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Sam Heath - samheath's Blog - Bakersfield.com http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/samheath General Interest and Speculation General Interest and Speculation en-us Consulting my crystal frog and cat http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/samheath/32254 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/samheath/32254 Contact through my Val Saint Lambert crystal frog? There are times when the lunatics in government betraying, bankrupting, running America into the ground and placing us all at extremely dangerous risk drive me to some extreme thoughts. People like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck with a few others enumerate the problems, and they are quite good at this, but they do so while earning handsome salaries all the while knowing there are no viable solutions short of the magnitude of a revolution or asteroid strike on D.C. It was while thinking about so many in the media talking about the problems without offering any viable and substantive solutions that have a snowball’s chance of actually happening I considered whether to hold my crystal frog to my ear the other night while stargazing out toward Vega? However, since it just sits here on my desk with nary a “ribbit” in the years I have had the thing I doubted it would be picking up Vegan signals or any others. Those that scoff at God and those of us who believe in God have nothing to offer to believe in. The best they can do results in politicians, and the scoffers seem to think this is a satisfactory substitute for belief in God. These are the Israelites of old that rejected God and demanded a king to rule over them. It seems to me that this is now the case of an America that has turned away from God and demanded a king. But we now have a lunatic king and lunatics vying to take his place on the throne while those purporting to speak for God while faring sumptuously and living luxuriously seem no less lunatic. But as God said to Samuel because the people had rejected God he would reject them. Such I believe is the situation America now faces; America having rejected God he in turn has rejected America. So here is my Jeremiad: If you think times are hard and dangerous for America now you haven’t seen anything yet! We not only have a leadership deficit, what we do have is a bunch of lunatics with nothing better in sight! Because I actually believe our leaders are on the Devil’s payroll the result being that the Evil One makes us all dance to his tune it does seem there is no way out. But all theological and metaphysical speculation aside even if this were not true the answers to the problems we are facing are so literally Draconian no one really expects politicians to address them realistically, and what we are getting instead is no better than my crystal frog or a rubber gorilla suit. At that, at least scrying and Sasquatch have believers whereas who believes anything coming out of the mouths of politicians in D.C. or elsewhere? At least the believers in crystal balls (or crystal frogs) and Bigfoot don’t generally cause harm and some can even be entertaining, but the same cannot be said of politicians. Now while I do not talk to my frog, I do talk to the resident cat. She is a patient listener, but despite my most earnest supplications the best she seems able to do is a faint “meow” and purrs when she gets her pets. It’s been that way for about eight years so I despair of anything more out of her. Even so, at least she earns her cat food by keeping my place free of rodents and I can’t help wishing there was something the equivalent of the cat We the People could depend on to keep us free of politicians. Well, the cat does keep my place free of rodents by killing them… Ah, for the good old days when politicians made speeches to the sound of cocking pistols in their audiences. Oh, well. One thought that keeps crossing my mind is whether politicians become lunatics by small increments. I was taught from my earliest childhood you never took anything that did not belong to you; that if you took so much as a pencil belonging to someone else the Devil would encourage you to keep stealing and this would become like a fatal disease that would eventually consume you. In this same way, if you told a lie it would lead to more lying until the Devil had you fully in his power and eventually you wouldn’t even be able to tell the truth though it would serve you better, and you would not even any longer be able to distinguish between the truth and a lie! It seems to me I have fairly well described the condition of politicians. As to whether the lying and stealing eventually leads to their becoming pathological lunatics is a matter of conjecture. The caution during my childhood was anyone for whom lying and stealing was their nature meant they were one of the Devil’s servants and did his bidding, and children were warned the Devil would get you if you lied and stole. But I do not recall anyone telling me as a child such things would cause you to lose your mind and become a lunatic. However, in the case of politicians I believe it deserves some thoughtful analysis since few possessed of a sane mind can interpret what is going on in the White House and Congress, our state legislatures being the actions of sane people. How often after hearing about some legislation do you find yourself exclaiming “That’s crazy! Are those people a bunch of nuts?” But how often do you listen to what you are saying about them, how often do you seriously consider the possibility that those people are in fact lunatics? But who but lunatics could possibly believe America can survive without a common heritage, culture, language, and secure borders? Who but lunatics would believe our nation can possibly survive the bottomless pit of nearly unimaginable debt for which the lunatics in power have mortgaged and obligated us? Reason is a remarkable attribute of humankind, a divine one in my opinion. But war is to my mind the most unreasonable of human actions, and no one possessed of reason wants or initiates war; this has to be the work of lunatics. However, war has been the history of our species written in bloodshed and still ongoing without any prospect for peace in the future. On the contrary, it would seem to a sane mind things are becoming increasingly dangerous not only for America but for the whole world. Yet we seem to lack the kind of reasonable and sane leaders in the world to deliver us from the wars lunatics make and there seems no way out of the ongoing lunacy and bloodshed. Well, I could whistle a happy tune but it would be whistling through the graveyard. So perhaps you will understand why I hold more hope for answers to the enormously dangerous problems America is facing from my crystal frog or cat than I have for any answers from lunatic politicians whether they be driven mad through their pathological lying and stealing, their greed and avarice or in service to the Devil.