America's Uncertain Future

President Obama has signed the historic economic stimulus bill today, presumably in Denver like he said. The stock market responded by going down. As Jim Morrison says, “The future’s uncertain and the end is always near”. There is an air of uncertainty about this bill. The Republicans have pointed out that only 25% of the bill is for things like roads, bridges, and other infrastructure that was so heralded. Mc Cain says that Republicans were not consulted when the bill was put together. Thom Hartman today talked about the Mayan Calendar and how the return of their messiah will occur on December 21^st 2012. That’s earlier than I was thinking. I thought the date was 2024 or something. If that is the right date then we should already be seeing “signs” of the unfolding new Golden Age, longed for by Christians and other religions. Instead we see the same sort of partisan bickering we’ve always seen and we better hope and pray that Sarah Palin isn’t picking out her cabinet during that period. People would like to believe we will never see an eight year period like the Bush Administration again. I have sure felt that way in the past few years. But the reality is that the concerns of the Born Again Christians are real and aren’t going away. Like that Barrabus movie I watched featured the man Barrabus wrestling with his soul for Possession by the Almighty, so the nation’s soul is in a state of turmoil as concerns of the left and the right struggle to resolve themselves. Thom Hartman can talk all he wants to about limiting the world’s population and how this should be a high priority of Mankind, and how a reduced population will enhance the quality of life and for each and every worker. But the truth is anybody who actually tried to “Play God” by instituting a War or something, like the computer in the song “Savior Machine” - - such an individual would rightly be regarded as mad. Hartmann says that the Iraquois and other Indian women only bear a child every seven years and Iraquois women are shocked at the reproductive rates of white women, who have ten or twelve children. According to Hartman- - war is virtually unknown among tribes of “stable populations”. I’d like th fact check that remark. Hartmann believes there were ample people to populate the world during the era of the Crusades after “an unnaturally long period of mild climate raising populations”. Can anybody spell “Social Engineering”? I think this is what people like Senator Mc Cain are afraid of. They are afraid of 250 years of American heritage being flushed down the toilet. As one who comments I would just say “I feel your pain. I am not entirely insensitive to your concerns Mr. Mc Cain.” People, and justly I might say, are afraid of the decline of the work ethic and how “social engineering” will just mess us all over. The thing is there are other ideas of liberals like abolition of “Right to Work” laws, that are just plain anti “free market”. Growing up- - it always seemed to me that Unionism was something that appeared to be “crammed down the throat” of the worker. Part of the problem is the belief in America that “God owes you a Raise” like when you were a kid and got a year older your allowance would be increased. Perhaps we all have a distorted standard as to just what “normal existence” is. People back in the bad old days seemed perfectly happy with the time tested themes of “God and Country” and were content to be monogamous and to “not go off half cocked”. I don’t know. Maybe I’ve under-rated prayer and all of that churchy stuff. I guess what I’m saying as that may we Americans should “Try and see what God may be speaking into the hearts of we Americans”. I’ve had trouble “fitting in” to this societal mode myself. But I suppose one of the legions of Christians who listen to Dennis Prager and insist that “Happiness is a Duty” would tell me that just because I’m a misfit that the world shouldn’t have to fit into my warped mold of it. I don’t know. I know this: The results of the 2004 and 2008 are different only that the Democrats got a few more percentage points in 2008. There was no “fundamental shift in the ground” as Obama implies, or Dylan has suggested in the song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”. Psychologists persistently tell people to “make peace with their enemies, and those people with whom they disagree”. I believe if it’s possible to make peace with God, then we should do it, because- - not to be too blunt, “God doesn’t lose arguments”. Some may wonder if there were these vast populations of slave labor in the old days, why didn’t they with their sheer numbers just revolt? There has to be some element here that I’m missing. Women outnumber men and yet women of old, voted most likely the way their husbands told them to. Women had the vote when Harding and Coolege were elected yet choose to give these men a pass. One would have thought that if a Black man were elected president (not to be racial or anything) that surely there would be s vengeance and a purging out of the evil influence of the White man. But now we hear that Obama has no desire to go after Bush and Chaney and Rove. Karl Rove is still trying to get out of testifying before congress. I’m not disputing Obama’s decision, after all he is the President. But I am trying to understand his decision. Is this what they mean when they say “The Lord works in mysterious ways?” Obama apparently wants no airing at all of the sins of Karl Rove and all the rest of these people. People say that the secret behind being a successful Christian is “Letting Go of the Past”. Pat Buchannon, has even stated that when Obama screws up he should not admit to making a mistake, like with picking Thomas Dashel. It’s just “un Presidential”. And Obama is the President. Is it one of these things like Christians say, “The husband is the covering for his wife”? He is the head, the protector, he does the thinking??? According to Buchannon, it’s never the guy’s fault at the top of the pyramid if he can blame it on somebody else. Is this what they mean by “New Age Thinking?” They say we’re headed for a new age when man’s nature will fundamentally be changed. If so I might just decide to ally myself with that minority of Reactionaries. (Selah) This would be my new common ground. I have found that a lot of my attraction tword liberalism is not the liberalism of now, that Rush Limbaugh talks about, but rather the fireside chat and apple pie kind of sentimental liberalism of old- - - like Ned Flanders retreating into his basement with all of these Yellow Submarine cut-outs and other artifacts from the ‘sixties.

While we’re here at the Fantasyland station anyhow, we might as well step off the train for a moment for a few Federation facts. You may note that the Spaniards regarded both the Aztec and the Mayan religious practices as Satanic. This is hardly news. The term for this group is known as the Hernandians by the Federation. There is a group we call now “Scorseans” that used to be known as the “Cortessians”, with a non voiced S, but now Federation people say “We changed it because people can be dense” and the original source of the name “Cortessians”, which I know, would be “lost on these people”, the unwashed ignoramuses out there. You will note that I have seldom, if ever matched Federation beliefs up toe to toe against Christianity saying “This one is better than the other one”. I doubt you will find the fraise anywhere in my writings “Federation belief is BETTER than Christianity” or similar direct sentiments. There was one thing in April of 2005 where I was “trying to channel Mark Campbell” where I said that the Red Birds would be Taking Over” in the last Battle. However you may also be interested to know that the Federation yanked their backing of the Arizona Cardinals in their next to the last playoff game- against the Eagles, and in the Superbowl, actively backed that “bastion of Rush Limbaugh Evil” the Pittsburg Steelers. We did this because there was a dangerous alliance forming among the Sutterans and the Crestorians, and this alliance was seen as a major potential danger. The thinking was that if the Cardinals lost- - that the Sutterans and the Crestorians would blame each other for the defeat and the alliance would be broken. And we were lucky because this is just what happened.