All That Glitters

Pronounced success by United States athletes at an international athletic event has given the dinosaur media much to distract us with in the tradition of bread and circus. Though yesterday I stated that the economic situation was "none too dire", I certainly would not suggest that it is rosy either with staggering real unemployment, a lurch towards socialism which could make the crisis truly unrecoverable, and the worst housing/real estate crisis that the United States has ever known. Not only have foreclosures on residential property hit epic numbers, those upside down (owing more than their home's worth) have skyrocketed. The other shoe will soon drop in the commercial real estate market which could precipitate a deeper recession (read as depression as a distinct possibility). In real human costs, those the main stream media would focus on and obsess over were a Republican in the Oval Office, homelessness including first time homelessness has reached a record mark, but this tragedy is largely ignored because Obama has D after his name. The papers of record, haughty propagandist that they are, and their electronic fellow travelers can not seem to report much about bread lines when their man could feel some of the blame. I watched a brief TV report about a Nashville man being transported to a local hospital suffering from exposure as he lay unsheltered in the middle of our country music tourist district. I wonder if Bush were still President if some political jibe would have been made by the reporter or anchor, maybe, but they plenty to divert our attention with with the great Northerly, warm weather winter games.