This and That

Today is my first blog offering. First off, it's a beautiful day in post-climate change, i.e., global warming world--and it's November--and it should be snowing or at least cold. But there is hope as Barack Obama will take office in 63 days. Can the Bush administration manage to destroy the world before then? Or just start yet another pointless illegal war? Stay tuned. Can the negative energy poured forth by our current leaders override the current paradigm shift? I don't know, I am counting on the power of light.

The stores are now full of consumerables that we are supposed to go into debt to buy for yet another Christmas holiday. Storekeepers nervously bite their nails, hoping someone will walk through the door. Since our economy has become centered on the masses buying and buying and buying--accummulating mountains of stuff that they mostly don't need and probably won't use, except to recycle in a weekend garage sale. People in cars circle neighborhoods watching for the ubiquitous signs, looking for more crap to add to the overabundance they already possess. Why do you think you see all these new storage facilities? Crap receptacles. Now that our economy has cracked open like an egg, spilling its guts out over Wall Street, disappearing into the gutters and black holes of the Universe never to be seen again, will the masses open their eyes and look around and say, "How did I get here?" My house is gone, I live in my car, which will be repo'd as soon as they find it. I park in a different lot every night. Will the stepford neighborhoods of McMansions implode? Is this the grand awakening?

Do people really think they can go on forever wracking up debt without a day of reckoning? When did it become vogue to buy everything you want even though you can't afford it and eat too? How many of us are there who have been watching and waiting for the crash, the domino effect where one after another industry goes south? Those of us who have been living within our means have been wondering how all these people were living like kings. I couldn't believe that they were all in debt up to their eyeballs, but that is in fact what has been going on. Now folks, who are you going to go whining to when you lose your house? When you lose your job? Will you wake up and realize the piper always gets paid?

I'm angry that prudent people, living within their means are being tapped to bail out those who didn't know any better or were hoping for a miracle. Guess nobody ever said life is fair.