Absurdities

The inimitable Fran Porretto offers a list of absurdities that cause him to ruminate:

Peak oil? Bah! Why is no one worried about peak absurdity?

My mental universe, traditionally a rather orderly place, is being stretched out of shape by current events.

We have routine invasions of modesty, privacy, and just about every clause of every Amendment in the Bill of Rights at our nation's airports, but Eric Holder's Department of Justice is suing the state of Arizona to block the implementation of its anti-illegal-immigration initiative.

American soldiers are being frisked at American airports before being allowed to board airliners while carrying their personal weapons. One soldier reports having his nail clippers confiscated, while his battle carbine was allowed to pass.

Our federal debt approaches 100% of our Gross Domestic Product. Washington's proposed response is to raise the debt ceiling, so Congress can borrow still more money.

The dollar-denominated prices of gold and silver are at historic highs. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is diluting the value of the dollar still further with $600 billion of "quantitative easing."

North Korea, which has demonstrated its possession of nuclear weapons, has initiated armed hostilities with South Korea, our ally. Iran, which openly seeks nuclear weapons, has threatened to obliterate Israel, our ally. The Obama Administration seeks to disarm the United States.

The anthropogenic global warming thesis has been shown to be a scientific vacuity supported solely by fraud, a pure pursuit of totalitarian power fueled from national treasuries. Yet American manufacturers, with emphasis on our auto makers, continue to pursue "green" initiatives and support the very forces that seek to destroy them.

America's government-controlled primary and secondary schools are drowning in money -- Northeastern districts average expenditures over $10,000 per student-year -- while almost exclusively producing ignorant barbarians who need remedial instruction to do simple algebra or operate anything but an iPod. Educators' unions maintain that the problem is insufficient funding.

The Democrats insist that their massive losses in this year's elections were entirely the result of inadequate communication. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration grants waiver after waiver from its "crowning accomplishment," ObamaCare.

The European Union is on the brink of collapse from fiscal profligacy and the unworkability of its continent-wide Euro currency. American liberals demand that the United States become more like Europe.

The foremost conservative political figures of our time are New Jersey's Chris Christie and Alaska's Sarah Heath Palin. Both have governed successfully. Both have large followings and great personal charisma. But Governor Christie is uninterested in the presidency, and the talking heads all deem Governor Palin "unelectable."