It was another close call due to fire here in my area of the Sequoia National Forest in Bodfish Canyon. It wasn’t long ago what was called the Deer Park fire destroyed many homes nearby and threatened my own, and Sunday morning I looked out the front of my place and saw a huge plume of black smoke suddenly erupting just down the road from me. I watched nearly transfixed as within moments the flames fueled by tinder dry weeds and brush and whipped by the wind moved rapidly up the canyon toward me faster than a person could run! Such a fire is an awesome and fearful sight, and makes you acutely aware of how your whole life can be changed in a moment of time by catastrophic events, how you can lose everything, including your life, in an instant.

By the time firemen and equipment began to arrive on scene the acrid smoke was chokingly dense and I could feel the heat of the flames as flying embers swirled about me and my little cottage. Remarkably, I had all the weeds on my property cleared just the day before; and as I watched the dreadful fire racing up the canyon within yards of me I could not help thinking how close I may have come to losing my own home had I not done so. At that, the many trees on my property still posed a hazard should the flames reach any of them, especially the large pine. I have witnessed these heavily pitch-laden pines literally explode like a bomb when subjected to the intense heat of forest fires.

To my good fortune, the whole of Kern County’s fire fighting resources came quickly into play including eight different aircraft dropping water and fire retardant. The sound was deafening as the planes and helicopters flew only about hundred feet directly overhead causing my cottage to shudder and the windows rattle, but this was a comfort under the circumstances as was the several fire trucks filled with personnel parked on my property which became a staging area for fighting the fire. Unlike the earlier fire where I lost all utilities for over two weeks I did not lose power here this time, but the phone lines were burned out preventing my communicating with anyone, and this is a “dead” area in the canyon for cell phones; so, no phone, no email or Internet.

Of course, arson investigators are on scene since so many of these fires are started by malevolent creatures, and while it isn’t known yet how the fire started it may have been a road flare, a favorite tool of arsonists, tossed from a car into the dry brush. But there is no reason known to me why I should be especially favored of the gods that the wind did not suddenly change direction and the fire consume my place. Nor is there any reason known to me why America should be spared the holocaust threatening our nation when Democrat Senator Harry Reid stands before the whole world and calls millions of illegal aliens “Undocumented Americans!” He really said that! This isn’t even political correctness; it is Demonspeak! I believe C. S. Lewis correct in his “Screwtape Letters.” There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that those like Reid are traitors and completely sold out to the Devil! And it is on this basis the despicable traitor Reid finds himself in bed with those like the despicable traitor Caesar Bush bent on betraying and selling out our nation for the sake of empire, power and wealth.

If Caesar Bush has a “legacy” it is becoming painfully apparent to the whole world it has every prospect of being that of Hitler’s scorched earth policy for Germany in the end. Whatever one’s opinion about him, a “vote of confidence” by Caesar Bush as per his obedient lapdog AG Gonzales et al. is the kiss of death to the credibility of anyone. Caesar may as well be some Mafioso giving him a kiss on the cheek prior to the bullet. And Caesar accuses all those opposed to his dictatorial rule of being “unpatriotic” just because we disagree with him! This mad fool and tyrant, this My way or the highway despot would call illegal alien Mexicans “better Americans” than the legitimate citizens of this nation! In the same breath he tells Americans and the rest of the world to trust this purblind tyrant, this latter day Caesar and “give him a chance” on Iraq and immigration! He has had several chances and I’d as soon give Hitler another chance!

I’ll repeat: Impeach Bush and bring the troops home now to secure our borders! But I don’t believe it likely a Congress that is so corrupt it will not deal with the obvious malfeasance of a Gonzales or any corrupt politician or their appointees and refuses to secure our borders and expel illegal aliens will do what is right for America. The selfish, self-interests of these “leaders” is a stench to every real American, but it seems nothing less than that terrorist nuclear bomb going off at DC or LAX has any chance of changing things. Only then might the Federal Triune Dictatorship hold the barbaric and totally corrupt nation of Mexico accountable for its own borders and citizens and get out of bed with barbaric woman-hating Muslims.

