The SUEnited States Of America

Congratulations America.
As the most litigious people on the planet your society is malfunctioning.
If you live in SUE S. A. perhaps you need a copy of this BOOK
..maybe a couple..one in the car, one at work, one at home.

Actually, you should sue the Government for not giving you a copy!!

This recent story perfectly demonstrates how governments and corporations are so worried about covering their ass, that this paranoia of facing liability seems to have superceded the last shred of decency and common sense.

These rent-a-cop so-called "guards" are just there for decoration and to stop the occasional suicidal person from jumping in front of a corporate train in a public area. They have orders to observe and report...
is that useless or what?

Seriously, how much longer can the average American afford to live under the ubiquitous gaze of ambulance chasing lowlife lawyers and their greedy willing accomplices?

What is up with these spineless security guards..
oh I know they are following their orders..
but for the price of three useless rent-a-cops they could probably afford a real cop that could have intervened, restrained, and maybe even tasered that psychotic little bitch into submission.

I can't wait to see photos of these three spineless wussy asshats..
how could all three of them stand there and watch a 15 year old girl get kicked in the head...
especially since she ran over to them and asked for protection?

Here is an American Dude who sued Guiness Book Of World Records for being named the most litigious person in the world.

Unbef*ckinglievable!

BADLANDS:
COWBOYS, BIKERS & SOLDIERS

I have just returned from a 3,000 kilometre made-in-America vacation in the Merkin' Heartland.

South Dakotee is Cowboy/Biker/Soldier Country..

the Badlands Baby!

Cowboy Hats n' Boots are ever'where and there is more folks drivin' pickup Trucks than city slickers drivin' cars.

At this time of year there are also more motorcycles on the highway than cars because 500,000+ Bikers are on the road makin' their way from Sturgis.

The average age of those Bikers is about 58-60 years old so you might want to rethink holding on to your Harley Davidson Stock?



Most of them are just "Riders" not Gangster Outlaw Bikers. Most of them drag their wives along. These so-called Bikers are just regular joes most retired... old dudes who love motorcyclin' up and down through the beautiful, scenic, winding roads...without Helmets!?

America is not hip to the term "Donorcycles".



The third Demographic are the thousands of Military Personnel both active and retired who are dressed in their civvies and disguised as regular citizens.

We attended a sunset presentation in the ampitheatre at the base of Mount_Rushmore. It was a patriotic event with a short film on the four Presidents and a propaganda fueled pep rally that reinstated the mythic proposition that America is mankind's BEST last hope.

After the Scree-ning of the film in front of the rubble of Rushmore (ha-ha) all the Veterans in attendance were asked to come on to the stage. There were literally hundreds of active and retired soldiers in the audience...we just don't have that sort of enlistment ratio up here in Canuckistan.



With the exception of folks living in countries that have been invaded, I mean rescued, by US Armed Forces, most of us foreigners spend so much time gorging on American Entertainment, that we forget about the trillion$ and pickle-dillion$ spent on the most expensive/powerful Military force ever created in the entire History of the known Universe.

Everywhere you turn the ubiquitous icons of Uncle Sam (Flags & Eagles) are on Billboards, napkins, doo-dads and what-nots.
I know I know, as Homer Simpson said, "if you don't like it you can move back to Russia!" Keep in mind that Homer was created by a Canadian who is a descendent of a Russian-Mennonite heritage no less...eh.

I also discovered why the American EEKonomy is still so vulnerable.

Local restaurants still gladly accept personal cheques..

which they spell "checks" ..

and many would NOT accept them-thar fancy-schmancy electronic "credee" cards.
Hel-LO!

Whatever.

I loved the friendly folks and rustic ambience throughout the entire 'touristy' area. I gladly wore my Cowboy Boots & Hat and lived on cheap Steak, Beer & Pie.




I thoroughly enjoyed sayin' "Yup" and "Yessir" and basked in the glowing comfort of an old, lost, friend, Farenheit.

Yes I was in Junior High School when Canada mysteriously "went Metric" back in '70/'71 so I remember how "hat" 87 degrees is. It even sounds Hot! I miss Faren.

I also appreciated drivin' 140 kilometres per hour (please don't pronounce it kill-AH-mutters) on those great Merkin highways. Down there you drive like you're goin' somewhere!

