We’s from that upper hemishpere, you know. We’re Smarter Cause God Made Us That Way! We doesn’t make mistakes like you bottom hemisphere types.

Nevermind Iraq and Bush and global warming and pollution and depletion of our resources and nuclear proliferation and the fact we owe everyone else a ton of money and…

@Jen – So right. America hold hope in their hands. Hold it softly please. It is precious to the world.

@SanityFound – Thanks!

@Michelle – These are the days of our lives… Maybe better than 7de Laan?

I’m watching with avid interest as the soap opera unfolds…

Oh, and yes, we do have power outages and food shortages in SA, but it really isn’t as dire as everyone makes out… this has happened in other places in the world – including the USA – we have far more for us than against us and we have the most amazingly resilient and strong people. Those of you who are so concerned, get back to basics and talk to the people – not the same group of friends who bitch and complain with you, the real people and you will be surprised, uplifted and encouraged.

One minor change.

The milleneum ended on Jan 1, 2001. Y2k happened on, well, um, hmmm…

2000.

Oh, well. Slap me.

I remember Y2K, the year that was actually supposed to happen on Jan 1, 2001, astonishingly enough! Ha! The planet was going to crumble. At least digitally it was, anyway.

My brother in law (my sister’s husband) spent too much time at rabidly fearful militia websites. His new-found ‘wisdom’ led him to pull his kids out of school and take the family to Tillimook, Oregon to weather out the Great Digital Disaster That Happens When Computers Go Gaga When They Can’t Figure Out The Difference Between 1900 AD and 2000 AD.

When That Great Day came, posolutely nothing happened! Not one thing. Absulartly, peesolutly nothing.

That yellow star crept above the horizon, and the dinosaurs (what’s left of ‘em anyway from that rock from space) were still singing in the trees. Actually, just crows, and I have to say that their hoarse ‘caw! caw! caw!’ ain’t actual singing, neether.

Anyway…

I gave my brother in law a good chastizing for doing something that most slightly educated Americans, and even some of the smarter logs in the forest wouldn’t do:

Run like hell in the face of non-dangerous dangerouslessness.

Me, I ran to the nearest sporting goods store on the Day After (there is an old movie out that has a thermonuclear motif to it by that name).

To get there, I had to pick my way of non-existant non-wreckage, cars that weren’t on fire, water mains that weren’t spouting water, the non-dead and non-dying and finally, the blasted out bridge that really wasn’t blown out at all, or even a bridge.

Even the dinosaurs were still cawing!

And I got very nice discounts on hand powered flashlights, radios and other sundry goodies.

Guess where they were made?

Yup. South Africa. I’m telling you true!

Is it as bad as what you went through? Absolutely not. Maybe some of us whine, but my experience, with respect to this election, is less about whining and more about fear. You are right about that too.

Yes, our basic needs will be sustained. Maybe we Americans look to other large issues that are very important to us. We know our basic needs will be met. You won’t see us complaining about that. But our capitalism nature causes us to care very much about what happens to us globally and nationally, because were tremendously money-driven.

I won’t even PRETEND to know what it’s like in Africa. That would be extremely rude of me. I don’t know anything about if you are capitalistic, democratic, or anything. They didn’t cover Africa in school, unfortunately. I wish they had.

Anyway, my two cents, which is globally worth about nada.