Shake, Rattle, and then Roll the Dice
(2009-01-27 at 19:22:36 )

Yesterday, Monday January 26, 2009 was " Tet " or the Oriental Lunar New Year.
It is said that what happens to you on Tet set a trend for how your year is
going to unfold. Over the past thirty plus years I have found this to be very true.

I surprised a lot of nice people on Staten Island, Monday, with a gift of a
brand new gold Martin Van Buren dollar coin in an envelope with a card. I wrote
a note wishing that the coin protected their health and prosperity in this year
that will last until February 13, 2010.

I know that the many storms that are coming our way are going to be extremely
severe. I also know that to have these storms in a number nine fire year is
just going to make them as bad as they can possibly be.

On Tet a number of companies resorted to massive job cuts in their efforts to
stay afloat. More than 75,000 people lost their jobs on Monday. Last week, for
the first time ever, Microsoft announced significant job cuts. The rate of
unemployment hit 7.2 percent last month and is only going to go up during our
bleak future.

Instead of our so called " Leaders " letting mismanaged companies, banks, and
government created institutions fall by the wayside; they print money to prop
them up. Here in New York more financial industry arrests become big news as
people find that their life savings have been shamelessly stolen from them.

Our bankers have swindled the banks throughout the world. Our government
slaughters people in unnecessary wars as though there is no such thing as
" blowback " from such heartless actions.

Cosmic retribution is never something to be sneered at. Our house of illusion
is going to come crashing down on our heads just like the apartment buildings
in Gaza and Iraq did from our mighty munitions.

My fellow Americans are not ready for the storm that is just beginning. As a
people we have been quite content to ignore morality and virtue in our nice
comfortable delusional everyday lives.

The stark reality is going to beat us over our collective heads very hard this
year. You can try to prepare yourself; or you can continue to hope that " our
leaders " know just what they are doing as they grope in the dark for some
solutions.

Everywhere stores are folding up and going out of business. At the end of this
road even our government may fold up. You never know what might happen in a
number nine fire year. Who knows what kinds of idiotic accelerants our leaders
will toss onto this economic firestorm.

Who knows how the American people will react to having their perceived world
collapse all around them within a relatively short period of time. How many more
people will kill their 5 children, wife, and themselves like Ervin Lupoe did?

Shake, rattle, and then roll the dice while you hope and pray for some relief!