Would Fred Thompson choose Colin Powell as his running mate? Listening to Powell recently gives me pause to wonder. God knows we need someone to give us hope for America! Dick Morris has a new book “Outrage.” What real American is not outraged by the traitor Reid calling illegal aliens “Undocumented Americans!” Most of us like Morris, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, and so many others are outraged by a Federal Triune Dictatorship that has no other goal but making all Americans slaves to further empower and enrich the wealthy. But with so many brilliant people writing so many books and columns, doing the talk show circuits, none seem able to reach consensus about what is wrong in America. For example, it doesn’t take Reagan’s amnesty, god rot him!, in favor of slave labor opening the floodgates to endless millions of illegal aliens, “Press one for English,” ballots in foreign tongues, anchor babies, welfare, jails, prisons, failing schools and medical services impacted by millions of illegal aliens and treasonously porous borders for all of us to know the point of Pat Buchanan’s “The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America” is coming to pass before our very eyes. America is beginning to epitomize the dreaded Balkanization that can only lead to outright conflict right here far beyond the barbarians now terrorizing our cities throughout our nation! But wait a moment; our nation? Is it really? Not without a heritage, culture, common language and secure borders, not when the “Latino vote” and Spanish takes precedence over the welfare of America as a sovereign nation and We the People!

But why is the leadership of America so willing to sell out and betray our nation for power and wealth to benefit the very few? Surely, reasonable people ask, these few must know they are the architects of their own destruction in the process. And if not, what can so blind these leaders to the obvious? But it would appear the Devil has the upper hand, and being a liar and the father of lies he owns the universities along with their product politicians, judges, and the MSM that would keep Americans drugged and entertained all the while selling lies and preventing plain speech about things like the invasion from Mexico threatening America, and Satan’s servants like Reid calling these hoards of illegal aliens “Undocumented Americans!” How but Satan to make sense of such patent lunacy? Ah, like the questions swirling about a hereafter, the questions about life and death and a soul, about purpose to even living this is where brilliance must bow to the unanswerable and resort to speculation. But given so many unanswerable questions I think it remiss to discount the supernatural.

I’m glad to hear of any earnest searchers seeking answers that have led to the best of philosophical thought in the process. That there is the ability to even ask the questions is at the very least circumstantial evidence of higher, supernatural powers involved with the universe and life, and many have looked to the Bible in seeking answers. So I’m not about to fault or make light of Paris Hilton reading the Bible, if she declares her search for a spiritual dimension in her life. It is only in this so many find any purpose in living at all. In the end all the “toys” only leave you wondering why you ever thought them of any real importance? In the end like Citizen Kane or Big Daddy you realize the toys had no significance apart from your relationship with others. Harper Lee understood. Little Dill didn’t run away from home because his folks mistreated him, he ran away because they bought him the toys then told him to go away, to leave them alone and play with the toys all by himself. It is with good reason there are some who believe the opposite of love is not hate, but INDIFFERENCE!

One of many of the great benefits of being able to think for yourself is being able to admit of your own ignorance. But it takes a substantial amount of real education in order to be able to do so. For example, among the greatest critics of the Bible are those that have never read it through, let alone really studied it. But many religious critics of science often are guilty of not doing their “homework.” This failure is the result of one of the greatest faults with our educational system in America; the utter lack of transparency and accountability. However, the same fault leading to failure is to be found in politicians and our government.

But it seems America has produced an ignorant and illiterate generation incapable of thinking critically and is hedonistically given over to drugs and entertainment, and certainly incapable of the kind of imagination that used to have its source in the great literature of Western Civilization. However, George Lucas was right. “Radio will never die. It would be like killing imagination.” The script for “Radioland Murders” with a 1939 era setting required it to be said, especially with the demon of TV threatening the future of literacy and corresponding imagination as Ray Bradbury had already observed in “Fahrenheit 451.”

