H is for …
August 19, 2011
So, we’re down in the Riviera Village section of Redondo Beach this afternoon (in the olden days, it was called Hollywood Riviera)… and along about Avenue H, we come across this:
Isn’t it lovely? It’s a poster, hung from a card table, around which an over zealous knot of people was waving signs at passing cars and handing leaflets to passers by. These angry people, we deduced, were LaRouchers, who I gather think President Obama should be impeached for his unforgivable atrocities…. yeah, right, like giving the Tea Party more than it ever deserved to get in the train wreck that was the debt ceiling debate, or for thinking that compromise is the way to get things done, or believing that everyone deserves health care and even the rich should pay their fair share of taxes. Or perhaps they’re just fed up with all his dang social programs. Whatevs. It appears Mr. Obama’s just pissed off the LaRouche gang something awful by screwing humanity, and has somehow, apparently, in their eyes, committed the equivalent of genocide (they’re making their point by drawing a little Hitleresque mustache across his face, see?) and, well, it’s time to call for his impeachment.
Because that’s just so constructive. And grown up.
From their website:
“As Lyndon LaRouche has made clear, if we are going to save this nation, we must rid it of all the insanity and ugliness expressed by a sophistical [sic] baby boomer generation and all the rotten policies and culture it represents. We have taken that fight to the population and we are letting them know that we are bringing forward a new generation of leadership. The baby boomers are out.”
Good effing lord.
So, I don’t know, H is for hate? Or maybe Hitler? How about [un]hinged, hostile, harmful, or .. hilarious?
Life of Wry 
August 19, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Leaving a comment on my own blog…
Just read this, posted by my friend Toni on her facebook page:
“From the late Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, who has had a profound effect on my life: “Everything starts in our own heart. It is essential that we realize the world is not other people. Each one of us is the world and unless we find peace within ourselves, we won’t’ find it anywhere. It makes no difference whether somebody else is angry, upset, wrong or egotistical. The only thing that matters is what we ourselves are doing about it.”
August 19, 2011 at 11:16 pm
You are “doing something about it” by making us aware of it. Thanks a LOT, Kari. (read that sarcastically…now *I* have to do something about it!))
August 20, 2011 at 7:10 am
OMG!!! is about those crazy ass people and then, it is also for what you posted about the buddhist nun. Talk about my mixed up emotions! I want to kill someone and yet feel that I should let it go, and go breathe in some calm place. What the heck? Thanks Kari for your always right on insight, your knack for running into the weirdest of weird and commenting on such and your wonderful way of expressing exactly what you experience! You rock girlie!