Once the dust has cleared perhaps Barack Hussein Obama will check into a celebrity rehab center and his wife will announce she is no longer proud of America. The people who hoped for real change through Obama have my genuine sympathy; but now that he has made himself a pathetic figure asking everyone to believe the unbelievable about many years of the relationship with his mentor, the unabashedly racist Jeremiah Wright, he is doomed. His attempts at disavowal have made him appear not only pathetic but willing to sacrifice anyone, even his closest friends, in seeking power. No one can survive the issue of hypocrisy and betrayal of trust on such a scale. Obama is now thoroughly discredited and tarred with the racist brush and he can’t escape it. If he ever had a chance at the nomination, which I very much doubt, that is now gone.

Well, there may very well be riots but little can be done about that; it is just too easy to fan the fires of racial hatreds. Much like the cries to impeach Bush and bring the troops home now to secure our borders some things just seem unpreventable or beyond our power to accomplish. And given the immense power of the money interests on a global scale controlling our government it would seem such unrest as with the refusal to secure our borders for the sake of slave labor serves the purpose of these interests. It’s all well and good to point out knowledge is power, but without wisdom knowledge only becomes a tool of those with the power of wealth making knowledge a servant to their purposes.

Giving him credit for his avowed purpose to make knowledge the servant of wisdom, this would explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. But we have come to such a sorry pass as a nation that not only do we not know the truth of these assassinations, we have been lied to for so long and on such a massive scale no one knows when those in our government are telling the truth about anything. If there are in fact conspiracies involved with things like the Kennedy’s and 9/11 they are on such a scale as to leave us numb with incomprehension, that such evil on such a scale could exist in America! We accept such things commonly happen in third world countries, but in America? Unthinkable!

Well, not really. There was such a time in America, but not anymore. And especially not in an America when gold hits $1,000 an ounce, oil is well over $100 a barrel and our government is so blatantly in bed with moneylenders while bread and milk are becoming “luxury” items for ordinary working Americans. And given a government that has proven itself to be capable of lying on a massive scale, without any accountability to ordinary Americans but takes care of its own it isn’t any wonder few of us are not willing to credit conspiracy theories of some kind.

But it is a great weariness to write of such evil over which none of us have any control; the masters and rulers throughout human history have never deviated from an evil course in pursuing power and wealth, and those having the rule over America are of kind. So, how about a different kind of conspiracy, one in which scientists and archeologists conspire to withhold the truth?

As though reports of UFOs and government cover-ups about these were not enough to cause speculation, all those squared stones used in walls and monuments of the past just could not have been done by humans without some “outside” help. This might be considered a flight of fancy on my part, a welcome diversion from the evil men do threatening to ruin America, but there is just something about watching programs viewing the stone walls and monuments of the ancient past that causes me no little consternation.

Many of you have watched programs dealing with the issues of Atlantis including the one in the sea off the coast of Japan. There have been many computer generated images of Minoan architecture along with “reconstructed” castles, the cities of the Mayans and so on. My own fascination with ancient Egyptian culture and monuments like the three pyramids of Giza has led to my questioning the theories of those purporting to be “experts” about such things, and the attempts to demonstrate how such things might have been done are for the most part very unconvincing.

I’ve had a lot of experience in the building trades, and I am expert in masonry. But when I see videos of walls and structures built of very large, squared stones I am nonplussed. How many of you have ever taken a large stone weighing about a hundred pounds and tried to shape it into a smooth rectangular shape? Then try to imagine doing this to a thousand such stones for a wall or other structure. I can envision a few hundred laborers working like ants to do something like this, but it seems improbable all these hundreds are skilled masons.

Like the various theories of how those three pyramids of Giza may have been built and how great obelisks were set in place none of these make any practical sense to me. And when attempts are made to demonstrate such things on a smaller scale, they fall far short of being the real thing, much like comparing a kite with a modern airliner.

I can’t bring myself to believe those who have dedicated their lives to science and archeology are involved with a vast conspiracy. But neither can I accept many of the theories I read and programs we see on TV as “explanations” for some things that simply make no sense according to the theories offered. Every once in a while something pops up to tell us ancient people had access to technology not thought possible to them.

It was fascinating to read the recent article about how baby sand dollars have learned to survive; and I couldn’t help thinking that if only we humans were capable of exercising the same degree of intelligence as a baby sand dollar we wouldn’t be bending our efforts toward “bigger and better” means of our extinction as a species, but rather would be attempting to be more user friendly toward our planet and dedicating more of our efforts to understanding how those thousands of stones were squared off and proving we can be just as smart as baby sand dollars.