If you’re easily offended, please don’t read further. If you’re one of those people who wants to receive a government handout rather then work for less money than the handout, don’t read another word. If you’re one of those  people who routinely uses recreational drugs, stop reading now and continue doing your part to ruin lives and support criminals everywhere; then pretend  you’re  a respectable citizen. If you’re a corporate bigwig on Washington’s crony list, this rant  is not for someone like you, desperately consumed by greed and power. If you’re black and think the country “owes you,” hit delete now and bow to your new Master in the WH. If you have no clue and couldn’t care less about American history and heritage, please log out, go to the mall and hang out with your witless friends. If you’re a card-carrying Socialist, quasi Socialist, Marxist or so-called Progressive, you can find better use of your time by finding new ways to steal from your neighbors. If you’re uneducated, you won’t learn anything here — you can always resent and envy the people who are educated. If you’re an elite intellectual, you already despise this “essay.” If you think having babies outside of marriage is a perfect ticket to more welfare, you should be shacking up somewhere right now — and pity the poor offspring. If you think taxpayers, businesses, schools or churches should furnish contraceptives, your brain is already on life support. If you’re a gay rights activist who demands recognition, respect and affirmative action, leave now and plan your next march. If you buy the claim it’s OK to take more money from the rich because it’s the “fair” thing to do, you’re a thief at heart and have no business on this page. If you think taking all the wealth from the rich will somehow make you more successful and well-off, get a canoe and paddle — you’re already up the creek. If you’re a politician with cradle to the grave entitlements, using your office as a lucrative career, don’t waste your time here — there’s a special place in Hell waiting for you. If you think America was built by the Federal Government, odds are you’ve already left this page to waste your time doing what other takers and losers do. If you have farm land and receive federal subsidies for not farming, now’s the time to sign off because you’re one of millions of “respectable” citizens stealing from the Treasury. If you think America is not an exceptional country, you should find the nearest country you can find that is exceptional — and move there tomorrow. If you support the current President of the United States because he’s black, say goodbye and learn how to spell the word you claim to hate — r-a-c-i-s-t. If you haven’t read a non-fiction book in the past year, you definitely shouldn’t be reading this — and definitely shouldn’t vote. If you have a cell phone in one hand and your EBT card in the other, take a hike and don’t play the poverty card. If you think it’s just fine for the Federal Government to grow and private industry to waste away, shut down this blog now and have your IQ checked — quick. If the President tells you lie after lie after lie, and you think lying is cool, exit this site forever and seriously avoid looking at yourself in a mirror. If you’re a Democrat, and intend to vote for BH Obama no matter what, consider how many Americans died for your freedom to do so — and by the way, the mirror doesn’t lie.

You may have noticed. No matter how bad things get, the world keeps turning. A day doesn’t pass without impending doom. Greece, Italy and Spain are hopelessly insolvent, but a funny thing happened on their way to ruination — their soccer teams and soccer fans forgot to take notice. Terrorists kill people willy-nilly, starvation crushes millions and governments commit genocide; yet blood running in the streets doesn’t stop their Olympic athletes from running marathons in London. In America, a President tells lies routinely and unashamedly; an Attorney General perjures himself under oath and The Constitution languishes, gravely injured, while a nation preoccupied with social media has a jolly old time playing every game under the sun. This is just the way it is. You might as well face facts. Sure, you want to see the preservation of ideals that birthed an exceptional nation; you want to see things like morality, ethics, honor and character ingrained in every member of Congress — but that’s a pipe dream. Those attributes are MIA, increasingly replaced by wickedness, duplicity, corruption and disgrace. You want to see Mankind somehow come to its senses after centuries of tyranny, but then you remember even Jesus left the authority of Rome to the Romans. They nailed him up and the world kept right on turning under the depraved rule of evil men. Since that most dreadful day, in case you hadn’t noticed, nothing changed the misery index of the common man until a handful of uncommon men risked everything a mere 236 years ago to establish a nation of the people, by the people and for the people. Now, the work of these giants rests in the hands of midgets elected by an uneducated and uncultured mob, and you have no plausible reason to believe that mob will shrink. This is just the way it is. Get used to it; and as Andy Dufresne said on his way out of Shawshank, “Get busy livin’.” Get in your little red wagon and escape. Find your own games to play. Chill. And when you need a good laugh, visualize your pet fantasy — Jefferson and Madison sitting across a table from BO and Biden. Giants and midgets. What a treat that would be. What a great birthday gift on this July 4, 2012.

You gotta laugh. No other reaction makes sense in a world gone mad. Not that this moment in time has any lock on being crowned The Age of Dementia. The most cursory study of past ages proves that humans have always been demented. Unfortunately, in this era, we just happen to benefit from instant, global communication that allows us to witness psychosis en masse. But forget the rest of the world’s lunacy for the next minute or two and aim your sights on the good old US of A. Nowhere on the planet has performance and achievement been more revered. Pick any walk of life — we choose to reward people who earn their stripes and walk that walk. When you want someone to clean your house, you check out Angie’s list and demand referrals. When you aspire to build a home, only an experienced architect and builder will do. Need life-saving surgery? Maybe a face job? You do a CIA number on any cat who wields a scalpel for a living. Universities hire the best coaches and teachers money can buy because alumni settle for nothing less than achievers with glittering dossiers. And try getting an academic or athletic scholarship at those universities without, as they say in poker, “the nuts.” If you happen to own or manage a company, you wade through dozens of resumes to find experience, competence, character and accomplishment. After all, it’s your money, your life. Need a plumber? No beginners need apply. You get the drift — you don’t hire anyone to do anything — anything —  unless that person can demonstrate beyond any doubt, that he/she has walked the walk. Yet, in 2008, you hired a person to hold the most important job in the world — a talking head with nary a scintilla of accomplishment, not a speck of experience and not a shred of achievement — no attainments, qualifications, credentials or contributions.  Matilda, if that ain’t screwball-city, nothing is. No woman lets anybody touch her hair without a “legendary” reputation for style and creativity. Yet women by the millions genuflected eagerly, if not adoringly, at nothing more than a masterful snow job, as BO (in awe of himself) lifted his haughty chin and cleverly talked and talked and talked the talk. And here you are, almost four years later, witness to the continued derangement of a nation. Nearly 50%, or perhaps more than 50% of Americans, will double down to worship a quintessential con man who has succeeded in a monumental pretense. And despite his stupendous failure, his subjects continue to grovel in ecstasy at his every lie, distortion and fraud.  Who are these subjects? Some of them are your friends. Golf buddies. Work associates. Family members. Church members. Book club members. The people next door. Pogo knows who they are. You have no explanation for the behavior of these people who routinely exercise common sense and discrimination when vetting a clown for Junior’s 6th birthday. You want to scream bloody murder at the utter senselessness. You want to rail at the moon. You want to get away from the madness, somewhere, anywhere, far, far away from the cuckoo’s nest. At the end of the day, however, all you can do is laugh. Because, despite the most stunning, incomprehensible achievements of mankind, humans have a major screw loose. Always have. Always will.