Today is the first day of another year. There are, as always at the beginning of every year, reasons for hope and reasons for gloom. The world looks to be slightly easing out of the deep financial trough that greed, conniving and stupidity put us into, although that’s still uncertain.
The ongoing war, if if can be called that, between Islam and Western Values decreases in one place only to increase in another, in a truly Orwellian scenario. Eternal war is exactly what it looks like, us against the Eurasians or the Eastasians, just like Orwell’s “1984″. It is fascinating to watch unfold, I mean, if you can’t stop it you might as well be entertained by it.
The Earths population continues to grow but at the same time we’re edging constantly closer to some massive wipeouts of our numbers. More, smaller and less stable nations are getting The Bomb. Not that Italy and France are all that stable in my opinion, and they have it.
More major diseases are becoming more aggressive, more infectuous and more drug resistant.
Now for the bad news. 
Well, really, what goes up must come down, and this is true for civilizations, nations, species and frisbees. So 2010 is a really good year for hanging close with our loved ones, our families and friends, because we need each other now more than ever and you know the saying, “in unity there is strength”.
This is a great year for building better relationships with those around you, wherever you are. You might also consider picking up a good rifle or shotgun, and ammunition, and an inventory of dried foods that will keep for years if kept dry. Not a lot of stuff but enough to feed you and yours for a few months. Some sacks of rice and beans, sugar and flour. Stuff like that. Flour eventually goes bad because all flour has weevils in it, and if you have it around long enough, you end up with a sack full of weevils and no flour. You can fix that by baking the flour dry, as is, in the bag, on the low setting in your oven for a few hours. Kills the bugs.
The idea is just to create a sense of security. We can survive in some pretty simple shelters, but not without food. Don’t forget the matches.
As long as we have a dweeb in charge of our National Security named Napolitano who thinks acts of terrorism are “man-caused disasters”, and another president who refuses to take any direct action against any of our true enemies, (besides Bush) we can count on continued attacks and attempted attacks. The last one on that airplane that was foiled by passengers, should have been stopped in at least 5 different places before he ever got on the plane. Very suspicious, no? It’s almost like he kept getting a pass at each point in his journey, right down to even being granted a US visa when he was on a watch list.
My point is that either these attacks are being orchestrated by our own people or else our National Security System is considered unimportant by the president, and whichever, it means our government is complicit in maintaining a level of constant fear in order to keep getting away with their power plays, which they’d never get away with in peace time.
So expect that crap to continue for 2010. Also expect our One Party System to keep shoving Socialism down our throats. For poor people, this is great news for the short term, as they’ll be living high on the dole, with income tax refunds when they never paid anything in, better medical care, higher free monthly money and so on. As this constant tax drain on the working people increases, more of them will join those on the dole and before too long all that lovely money will run out and people will be getting aspirins and calamine lotion for meds and dog bisquits for welfare, and the lucky ones will be living in their cars instead of on the streets. Not in 2010 though. The “Soylent Green” scene will take much longer to come around.
For 2010, any opening of the job markets will create a choice: To take the job or take the welfare. This is because, with unemployment so high, people work for less to have employment, wages keep dropping and it can be a toss-up whether the hard work of a job is worth the small increase of money over what welfare pays. This Obamanizing of welfare will dramatically slow down our economic recovery.
But take the job, because over time, your wages will increase and your life will improve. If you take the welfare, the money will go up for a short while but then start going back down, and by the time you get desparate and try to find a decent job, they’ll all be taken.
In summary, this is not the year to throw caution to the winds and live for today, to go around pissing people off and damaging or tossing aside your relationships. This is the year to solidify your life, to create a rock to stand on and a shelter to abide in. Surround yourself with allies. It’s looking like you’re going to need them.