Signs of the Apocalypse II

Rumors of a GM-Chrysler merger.

General Motors shares gaining more than 60% in just three days -- but still trading at a paltry $6.50, off 85% from a year ago.

A world that includes Al Gore, Ralph Nader and Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak, and a world without Charlton Heston, George Carlin and Paul Newman.

Citizen slackers complaining about celebrity activists.

"The Original Mavericks."

Light beer, drive-thru flu shots, and The Indoor.

Four U.S. Supreme Court justices who actually believe that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee an individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms.

The name of "Mickey Mouse" appearing on a voter-registration form submitted by ACORN.

ACORN, Swift Boat Vets, MoveOn, RightChange and every other §527, union and church that shields its politics with its tax status.

Citizens who object to Joe Biden saying that wealthier Americans paying higher taxes is the "patriotic" thing to do, but who evade paying their own taxes -- and yet reap benefits paid for by those of us who do.

John McCain being booed by at his own rally because he called for "a respectful campaign."

An American company closing a plant and moving its operations outside the U.S. -- and then requiring its lame-duck employees to train their overseas replacements.

American taxpayers funding the government's corporate bailout so that banks can afford to foreclose, at great loss, on homes owned by American taxpayers -- that is, a bank foreclosing a mortgage and then auctioning the property for less than half the market value, a tactic made possible because the bank got a taxpayer-funded bailout and the taxpaying homeowner didn't.

"It will take time for our efforts to have their full impact, but the American people can have confidence about our long-term economic future."

The Electoral College.

"I call on my opponent to repudiate..."