24 et al

I dunno if I'm cut out to watch show... or maybe I'm just not cut out to be a good American. (Spoiler alert!!) The Tom situation, the twisting of the truth, blaming of the not- so- innocent- but- really- innocent- this- time- peace- maker, the dishonesty of the VP, the (eeeww) sheeple in the Cabinet... I want to vomit, my head is spinning!! I'm so glad it's just television and completely made up, :::cough, cough, cough, wretch:::: I'm thinking Canada... maybe even New Zealand or Australia... I just don't wanna live in a place where truth never has a "T" and is pliable for anyone to fit their purposes... Lucky for us, this never, ever, ever happens in Real America. We only go to war after the Facts are in (not to be confused with facts) and the ts are crossed and the is are dotted and the egos are stroked and the pockets are lined... oh wait! did I really type that?! No, I can't give up now... I still L♥VE my date with Kiefer (didja know his grandpa was voted The Greatest Canadian in 2004? He's the *father* of their socialized medicine) and I know there'll be some kind of trite "bow wrapping" at the end of the season... and a cliff hanger for next year :)
Ah, shit! We can't leave the country without our Government Mandated- from pharmaceutical companies who remain free from consequence for their actions- vaccinations...
The Constant Gardener, has ruined that for me, too, along with the option of ever wanting to visit Africa... okay, maybe I was already on this path with delaying vaccinations in my kids from suspicion surrounding the government propaganda given to me by any and all medical "professionals", plus all the brain tumor/polio vax schtuff I've discovered (thanks to Mitch's coincidental brain tumor & the crazy- but- ringing- true article in Penthouse, July 2001), then the The Origin of AIDS filling in gaps between the ideas already burned there... this movie, well, it made it all waaaaay to fecking REAL. Yeah, I know it's a movie, I'd really, really, really like to pretend this is some kind of Quintin Tarantino construct or maybe even George Lucas, but I know, deep down in my beyond-human soul, that there is waaaaay too much Truth in fiction for it to sit comfortably with my heart. When the dark-skinned mama is turned away from the American run hospital with her very sick baby by the light skinned American Pharmaceutical Worker who explains, "You refused our vaccinations, we refuse to treat your child." I can't help but just know this really does happen. Welcome to Free Enterprise.
It gets worse. I'm so glad I don't have a car. I may become a "bikini lady" like the one we see walking all over town reading her books, in a bikini when weather permits and humidity demands. She has no guilt when she watches a movie like Syriana. Didja see Traffic? What Traffic did to inspire your faith in our country's drug laws and their incredibly benevolent intentions :::spit, spit, spit, pwew::: for American Citizens & Humans everywhere, Syriana will do for you with our country's relationship with Big Oil, Free Enterprise, Middle-East Infighting and Weak Infrastructure, and hell, America's attitude toward humans in general... Yeah, I hope that story's all made up too... My tummy tells me it's not.
Tonight's movie choices: Serendipity or Crash??? One of these films is more made-up than the other... and it's not the one I wish it was.