Oh you set your course for the furthest shores
And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don’t call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea
My teenaged son pondered the extremists who have taken America hostage.
He asked, How can they not see how crazy they are? How?
How indeed?
I mean, they must know, right?
Surely, if a seventeen year old high school student can see it, they must be able to see the bizarre folly of their ways, yes?
Were months into the crippling effects of sequestration. The government has been shuttered for two weeks now. Americans become ever more restive, the financial markets grow ever more fearful, the nation grows ever more afraid. All for the vainglory of an uncompromising few.
And now?
Now they attempt to extort us with default, with a near certain return to recession and an economic disaster that threatens not just our own nation but the economic stability of the entire world.
They must see how insane they have become.
How could they not?
http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/10/the-dark-and-rolling-sea.html
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