In Canada we can only go 100 KPH (kanadian miles per hour) unless of course you're from Alberta, in which case you are closer to bein' American than Canadian and you drive 140 kph wherever you go anyway...

yeah yeah bring it Albertans..

actually we met some total redneck Albertans down there and I am still in shock.

Now despite the existance of Billboards along the highway encouraging parents to HUNT WITH YOUR CHILDREN and WEAR FUR, MANAGE WILDLIFE, there were plenty of "unshot" Critters to photograph in the safety of their State and National Parks.

These reptile photos were taken in the famous Reptile Gardens.

Despite warning signs everywhere, I didn't see any Rattlesnakes slithering around the Badlands.

Along the roads there are plenty of Billboards to remind you that America is a Christian country and pictures of Jesus, especially the popular uber-white, orangy-haired, W.A.S.P.y, wafer-thin, King James, American greeting card version of Jesus.

I wondered how many others at the Rushmore "Pep Rally" realised that the agnostic President on Rushmore, Tommy Jefferson, who wrote the Constitution, understood that their key to success was the separation of the State FROM the Church?

Still, what can you say about the only Superpower on the planet (oh sure they owe China $800 Billion but whatareyagonnado?)..

gawdammit this is the heartland and doggonit they love their country.

I was a guest (Canadians now need passports to get in which sucks) and I acted accordingly. Most Americans were very curious about our Universal Healthcare.

If you've watched the Merkin News (not FOX) lately you may have noticed that the bi-partisan spin doctors are up to their old tricks again and President Obama's honeymoon is definitely over.

Americans seem torn between adhering to the principles of rugged individualism and self sufficiency and hoping that Manifest Destiny providentially providing Healthcare. There are more un-insured American citizens than the entire population of Canada.

One feller from Chicago apologised for the passport thing and said that the Republicans were more concerned of the 20 million Mexicans who snuck into the country through the Southern border.

The Republicans are terrified because all of those immigrants are future Democrats and if they get status, there would never-ever-ever-ever be another Republican President.... EVER!!!


:)

OK, I'm just going to ramble on because I haven't blogged for ages and more importantly, I should just shut my piehole because what the hell do I know?

I 'm only an outsider lookin' in.

GETTIN' BACK INTO THE GROOVE

As I mentioned earlier, I have been merrily prestidigtizing my vinyl into 0's & 1's.
I haven't heard most of these songs in decades.

I would argue that ((sound)), not smell, is my memory sense.

These songs transport me back to the60s, 70s and early 80s..

to an unemcumbered headspace still free of all the trappings of adulthood that would soon begin to seriously interfere with my spare time.

Some of you may have heard these bands..

CHARLIE was one of my favorite easy listening groups..

I've missed hearing So Alone, Heartless, She Loves To Be In Love, Life So Cruel, Watching TV, Johnny Hold Back, Turning To You..they always had the foxy minx on the jacket.

Have you ever heard of this Robert Johnson?

Wish Upon A Star is fantastic.

How about Lake ? My faves were See Them Glow, Letters Of Love, Red Lake, Scoobie Doobies, Highway 216.

How about the Fabulous_Poodles, Anna Rexia ring a bell?

Todd Rundgren's Utopia ? Windows was one of my faves, My Angel, Love Is The Answer, Trapped...oh how I have missed you. guys..

and Jules_and_the_Polar_Bears You Just Don't Want To Know!

How could I forget the Breakfast_Club who started out with a Drummer named Madonna something..Never Be The Same, Right On Track and Always Be Like This..pure Pop Fun.

The_Other_Ones Stranger, Losing It,All Day All Night, We Are What We Are!!

My oldest album is The_Tornados playing Telstar" the first US #1 by a British group...but it was Chasing Moonbeams, Jungle Fever and the Popeye Twist that I missed the most.

I realise how much more Record Albums offered than today's souless miscule CD

..there was a kinetic physical connection..

you admired and studied the artwork..

WHICH WAS LARGE and interesting ENOUGH TO LOOK AT!

Remember pulling out the lyric sheet? You could actually follow the song plus there could be a thread or clues to the artist's message or state of mind.

We used to get involved in the album like a novel..as if it were a personal journey..and if you weren't too high..you could discuss it with others.

