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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
YouTube Wednesday.
THE FUTURE BECKONS. Only one clip today. It should suffice. Yes, it's 2008 and if you've even glanced at Drudge, you know all hell is (supposed to be) breaking loose. The stock market is crashing -- or at least having a nasty fender-bender. Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin is launching missiles into the Atlantic Ocean to prove what a, er, man he is. The Palestinians' most accomplished criminals have breached the Gaza Wall to spread more death and destruction. The Secretary of State is off somewere in La-La Land offering new olive branches to North Korea and Iran because they chewed up and ate the old ones. The doddering dinosaurs of NATO are muttering darkly about the need for the U.S. and Europe to use nuclear weapons preemptively before our appeasement of North Korea and Iran becomes fatal to the west. Inside our own borders, open war is breaking out in Los Angeles between blacks and Latinos even though the leaders of neither major U.S. party think we have a big immigration problem, or at least not a problem big enough to risk losing all those Latino votes by solving it.
Meanwhile, the two Democratic candidates for President are having hissyfits with each other about who can spend more money on socialized healthcare and who can do the best job of ignoring all the crises in foreign affairs that can't be handled by rehashing four-year-old decisions. In the ever escalating competition to pander to voters, their Republican counterparts are all lying about how they can fix global, structural economic problems by sending a check (or IOU) to you and your Aunt Tillie. Despite or perhaps because of all this, the Global Warming fanatics have been staging demonstrations in the midst of driving snow storms to demand greater totalitarian control over free economies and our personal liberties. If all the bad guys get their way, the future really will be a frightful monster.
We are going to need bigger guns.
