I'm back

Contrary to the rumors that some have been spreading (thank's Liz, you will get yours one day) I was neither in jail nor "drying out" in a private facility in Virginia.

Mother Calhoon was in for the weekend so my schedule was not my own.

As I return to the computer to check the news I see that congress has pledged up to 7.7 trillion in handouts to "stimulate the economy" by bailing out poorly run businesses.

Friends, this is an incomprehensible amount of money which the federal government does not have and which the economy cannot afford to have sucked out of the private sector and "redistributed" to losers who have fraked up their balance sheets so badly that they need the moral equivalent of armed robbery to keep their heads above water.

We are literally looking at the end of the United States of America here.

And the tragedy here is that it in no way had to happen.

We were not conquered by a stronger nation nor we brought down by plague or famine. Ecological upheavals did not render our land unproductive and resource depletion did not steal our ability to make the things we need to defend ourselves and maintain our lifestyle.

We simply chose to commit national suicide.