Pure Appetite

Having many long walks on the beach at Padre Island, it was a time of year that these Portuguese Man O'War jellies come up and beach themselves. They are seen everywhere, letting the waves carry them up to those rich sands where the tiny angelwings lie underneath. They stay, attaching themselves, and when the tide goes out they dry out and die. Still, they don't have the kind of intelligence that registers anything but the appetite. They keep pushing up onto the beach, where they die.

I even tried, picking up some discarded box and using it to put a Man O'War back into a current where it could go back out and survive. Nothing doing. Probably hissing 'librul' at me, it floated itself back in to die.

Appetite: "a desire to satisfy any bodily need or craving."

I see those Men O'War on the floor of the House today, insisting that we need to drill in areas that are protected, refusing to acknowledge that the oil companies they serve are already in possession of enough lands to drill, and refuse to do what it takes to produce more oil. The appetite is great, the rationale is null and void.

This is the bunch that thinks global warming is a reason to shut up the scientists. It will only harm them if they listen to facts, with their librul bias.

We have an economic crisis that only makes these gelatinous appetites grow. The refusal to regulate is still held out as a good business tactic, though the farm industries are begging for it so they can re-establish belief in food safety. Deregulation is still held up as great business though our banks are crashing around their ears. Laws and constitutional government are derided, while ending the Geneva conventions, allowing torture, shows the world that this government is beneath contempt - and we lose our position in the U.N. to effect any sort of good.

Those quivering masses of appetite have taken over like a mammoth growth on the solid center of the country, and although it kills prosperity, world position, and our standards, keep sucking away. The reality of loss isn't a concept that it can conceive of, and it dies of that excess it has crawled after.

The reason for laws is to control these mad excesses. A Rule of Law will have to be brought back into play if the creeping things that have a grasp on this country are to be kept in bounds, and our treasures are to be protected from them.

Even the greediest are losing anything to suck up, as our resources dry up and die. It's getting hotter every day on that beach.