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In one of his novels, Phillip K. Dick had a clash of titans resting on opposite sides of some California valley. It was a world historical battle. The mountains which we mortals could see, represented the underlying greater forces of good and evil, engaged in combat.

Sorry, I can;t remember the name of the novel.

The upcoming election in the United States is similar in scale and repercussion.

2008 if won by the Democrats will lead to a “Rubicon” moment. The government will seize upon any problem that comes along to revamp the political landscape in radical ways. There will be no elections after this Rubicon. It will be the final breath of the republic.

Why do I believe this? Because the communistic, socialistic, collective, union, democratic, view is failing in the marketplace of ideas and in the marketplace of performance. Things are loose under our Constitution, there is slot for taking power. The tide is against them. What would you expect?

Now is not the time to argue

. . . now is simply the time to pick sides and fight for what you believe in.

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Sometimes a few words convey a paragraph or more.

When my 84 year old mother had some health problems which became more than things modern science could fix right up (and every reader will one day reach that point no matter where modern science goes) she said that she feared she was going to die, and she said: “So soon”.

If an 84 year old woman born before WWII and living a full life could meet the first serious danger to her corporal existence with the lament “so soon”, I judge that no measure of days would ever satisfy any one of us. For each of us, no matter how delayed, the end will be met with “so soon”.

In the Mainstream media when someone becomes sick they pretty much disappear. There are not many pictures of stars in their pain chair