The Music Experience Business was a different beast before Video Killed the Radio Star. Now the gaping maw of the internet swallows songs and bands into the ether. There are about 60 billion bands and 1 millionth of them have about a 1 in a million chance of having a single hit for a few days before the next thing comes along.

All of their music is pirated now so bands have to make all their money touring or selling their song to Nike or Pepsi. Sad really. But I am glad, no make that deeply appreciative that I came of age during the Halcyon days of the 60s and 70s. We thought they'd never end...la la la laa-laa.

Can you think of any hard-to-find songs that you had on vinyl that you'd love to hear again?

HUMBUGGERY Crisismas?..er Cashmass?

More bloody Christmas reruns..

SING-A-LONG

It's the most perplexing time of the year

With the kids belly aching

And Walmart Ads stating

"the must-have gift item is here"

It's the most stressful time of the year

It's the crap-crappiest season of all

With those bad office parties
and red and green smarties

With banktruptcy looming

And suicides blooming

There'll be relatives boasting

Cheap liquor for toasting

And vomiting out in the snow

There'll be scary bank statements

And loan re-arrangements

for Christmas debts one year ago!

It's the most depressing time of the year

There'll be jealousies showing

And insults start flowing

As pleasantries soon disappear

It's the most stressful time of the year

There'll be smiles that you're forcing

And talk of divorcing

For feeding folks nobody knows

You'll hear the same bullsh*t stories

That are so f*ckin boring

about Christmases long, long, ago!

It's the most tedious time of the year

There'll be much mistletoeing

with creepy drunks groping

But soon they will all disappear

Calling Cabs for the stragglers is fine

Waving bye at the Airport sublime

Turning off the tree lights for the last time

That's the most wonderful time of the year

DISSing DISCRIMINATION

What made Christian Black Voters diss Gay Marriage Rights on November 4th?

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was invented so that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex...

this meant that a Man wouldn't be jailed if he spent Election day in a whorehouse and didn't bother to vote.

I'm kidding.

What this means is that the American Woman

dunna-nunna-na na-na

finally won the right to vote when the 19th was ratified in..

wait for it..

1920!
Isn't that special.

50.8% of Americans are Female.

Fifty years earlier in 1870, Black MEN were gaurandamnteed the right to vote when the 15th Amenment was ratified. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. No reference to the majority of Americans who had ovaries.

Baby this is a Ma-a-an's World

Sure Black MEN could vote, but in many parts of the States they were prohibited from entering White Only restaurants or sharing public washrooms.

Isn't that special.

It wasn't until 196 f*cking 4, nearly a Century later, that LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act making it illegal to compel segregation of the races.

Incredible as it sounds, in the Prezimadenshul eelekshuns ov '68, five Sawthun' States voted FOR George WallASS's seg-e-gation fo' tha nation.

One of the luxuries of being an Agnostic is that I am exempt from basing my cosmology on any particular religious doctrines that need to be adhered to as the gospel truth. I get to be more pragmatic than dogmatic and don't have to worry about being shunned or burning in hell for eternity.

So basically issues about ethics & morality fall into the Biology and Social Studies category based on historical, scientific, and empirical data.

Now before anyone sends me the hate the sin not the sinner sermon puhleeze..

I served my sentence..

I spent a decade debating against the notion that being ghey is the direct result of demonic activity with many of my fellow Pentechostiles.
I finally strayed and left the fold.

Have you ever noticed that one does not often find Agnostics or Atheists carrying placards that read God Hates Fags...Flags maybe. The reasons for this should be self evident.

Think about it...where did people get the notion that sexual orientation was a decision? Tragically many received this message from fire n' brimstone, tongue talkin', preachers who look like game show hosts or perfectly positioned predatory pedophiles pontificating in purple robes..

which in turn exacerbates the ludicrous notion that all gay men are pedophiles.

Who told the parishioners that homosexuality was a choice that was driven by satanic demons instead of say, oh I don't know, how about genetic predisposition?

You only get one guess.

Incredible as it seems, apparently 5% of Earthlings, 330 Million, have decided to be Gay...which coinky-dinkly equals the population of the third largest country on Earth, the USA.

