One cannot live on complacency either, Brad.  PEOPLE MUST WAKE UP AND 
BEGIN TO TAKE STOCK!!

LOVE IN JESUS THE CHRIST,

Mari



At 09:43 AM 6/29/2007, you wrote:
>I don't think we will have much to do with one world anything other 
>than perhaps a tool in making it happen in a quick manner as you 
>say, a method of getting it to happen via our fall. World powers 
>only stay as such for a term, history shows that, we are extremely 
>fortunate to have  what we have and continue to have as we are still 
>much better off than much of the world, it is because of that we 
>feel it first too. But it is not permanent or a guarantee which 
>folks naturally tend to think based off of our false sense of 
>security and phantom patriotism. We here in Wisconsin and the Great 
>Lakes Area are suffering from an unknown  virus in the  fish in 
>which they are diseased and dying. Inland lakes as well as the Great 
>Lakes. Watching how fast this is spreading over such great volumes 
>of water, really wakens one up to see how our food chain could be 
>poisoned, our water make non-potable and etc. We have very 
>strange  and unheard of things occurring in recent years. We have 
>ports being controlled by other countries, private  foreign 
>countries buying our toll ways that were Federally run and 
>operated,  did you know this administration is selling off, or at 
>least if not yet sold, but is planning on selling off, our National 
>Park lands to provide money to fix our roads? Something is 
>definitely wrong here. Roads deteriorate everyday and will need to 
>be redone again and again, selling land is permanent. We're selling 
>the driveway to keep the car payment up. Lots of stuff that goes on 
>we don't know about. The average American, bless their heart and 
>mine too, much of the time, are so involved in our daily lives and 
>goals, that we miss the knowledge and warning signs of our future, 
>and yet there are so many fires out there we can't possibly keep an 
>eye on them all. Which is why I think people just do not have the 
>heart or will to group together like they use to. Where does one 
>start?  The blind have grouped together in the past because of 
>desperation and a clear goal and outline of the fire, that is human 
>nature, the question is, how far away is desperation for us, and 
>will it be too late to do anything about it? And will our attempts 
>be  equal to protecting our sand castle with a dike as the 
>approaching tide rolls in. Depressing me out now lol. I feel I'm 
>pointing out the blatantly obvious. I do not like doom and gloom, 
>which I feel I appear here, but one can't fix something if you don't 
>realize the problem either. No room for Ostriches here? :)
>
>Brad