain just stepping stones? Was the love that went away preparation for the rest of my life? You can't appreciate it until it's gone. Why would I want to know what it's like, if I'm not sure if it'll ever come back?

Meanwhile things get more and more superficial. The people get dumber and dumber. I see those people stuck in their old ways. I wonder who's better off.  Is it me the clear thinking person wondering what it all means? Or is it the person having too much fun to care?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska 's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.¹
  
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
  
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
  
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
  
• She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
  
• She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶
• How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.⁷

You need a razor to cut through the angst. It's thick and it's murky. All the users and abusers want a piece. Their knives are sharper than mine. It's all about stopping and looking. Stop and see that you've become an empty shell. Hollow that if listened to you can swear you hear the ocean. You are a remote controlled person that will jump when that particular button is pushed. A fraction of the person you once were.  You look in the mirror and no longer see you.

I guess it's not enough to realize you have a problem. No matter what the self help books say. You need to let it go cold turkey. The need for acceptance, or the goal you want to reach. Good things come to those who wait. My advice is getting a long book. To the nice guy expecting to finish last, that's where it ends. Look down in your place in line and realize it's going to take awhile. Do you stay and wait your turn? I say get what you can while you can.

In the end the impenetrable fortress that is your self doubt, will be destroyed.  The trick is not to be in the house when it burns down.

Aspiration and ideas find themselves void of any real substance. Hoping next time you have an idea it be something good. It doesn't have to revolutionize it just has to be of some quality. Time moves slow when you've lost your muse. An object that sparks your imagination, and lights your creativity like powder keg. Without it you might as well write a self help book. The kind that if it actually worked , they'd have no use for the sequel.

The world moves at a snails pace. You watch the things that work and feel I could do that. I can do it better and brighter. If only you weren't lacking in execution. The time for change is passing and the next one will be around in five minutes. There is only so many times it can speed past you like a subway train you just missed. So many ideas that don't pan out before you start to doubt why you had any ideas in the first place.

So you settle.  You put your time and effort into things you could care less about. Things that couldn't move you any more than you could push a mountain. All it takes to get out of this cell of mediocrity is your muse. But it's nowhere to be found. It's engaging in banality. It becomes a resident in a world of indifference. As second- rate as it has become. You'd give almost anything you have to get it back.