As a lover of good SciFi I enjoy the many thoughts of worlds and things unknown suggested to imagination. So I pity those that desperately cling to a simplistic Darwinism as though they believe science has all the answers while applying the meaningless label of “evolution” to things for which science has no answers all the while choosing to ignore science still does not know what life is or where it came from. Many scientists do not believe earth could have produced life on its own, and intriguing as they are no theories so far has produced any evidence of it originating elsewhere for “transplantation.” But having long ago escaped the tyranny of religion, while the wonders of our earth, solar system, the universe and life cries out God! I am not held bondage to any system of religious thought, and certainly no mere mortal speaks for God as though the Deity or Deities could not speak for themselves. And neither does any mere mortal speak to the issue of what life is and where it came from have anything substantive to support their view of a mindless, chaotic universe without purpose, but such fools unable to even account for what was before the universe will hold forth against those that believe in God or Gods as though they actually had answers to the unanswerable. You cannot know what you cannot know, though there are many pretenders to knowledge in both religion and science.

When it comes to life and death what we are left with is philosophical speculation; no one knows what animates the clay and departs at death. And unless you can answer these questions you have nothing to say in explanation of life and death, of things like Nature red in tooth and claw, of the monsters in human guise preying on women and children, about the evil seeming lunacy that has gripped humankind from the very beginning, and seems set right now on the destruction of America. The very wonder we feel looking up at the stars in the quite literally unimaginable vastness of space, or the discoveries continuing to be made about a living cell should preclude sensible people from pontificating on a Darwinian theme. This much we know for certain: We all die. And none of us knows whether that is the end or whether another dimension of life will open to us. One of the tragedies of humankind has been the monsters that will murder others in the name of some deity, but we are no less at risk from those that would force all to accept their mindlessly mechanistic views the universe, of life and death on others without scientific evidence proof positive for nothing more than their own speculations.

We do not know if what we call “conscience” is a product of mindless connections in the brain, or a distinction between species where there are in fact to be found children of God and children of the Devil. We do know there has to be an explanation for a Francis of Assisi or Albert Schweitzer and the child born to be a bully and murderer that enjoys tearing the heads off birds and inflicting pain on others from the earliest. “Neuroscientists have recently shown that biases in thinking are built into the very way the brain processes information.” The many years I have followed studies in brain function, the very basis of my doctoral studies in Human Behavior, all lead to the conclusion people are “hard-wired” to certain dispositions of beliefs and disbeliefs beyond mere Nurture or Nature.

There has to be more than science has offered so far to explain the lunatics both left and right, to explain the monsters in human guise preying on women and children. It’s all well and good to acknowledge the truth of the dictum “when you have exhausted all the plausible and probable, you look to the implausible and improbable for answers.” But those that put their faith in either science or religion are unwilling to accept the truth of this dictum. The puzzle presented in studies of brain function is whether such people are actually unable to separate what they believe from the truth, are actually unable to accept the truth. Jesus may have been correct in accusing some of his detractors of being children of the Devil and because of this having no love of the truth in them.

It may yet prove to be true that there are children of God and children of the Devil by way of explanation for what studies in neuroscience and brain function are telling us. For my part this would explain our “demon-haunted world,” the monsters among us as well as those like Bush, Kennedy, and Reid along with so many others dedicated to slave labor, dedicated to betraying and selling out our nation and the destruction of America. And while obviously only being a matter of personal speculation in the realm of the supernatural I wonder who but the Devil and his servants would call illegal aliens that shouldn’t even be in America “Undocumented Americans” all the while refusing to hold Mexico accountable for its own borders and citizens and inviting third-world diseases back into our nation that had all but been eradicated? It may yet prove “The Devil made me do it” will be the legacy of Caesar Bush and his complicit Congress.