Gloom, Despair & Agony (Oh Me)

I still bear the scars of having to watch the old Hee-Haw television show as a child. During its heyday, if the television in our family home was on, you could bet your last corn cob that my parents had Buck Owens and Grandpa Jones turned on. With the obvious exception of the very healthy girls from Cornfield County, it was almost more than a Pink Floyd loving, seventies era teenager, could stand. But, there was one part that I recall that is a bit like what we see today from some political pundits. There was a section where Grandpa Jones would sing a song lamenting all that was wrong in his life. Just when it did not seem that things could get worse, the next verse would top the prior. Gloom, Despair and Agony was a fitting title for the bit.

Apparently, I was not the only one watching old Grandpa. It is amazing just how bad things currently are and apparently they are going to get much, much worse. Our liberal minded friends who claim to cover the news in an unbiased fashion have not which should be somewhat enlightening news, the story is quickly footnoted by a heard any good news since George Bush was elected. If the stock market goes up, remark that the upswing surely is not accurate of the real world and that we should not forget, despite the positive market trend, that there is a series of dung beetles from Ethiopia that are just about extinct. George Bush should be ashamed of himself.

And even though obvious progress has been made in Iraq and Afghanistan, concerning human rights, let us not forget that there were two people located in an Iraqi prison, who sort of liked things the way they were. What about their feelings? Curse that George Bush! Sure our economy is doing better than it has in many years; we must never forget that many, many Americans are starving to death. Is it just me or did I just hear that we are the fattest country on the planet? Okay, maybe we are not starving but you can blame Bush for the high cholesterol and heart disease and fat kids in general that you now see.

How can Bush sleep at night with the storms that have been coming through? Don't you think that it is a bit peculiar that one has not hit the White House yet? Call me a nut, but I am sure Bush and his Republican cronies have a secret machine that redirects the wind toward the underprivileged. Pompous pig! Yeah, maybe it is true that our violent crime rate has gone down for several years in a row. But, what about the number of crimes that are still being committed by those people who make their money via criminal enterprise? Who is going to take the blame for their misguided indiscretions? Certainly not them.

Gasoline, ooooohhh me! What are we to do? The price of a gallon may go up to three dollars. And no, we cannot look internally to more drilling, more refineries, and all those ridiculous notions that may help us become more independent. High gas prices are one thing, but preserving the mating area for the one horned, web footed, mud flea cannot be ignored. Besides, this is Bush's fault. Let him figure it out. If Grandpa Jones were alive today, he would be in hog heaven. Actually, he may be in hog heaven; who knows. At any rate, with the unlimited sources of gloom, despair and agony, he could sing the cows literally

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