Today is Ash Moon 12, Year of the Witch 2012 - Blessed Be!
US President Bush II made his share of misstatements while in office - Goddess knows! For example "Deficits don't matter!" I think that time has proven The Shrub, or Bush II, to absolutely not know what he was saying or else he simply didn't mind the aroma of what he was shovelling.
Another great quote; "Global Warming is your friend, after all it will give us longer growing seasons!"
What will it take to wake up America to the Perfect Threat to America which is Global Warming? It is, to steal a line from US Vice President Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth" but Global Warming has already brought us several perfect Storms!
Most recently, unseasonably early tornadoes have destroyed communities across the US with death tolls still being calculated. We have all seen the floods in South East Asia, ultra-frigid winters in the UK, Hurricanes, forests dying due to infestations of insects moving north and of course New Orleans devastated and still trying to rebuild. There are zones in the oceans which have turned so acidic that nothing can live there! Did you know that the jet stream is no longer centered over the north pole, but has shifted toward Russia? Need I say more?
Our politicians seem more focused on stripping our women of their rights and the destruction of the middle class while rewarding the most rich so that they may create a non-constitutional theocracy in America! These fracktards would create exactly what we see in Syria and Iran, only with their version of "Christianity" in vogue.
Global Warming is a serious threat to our society and it will take serious Americans Working Together For The Good of The Nation to solve it. I have always believed that this was the business of our government - Americans Working Together For The Good of The Nation. However, our focus and our values seem to have slipped and I am not so sure anymore.
Instead we have an old fat man get behind a microphone and tell lies to a duped populace and then call an intelligent woman, speaking eloquently in defence of American women's rights and concerns, a whore. Then the old has-been of a fat man suggests that she should televise her most private moments so that he can watch! Then there are the Racial slurs about President Obama, the "birthers" and low class nasty comments about Mrs. Obama's figure! This is not my America, this is a country for which I feel that I must apologize for and am ashamed of.
Sadly, I thought, that when The Shrub was removed from the White House and replaced with an intelligent, well educated, well spoken and caring American, that the period of being ashamed of America was over. However, our focus and our values seem to have slipped and I am not so sure anymore.
What the heck is our Focus? What are American values today? Will we be led silently to the slaughter by the likes of fracktards such as Carl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich? Really?
Will your city, perhaps your home, be the next to be destroyed by a freak storm? How soon will it be until the pieces of your loved one, torn apart in a weather related disaster, must be buried? How soon until your home is left an ugly shadow of what once was?
We must think, and we must do our best to honour The Rede when we vote, when we buy a vehicle, select our choice for energy and in the politicians we follow. For if we do not, WE will have harmed ourselves, our community, our nation and indeed the world.
Come on America, the fractards have had their joke and many have had the chance to laugh. However, the joke is over! Devastation by weather is now common in America and around the world. It is indeed "An Inconvenient Truth" but take a look around, smell the Starbucks!
Or, have we totally lost our Focus and our Values? If We have, then We deserve whatever comes our way!
These are the Ways of the Wiccan Witch. This is the path I have chosen to walk the days of my life.
Come, walk with me....
Brightest Blessings,
Stormy)O(