Now I found it interesting that more African Americans voted against gay marriage on the same day that a biracial man was elected President. One CNN commentator stated that this is reflective of the Black Community being very "religious" ...

for which I am eternally grateful because the simultaneous election of a Black President while rescinding marriage rights for homosexuals presents quite the paradox.

The separation of Church & State could not be fuzzier.

Racial discrimination is really bad in this politically corrected world, but Sexual Orientation discrimination is not as bad and as we go down that road we find that lesbians are cooler and not as bad as Gay men.

Examining the predicament of Middle America's favorite, daytime, Lesbian, TV hostess, Ellen DeGeneres..

who replaced Rosie O'Donell who was Middle America's last favorite, daytime, but only rumored to be Lesbian, TV hostess who was finally outted..

so much for making Tommy Cruise your beard.

Middle America really, really, loves Ellen (because she is AWESOME) but the 800 pound Gorilla in the studio audience remains her relationship with her adorable, petit, partner Portia de Rossi.. who prolly weighs 100 pounds soaking wet. Portia was funny as hell on Arrested Development .

Yikes this is a whole other post but let's agree that Middle America is slowly coming around..

and that Lesbians are easier to swallow than Gay Men...

if you know what I mean?

I don't understand why Gay people can't have the right to be as miserable as the 50% of heterosexuals whose 'til the death do us part marriage implodes in divorce? For those who do not prefer Homosexuality, couldn't the legal right to a messy, expensive, gut-wrenching, divorce be considered enough of a cruel and unusual punishment?

I presume that discrimination in the 21st Century is still viewed as sort of a cafeteria and you can pick and choose your whichever discrimination suits your situational ethics. I mean if an African American is a Christian that's one thing, but if he is Gay that is quite another matter.

I realise that Martin Luther King Jr, a Black Baptist Minister, would have been elated to witness Obama climb the mountain, but that he too would have empahtically voted against the right for a Gay Christian Black couple to be married.

Since Gays and Coloureds are not a separate sub-species of White People it would be safe to assume these are Human Rights issues.

I would venture to say that 99% of protestors against furthering the cause of Human Rights are motivated by religious beliefs who have been convinced that their faith trumps their political sensibilities because their exclusive doctrine is an absolute and eternal certainty, while their societal duties are only temporal and subject to situational ethics.

I had better wrap this up..switchin' to decaf..

of the +/-300 MILLION Earthlings who are US citizens:

50.8% are Female & 49.2% Male

77% of them are labelled as "White" People

12.7% Hispanic

12.5% Black

3.6% Asian

and yes I know that adds up to 105.8?

Of those 300M Americans:

78.5% call themselves Christians and 55% of them are Protestant & 44% Catholic

10.8% of the Protestants are Evangelical Baptist

7.5% are classified as "other" such as

Jews 1.5% and Muslims 0.9% and Rastafarian?

14% are in the purgatorial no-man's land of Non Religious or "whatEVER" since it seems that only 4% of Americans just come right out and confessed that they're Agnostic or worse yet, an Atheist!

To put things into perspective, 4.2% of Americans claim to be Gay.

So there are more Gay people than there are Jews and Muslims combined.

So let's take one last look at the slippery slope of deciding who can and cannot get married.

Let's say that only Heterosexuals could get married..wait they already did that..

OK then let's say that the majority of the population who just happen to be White Christian Protestant Heterosexuals voted that their group were the only ones allowed to enter into wedded bliss before half of them dissolve into a spiteful winner takes all, no-holds-barred, he-said/she-said, expensive legal battle, that ends in bankruptcy, and will scar them both for life.

No wait we'll go one better and imagine that the largest Protestant subgroup, the White Evangelical Baptists could get married!

A-ha now we're getting somewhere..

if we separated the religious notion from the political process, like it is supposed to be, then being gay or naturally better at sports or good at math or even wearing white after Labour Day, is simply a matter of fact, and not something that a bunch of church ladies or virulent, anti-gay, crusading, hypocrites like Ted Haggard can vote on.

Here endeth today's very preachy sermon from the Book of FIRST THEY CAME

Final Summer re-run of '08 (Long Weekend eh) and the ensuing exchange in the Comments (26/09/06) was prolly the most fun that I ever had Blogging ((sigh)) and would be a perfect place to stop.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IS WAY OUT OF LINE!

