LEAVE IT TO PEEVER
The crystal ball seldom fails
– Bumper sticker of
the week: We all live downstream.
– Quote of the week:
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." Joseph Campbell
– We blow Iraq into
the 12th century, and now it's the IraqisÕ fault because they won't take charge
of the mess we've made. There's not a person alive that should be blaming the
Iraqis for what we've done, much less the politicians. They're the one's who
authorized this stupidity. The House and Senate voted on Oct. 10-11, 2002, to
allow the U.S. to use the Armed Forces against Iraq. Of the current candidates
wanting to become President, and Commander in Chief, Clinton, Edwards, McCain,
Biden (out), Thompson, Dodd (out), and Hunter all voted yea. Dennis Kucinich
and Ron Paul voted nay. The other candidates were not in Congress. All the yeas
are now blaming everyone but themselves. Typical.
– Hard-line
Republicans for Jesus: Extremist Christian morality begins to surface in the
2008 Republican primary race. At the forefront are Mitt Romney and Mike
Huckabee, both vying for that "old tyme religion" vote. Each claims
to be "the enlightened one," mixing up the gospel with the preaching
of the party. The founding fathers made it very clear in the Constitution that
there was to be no religious test for officeholders in the New Republic. I
assume that's Bush & Co. proceeding to dismantle the Constitution. It
doesn't fit into their misguided theology. This all begs the question: Did
Jesus make a mistake not being a Republican?
– The right-wing
Supreme Court is back in session. Here we go: No steps forward, and ten steps
back.
– "It is not
enough to say 'we must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and
sacrifice for it." Martin Luther King, Jr.
– What the crystal
ball has to say about 2008:
¥ We will have a new
President elect.
¥ Galesburg's population
will continue to fall.
¥ During 2008, the Knox
County Board will make a decision.
¥ The Galesburg mayor will
quit. So might a number of others.
¥ The Democratic nominee
for President will show up in Galesburg before the election.
¥ The economy is going to
tank.
¥ The war in Iraq and
Afghanistan will continue unabated.
¥ An individual or group from
Galesburg will make it big in the music industry this year.
¥ Swedough's will reopen.
¥ Wal-Mart will face a
unionization attempt.
¥ GREDA will fold up shop
and move to China, where they may have better luck, but the crystal ball is not
clear on that.
¥ Real estate taxes will go
up, but no one will be able to explain why.
¥ And finally, in a
stunning development, the city council will vote to put Galesburg up for sale
on eBay.
You might be saying to
yourself at this point, where does he get all this crap? But just you wait and
see. In all the years I have been doing predictions, my crystal ball has only
failed me twice. I admit, I didn't win the Pulitzer Prize, and God has still
not made an appearance, but otherwise, I'm good.