Scattershooting Because You Love It So

6/02/09 - 3rd Day - After Breakfast. Howdy y'all, hope all is well out there where you are. The prognosticators keep giving us some probabilities of rain, though the percentages remain somewhat low. Yesterday morning a two county-wide storm was bearing down on us in the morning, and then, after entering Coleman County, the storm decided that there wasn't much to do in this county and promptly disappeared. The humidity, however, has remained high - which makes for good, steamy afternoons. It's great here when you can get a breeze though. We're supposed to be up near 90 today and closer to 100 by Friday. Hopefully some of this possible rain will get to us and cool things off. For those of you tuning in to find out how we did in our June 1 office fundraiser, I will be giving an update later today on my friendslist.

Let's get straight to it, shall we?

I do so like to read James Kunstler, even though he is a pompous, arrogant, citified ass. Unhappily, although I do like to post quotes from Kunstler, I am unable to link directly to his blogs because he, like some teenage Biff Tanner, is unable to control himself from using foul language in front of women and children. I really like much of what he has to say, but, were he a southerner, he would get a few good raps across the mouth to keep him in line.

***Please do not email me to tell me that I just said "ass" in the same paragraph and that "ass" is a bad word. It is a Bible word, so as a preacher I feel permitted to use it... besides, Kunstler is a pompous aristocratic ass, no matter how good some of his musings are***

Anyway, here is a good snippet of Kunstler for this week:

"All this was occurring against the background of General Motors looming bankruptcy, an epochal moment in US history, like losing a limb or a loved one. The US Government has decided to drive a Chevrolet off the cliff Thelma and Louise style. We were heading there anyway, so why not make the trip in air-conditioned comfort, with plenty of room for all the family members, and on-board video entertainment for the little ones. In fact, it may not be the bankruptcy of GM itself that will amaze and appall the other nations of the world, so much as the US government's pretense that the company can return to health in just a little while and pay back all the money that the citizenry has allowed to be sucked into its black hole of losses."

I guess as an observer to this farce, I cannot help but note how truly bizarre it is. Obama's government is still doing the proverbial shell game, only now they are doing it openly, and in slow motion. Only idiots could be deceived by it, which goes to prove the point. It is like when the government said something akin to this:

"We ordered some 'stress tests' to be run on the nation's biggest banks in order to find out how bad things really are. Well, before the results were announced we determined that the results were so bad, that if they were just released to the public, they would cause a massive panic and the world would burst into flame, dogs and cats would be living together, it would be mayhem... so... instead we just announced that the results were *likely* to be really bad - so bad that we couldn't announce them - then we worked daily with the press to slowly announce over time that we were not ready to announce them for fear of panic. Then we got the press to announce that the results would soon be announced in a gentle, non-panicky way, and then we announced that the perfectly un-shocking announcement was forthcoming. Then, after a few vanilla mochas, we finally announced the results on a Friday evening on page 15 of the Village Voice underneath an article on "Will the AntiChrist be Homosexual?", but by then the public was not in a panic mode (and we don't think most Americans read the Village Voice anyway, it being gay and all), because they know that we are firmly in charge, and that we are willing to go to great lengths to make sure that they don't panic. Thus, trust and confidence were re-instilled in our banking system, whose stress test results were so bad that planes were nearly falling from the sky"

Relax Amerika...


No one means you any harm...

...except the aliens, and I'm not sure exactly what they are threatening to do to the earth but it involves invading members of the phylum cnidaria (jellyfish).

The Difference between Christian Agrarianism and Mercantile Agrarianism

Youth Pastor "denied abusing at least one of the boys and said he did not recall taking pornographic photos of boys found on hard drives in his possession". The question, do the 4 life sentences each end in judgment and eternal damnation, or is it just the first one?

You should visit Cleveland, because at least it's not Detroit...



Ok y'all, that's it for today.

Michael Bunker