Leave it to me to interject politics into the holiday season, but I just couldn't help but make a post about our impending doom from the global firestorm that is "global warming." Even though the winter of 2007-2008 was one of the coldest in many years, our deaths are still a certainty. Remember, the science is settled. Global Warming is caused by man, not that giant ball of fire in the sky.
On an unrelated note, it snowed in New Orleans today. The last time it snowed in the Big Easy was on Christmas Day 2004. In Amite, LA today, eight inches fell, crushing buildings from the sheer weight of the snow. The last time Louisiana received this type of significant snowfall was in 1989.
Well, as many have probably noticed by now, the video of the children praising the Messiah has been removed from YouTube.
I'm actually quite curious as to what has precipitated this move, but if I had to guess I'd put my money on the rather large number of comments claiming the children were being exploited without any real knowledge of what they were singing about - not that having no idea what you're talking about has ever stopped anyone from engaging in politics.
In somewhat unrelated news, I am shocked and amazed -insert sarcasm here- that our $850 billion Bailout package ($700 billion plus $150 in pork) plus a coordinated rate cut by every civilized nation has failed to stem the destruction of our economy. You'd think with as much as Ben Bernanke claims to have studied the Great Depression, he'd know more than anyone that GOVERNMENT CANNOT FIX THIS PROBLEM, they will only make it worse. The artificially inflated markets need to be punctured. The businesses that took excessive risks need to fail.
I realize that there will be huge, HUGE economic hardship when (not if) this happens. We need to just let it happen... not completely debase our currency or needlessly throw away almost a trillion dollars in a futile attempt to stop it.
I found this video on YouTube today and I'd like to share it with you all. If this is not the most freakish, disturbing display of.... good grief I don't even know what of but it really disturbed me.
Part of me wonders if these children even know what the hell they are even singing about. I was even more disturbed at the lyrics after the initial shock wore off...
We're gonna spread happiness We're gonna spread freedom Obama's gonna change it Obama's gonna lead 'em
We're gonna change it And rearrange it We're gonna change the world.
Now's the moment, lift each voice to sing Sing with all your heart! For our children, for our families, Nations all joined as one. Sing for joy and sing abundant peace, Courage, justice, hope! Sing together, hold each precious hand, Lifting each other up; Sing for vision, sing for unity, Lifting our hearts to Sing!
YES WE CAN (insert puking sound here)
So... let me get this straight. Change the world... Rearrange the world... Nations joined as one. This would be an awesome concept... in Soviet Russia. This is what I don't understand about these nutjob liberals/socialists. Socialism has failed, over and over and over again in all other parts of the world. What could possess anyone to believe that it will work here in America?
Often times I feel like I'm starting to become one of the few people in this country that enjoys my individuality, that enjoys the government not being in every single facet of my life. I don't want to have the same life as my neighbor. I don't want massive government sponsored initiatives that force us to live in perfect government mandated peace and harmony. I don't want people to be punished for being successful so that their money can go to fund the lazy and uneducated. I don't want "running to Uncle Sam" to be people's first option when it should be the complete and total last resort.
But like I said, sometimes I think I'm the only person who feels this way anymore.
