brethren sell moonshine on the side? Maybe grow a little hooch in the woods behind the homestead?

"We are at a critical point.  Right now.  We've become high-handed and self-assured in our prosperity, but it's going to end."

Good. We deserve it. Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the coming fiscal and economic apocalypse.

"We ought to look deeply into the core of our values, and take honest assessment...are we, as a nation, really living up to our ideals?"

That's the other spooky part though. Folks in the blue zone have a very different idea of what our ideals are than folks in the red zone. The country hasn't been so politically self-segregated since 1860.

"but do we really police the heavy-hitting wrongdoers that we have spawned here?

And if not, then who will?

I'll bet you know."

Well I know who Bush has in mind. Its the tens of million strong generation y that's just coming of age now, and who he plans to start drafting if he wins a second term.