No really..I mean literally.
I was looking at the map of the USA and it occured to me that their state lines are all wonky. This causes unnecessary stress in these troubling times.
Americans prefer straight highways, straight people and straight borders!

America needs some 'quiet time' anyway.
A chance to stop and think about what they are doing to the world. So why not start by cleaning up those crazy ass borders?

First of all look at Alaska...
HEL-LO ! Any idiot can see that it is part of Canada! Now that the Cold War is over we don't need the 'Merkins eyeballing the Ruskies so give it back you weiners.
*Not that we need any more land but it is the principle of the matter.


Now the Western part of the USA isn't terrible but I do have a few suggestions...
Straighten out the bottom border of Washington, and the east side of Oregon..they should both be a little more rectangular.
California is totally screwing Nevada with that diagonal line..
Give Me a Break Montanee, ..form a nice rectangle and chop off the end ..there is nobody living there anyway..Idaho is gettin' totally pooched!.

Utah, wtf is that little cheat at the top there..fix that...
New Mexico you get to go straight down on the right side all the way to Old Mexico...
North Dakota/South Dakota/Nebraska/Coloradee and Kansas that's about as good as it is gonna get and nobody cares anyway....
Oklahoma go right ahead and cut yourself a BIGASS piece from Texas.
Minnesota/Iowa/Missouri/Arkeesaw..whatever.....

Louisiana, you little weasel, give Mississippi all of that shoreline at the Gulf of Mexico..Oh crap that means that you get New Orleans ..aren't you lucky?

The rest of the map looks like it was a hallucinagenic speed-drawing done by an amateur Gynecologist on Day 6 of giving up smoking!
In fact the Eastern State Lines were decided upon by seriously drunk dudes dressed in white wigs who had no frickin clue that there was still about 3 million square miles of land available over to the left! What a mess.
I could have pulled a better map out of my ass!

There, that is my suggestion and it seems simple enough.
I certainly hope that Canada gets Alaska back because that is just plain rude!

A LONG RATHER TEDIOUS RANT ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
*sigh

GELOTOPHOBIA is the debilitating fear of being laughed at and apparently affects 30% of the Human population..HA!


I'd say that with the exception of Comedians, Cartoonists, and a few Writers & Bloggers, that the percentage is closer to 99%.
Gelotophobia is also at the very heart of Political Correctness...

which I view as a form of Orwellian Newspeak and blatant coercion which is used to silence free speech and extinguish an open discussion amongst people with ((gasp)) differing points of view!

I watched an interview with ART SPIEGELMAN the creator of MAUS and he spoke openly about the need to protect free speech. He reminded me of how ridiculous and dangerous the Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy was.

Now I understand why people are terrified of having their religion examined, they don't want any investigation of their belief system that might prove how improbable the basic tenets are..not only that nobody likes being wrong or laughed at..the Gelotophobia thingamabob. It is rude to make fun of another's decision to believe but GOD or whoever or whatever you want to believe gave us this incredible brain for a reason and the least that we can do is use it to verify our reality.

Political correctness prohibits any insinuation that someone else's cosmology might be completely fabricated hooey...unless it is out there like like the modern media whipping boy Scientology. However to be fair, if you think about it, almost every religion relies on the existance of alien beings intervening with the affairs of humans...

I appreciate heavenly bodies as much as the next guy so whatEV?!

Where does that leave Agnostical people like myself who may view all religions as manufactured concoctions of imagination, but think that all hell would break loose if people didn't have these traditional moral governors holding them back from reducing the planet to cinders.

Why is religion off limits? Why does the press wear 'kid gloves' when they follow the Pope and other spiritual leaders around the world?

The most obvious people making fun or questioning such ideologies are Comedians. Oh sure members of religious Group A can make fun of Group B (SPLITTERS!) because only they have the ONE TRUE intergalactic bellhop at their service...this is the root cause of almost every armed conflict on the planet. Let's hear it for tradition HURRAY!

Many leaders like Osama Been Hidin are notorious for being dour sourpusses who take themselves so seriously...they cannot afford to look human or infallible to the chosen. No Jokes.

But most of us tell jokes..and most of us out here are not the general public, I understand that now. Look at the latest edition of the New Yorker and it's mockery of the idiots who try to insinuate falsehoods about the Obamas.

