And then there is crazy...

 

 

 

"It really is a mad, mad, mad world..."

I really debated with myself this morning. I could not decide whether to call this article what I did, or call it "It's a mad, mad, mad world (after the movie). So I settled on the former. However you slice and dice it, after yesterday, and what is forecast to come up shortly, makes for "crazy" - just plain crazy.

Years ago there was a commercial on TV asking for money for the Humane Society. They would talking about how important it is for pets to have stability in their lives. Many of the run-away pets have experienced everything but stability in their young lives. I think the same is true for us two legged types. We also crave stability. Without stability, we have been on a merry-go-round  since 2008. To a certain degree, we have been on a merry-go-round since September 11, 2001. In short, we have been living crazy.

When we have no guiding principles in our lives, we have no rudder. We drift aimlessly. We fall for the sophism, listen to lies, we follow charlatans. Regardless of what many think, we really have cast out our ironclad documents which can lead us out of this maze we live in. What am I talking about? The Constitution and the Holy Bible. Once we eschew one and/or the other, all we end up with is crazy.

Yesterday our President, the man who is supposed to lead us by using our 200+ year old Constitution, decided it was time to change the game. After telling us for years he really needed to follow the rules as written, he changed his mind. He went from President to Emperor. Crazy.

Today, many are expecting the grand jury verdict to be read in Ferguson, MO. It appears the jury will find it unlikely the policeman did anything legally wrong. It also appears the "gentle giant" might not have been so gentle after all. Finally, it appears this might have been a justified shooting. If that is the case, there will have been no miscarriage of justice. That being said, many cities are bracing for all hell to break loose. Should there be if the shooting was in fact justified? Absolutely not. Crazy man, just crazy.

Coming home from my Father-in-Law's apartment the other day, driving over an overpass my wife and I noticed a train of oil cars at a stand still. In both directions, the oil cars seemed to stretch to the horizon. A more and more common sight these days.  And yet, we are told we must live with this increasing rail congestion as building more pipelines is "dangerous" to the climate. Our super long oil trains are a perturbation to the delivery of crops to market, coal to energy plants, and so on. Plus it is a dangerous way to transport a volatile product. Our President, who is a constant prisoner to special interest groups, will continue to veto the Keystone Pipeline until there are enough votes in Congress to override him. Real crazy man, real crazy.

Our war on terror. What a mess. Here we sit, the most powerful nation on Planet Earth (least wise we used to be), and we are powerless to fight this group of zealots straight out of the first millennium. We watch helplessly as innocent American and British civilians, many doing humanitarian work for the destitute people in the Middle East, are captured and beheaded. Many of these zealots have promised us nothing but death - we put bumper stickers on our cars which say "coexist". Well, the War on Terror will once again visit our shores, and these zealots want nothing to do with coexisting. They just want us dead. Crazy to the max, man!

We need to once again regain our stability. No more crazy. Tried it, don't like it. No more detouring around our Constitution. We need to get right with God by reading and following His Word. We have seen what the world looks like without rudders like the Constitution and the Bible. It looks and acts crazy. Crazy we have seen, we have lived it. We don't like it. Time to get back to our roots. No more crazy.