exvigilare

And to think I missed it.

What, a presidential candiate debate with only 14 months to go? Well, I guess we’re at least now getting into the traditional season for the race - but 6 months ago? Hey guys, if it seems like nobody is interested, well…

Crazy busy lately. Had a 3 hour job interview last week and back for a 2nd this week. Pray or cross your fingers for me. I’ll take everything I can get. Oddly, even though I’m down to only 2 full time jobs (in one) I still don’t have time to write regularly. Thank God for RSS readers, although I can’t even keep up with that. Without it, though, I would have missed Steven Green’s drunkblogging the Democratic debate last night (what, there was a debate? Why wasn’t I told?). Even better, I would have missed this comment by schnargley, stolen directly:

As an ex-drinker and Dem, this came to mind painfully reading the Dem press conference and Stephen’s painful attempt to ..err..digest it:

12 steps out of Democratic political and the need for drunk-blogging:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to statism, political pandering, and failed socialist ideas–that our country and Party had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore our country and our party to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our country over to the care of God as we understood Him (except for Obama’s racist god.)

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our need for government programs, meddling, and intrusion.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrong-minded state-as-messiah philosophy, and political pandering to the public’s worst defects, and treason to our troops.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character from our rhetoric, propaganda and platform.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings as an American political Party.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, beginning with the African Americans, and then our military, became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory by reading and honestly answering non/partisan blog writers, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Instead of poll-dependence, we sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for our nation and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other statists, leftists, and other addicts to the culture of the 60’s, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

If you’ve ever been to an AA meeting, you’re probably picking yourself off the floor (I’m still recovering from the sudden coffee expelling through my nose). If you’ve never been to a meeting you’ll just have to take my word for it.