Worst Case Scenario

Perhaps, Senator McCain will be happier in defeat than facing an unprecedented economic crisis that he or Obama or anyone else will find unmanageable. Pat Robertson reported that $300 trillion are at risk in the derivative markets-a figure of such an astounding magnitude as to dwarf the US, indeed the world economy. No actions by a single government or the world's governments acting collectively may stave off the collapse of currency. Stories abound of people with wheelbarrows of money going to buy bread in late Wiemar Germany. The same situation exists today in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Don't be confident that a similar calamity could not happen here. Middle class families who have never known privation or hunger could face it soon. If someone does not grow there own crops, have a barterable skill, or have a tangible asset(gold, diamonds, something illiquid not fungible but with real inherent worth), they may not eat. Concerted action now to save banks or automobile producers may be necessary but who could be certain of the value of paper printed by governments that have overseen the avalanche of negative financial news and not been able to staunch it. Ultimately, we must follow the advice printed on our currency "In God we trust".Those who seek temporal satisfaction are too often blind to eternal truths. Those who cleave to God are never hopeless, for their faith is salvation.

Driving the Stake

Last night ABC's Nightline aired a scurrilous report about Governor Palin's alleged excesses particularly in wardrobe spending on the campaign trail. These reports are made either by Democrats who fear Palin in 2012, liberal Republicans for the same reason, gossip-mongers seeking attention which is doubtful, or those trying to cover their own failures in the McCain campaign. Governor Palin is a charismatic, obviously attractive, unabashed Christain conservative stalwart who lives her values. Those making these allegations ought to come forward, sit in front of the cameras under the hot lights and make their claims. Otherwise, they should be summarily dismissed as the petty backbiters they are. There were also stories last night that proclaimed the defeat of evangelicals in this election. Nothing could be further from the truth. The perversion of marriage by homosexuals was resoundingly defeated all across the nation. The Obama campaign bent over backwards with outreach to evangelicals with efforts to lure Christain voters with stewardship of the earth arguments, frequent proclamations that Obama was a Christain, and constant effort to conceal Obama's anti-religious policy positions such as his support of the gay agenda and the massive amount of support he drew from the producers of pornography and wealthy early backers such as David Geffen. Governor Sarah Palin and faithful conservatives like her are the best hope for the Republican party and the USA.