No, I’m not talking about the Massachusett’s election where Martha Coakley is down in the polls, and, if she loses, the Democratically-controlled Senate loses its 60 seat majority.  Yes, it’s a tight race, and, President Obama can’t seem to find the time to go help her campaign.  Big deal.

What IS a big deal is the thought that losing that 60th seat is what will put the Democrats agenda in jeopardy.  

Ministry of Truth has a great essay on why he fights.

They are all very good points.  I guess I am just too jaded, because I DO have a rebuttal to those points.

Here is why I am done fighting…

I haven’t posted an essay in a while, and, I received an email or two asking about me.  

I appreciate the concern.  

There were some comments made to my last few essays that I believe I should address.

An establishment is built on money.  Businesses run on profit.  What happens when you combine the establishment of government with business interests?  Both must continue to find more and more money.  Where do they do that?  From the citizenry.

Over the years, we’ve seen businesses and corporations continue to enlarge until some are too big to fail.  If they are about to fail, the government simply gives them our tax dollars.

We are required to have car insurance if we wish to drive.  We are required to pay taxes, regardless of what it is, once a government tells us we must.

We will be required to buy health insurance, regardless if we can afford it.

Wages have stagnated.

The Middle Class has been destroyed.

President Obama has just raised our national debt limit to over $12 Trillion dollars.

Corporations are seeing more and more court cases go in their favor, and if they don’t, they simply keep the case in constant appeal, or, refuse to pay.

This is not 2050, but, 2009.

It’s Christmas Eve.  

But, I’m not supposed to be able to feel the joy, or, if there is some, the pain.  Because I take anti-depressants.

Do you know what an anti-depressant does to you?  It flat-lines your brain.

It is designed to keep those feeling down from being able to feel down.  It also keeps you from feeling good.

Do you know how we counteract it?

So, a freshman Democratic Representative from Alabama has switched to the GOP.  

Unlike Sen. Specter, Parker Griffith won’t find any friends willing to vote for him in the coming election in 2010.

Griffith will face a primary against a teabagger Republican, and, he will lose.  He will be off the government gravy-train.

So, why wait for these people to quit?  KICK THEM OUT…

Yes, this is a very personal, and internal, essay.

The title states what I feel, “It is time for me to die”.

My best days are behind me.

Surviving two warzones.  Surviving the minefields of Iraq.  Surviving my time as a cop.

I knew, from the time I was 18 and had joined the military as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, that my time on Earth was limited.

That, however, didn’t prove to be true…