A certain worry

It's a Monday, a fresh start to the final week in January, and the relentless march towards collapse. Topping the headlines for the day -

Haitians torch bodies in the streets - What can you say? The Haiti earthquake is a small glimpse of the horror that's about to befall the world. This is what collapse looks like, in all its ugliness, with all its misery, and certain dispair. Bodies in open pits, the smell of death everywhere....it's hell on earth. Most of the world looks on with morbid curiosity, feeling glad it isn't them, and after a few text messages donating ten bucks they feel better. Hear me now...Port ta Prince, Haiti will not be rebuilt before we are all living lives among the rubble.


Obama proposes freezing domestic spending for the next three years- This one had me laughing. Why am I laughing? Well for one thing this will amount to looking for some change in your sofa pillows and paying a tiny extra on your next credit card bill, a bill for the US that amounts to trillions of dollars...not billions. This proposal is suppose to save 250 billion over 10 years. Are we kidding mr. president? That's nothing in the face of spending 1 TRILLION dollars each year fighting foreign wars, and this doesn't include franchising our military hardware, foreign government stipends, and other imperial pursuits. Most Americans have no idea that domestic spending amounts to a pittance of what is spent on National Security and fighting an endless war on the "boogey man." A war that could end with two simple actions taken by us - 1) Stop all support for Israel, 2)Pull out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan (at least stop sending drones over the border to kill innocent familys along with leftover cold war CIA created Jihadist). Course then we would have to worry about that oil thingy that tout TV says we don't have to worry about.

DOW - 23.88 (That's it? After a 400 pt drop last week?)

Meggido, a latoc member with a scandelous history, scandelous in the sense of believing the Dow would rally to 14000 in the Fall of 08' has encouraged everyone to jump in while the market takes a transitory dip and then heads to new highs. I couldn't tell you whether he will turn out to be right or not, if we go hyperinflationary (no signs of that - yet) that shouldn't be a problem, but if fundamentals are ever made transparent then the Dow rally of 09' will crumble.

Homefront news:

Headed for a cold night, but the 8 week old ducks don't seem to mind. I have the younger ones under tarp and heat lamp for the night. My coworker and friend at work is preparing to buy a backhoe/front end loader that should come in mighty handy in clearing some of my property. I have all kinds of drainage issues and soggy land condtions that will make making a duck enclosure and aesthetic pond very difficult to setup.

It was another hard day at work. I transported a pt that is slowly and painfully dying of cancer. We've watched her go from being able to get up and sit on the stretcher - taking her to radiation downtown, to chest tubes, heparin drips, and a ventilator. She still fights on. She is 52. We still managed to illicite a smile and a laugh talking about the Saints and an old movie being played on a cheap TV University felt fit to stick in her room. With the recent win of the Saints I don't see how any of the locals could see the doom that creeps at the cities fiscal edges. New Orleans will be singing in the streets while the buildings burn and fall to the ground.