2013-A New Year/Same Results

We all lived through the Zombie Apocalypse, Mayan Apocalypse, Nostradamus Effect and perceived Bible prophecy.  December 22nd came around just like December 21st without significant world wide occurrence.  Unfortunately, the U.S. reeled, and is still reeling, from the shocking mass murder of twenty children and six teachers by an obviously disturbed young man.

Our country plunged headlong off the fiscal cliff, while congress and the President elected to come to some sort of outrageous agreement post-mortem.  Our economy creeps along at the speed of smell and our government continues to reign in any potential for real recovery.  Violent crime grabs headlines even though gun crimes are down overall around the country--but we shan't allow that to stand in the way of sensational headlines, shall we?

The University of Alabama won back-to-back national championships in football defeating a clearly outclassed Notre Dame team.  The college football world imagined a return of Rudy in South Bend, IN and Manti Teo imagined having a real girlfriend.  The Southeastern Conference brought home its seventh national championship in as many years and the state of Alabama held on to the crystal ball for its fourth consecutive season.

A not so quiet attack on Constitutional rights continued into the new year with talk of gun and ammunition control.  Our president and vice-president were sworn in and a grand party scheduled to the tune of 170 million tax payer dollars.  Let me re-type that for you--that's one hundred seventy MILLION United States dollar bills.  That's all of us paying our fair share so D.C. can party like it's 2099.  To put this in perspective, I gave a guy a couple of bucks the other day who was begging for enough money to purchase a sandwich.  This fellow is from the south side of Chicago.  Guess who else is from Chicago (well, sort of)?

And after all the craziness that is the United States, still we fight about what "is" really is.  So many are concerned with scoring political points and securing power that our future generations are left wondering if this country is all it's really cracked up to be.  The one thing we can all agree upon is that it needs to be fixed.  How we fix it is what we continue to argue about.

The last thing we can all agree on is that the University of Alabama is one dominating football team and the Southeastern Conference is the most dominating conference in the world of college football.  You see?  The year has changed but the results remain the same.