Saddam and Global Warming

Saddam..I remember back in the late 80's at the height of the Arsenio Hall show many of the jokes the comedian would make about politics. His funniest and most revealing one about Saddam was the name itself. Arsenio summed up the dictator best by reminding us that if you spell Saddam's name backwards it forms the word "Maddas"...one letter short of mad ass. Last week, the world watched as Saddam was put to death for his crimes against humanity. While I watched the footage like everyone else, I am not completely convinced that he is indeed dead. His execution was so rushed, leaks of footage that should not have been captured, and a mistrust of government in general makes me wonder if we are all being fed yet another snow job by the political powers in place. Saddam himself was so mistrustful of his own regime that he had many "stunt doubles" who represented him in the public area due to his fear of being executed at any given moment. Let's face it...Saddam is an evil man...he knew this of himself as well. Personally, I believe he should have been kept alive and tortured in some of the ways he arbitrarily decided to torment and hurt people in his own country. Ultimately though, the so called execution of Saddam makes me wonder why nobody is talking about other mad asses of the world who really do pose a catastrophic danger to the United States. Osama Bin Laden just acquired another wife. How come U.S. intelligence agencies can't locate him? In Nancy Giles CBS Sunday morning commentary she made note of women who settle for crazy men like Bin Laden. It would appear that in terms of our relationship with other countries, the U.S. seems to settle to mediocrity. George W. was so hell bent on bringing Saddam and his regime down to get back at the dictator for what he did during George H's presidency. Now that Saddam is allegedly dead, where has that gotten us? We now have a war that has gone on longer than WWII. We have billions of dollars spent on a mistake. And we have overlooked the fact that Saddam isn't the one who will kill all citizens of the world...it's Osama Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il. ..for they are the real nuclear powers in charge. The funny thing is we don't hear anything about them on a daily basis in the media or political arenas. Why do you think that is? I have my theories but will reserve them for a later time. What we do hear about are trans fats, Brittney Spears, and only when the weather is crazy...Global Warming.

Global Warming...Similar to the catchphrase of "El Nino" several years ago, global warming by many average citizens is being treated like just some fun word to say when the weather is weird. What many don't really care about truly is that we are destroying the Earth at a predicted record pace. The Earth's surface temperatures continue to rise and there is no clear indicator that it will stop. What is guaranteed is that we will populate and increase the amount of waste we put in the universe tenfold. It's bad enough that corporations get rewarded for pollution. We as every day people add to it because the average mindset is that we won't be here when everything implodes. "Going Green" is a phrase that many don't understand or even want to try to understand. They think only the rich do that. It's scary just how selfish we humans can be. We'll flock to moviehouses to see dancing penguins yet won't think twice about how we are destroying the natural habitats of the very animals that amuse us. We are a doomed society of people aren't we? Some guy on the news made a comment about yesterday's abnormal 72 degree weather here in New York. He said, "If this is global warming...bring it on!". Is he a moron or what?!?

Both subjects are heavily discussed as part of popular culture but neither are taken seriously until very bad things happen. By the time we all wake up...it will be too late to do anything.