I think it might be time for an intervention. Not for me, rather my best friend Rick, who seems to slowly be losing his grip on reality. He's living in California with no friends or family to speak of, or job that couldn't be replaced here in Florida. Only a seemingly loveless, trustless relationship keeps him 3,000 miles from home. That or he's a masochist. I know that many people live away from their friends and family but are quite happy with the companionship their partner provides; but I find that hard to believe seeing as he sleeps on the couch more often then in bed with her. As a result of all this he's lonely, and to fill the void he listens to right wing talk radio and watches Fox News all day and night, which is taking it's toll and driving him insane.
Most people with a half functioning brain no longer support the Bush administration or republicans due to the lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq, the many violations of civil liberties, the torture of prisoners, the spying on Americans, and legislation that will condemn millions of Americans to debt slavery, cut Medicaid and student loans to pay for tax cuts for the rich, and an energy bill that gives subsidies to the oil companies already enjoying record profits while we pay an arm and a leg for fuel and does little for energy conservation that is obviously necessary. Not Rick -- "the weapons of mass destruction are in Syria" he says, "Israel has satellite photos of them being convoyed over there." Well then my educated friend, if your country was about to be invaded by a superpower with far more superior weaponry and firepower and you did have biological and chemical weapons, why would you ship them out of your country when you knew they would hang you once captured? And if this is true, and the footage proving it does exist, why aren't we sanctioning Syria or sending weapons inspectors there? And how's that search for bin Laden going? He's so passionate about 9/11, "Pearl Harbor in our backyard" as he likes to call it, yet he doesn't care about hunting down the man responsible for it -- he'd rather blame Clinton and Janet Reno for allowing it to happen.
As disturbing as all that is, it's not what has me worried. No, the final straw was giants. Not the New York or San Francisco Giants, rather the kind slain by David in the Bible. Last night he insisted that when our troops were in Afghanistan they encountered these enormous fellas and killed them. Their bodies were then shipped to the U.S. It was at that point I had to end our conversation -- it pains me to see him this way. This is a guy with a Masters in psychology. I think it's time he goes to see someone else educated in his field, but I was thinking more along the lines of a PhD. And the sooner the better, as I'd hate to see him end up counseling fellow inmates in an asylum...
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