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The sun paints a pale glow on the eastern horizon. The temple rises ancient and still among the bamboo thickets on an ancient plain. The silence is broken by the soft trickle of black tea on milky porcelain bearing a pattern as ancient as time itself. Two great men take their ease upon a woven matt quietly gathering themselves for the coming rhetorical struggle. Confucius prepares himself as determined by tradition, resting upon folded legs and pouring tea ceremoniously with a barely noticeable hint of distain. Laozi awaits his challenge as still as the pool of water that gradually forms in a subterranean cavern.

Confucius: For this country, at this time, what’s best for the people lies in the wisdom of the past. Our ancestors will look down with benevolent approval if the voters of the land beyond the eastern sea let not the sun set on the house of Bush….His opponents do not understand the ways of the old ones. They seek to threaten the harmony that exists within the hearts of men with craven ideas of change.

Laozi: Your wisdom, as well as your political acumen is without equal on this earth my friend. However with great humility and deference I must question your political allegiance. This craven vision of change you denounce so righteously and with such eloquence quickens my humble spirit with visions of an unstoppable tidal swell.

Confucius: Unbelievable. I speak with reasonable logic and you tarnish our contest with spirits and visions. I would not be surprised to learn your babblings are fueled by an unhealthy fondness for mushrooms of questionable lineage. How can you pretend to understand the realms beyond sight when you obviously know so little about what is in front of your face. Change is a false illusion an opiate of the masses if you will. It is much more wise to allow those who have ruled before to continue in the ways which have worked.

Laozi: You are correct I am sure oh learned one. How could many people know what is better than the elite few. I am sure that those who vote in waves of many must be confused. Obama must be a fanciful vision and I am sure that when all is said and done the status quo will naturally prevail. Perhaps we should forget this abstract unnatural contest and go and live in the woods.

According to Gina Cavallaro writing for Armytimes.com, starting Oct. 1 2008 the 3rd infantry divisions 1st combat brigade is to be placed under the "day to day control of U.S. Army North the Army Services Component of Norther Command as an on call federal response force for natural or man made emergencies..." This brigade has spend 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq, and are combat tested. Kinda of scary when you consider the coming election and economic meltdown.

(http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/)

Oh great, so now you tell us. Ratings agencies "completely disregard the effect of their up and downgrades." Sort of a Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Debt. You cannot measure their credit rating without screwing up the stock price, and you cannot accurately price its stock without screwing up its credit rating. Nice. It's kinda like rocket surgery.

Several years ago I was working as a cook in the kitchen of a small bar. The bar sold more drinks than food so as it turned out I had a lot of free time on my hands. I started listening to talk radio to break up the monotony and after several months I found myself thoroughly addicted to radio talk. I listen to a variety of shows, everything from Thom Hartmen, Randi Rhodes, and Ed Shultz, on the left to Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Coast to Coast on the right. Every third commercial break I hear either FOX or ABC brand news updates.
Lately I have been seriously overdosing on election coverage. It is seriously driving me crazy. Switching from right to left and back again leaves one feeling schizophrenic. Each day you hear professional, likable, believable, people describing events that are totally at odds with the events described by those on the other side of the political spectrum. Each host weaves their very own reality that is built upon each and everyday. It is very easy to fall into taking what these people say at face value if you are not constantly faced with the contradictions that appear when you foolishly attempt to exist in multiple talk show realities. Add to this the dissonance that is experienced when comparing FOX's take on the semi-hourly news brief to ABC's version and you too can experience talk radio schizophrenia.
It worries me when I hear the way people call in and express their gratitude to Sean Hannity for telling them whats happening in the world. I think that this combined with media deregulation and consolidation paints a very scary almost Orwellian portrait of the potential for disinformation/propaganda dissemination.
The light I see glowing at the end of the tunnel is November. Once this election has run its course it will be like a new day has dawned on talk radio's multiple reality. Without this common subject the dissonance between each shows reality will fade and possibly my schizophrenic pangs will fade as well.