Extra-terrestial

Locked here in Ohio ice, I can pretend I am in Antarctica as ice glistens - and I do mean glistens- in the sun. Tree branches, bushes, wire on fence lines, ground snow glazed over by the wind - my panorama glistens. I am awed by this environmental ice capade, this temporary, extra-terrestrial interlude. It’s read and it’s natural. An alternative universe, however, the one in Washington, is unnatural and surreal. How can politicians dream up a porkulus ( 900 billion spending package)? How can even one politician ( I heard) say that the bill "shelters the homeless and heals the sick" unless he’s living in an other world?

Citizen Paul, a resident of Quincy, Ill. wrote about baby boomers today: "Will this aging-yuppie narcissism never end?" He adds that the world will only change for the better when the last of his (boomer) generation is gone. Hello, Paul! If boomers disappear, some new, insane demographic will just take their place. Right now I must ask when the spending insanity will end. Political narcissism applies to the liberal, leftist, socialists in Washington led by our new President Obama. Since Obama’s followers choose to be like sheep, what they step in can be predicted. America is now in deep sh... because the concept of billions and trillions is in itself extra-terrestrial.