2009 Looking Over the Veil.........Ouch
Posted: Monday, December 07, 2009
by Patricia Barbee
http://www.patriciabarbee.com
I chose to write about the future of 2009. My predictions were not done in jest. I recall hearing my Great-grandmother say that I was born with a "veil". Remember, "Every Shut Eye Isn't Asleep"
Years later, I learned what the "veil" was. Too many times, my head has held the "previews'. Being able to articulate them is still hard if the preview is not comfortable.
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There are a number of things that will surely happen.
Thursday 1 January will be New Year's Day
Tuesday 6, January, the Representatives of our Federal Government will be
sworn in.
Tuesday, 20 January at noon the President-Elect becomes, Mr. President,
Barack H. Obama.
All true
Those across the aisles in Congress will be on their worst behavior. The "outs" doing all to sabotage the work of the "ins". Yes, they the "outs" were busy all weekend in DC even on Sunday.
District local "pet" projects will be scrutinized and probably denied....."The bridge to nowhere". Had those monies been used in Minnesota, maybe that bridge would never have fallen. I shake thinking that just after that bridge was opened I rode across it a few times.
Our local projects have been delayed or shortened in projections. However, on this East Coast to West Coast Highway, I reside, the signs went up and the Stimulus money is repaving the road. I've been here 32 years and this is the second time this highway has been paved in that time.
Celebrations around the world over weeks' time may get out of hand in a few places celebrating a young man chosen to the most powerful post in the world.
The President was selected by a "closed panel" to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Thanks to the internet, I can listen to other points of news from around the world. The foreign countries are happy from what I've heard. American news outlets are existing on the "hate it theme". I await to see where the President allocates his monetary award.
President Obama will explode the spirits of past Presidents and for some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Then, that most powerful "one drop" of "Black Blood" made an American citizen of Color just three-fifths human. That "one drop" still has more power than any bomb ever dropped.
The racist barbs will continue as has fueled by the Republican National Committee's new "parody".
In this morning's internet news, a site headlines a midwest's state senator refering to the President as "dark meat" in his rap parody.
No matter what happens the new President will be a figurative dart board.
There are and will continue to be wars and rumors of wars left over for the new President.
Every word stated was and is true.
Unruly students will cause America to cry again with some tragedy at a school or two. These will be hate crimes. Racist and sexual.
It happened.
The Wall Street rip-off artists will get smacked on the back of the hands.
Their victims will continue to commit suicide. Some may murder their family members before causing their own demise.
It happened.
Foreclosures on residences will continue. Bridge underpasses will create more mini-communities of the displaced families. All of this continues as I type this. Near my community, the police have dismantled underpass villages. Where did the "residents go?" Thank God for the money strapped non-profits that put another cup of water in the soup to make it stretch. Thank Heavens for those who have foregone the "must shop 'til ya drop" and have donated their money to the shelters and meal centers of our area.
The Catholic Cathedral has held "poor nights out". People have left the comfort of their homes to feel what it is like to spend the night as those who must sleep under bridges and any nook and cranny that they can fit.
Businesses will continue to try to exist, fail and file for bankruptcy, give up behind the stringent paperwork and go out of business. More jobs lost. I was right on this. It is still happening. Even the consignment shops are going out of business. The storage bins are the new shopping areas for those with cash, truck and trailers. People can not pay their storage fees.
Because of years of neglect with inspections of bridges, public roads and public buildings, we'll see them crumble. It will take years of inspections and reports arranged to triage what is most dangerous and in immediate repair. Those with construction skills will find work. Plan drafters, red-iron workers, rebar tiers; welders, concrete mixers and pourers, screeders, finishers, get your skills honed. You are going back to a job. I had a seven hour one-way drive into Florida. Except for the last 40 miles, all the Interstates were under repair.
Private businesses that should have been thoroughly inspected, but were given a cursory eying will collapse and employees will be killed.
Storms will decimate parts of our country. All of this has occured all year. As I type the center of our Country is getting snow or under a snow watch. I've listened to the well coiffed "hams" of weathermen on television chatter about El Nino and La Nina. Fifth Graders are smarter! We forget, the pollution we have put into our atmosphere. The decimation of the tropical forests are not only cut but burned. We have suffering polar bears and Aleuts at the North Pole and at the South Pole we have suffering penguins and melting ice.
We will not have the people power to assist them because the National Guards will be in Afghanistan or some place that has not exploded and we take our best to "help" ungrateful, feuding clans. Who is clearing the snows in mid Country? Why did the Asian carp fish get so far up the Mississippi that they now threaten the Great Lakes. The levees that held the carp in check broke during Hurricane Katrina!
We have given so much money in charity that we'll have empty wallets. The charitable organizations that would have been available to write a check and cover the expenses of numbers of community groups have lost their funds in a Ponzi game. They too have reached a point of being broke accept for the assets they can put their hands on. Now Mr. Moneybags really knows what being poor means. Already stated mentioning those living under the overpasses.
