It is late here, midnight passing. December has come again, and for the past few months I have been enduring the same demonic nights that I experience every year at this time, as my spirit relives the hard pilgrimage that led to the night of December 26, 1985.

The feelings are so complex, the fears so deep and the love, too, so deep, that sometimes, even after all these years,the whole emotional avalanche of having the visitors emerge into my life threatens to drown me.

It was not all bad, not by any means, and that what makes my present condition so hard. I have lost loves, great loves, towering loves, left behind me a life and experiences that are somewhere close to the pinnacle what can happen to a living man.
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Let me begin by saying that it is my fervent hope that I am entirely wrong about what follows. I fear that the opposite is true, though, which is why I’m writing it now.

We must wait two more months before the Democrats take power, and the Bush Administration appears at this point to be actually working to harm the economy during these eight fatal weeks.
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Today Henry Paulson, acting in desperation, radically revised the U.S. bailout package. Instead of buying toxic assets from banks, now it will try to inject money directly into the economy by supporting the consumer debt markets directly. Meanwhile, stock exchanges around the world slumped as economy after economy literally fell off a cliff when consumption, quite simply, stopped.

Meanwhile, US credit card companies were canceling millions of credit cards, especially those not often used, and credit card companies were making efforts to justify increasing interest wrates on credit cards by artificially damaging consumer credit.
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When the subject of UFOs was brought up with Barack Obama during the campaign, he simply laughed for a brief moment and moved on. McCain, by contrast, said that NASA was keeping secrets that he would make them reveal. However, John Podesta is the head of the president-elect’s transition team, and he has taken an interest in UFO disclosure, so it would seem that there is at least some chance that change is in the offing in this area, too. Podesta has said, “It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.”
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