The Twilight Zone is one of those black and white shows that doesn't get old.
I'm starting to think that we are characters in an episode.
Remember “A Stop at Willoughby”, one of my all time favorites:
"Gart Williams is an advertising executive who has grown exasperated with the stress of the business life and whilst being unable to sleep properly at home, constantly drifts off for short naps on the train during his daily commuting and dreams of a peaceful place called "Willoughby."
Set in the year 1888, Willoughby exudes a peaceful, stress-free lifestyle long gone.
After he finally snaps at his workplace, and after being rebuffed in a plea for help to his selfish, uncaring and cold hearted wife, he exits the train while in his dream so he can live in Willoughby.
In reality, he jumped off the train to his death.
His body is eventually loaded into a hearse owned by Willoughby & Son Funeral Home."
Did Mr. Williams fall for hope and change?
Isn't Obama preaching a kind of Willoubhby, i.e. a place where we cut taxes for 95% of taxpayers and everybody loves us after we close Gitmo!
Let's look at some of the weird things in the news.
Rod Sterling couldn't do any better than our headline news.
The NY Times is on the verge of insolvency. Wonder why business is so bad at the corrupt The NY Times?
A few days ago, it was temporarily saved by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.
According to news reports, Mr. Slim just gave The NY Times a US$ 250 million loan at 14% interest.
14% interest? I guess that Mr. Slim must think that The NY Times is quite a credit risk.
Let's talk about Democrats and Senate seats.
First, the Chicago mess.
And now, the Caroline Kennedy mess.
Again, Rod Sterling could not make this up!
Let's talk about the so called stimulus package, the $ 825 billion plan that will drive our federal budget deficit to $ 1 trillion, i.e. 7% of GDP!
That's really scary, specially since those kind of deficits could be around for a few years!
Weren't these Dems just saying that Bush was running big deficits? Bush's deficits were 2-3% of GDP. The Dems are on the way to double that!
Worse than deficits, Mary K. Ham tells us that new Congressional Budget Office report suggests Obama's proposed, gianormous stimulus plan is really just a proposed, gianormous spending plan!
We now have a Secretary of State who is married to a former president who loves begging for money, specially from the world's characters.
The Europeans love Obama but refuse to send troops to Afghanistan.
Weren't we told that the Euros didn't want to work with Bush? I guess that it extends to Obama, too:
“Less than five percent of those polled believed that European countries should send troops to Afghanistan as a gesture of solidarity with Obama.
It will be interesting to see whether Obama will be able to change those minds in the coming year.”
Don't you remember? Afghanistan is supposed to be the good war. However, we can't get the Euros to fight in that one either!
Last, but not least, John Stewart has a little fun with the media in the tank for Obama. See this video. This is really good:
