Chickens Are A-comin' !

what's all the hubbub, bub?

I have decided that my new favorite expression will be, "The chickens are coming home to roost." Try it in various ways. "The CHICKENS are coming home to roost." "The chickens...THEY'RE comin'!" "Them thar chickens are a-comin!" "Chickens are coming, hide your heart now." What happened to cows? I mean, the cows certainly come home, although not to roost. Maybe we should say the cows are coming home to the barn...and sleep...and get hooked up the the milking machine. O.K. "The cows are a-comin' home to the milk machine!" Various other pets come traipsing home; cats, dogs, hamsters, ferrets. I see the cats a-gatherin' and the dogs are comin' home! This diversion leads us down that nasty road which leads to the present day Republican Party. Now we see that US Rep. Steve King has said that the "optics" of a President Obama would be mystifying to the rest of the world. I’ll just say this, when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States, and I mean. What does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?" It would indeed be a puzzle. The rest of the world would look on, clearly amazed, saying things like: "I say, isn't he one of those negroes they are always complaining about?" "Don't the Americans usually sic the dogs on the coloreds instead of electing them president?" This is Republican vocabulary. A Rowan Scarborough column recently had: A senior Pentagon official said an Obama swearing-in "will give the Arab street the final victory, the best optics, and the ultimate in bragging rights. They win. We lose." Somehow Republicans think using "the optics" instead of "the sight" somehow gives one greater insight into the whole phenom. Many military officers are extremely brilliant. The one quoted above was not. He used arcane vocabulary to try to give the impression of foresight and mask the odor of the rotting flesh of his racism. Pastor John Hagee would say something about the Abomination of Desolation sitting in the holy place. He would, that is, if he hadn't already used that line on Popes Benedict and John Paul II. Republicans are feeling pretty good. My chagrin at this lasted until I saw John McCain talking somewhere about the corporate tax today. He was doing a mighty good impression of an 89 years old guy. He had a most unfortunate tremor or nodding of the head which made me think of nothing but old age. It was not his finest moment. Oh well. This is going to be good.