Friends, this mumbling fool (who claims to be a Christian) has been occupying the most powerful office in the world for eight long years. During this time he has, single-handedly, brought his country into disrepute and has increased hatred for it across the world.

He has managed to bring America to the edge of bankruptcy and has presided over a greed-driven economic system which has plundered the planet to say nothing of its exploitation of American people (the sub-prime crisis). He, as a Republican, has worked tirelessly to make sure that the rich have been made richer and that Corporate America has been advantaged. Meanwhile health care and education for most Americans has suffered and the gap between rich and poor has widened greatly.

He (who avoided serving in Vietnam) has created two massively expensive wars using dubious pretexts. Neither of the wars have been won and both have led to high civilian casualties (which weren’t counted) and massive destruction. They have however secured large oil deposits and access to others. He has supported the brutal, illegal, ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel and has ignored the suffering of the Palestinians. He is using missiles in Syria and Pakistan without regard for the sovereignty of either country or civilian deaths and his armed forces use depleted uranium explosives, cluster and phosphorous bombs and landmines everywhere.

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Friends, this morning this photograph captures my mood perfectly. I want to write a post but I can’t. What can I say, or anyone else for that matter, that will change anything?

The world is as it is and humans are as they are and nothing changes. Generations come and generations go and we all start with the same dreams then repeat the same lines, experience the same things, make the same mistakes, cop the highs and lows, have a few laughs and shed some tears and, eventually, draw similar conclusions (like if we had our life over we’d do it all differently, etc,).

Someone once said that life was an inherently disappointing experience.

For most humans, especially the sensitive, caring ones, it is!