Billiken Man

Don't laugh.....oh ok, go ahead and laugh for 10 solid minutes like I did, but then think about this. This poor kitty could be a food source by 2009. One of my prize possessions is an 1863 Vicksburg newspaper printed on the back of wall paper. The Yankees had surrounded Vicksburg for months, starving them out and the end was just a couple of days off when the editor started assembling his last newspaper on the only paper in town, wall paper. . This last edition of the Vicksburg Citizen speaks of  locals and Southern soldiers dining on mule meat and fricasseed kitten and the editor sees whatever General Grant brings to Vicksburg as some kind of relief.

Are we that far off from returning to those days? The Dow is high for the first time since Clinton left office. Is this a sign of warmongering delight?  Or is it a sign that the inside traders on Wall Street see the end of the Bush administration in sight?  Or is it like the calm before the storm?  Bush-Cheney has brought us to a point where we can't hold honest elections. We attack the wrong country and start wars. We can't rescue people from flood waters. We can't trust the media, part if not all of which has been bought off by the White House. We can't provide our troops with proper armor or equipment. We can't identify the people we're fighting in Iraq. We can't see photos of flag draped coffins coming home. We can't pretend we don't torture. We can't trust what the President, VP, Condi or Rummy tells us. And we can't leave our 16 year old boys alone in a room with anyone from Congress.

A recent poll shows that 75% of the people in England think the US is the biggest evil in the world today. And that is our best friends talking bad about us.  Imagine if a poll was conducted in the rest of the world. The words of my Mama come back to me now. She used to say something about nothing good ever coming out of ill-gotten gain. I think I can use that to sum up what we've gotten from the Bush era. An administration that was never legally elected brings rack and ruin to this country and the world. Well....what should we expect from a mistake?  History is not full of happy endings that start out with the main characters stealing, robbing and raping at the beginning.

Hitler tricked old Paul von Hindenburg and the German people in 1932 and we know how well that worked out for Europe. Will we live to see George W. Bush and Laura holding hands and taking poison in a bunker in the future?  Will we see enemy war planes filling the skies over America seeing how well we like being bombed back to the stone age?  Will our house pets become our evening meal?  I'm sure up to 1863, no one in Vicksburg had ever worried about eating their own cat, would have laughed at anyone suggesting such a thing could happen. 

By July of 1863, not a soul in Vicksburg, Mississippi was laughing. One must wonder how much laughing Americans will be doing by 2009. The South had only the North to fear in the 1860s. Today we not only have to fear a war with the rest of the world, we have to worry about Civil War II within the United States. Be nice to your cat, if things don't change he or she might be feeding your family on a dark day in our future. America needs regime change now!