Rainy, fog-bound, but warm this Thursday morning on California’s north coast as we trip lightly to the end of another month.
And with the calender comes a shitload of stuff the average, walking-around American will have trouble trying to understand, despite all the shrill noise from DC and its environs.

Understanding all the ugly might be mired too deep in shit to fully comprehend.

(Illustration found here).

A lot of weird has been happening on this planet recently and the future of not only myself, but my kids and grand-kids is slowly going up in smoke and mirrors, leaving tomorrow as an indicator of crimes perpetrated by those so-called assholes in charge. And not only are we humans completely fucking everything up (as in, EVERYTHING!), our planet seems to be in the throes of a bombardment from deep-space nine — the meteor that exploded a couple weeks ago over southwestern Russia weighted more than 700,000 tons, was traveling 40,000 miles-an-hour and packed the power of 30 nuclear bombs.
And if that wasn’t enough, the rock slapped earth with such a huge noise no one but maybe a dog could hear: the meteor  ‘…produced a wave of sound thousands of times lower than a piano’s middle C — far below the range of human hearing, according to the international agency that watches for nuclear bomb tests.’
Don’t forget the fly-by and the meteor sightings in the Bay Area, Miami and Cuba — WTF!

Meanwhile, the good ole US of A is skidding on thin ice.
This has been an odd week — along with the infamous “sequester,” there’s the Supreme Court about to choke the vaulted Civil Rights Act,  and way-ironically, just as the bullshit sounded with the Supes yesterday, and just across the street, President Obama along with Congresscritters unveiled the Rosa Parks memorial statue in the Capitol.
A lot of ‘cosmic coincidence‘ originating from this earth nowadays.

Although Obama has scheduled a visit to the White House tomorrow morning by GOP leaders to “discuss” the automated financial haircut, no one figures anything will come of it because both Democrats and Republicans are expected to let the ‘sequester’ sequence itself into the heartland.
No one seem to give a shit.

Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast pretty-much lays out the bullshit on a well-defined platter:

Here’s where we are.
We have the March 1 sequester deadline, which we’re probably going to pass.
Next up comes March 28, when the agencies of government run out of money and Congress has to pass new continuing resolutions to fund them.
Then, by April 15, when most Americans think about their tax deadline, Congress has to pass a budget resolution, or they don’t get their paychecks.
Something tells us they’ll find a way to meet that one, but with some of these people, who knows?
Then, on or about May 19, we’ll hit the debt ceiling again, and it will need to be raised.
Get the idea?
The legislative branch can invent deadline after deadline after deadline.
And with each new one that is hit, two things happen.
One, the public gets more and more disgusted with the appearance of incompetence.
And two, and somewhat though not completely at odds with this, the public pays a little less attention each time.
We’re already seeing in polls that people are paying less attention to the sequester than they did to the fiscal cliff, and this seems likely to continue.

And Republicans love it, though, they lose with the mass of Americans hating them for it. Doesn’t seem to matter as long as Obama gets popped — talk about some cynical assholes!

The big problem and a major factor in all this mess is the one-sided approach to all things goverance via our strangle-hold, two-party political system. People vote the party, not the actual item on display, not a certain piece of legislation — my party right or wrong.
Wrong!
A Business Insider poll found that once a piece of legislation was stripped of party affiliation, the more likely the truth of the matter. The poll found even Republicans went for the progressive approach.
Via Common Dreams: Moreover and “shockingly,” a full 47 percent of Republicans preferred the House Progressive plan to the across the board cuts pushed by their party leaders in Washington. According to the Insider, “This means that Republicans supported the House Progressive plan just as much as they supported their own party’s plan.”
Concluding with the real-time bottom line: The results not only disprove (once again) the common refrain that the the US is a “centrist” country, but also speak to the deeper, and possibly more intractable problem: that the best and most attractive ideas to voters and regular people are seemingly the ones most sidelined by the elites who control our money-dominated media and govern our money-dominated democracy.
Poll results with charts and graphs found here.

And into the fray, top former investigative journalist and now Village asshole, Bob Woodward, has made this ‘sequester’ party a news-maker for himself — Woodward claims the White House “threatened” him.
A point from The Atlantic:

It makes me uncomfortable that Obama has extrajudicially killed American citizens in secret, spied without a warrant on the private information of millions of innocents, blatantly violated the War Powers Act, asserted the power to indefinitely detain Americans without trial, and waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers.
But thank goodness that Woodward is bravely speaking up against the terrifying phrase “I think you will regret staking out that claim.”
It’s so nice to know that you can count on the elder statesmen of journalism to take to TV to voice dissent on the really important stuff.
Won’t democracy be safer if Woodward gets his way, so that the Obama Administration is both more deferential to reporters and flouts legitimate legal mandates?

Background on ‘Woodward-gate’ here and here.

And Americans?
We be most-ironically fucked.