Dianne Reidy, above, seized the mic on the floor of the House of Representatives the other night and made a brief speech opining that God was unhappy with the House and the United States government, the latter of which was founded by Freemasons, she said, and therefore unholy. As I understand it. Ms. Reidy was the stenographer of the House. She was carted off for psychiatric evaluation and has now been discharged as fine. Apparently. Her husband has told ink-stained wretches that she and Dianne are very religious Christians, that Dianne was very upset by the partial government shutdown and that God had called her in the middle of several nights telling her to make said speech. Husband vouches for Dianne's sanity and rationality, viz: "If that's not God's spirit..."; "She feels fine [now]"; "Now that it was done, she told her husband that she felt greatly relieved;" "The husband did not even consider that she was now suffering from some kind of mental disorder;" Husband is grateful to the yarmulke-wearing Jew who attended to Dianne in hospital. This is all per the Daily Beast. 666. Dianne was also a sufferer of "Miriam Carey disease," aka post-partum depression, but she was substantially post the partum as her kids are now seven. Rounding out this portrait of Dianne, Husband says she came to the House after leaving criminal court reporting because she couldn't take "the darkness of murder." Which the undersigned finds reasonable.
The consensus over Dianne seems to be pretty consistent with Husband's: normal God-fearing, God-loving Christian woman who walked off into fashion headwear design one night. What if that is right? Are Americans generally one birth, one partial government shutdown, one stressful moment away from punching a pizza delivery lady? What is so aberrant, so un-American, about Dianne? America is the most religious nation on earth; we have that in common with Dianne. I know some Americans, a lot of them my criminal clients, have God or His Son speak to them. That's what I understand. Weren't even fancy-pants Americans with newspaper columns and by-lines and all that in a tizzy over the late shutdown? Yes, they were. Weren't, in fact, some of the Founding Fathers Freemasons? Huh? I have opined my own self that the F.F.'s aforesaid were about three bricks shy of a load. Since then, has America been peopled with the best and the brightest from other lands to make up for our birth trauma? According to the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, no! America has been peopled by the "tired," the "poor," "huddled masses," "wretched refuse," "homeless," "tempest-tost" (Sic, Bob, sic.). Well, you can't sew a silk purse out of a sow's ear, can you? It is no wonder that America has produced Joseph Smith, Charles Manson, Pat Robertson, John Boehner, the Tea Party,
Ted Cruz, Hector Camacho, Guadalupe Shaw, Miriam Carey, Dianne Reidy, Benjamin Harris, Michael Hayden, cutting edge fashion headwear designers--all people occupying that part of the normalcy spectrum ranging from the maniacally homicidal to the merely daft. Likewise, the ideas of this flotsam: Mormonism, Babbitt-business, predatory capitalism, consumerism, Evangelical Christianity, Helter-Skelter. So, does America still work? How can America work with this? It does, somehow. Less well in the last few years, but yes, it still works. The immediate future looks to be more of the recent less-well past. America is such an abundant country, natural resources are so great, I suppose the Chinese Communist Party could have screwed it up but really, how could the American experiment not work, not be prosperous on this continent once we massacred the Indians? And human resources: American homos on the other side of the normalcy spectrum (generally) have been the most creative people in the history of the species.
Has America improved the soul of mankind? Some American wretched refuse have improved the soul of mankind a lot. Others, not so much. On the whole, America has improved the soul of mankind. The soul is a mutable thing, though. America's soul has changed repeatedly, if slightly, over history. Add to the aforementioned American people the creation of the American people, the National Security Agency and America's soul has changed for the worse more in the last dozen or so years than at any time in history. So the consensus here is that this America, the America of today, the recent past and the immediate future is a net negative on humanity's soul but... I am Benjamin Harris.