Get it. Most consumers will not even though pundits are feverishly trying to explain it to them. Most Americans interviewd on the telly were upset that their FLAG was burning in the fireplace..*sigh.

What a grand testament to the uber nationalism and patriotism for a country that let's you be all that you can be as long as you don't expect said "country" to take care of you if you get sick or want your kids to waste their time with fancy book learnin' in some fancy schmancy edumacation system.

The f*cking flag was burning..are you kidding me...they don't get it!

Not only that but Obama has to battle old school disciples of victimization like Jesse Jackson and his fellow dinosaurs. Jackson caused a ruckus on TV (the mike is always on Jesse DUH!) for whispering that he wanted to kick Obama in the nuts because Barrack had the cajones to chastise young black men for not stepping up to the duties of fatherhood. Any idiot can impregnate a girl Jesse OOPS I guess that you know that.

cue song;

I'm sorry Mr Jackson but he is fo' reeeeal!

We use jokes to manage our emotions. I recently read that British Sociologist Christie Davies of the International Society for Humor Studies ISHS said that "JOKES, in many ways, are a way of getting around restrictions on what you can say." Restrictions like Political Correctness?

According to WIKI "Humour occurs when;

1 An alternative or surprising shift in perception or answer is given that still shows relevance and can explain a situation.

2 We laugh at something that points out another's errors, lack of intelligence, or unfortunate circumstances; granting a sense of superiority.

3 Sudden relief occurs from a tense situation "humourific" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpretation of the sublime and the ridiculous. In this context, humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.

4 Two ideas or things are juxtaposed that are very distant in meaning emotionally or conceptually, that is, having a significant incongruity.

Who other than Comedians can say things that we all think but are afraid to say. They are the only people allowed to make fun of the human condition and are exempt from the mindnumbing atrocities of adhering to political correctness.

"A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny."

Comedians, Cartoonists, and a handful of Writers & Bloggers, regularily tackle subjects that would culminate in lawsuits seeking punitive damages for mental anguish, religious declarations inciting the faithful to kill, and awkward moments that usually ruin a dinner party.

Most western governments have adopted the premise that in order to promote equality, they must instate a certain proportion of applicants who may not be the best qualified or deserving, but who represent a desired demographic group under-representated on their ledger. Theoretically this is necessary in order to present the image of a perfectly integrated society...which unfortunately doesn't exist outside the building.

If we were truly gender/colour blind we wouldn't even need to know who filled the position because we could assume that the most appropriate candidate would be chosen on their talent, qualifications, accomplishments, desire, and experience. How bizarre?

Now the notion of improving our meritocracy exists because we Humans have always, always. always, been subjected to the males of the upper ruling class making their own rules and taking care of 'their own' and a few sycophants who ass kiss their way up the ladder...

which ironically is exactly how political correctness operates but atleast everybody has documentation to cover their ass.

Basically we need more Comedians and fewer Politicians.

What if we just tried having the funniest politically incorrect people run things for a while? The funniest person would be President or Prime Minister...

OOPS sorry..y'all just had two terms of that..my Bad!

It would be funny if the handful of people who run our world didn't have the power to actually create laws that protect their dumbass schemes with political correctness.

Do any of you remember a time since the sixties when real change seemed possible?

tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...

"Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To know that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice."

Many of you are familiar with this famous poem by Robert Frost (1874–1963).

"So you think you got it all figured out

You're an expert in the field, without a doubt

But I know your methods inside and out

And I won't be takin' in by Fire and Ice

You come on like a flame

Then you turn a cold shoulder

Fire and Ice

I wanna give you my love

But you'll just take a little piece of my heart"

Pat Benatar couldn't decide either!

I was thinking that the scariest scenario would be that it will never end.

What if things never change and we keep making the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over and over?

However it WILL come to an end!

Scientists predict that the Sun has 5 to 7 billion years of energy left.

According to a synopsis on Wiki;

"Earth's biosphere will be destroyed before then by the Sun's steady increase in brightness as its hydrogen supply dwindles, its core contracts, and it becomes a Red Giant that engulfs us.

The extra solar energy input will evaporate Earth's oceans ultimately leaving Earth as a dessicated, dead planet with a surface of molten rock."

So be of good cheer because we have a few billion years left to smarten up.

Can we do it?