The News Today

I read with tremendous surprise today that the midwest farm regions are experiencing a very bad drought.  Who could have predicted that?  Who would have though it?  Certainly not the country's new reporters.  It seems to have come to them as shockingly as it did to me.  For them, though, the jury is still out on climate change and the role that technology plays.  I think they are right, of course.  We need to wait and see.  This is not something we would want to jump the gun on and try to get ahead of.  It wouldn't be prudent. I'm sticking (for now) with the God is Great crowd.  Besides, Iran and North Korea are going to alter the earth's livability long before we all starve to death.

Best of all, today's breaking news is that the government of India has paid millions of dollars to cover up any evidence that Ghandi was gay.  There's a shocker.  Who would have thought that?

Oh.  And banks have manipulated interest rates right under the noses of regulators.

The world is just full of surprises.  These are the stories no one would have guessed.

But they are mere journalistic tricks, distractions, if you will, from the real problems of the day.  THERE'S A NEGRO IN THE WHITE HOUSE!  No shit.  Job #1.  And people are still smoking marijuana. I know this to be true.

What to do?  The answer is more small government.  Yes.  And I'm not talking State.  I want to see local governments have much more power.  Bubba the plumbing contractor who was elected the the city council.  He's the one I want making decisions about building a dry cleaning plant on top of the water aquifer on his brother's property.  I want him and his ilk to decide where we will build homes and how the roads will be directed.  Small government is the best.  My drive to work takes me through five different towns and two counties.  Think of all the tremendously qualified people making decisions that effect us.  This is REAL government, just like the founding fathers had in mind.  I want them to be the guardians of education and civil rights.

Abilene, Abilene/ Prettiest town, I've ever seen.

I've been to Abilene.  It's a hole.  But they love it.  They love it.  Fifteen churches and a Dairy Swirl.  Community values.

But enough of this.  Celebrity is what I'm really all about.  This whole Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman thing has me upside down.  Wait. . . no. . . not Kidman. . . the other one.  I'm still reeling, I guess, from the first divorce.  Traumatized.

And whatever happened to my own true love?  I didn't think her music CD was that bad.  I thought that she had started something there.  But sadly, she's kind of disappeared.  I worry.  What will she look like when she reemerges.

For those of you who are perceptive, you will see the obvious influences in my own works.  Perhaps this is too revelatory, but we're all friends here.  Right?  (Don't go to the comments section).

I'm a bit disjointed of late.  But let me end with a secret prediction.  I don't want this to get out, really, in case I'm wrong.  I mean, nobody's really talking about this on media news as far as I can tell, but I'm guessing food prices are going to rise.  I don't know.  Just saying.  And when that happens. . . we're going to need a lot more photographs of pretty celebrities.  I mean a lot.  And we will have to try harder to remedy this whole marijuana addiction thing 'cause there ain't gonna be enough food for those stoners to eat.

One more prediction, too.  Gas prices. . . .

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