Twerking - To dance in a sexually provocative manner
Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes Hanna Montana looking more like someone out of the movie Showgirls. Miley Cyrus, who for years played the Disney character Hanna Montana, was an idol for millions of "tweens" who routinely watched the Disney Channel. Today, Cyrus would be more suited for the Playboy Channel.
What has happened to our culture is also evident to how we are currently being governed by Washington. We are seeing twerking - only without the music or dance moves. Instead of being provocative, it is nothing more than profane. Part of the Washington twerk is having the ability to look the American people in the eye and lie like a rug. Yesterday, the sacrificial lamb for the Sunday morning talk shows was the newly minted Secretary of Treasury. He would be asked a question, and then give an answer to something completely different. He would lie, obfuscate, blame and duck. It was a jaw dropping spectacle - then something he said hit me out of the blue.
In trying to answer one of the questions asked, he said "I have involved in the Federal budgeting process in many different positions since the 1980's." Bingo - that is a big part of the problem. He has been drinking the bath water. He has heard and repeated the lies so many times, he believes them to be true. He not only repeats the urban legends, he also embellishes and accentuates them. Putting it nicely, there is nothing that comes out of this man's mouth one could say is correct. Putting it in the common vernacular, he is a liar.
The Secretary of Treasury is not the only twerker in this sad episode. One National Park Ranger recently confessed to someone in the media, his group was instructed to make this shutdown "as painful as possible" to the general public. We close down sports events for our troops using Armed Forces TV, and yet we keep the President's golf course open at Camp David. We close down the Amber Alert system, but keep the First Lady's Lets Move program funded. We close down the World War II Memorial even though it is a privately funded, outside, open air exhibit. Even though only 15% of the government is shut down, the twerkers are trying to make that 15% as painful as possible.
The next time you see young Miley doing obscene things on stage, think of this - with her, the twerking is just part of her new "bit". It may or may not be part of her true persona. The twerking which is going on in Washington however, is not an act. We are not only being treated like idiots, but also subjects instead of citizens. The people who are twerking us in Washington WORK FOR US! They are not our overlords, and we are not their servants. If we want to go to a National Park, National Monument, or the Washington Mall, we will go. They all belong to the people - us.
The bad part of the Washington twerk is we can't change the channel or turn off the TV. The twerking is real and has no chance of going away until we make it go away. Until that happens, we are stuck with this obscenity.
The Secretary of Treasury is not the only twerker in this sad episode. One National Park Ranger recently confessed to someone in the media, his group was instructed to make this shutdown "as painful as possible" to the general public. We close down sports events for our troops using Armed Forces TV, and yet we keep the President's golf course open at Camp David. We close down the Amber Alert system, but keep the First Lady's Lets Move program funded. We close down the World War II Memorial even though it is a privately funded, outside, open air exhibit. Even though only 15% of the government is shut down, the twerkers are trying to make that 15% as painful as possible.
The next time you see young Miley doing obscene things on stage, think of this - with her, the twerking is just part of her new "bit". It may or may not be part of her true persona. The twerking which is going on in Washington however, is not an act. We are not only being treated like idiots, but also subjects instead of citizens. The people who are twerking us in Washington WORK FOR US! They are not our overlords, and we are not their servants. If we want to go to a National Park, National Monument, or the Washington Mall, we will go. They all belong to the people - us.
The bad part of the Washington twerk is we can't change the channel or turn off the TV. The twerking is real and has no chance of going away until we make it go away. Until that happens, we are stuck with this obscenity.
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