Who will be holding the grenade in his shirt pocket on 26 January 2011?

As most of you Mediawingnutters are aware, the U.S. Congress raised the debt ceiling to $15.2 trillion on Aug. 2 after much after arguing the merits/demerits of raising taxes on the wealthy versus cutting Medicare, Social Security, et al. They ended up by “compromising” the issue(s) through one of the silliest political games ever concocted IMHO.

They created a Super Committee of six Democrats and six Republicans (above) to come up with a “plan” to cut $1.2 trillion from the budget by Thanksgiving or an automatic slice of $1.2 trillion would be required to be sliced from the budget—roughly 50-50 from Defense spending and entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Government Employee Pensions, etc.) by Congress in January (after Christmas). The National Debt had just hit $14.35 trillion at that point last summer forcing Congress into the box that created the Super Committee and its crazy undertaking.

Well, guess what? We (the National Debt) just hit $15 trillion this weekend give a day or two, and Judging by the roughly six and a half months it took the U.S. to add just $650 billion to the debt, it is likely that the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling again by the summer of 2012, just in time for a new round of political silliness as the presidential campaign season goes into warp speed.

Meanwhile, the so-called Super Committee of six Republicans and six Democrats are supposed to hammer out a deal to cut an additional $1.2 trillion from the budget before midnight on Wednesday (that is, in three days). Any bets that they discover what to cut at 23:59 p.m. on Thanksgiving Eve? Would they really raise taxes on their wealthiest campaign contributors or even give up some of their own salaries by having the U.S. Government go to a three-day workweek?

Not likely!

Have fun, Barack Obama ... you will be guy with the grenade in your left shirt pocket—that is, the job of meeting the mandate to make the enormous cuts in early January (I’d recommend you do it randomly with a few Wheel of Fortune spins—and blame what happens on bad luck).

As for next summer when we hit the limit yet again, I’d suggest just smiling and discussing the upcoming World Series and then its highlights on MSNBC or CNN through November when one of the current Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the Republican nominees—see previous posting) wins the Presidential Election—and the fun of handling the next time (soon, I’m sure) we hit the debt ceiling and becomes the last U.S. President of a fully financed government and turns off the lights in the White House as he or she walks out the door.

Hillary looked over the GOP candidates who were running and said, "Why not? I'm a shoo-in!"

Hillary Clinton Enters GOP Presidential Race
Within a month, she'll be the last one standing!

And lest you forget, just below, you can see who we have running today ... Herman Cain is the one with the antlers and we ALL recognize Michelle Bachman, don't we? Other than Rick Perry (no beard), you might have some trouble identifying the rest. There has never been a Primary Season like this one ... EVER!!!

Mediawingnuts' birthday happens to be on Guy Fawkes Day ... so ...

Notice the mask among those on the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration
Admittedly, we of the 99% are not wishing to see the British Parliament Building burned down -- nor the Congressional Building! Just the barriers that divide us!

But ... as long as it's my birthday (two days ago, on Guy Fawkes Day), I can suggest some changes along the lines of one of my heroes from when I first heard of him in my teens:

1. Eliminate the sad gap between the super wealthy and the rest of us.
2. Health Care is both a birthright and a necessary entitlement.
3. Making it more difficult to register to vote only really makes it more difficult for the poor and those from minorities to register and vote.
4. If it takes higher taxes to allow the Government to hire workers (a la WPA days under FDR) then let's raise taxes--and not necessarily only on the those earning more than a million dollars per year!
5. Eliminate the words "homeless," "hungry" and "poverty" from the American English language.

Yes, I'm among the 99%
And NO, that is not Herman Cain nor Rick Perry hiding beneath the mask!

Looking at my window (upstairs) before they began painting a couple of weeks ago.

The Quinault Indian Nation's "Round House"

This photo was taken from the edge of the mouth of the Quinault River with the Pacific Ocean (the big blue area to the left of a map of the United States) on the right as you are viewing this picture. (Of course, it would be on the left side of the map you are viewing, but read the legend on the map to be sure.)

You know, this is confusing even for me--but my window is the one facing you as you look at the picture. My face isn't in the window because I am on the other side of the viewfinder on my camera. I'll rig up a mirror on a clothes hanger so you will understand what you are looking at and why I'm not in the window of my office--actually, not really an office but little more than a dusty pile of papers and boxes with an ancient computer and a beautiful view, even though I'm not in the view when I take the picture from the window.

Do you follow what I'm saying?

Also, the building isn't really round. It is a hexadecigon (16 sided polygon). I'll look up that word in the dictionary when I get home. Hexadecimal code is comprised of sixteen bits, so I took a shot at my best guess at what a sixteen-sided polygon would be called. Of course, that's looking at it from above (or below) and not from the viewfinder of my camera.

This posting is getting too complicated for me; maybe my nephew, John Szabo, can put it on his http://szaboszabo.blogspot.com and correct the English. Then again, that might mess up his list of dreams and such that he is attempting to realize through a concentration method he's dreamed [no pun intended] up.

BTW, in another week or two, the building will be pale blue--definitely NOT my choice!