World copes with upheaval, Americans get anxiety

This really frosts me. Time magazine has put out the Dec. 5 issue on its web showing the covers for different areas of the world. Europe, Asia and South Pacific get a cover with the shot of a man wearing a gas mask with his fist raised over his head. In big, bold letters in the center of the magazine are the words "Revolution Redux."

I can get into that. I mean we have the Arab spring, the Occupy cities and such. Nice to blast the masses with that kind of cover.

Now...what do you think the cover is here in the United States? A cartoon with the headline, "Why Anxiety is Good for You"! Say, what? Sort of reminds of the George Carlin bit on manly Football versus pansy Baseball ("In football, you have TOUCHDOWNS!" "In baseball, you run for home...")

Excuse me, but that's ridiculous! Revolution is certainly in the wind around the world, and the common folk are trying to put a stop to the "haves" stomping on the "have nots" throats... Yet the American people get an anxiety cover? ...And it's good for you!?!?

Does Time think that we're too ignorant or perhaps uncaring enough to warrant a revolution cover? Maybe the staff at Time just believe that we are all so wrapped up into ourselves and our anxiety that they will sell more magazines with that headline as the American lead. Who wouldn't want to be mollified from the fear mongering rhetoric coming from our leaders? I mean, maybe they think we don't give a rat about the uprisings around the world. Only in America!

But I must admit that cynical me thinks it's that they don't want to give we, the people, any blatant ideas that might possibly harm the power elite's status quo. Sort of like telling us that it's OK for the politicos to instill fear in us. Thus we must keep on abridging our civil rights in the name of fear because it's so good for us to be very anxious and afraid... Thank you, Time! I feel so much better now that I know my anxiety is so good for me!

Gee...DOJ decides lying to the people is not a good idea

I would like to say this is great news, but why on earth did we have to go this far in the first place? So the Department of Justice is backing off on trying to be able to lie to the Ametrican people. How noble!

The Department of Justice has canceled a controversial planned revision to Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) rules that opponents said would have allowed federal agencies to lie about the existence of records.

I would love to know the name(s) of the maroon(s) who thought up this crazy idea in the first place. He/she/they actually thought that the ability to lie to the American people was good for our democracy?

In probably one of the most understatements of the year the DOJ said this:

...the DOJ wrote that the proposed rule “falls short” of its commitment to transparency, and it “will not include that provision when the Department issues final regulations.”

Really? I certainly hope that these creative DOJ officials who came up with the crazy idea in the first place will be named. Obviously, they are not working in our interest and should be removed.