No Atheists in Foxholes

The saying has been there in most wars. I know for sure it is a saying among soldiers since World War I and probably before that as well. The full saying is: "

"There are no atheists in foxholes" meaning if you think you might die any moment your belief in God is likely to skyrocket during those times or moments.

There are always times that scare the s**t out of everyone and we are in one of those times now. The other one within recent memory are 9-11, also October 9th 2002 when the dow went below 7200. Before that it was the late 1980s stock market crash, and before that it was Nixon leaving office, Viet Nam War, and Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and his brother President Kennedy being assasinated and before that it was the Cuban Nuclear Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs.

For me these were some of the public scary times Americans faced together that I have personally experienced. Now is one of those times as well. I'm not even sure 7200 will be a bottom in the stock market this time. I don't know if the big three:General Motors, Ford or Chrysler will still be there 6 months from now or if they exist what they will be manufacturing because it is unlikely they will continue making the cars and trucks they now do.

I was listening to Michael Moore on Larry King Live talk about growing up as a son of a General Motors Employee and what a good life growing up he had and how losing over 60,000 jobs where he grew up has devastated Flint, Michigan and turned it into one of the worst foreclosure capitals of America.

His take was that General Motors should be told to make light rails, and other public transportation machinery and hybrids and alternate fuel and battery powered vehicles.
To some degree I believe he is right as the switch away from oil based fuels and technology is already in full swing in Europe and much of the rest of the civilized world. America is sorely lagging behind and has been for at least 20 or more years.

I would say two of the leaders are the European Union and China who are leading the way toward innovation into alternative forms of energy generation and consumption.

So, America must move forward and become one of the leaders of the alternative energy movement worldwide and not just an old technology dinosaur as the big three Automakers have been for about 30 years now.