Bleak, Bleaker, Bleakest

It seems like every time I go away, thus the no new postings for the past few days, things seem to go to hell in a handbasket. During a previous ski trip, there was a terrorist attack on Japan's subways system. On another vacation to Ireland, there was the Christmas Tsunami. Mind you, this time, even before I left, things weren't going well in the world. But coming back I see things have actually gotten much much worse. We hang on the edge of a cliff and it's a long way down.
Our infrastructure continues to crumble, with rolling blackouts a new normal across the country. With the devastating heat wave still continuing across the planet, tens of thousands are actually dying from heat stroke, especially in Russia experiencing the worst heat in 1000 years. Read that again and explain to me how climate change is not real. I dare you. Our energy grid, especially in the northeast and southeast are horribly outdated and prone to failure. The price tag will be at least 1.5 trillion dollars to fix. Like we have it. Our bridges are collapsing, our power is in danger of being corrupted due to a growing population and an aging system and we throw money away on pork projects like the effects of coke snorting on monkeys and a museum for an old train station not much bigger than the shotgun shack I just spent the last few days in. Unfreakingbelievable.
That would bad enough news except for the rising number of world class economists who are saying that the next Depression has started with runaway inflation possible and another stock market crash by October. Unemployment, the real numbers, are between 20 and 28% of the population now, meaning we are near, at or above Depression era statistics. And people back then didn't have mortgages, credit card debt, car payments and a host of other expenses that we have today. MSM has actually begun reporting the problem as very serious on such channels as CNBC and CNN. Food prices are rising, and with what I will discuss in the next paragraph, oil prices are set to soar beyond even what we saw a few years back. With no new jobs being created, and Obama or Congress unwilling to help, we are at the brink of rebellion and a possible total Fascist dictatorship to quell any unrest.
If all that wasn't bad enough, as I have posted previously, Israel is on a highway to hell with a possible war that could break out at any moment. With Syria's possible defection away from Iran, the heat has been ratcheted up to extreme levels. Lebanon, now almost under the complete control of Hezbollah, has denounced the current findings over the 2005 assassination of a prominent political figure and have instead blamed Israel, of course, for the attack. Beyond the fact the Israel had no reason to kill a moderate leader, this rant has fallen on deaf ears world wide. That has not stopped Iran from declaring the Lebanese Army is now one and the same with Hezbollah and imncreasing their fiery rhetoric for the destruction of Israel. Israel has responded by moving a large number of troops, equipment and support to the border, telling citizens to stay off of highways near Lebanon. Unlike the last war, this one will not be fought so terribly. Whether Sharon was incompetent or just stupid is unknown (he did fight the war just like Bush), Netenyahu will not follow the same blueprint to lose again. This time it will be war, an all out one at that, which will drag the Middle East, and probably the world into another world war. Gas prices will skyrocket and economies will collapse world wide. Fun. So smoke em if you got em. The end draws near.