On Living in the Twilight Zone

So it has finally happened. We have managed to leave the conventional laws of the universe behind and have entered an alternate reality. Science Fiction writers for years have been predicting that something like this could happen , but I had always assumed that was the work of over active imaginations. Not anymore, now I realize those were dire warnings of things to come. And now those warnings have been fulfilled.

Reasons I know we now live in an alternate reality:

1) Rahm Emanuel has filed suit to force the Teacher's union to end their strike. In fact he is being referred to as an Union Buster and "right wing" by many in the media. Only in an Alternate Reality could Barack Obama's former chief of staff be referred to as "right wing"

2) Rachel Maddow gets it right and calls Obama on his BS. “Anybody who tells you that what happened to our ambassador and our consulate was the result of a protest over an offensive movie, you should ask them why they think that,” Maddow said. “I mean, that was the first version of events we heard, that does not seem to explain what happened that night. It does not seem to be born out by the facts the more facts we get.”  Further proof that we have left the known Universe behind, Maddow has ignored the official story from the White House and the President and told the truth regarding the attacks. The Universe in which I was born would have never seen that happen.

3) US Government Apologizes for Free Speech. In a stunning announcement the Embassy in Cairo blamed US free speech for the attacks and promised to crack down on those exercising free speech. The FBI then investigated and announced publicly the name of the person who had made the "video". Despite the fact that no crime had been committed. (ed- the Cairo Embassy Statement has since been scrubbed from the website)

4) IL gets it right and WI gets it wrong. After over a year of working to set the ship right in WI, numerous lawsuits, recall elections, protests and violence; just when everything seemed to finally be settled, ACT 10 was overturned by a county judge. This happened on the same weekend when Chicago has decided to crack down on the union their and force the end to a strike.


So, now that we know we have left the old universe behind, what happens next? Your guess is as good as mine. But the fact is I do not care for this brave new world in which we have been thrust and want very much to get back to the world we left behind. Can it be done? Who knows? But I do have a theory: if enough people vote this fall to remove Obama from office, maybe , just maybe we will slip back through the cracks and return to the universe we once knew. If that does not work stock up on food and ammo because surely, the Zombies cannot be far behind.