Book smart, people stupid are happy to be cleaning anything at the local hamburger joint. I want you to remember how YOU treated those you once supervised.
Before the end of the year he will appreciate the taste of boxed macaroni and cheese.
After smelling hamburger grease for eight hours, that boxed macaroni and cheese smells good!
We'll remember the holidays on the calendar with so-called sales. As I type this one well know company has sent me a message every hour on the hour since the computer was turned on early this morning. Yep, they just popped up again. What they have offered on the first three were regurgitated rejects from their Fall offerings.
How does one "celebrate" the deaths of those known or unknown to us with sales
on Memorial Day and Veterans' Day?
The dummies did it again this year. I will never shop sales based on memorials for the dead.
We'll celebrate the Fourth of July with the obligatory backyard cookout. I see that fireworks will be few because those monies are needed for other projects. Also the noise will only mask the thieves breaking into businesses that still exist. Mine was so quiet I don't even remember it. I was invited to a concert days before. I respectfully sent my regrets.
Labor Day will be a joke. Labor means work. The once available jobs are off-shore and being handled by human-robots who don't give a damn about the USA because they are happy to be making $4 a hour.
I believe 100% in American cars. [My late Dad was a Master for one of the Big Three. He was always proud as a peacock to show his awards.] We probably won't have many more American made cars. Our dealers will be out of business. From experience, some should have never had a dealership.
The newest American cars are NOT made for us "Baby Bloomers". It took me months to contact the "family" of what I drive and tell them what is wrong with their cars. I did receive a very nice letter after months. Time passed and I got an e-mail survey. I've not heard another word from them.
Detroit, listen to those who still buy your product
I must admit what I drive is a gem of a car with a few "dumb" amenities. Heaven forbid a bulb burns out. Days ago I took my auto to favorite mechanic, not the dealer's. It took him about ten minutes to remove seven screws to replace one 69cent bulb .
Many who have thought it "cute" to drive the latest vehicle, leased of course, will be on foot. Had they bought their vehicle, they could ride. Now, no job, no vehicle and little hope.
Millions of "off shore" cars have been recalled. If you bought one, you know the problem, I will not add to your woes. I will remind you to BUY AMERICAN!
Thanksgiving, 2009 will not be as years past. Very somber. It was. Many were calling to check on me. I spent the morning on the telephone fielding "wish you were here" calls, but celebrated in the afternoon. Mine was a jubliant affair with more friends in one place than I ever imagined. It was the best surprise and Thanksgiving Day since 1965. They did it.
Christmas sales will not be better. I just told you about the pop-ups with offerings from one company every hour!
I am not shopping! I shop and give all year. No one is promised to be alive at "Holiday Time". One of my dearest friends of decades was buried Saturday. I doubt she figured not to be Holiday shopping and continuing to "ruin" her grands. It was her time.
I have a special non-profit that I donate my Chanukah-Christmas-Kwanzaa card money, postage to the benefit once enslaved women, now free with their children of unknown fathers. Freedom is NOT free for everyone. Some have to be ransomed from their enslavers. They may be happy with their barter, but Hell will be their residence in time.
I do not know ONE American that needs a holiday card.
Osama binLaden will be history around the end of 2009 and the first of 2010.
This *** we *** all *** await.
No matter what the President does to help the USA he will be fodder for the wags with media outlets. We covered this in a statement above.
Things will get better.
2009 will be the year America gets a triple dose of castor oil.
That was my way of predicting untold horrors. Had I explained what I felt, the FBI would have been living in my house.
a. The missing women unearthed in a house of a sex preditor.
b. The shootings in the health club on the West Coast.
c. The shootings at Fort Hood.
d. Other screaming news bulletins told the news. Tiny Shaniya and other missing tots and children found murdered. Babies, rest in peace.
Going down the taste is terrible and exiting it will be a mess.
If only I could feel "my future" in plenty of time to do something about my feelings or strange sense.
Yes, the "fight or flee" has manifested itself but not soon enough to flee. The fights have happened. One example, "a new to me" specialist, from my Primary Care doctor's list was to make an achy situation better. He suggestion an injection. We talked about injections in the past. I knew what it looked like. He pulled out a syringe with medicine, it was the wrong color, we had a verbal fight, I could not flee. He popped me with the medicine. I keeled over. Wrong medicine. I'm allergic to what he gave me. I did find out what he gave me. I "Googled" it. He was WRONG! The pain is not better. I have a new dynamic that is worse because of the wrong medicine.
I have "picked" the lottery numbers after the windows have closed and before they are announced on the television. That is as close as I get.
May your Angels be your protection.
Patricia Barbee 2008/2009
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Well done, Patricia, and well said.
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