The Truth is Better than Fiction, but Continue to Read Books!

The old adage that "the truth is better than fiction"...I must agree.

It seems our world is filled with truths and story's that are so outrageous, it makes creative writers pause and think that their own stories, no matter how morose or sensational one can be, it cannot even begin to compare to what truths lie out there. My continued mantra as of late has been, "You can't make this shit up...!"

I am one of the first to say that the imagination is one of the best attributes to possess. I live a lot of my life in that state...(sometimes perhaps to the detriment of my reality, but I digress)

Over the past eight years we have had the awe and wonderment of having Bush Jr. running the most powerful country on this planet. His own idiocy, or perhaps disguised brilliance, has astounded me from day one. (For those that voted for him, perhaps now is their time to take pause...but that is not the point...) With his capacity to spend the entire presidency lying, deceiving, murdering, and smiling the entire time I find him to possess a simply astounding capacity to be that of a living Satan. Recently, through the renowned TARP program, we have seen his cunning ability to pilfer away over $500 Billion tax dollars of the citizen precious future earnings while the world economy collapses, the people lose their jobs and homes, and without as much as a blink or regard or need to explain where the funds are going to? How amazing is that? I suggest looking for his offshore accounts...

The truth comes from a burning 'Bush'...

This past year we have seen the Austrian man, Josef Fritzl, who had his own child imprisoned in his own basement underneath the rest of his own family without their knowledge for nearly 25 years. During which he fathered 7 children from his own imprisoned daughter. One of which had died while a few days old. He then burned it in the oven to get rid of it...

Now, as of late, we have a 40 year ponzi scheme to the tune of $50 Billion conspired by Bernie Madoff. (By the by, his name is pronounced Made Off - as in Madoff made off with a lot of coin) It seems, despite the time line of 40 years of deception that this ponzi scheme took before the house of cards fell, he is going to claim as his defense, get this, insanity!

You can't make this shit up!!

Let's see, Madoff has been noted as one of the most respected investors on Wall Street for 40 odd years. His returns have been consistent and scrutinized by the SEC a few times over the duration and found to be sound, or at least they found no evidence of wrong doing. That is insane if anything. Maybe they were looking at the other set of books... He has been able to acquire billions of dollars of investment money from some of the richest people in the world...but, he is insane?! His statements to his clients recorded investments that never took place. Most of his clients are very rich, respectable investors. He also recently told his son, and a few people at the firm, that upon the breakdown of the investment scheme that it was just that, a scheme. There was no investment fund and it was broke. A house of cards that was going to collapse. But, then he's insane. But, it's the truth. And he had very intelligent investors fork over billions. Are they also so insane as to not recognize this man's own insanity for 40 years?

Now, he is on house arrest. (First of all, I find it funny how a black man in Amerika, who might steal a few bucks from the corner store, would have to do time in county prior to his trial while a rich, white man who conspires for forty years and embezzles billions from his clients gets house arrest.) It seems there is concern that he is not saying much. Probably due to his lawyers advising him to do so, in order to create the illusion of a mental breakdown. Or it could be the anti-depressants he is taking so as not to end up like his billionaire investment fund manager friend, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, who committed suicide due to the loss of his clients money through this mayhem.

I must say, that there is nothing out of bounds, as based on our current reality, that one could come up with to write a fictional story. Although, if someone were to write these stories, prior to them being in the news, it would probably be labeled as sensationalistic, or outrageous, by the critics and the press.

The irony to the date of 9-11 to incredibly correspond with an emergency call, the irony of our first African-American decent President's name of Obama while we are in the midst of a global war on terror involving a man named Osama. (You notice the difference in the two names in B-S) The name of Madoff who conspired the greatest global Ponzi scheme ever to sound like Made Off... The gods are laughing their asses off while we endure this insane irony we call life on earth...

Life...truth is better than fiction.

Despite the truth, I still tell everyone to continue to read books!!


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