As I shared with someone on the Bakersfield Californian blog while I don’t have a crystal ball I do have a crystal frog. It is quite beautiful measuring about three inches, and is not only decorative but a handy paperweight. However, as I witness the prevailing lunacy here in America such as the debacle presently going on in Texas over that polygamist ranch and those children I’m tempted to either go back to bed and pull the covers over my head or resort to something really drastic in an attempt to make sense of things. For example, if caffeine and nicotine do not suffice for my scrying efforts maybe my crystal frog might do the trick; if crystal skulls can do the job why not a crystal frog?

Well, a few carping critics might point out Indiana Jones wouldn’t be laying it on the line going after a crystal frog. And I freely admit when it comes to imagination and adventure stories skulls usually win out over frogs, though to speak a word on behalf of the occult both have a prominent place in the dark arts. To give frogs their due, the princess does not find her prince by kissing skulls. Walt Kelly was astute in giving a prominent place to frogs in Pogo, and they certainly play an important role in any ecosystem.

Just like Lee Marvin in Death Hunt “I never did have much luck praying.” But consulting my crystal frog, well, might be worth a try. But I’ll have to do some further research before any consultation; I don’t want to risk incurring the wrath of whatever spirits may be aligned with frogs.

Now before anyone accuses me of being silly about this, does our political and legal system here in America make better sense than consulting my crystal frog for answers? I think not. If I were to purposely go about designing a system guaranteed to hex America and cast an evil spell on our nation I could hardly do better than what is in place today. For many years I told people concerning education in America a system guaranteed for failure could not be better designed had it been done intentionally. Now, I believe I can say with full assurance the same thing for our political and legal system. It has become so dangerously silly, lunatic in my opinion that it reeks of Satan not only as the deceiver and adversary of humankind, but as the ultimate “author of confusion.”

We can hardly blame children for being confused as per the glorification of sex and violence everywhere they look, but anything approaching genuine concern for the welfare of children and families has long disappeared from America. And the best thing the legal system in Texas can come up with is tossing children back into a really sick religious environment? Talk about hell on earth!

I’ve worked as a CPS investigator here in California, and I know how bad the system is. But we have the universities to thank for this. Once you know how poorly qualified many of those working in Social Services are, once you know how the universities and the state qualifies these people you begin to understand the problem. But I also know how those involved with CPS in Texas can easily be painted as “Gestapo” kicking down the doors to “save children.” As I was standing outside a courthouse a father came up to me and asked tearfully, “What gives you people the power to just come into my home and take my children from me?” In turn I asked him, “Can you tell me the name of your local legislative representative?” He could not.

The lunacy of it is that we cannot have it both ways. Either the welfare of children and families is paramount in law and in society or it is not. But as a nation we have lost any legal or moral basis for defining family, and without this continued turmoil without any satisfactory outcome is assured. There is a civil war in America, one in which our educational, political, and legal systems have become so corrupt and inept, so contradictory in many cases such as the refusal to secure our borders as to fuel a growing crisis of both law and values in every direction we look.

Well, I must ask you all to excuse me for now. I have some research to do before getting together with my frog. Makes a lot more sense to me than what is going on in Texas or any Congressional committees and hearings, and I might add with better prospects of getting some straight answers to straight questions.