I think the Earth is Voting...?

My guts caved in earlier today when I saw a commercial for an insurance company (I know who but I don't get endorsement dollars from them so they will remain nameless... unless of course they would like to approach me with a contract...lol) in which a giant robot alien looking thing start ripping this neighborhood apart. These two guys are looking at "Dwayne's" property. First the robot steps on his car and you hear one of the fellows say, "There goes Dwayne's car". Then it smacks the roof off the house and you hear, "There goes Dwayne's house". Next the robot grabs the aforementioned Dwayne. One guys says , "There goes Dwayne", and the other guy says, "That thing really does not like Dwayne."

OK, I laughed my proverbial butt off on that. Then I got to thinking about the President. When he was elected, during his inaugural speech he said he would, and I paraphrase, "Slow the rising of the oceans and start the planet healing", or some nonsense. I'm pretty darn close.

That is just a wonderful statement. That is the kind of big thinking, "let's go the Moon" or, "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem", presidential statement we all want to hear from our "American" national leaders. We want to hear BIG dreams, outlandishly hard things to accomplish that draws the country together and makes us all want America to be better. Now despite the fact that Global Warming is a naturally occurring cyclical thing that we couldn't effect if we tried short of setting off all the nukes on one side or the other (or the other, or the other, or the other, I still remember when the field of nuke owners was fairly narrow) it was a solid, national pride type idea (even though he did say "I" not "we").

Though I disagree with the man's policies I will give him credit for trying at least to follow his bleeding heart. He tried and failed to get our names added to Kyoto, he raised the CAFE standards (which may yet cause all that money we loaned to GM and Chrysler to go bye-bye if they don't pay it back first before 2015 when the new standards come into effect) and paid a lot of lip service to the environmental groups around the world during the "Apology Tour" a few years ago.

But then the robot showed up. OK, not an actual robot, but something that has acted the same way. We get and oil spill in the Gulf compliments of BP (and Obama, little known fact, his administration signed off on that particular drill site and rig) and the beaches get attacked and we are still cleaning up (at least I think we are, the news doesn't cover it as they did New Orleans in the wake of Katrina every other month so long as Bush was in office). Then a year later we have a huge tornado rip through the mid-west and it hits cat-5. Followed by tremendous snow storms in the great lakes and east coast last winter (worse in 50 year they claimed) and then the heat wave this summer killing 10's of people (ya, 10's, sucks but really not news worthy in my book since a good bus crash or train derailment can blow that away). Then earlier this week, WHAMMO, the BIG Quake of 2011 (born and raised in California here, lived through the Taft and Northridge quakes, you know, the ones that go past 6 and 7 on the Oh Sh@T scale) which was pretty minor but the location got me thinking, "There goes Obama's Gulf voters, There go Obama's Mid Western voters, There go the old Obama voters (they froze or fried) and then it, Earth that is, started focusing directly on Obama, just like Dwayne and the robot.

It hit New England with the quake and now the Earth is threatening Obama's entire Eastern Seaboard with the first major hurricane on track for New York sine something like 1944, all because he's screwing around in the Vineyards. Man, this planet really does not like Obama.

I know at least one of you are out there thinking right now, "This idiot just listed all these things and he still doesn't believe in Man Made Global Warming?" Well as someone who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley (if you don't know where that is shame on you, look it up and realize it's where most of your produce comes from) I have seen record heat for at least one day out of the year, every year, since I have been alive (mostly because our records only go back a few hundred years accurately in North America, and maybe 500 years for the rest of the world, which is a blink of the eye in geologic terms).

Hey, come to think of it, maybe it's not the world at all. Maybe its America that really does not like Dwayne, I mean Obama. His economy (three years now, he owns it lock, stock and barrel) isn't doing what he said it would. Remember, Stimulus 1 was going to keep unemployment under 8%. America blew that one out of the water. Hell here in Vegas we are still sitting well into the double digits, I think I heard 12% plus last time I paid attention a few weeks ago. The housing market is in the tank still, and Warren (Mr. Buffet to the rest of you) just launched Stimulus 2.0 for Bank of America out of his own pocket for Obama. On top of that Trumpka, the top dog at the AFL-CIO, told him today they would be pulling some support for the Democrats.

I hadn't really put all that together until right now. You just witnessed an epiphany as it happened.

If only America or the world would just stop stepping on his car and ripping his house apart...

Of course in the fantasy commercial for the still nameless Insurance company (call me), Dwayne is released from the clutches of the alien robot thing-a-majigger (I always wanted to type that word) and he and his recliner land on the neighbor's car and you hear how the insurance company has you covered if you insure with them. Well, I'm not sure if any of us will still own a recliner when the robot-alien, planetary-nationalistic thing-a-majigger (oh ya, a twofer...always wanted to type that too) is done with Obama. What's next, really? Meteor? Comet? Actual Aliens? Maybe it will just be a REAL Conservative making him move out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in the end. That to me at least, would be best for all of us.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.