[Superman]

Yeah, God's been busy. Apparently, he told my wife to leave me and move to Arizona. I do not doubt that she and GW have been listening to voices, but they did not get these pieces of advice from my God.

Hey, here are some stories that are connected. Guy drives by skid row in a new Mercedes and thinks "Boy I sure like my position on the economic ladder, I'm a real success."

Black man on skid row watches a new Mercedes go by and thinks "I'm at the bottom of the ladder but there's hope....in the right circumstances I might find myself behind the wheel of a shiny car like that. I'd better start by grabbing and cherishing one of these part time minimum wage jobs."

Ordinary joe motors by skid row in his beat-up Quartz Grey Metallic '83 Porsche 911 SC and thinks "There, but for the grace of God go I. I'm just a job and a couple of paychecks away from being in his position, so I've got to put my shoulder to the wheel so my employer/savior continues to insulate me from homelessness."

There is a wild, crazy communistic theory that, aside from being a necessary and convenient evil in a capitalist society (we've been over that), unemployment, particularly the homeless kind, helps terrorize ordinary people into putting up with the stress and crap that represents many peoples' work lives. (Those if you who are out of touch...there are many many many people out there who are not having the BLAST at work that I do. Chat with them. They HATE their jobs. Low pay, no benefits, abusive supervision, etc. Their options all look worse than their situation, so they continue to serve as the backbone of our economic system which is making certain more comfortable people, even more comfortable.) Besides unemployment, fear is (some say) a necessary component of our wonderful caring, responsible, benevolent, loving, christian economic system.

Scoff if you will, but in other countries they wonder why we put up with this. There are places in the world where people have security in the sense that they know they will not have to sleep in the rain, their clothes can be washed when dirty and they will get nourishment. And no, those countries are not littered with lazy people sucking on the government tit. Instead they are filled with relaxed, generous people.

The rest of the world's population might think of us as the most arrogant country in the world, but they smirk when we call ourselves the Greatest.

So yeah, if these concepts are non-credible liberal propaganda fantasy, then lots of people worldwide are suffering from this affliction. The world thinks GW has simply poked the Middle East, and Al Quida, in the side with a sharp stick jsut making them angrier and more resolute in their hatred of America. Imagine their evaluation when they hear from American hawks that our big problem is simply that we are being unfairly treated by the liberal press, and that we should just turn the Middle East into a glass sheet. Arrogant? Oh, not us!