Well, I Agree On The End Times Part

I woke up this morning to find something so green and slimy on my back porch that it had to have been shat by a toad, which makes perfect sense as there is a toad who lives here. He likes the dogs' water bowl.
So I cleaned that up, the green slimy toad shit and then I took a walk and I picked up trash on Main Street, which I do at least a few times a month. I hadn't attended to this chore since before Tropical Storm Fay and there was a lot of garbage. Beer cans, of course, beer bottles, Gator-Aid bottles, water bottles, candy wrappers, coffee cups, McDonald's sacks. Etc. I am convinced that people drive around in their cars, drinking things they would be frowned upon at home for drinking and eating things they would be frowned upon for eating and then throwing the evidence out the window of their vehicles.
It's a nasty job but we live in a poor county and no one else seems to want to do it and it's satisfying, hauling all that trash off and leaving the road a cleaner, prettier place.
I took a break and found a video on the internet which is fourteen minutes of Sarah Palin and the minister of her church, which is an Assembly of God denomination. Sarah was there to address some sort of graduating class and she was full of cheer and said the word cool about fifty times and she was perky and she burbled as she asked the church to pray for an Alaskan pipeline to be put in place for natural gas because she thinks God and the businesses all have to come together over this and great things come from that church where she was saved and where her family was saved and she told one guy that he was so cool, like a redheaded Sasquatch for Jesus. Yeah.
She also asked everyone to pray that God has a plan for our war in Iraq because her son was about to go there.
She ended by giving a great thank-you to the kids for dedicating their lives to Jesus Christ.
Her pastor prayed and said that he believes that it's the end times and in these end times Alaska is going to be a state of refuge for many of us down here in the lower forty-eight. "Hundreds of thousands!" he proclaimed, "Will come here for refuge!"
I am not sure what that means because I am not a person of faith but if the end times requires me to move to Alaska for refuge I'll die anyway because I cannot take cold weather. But it was a thought that seemed to cheer the crowd and Ms. Palin, the idea of hundreds of thousands moving into Alaska for refuge during the end times. Or maybe they were cheered by the idea of the end times. I do not know.
And here we go- another potential leader of our country who believes that God gives the gift of his prophecy to people, who believes that even if we can't see it, there's a plan of God's that justifies war, that God really wants Alaska to have a natural gas pipeline.
Well, maybe God does.
But I don't think so. I don't believe in an Uncle Jesus God and I don't believe that prayer to him and a faith in him trumps actual knowledge of how things work and if McCain gets elected I don't think that all the prayer in the world is going to save us from a burbly, chirpy vice-president who doesn't know squat about foreign policy or even national policy should she (God forbid) be thrust into the position of leadership.
Frankly, watching that video horrified me but what horrifies me even more is that so many Americans believe that it would be just terrific to have a vice-president or even a president just like her, because she's just like them. She's a mother, her kids have problems, she likes to fish and hunt and she's been saved.
They think it's just fine that she believes that these are the end times which will be a good thing for the economy of Alaska, that global warming is not man-made and that abstinence-is-best sex education is what we should be teaching in our schools, along with a healthy dose of Creationism.
They think it's just fine that she went into this political campaign knowing that her daughter's pregnancy was going to be not just national but international news and that it would be discovered that the father-to-be, the groom-to-be has stated on his Facebook page that he's just a fucking redneck.
Hey! We've all been THERE, right?
So let's elect her and that old toad she's running with, the one who called his wife a cunt in public.
Yeah, maybe our country will continue on down the path its been going down for the past eight years and the trash resulting from the shredding of our constitution and our liberties and the shit created from the lack of respect the world has for our country because of its insane desire to force its will on other countries with military force will continue to be flung from the windows of the government and we can have the deeply earned satisfaction of walking down the road with our trash bags and picking it all up, one little main street, one little back porch at a time.
Works for me.
How about you?