The Eagles “Hole in the World” (2003)
I hope you pause to click the link to listen. This is the first time, in 239 articles, that I have used a song as a heading in an article. I have done so in this 240th article. It is fitting. The lyrics are:
There's a hole in the world tonight.
There's a cloud of fear and sorrow.
There's a hole in the world tonight.
Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow.
They say that anger is just love disappointed.
They say that love is just a state of mind,
But all this fighting over who will be anointed.
Oh how can people be so blind
There's a hole in the world tonight.
There's a cloud of fear and sorrow.
There's a hole in the world tonight.
Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow.
Oh they tell me there's a place over yonder,
Cool water running through the burning sand,
Until we learn to love one another
We will never reach the promise land.
There's a hole in the world tonight.
There's a cloud of fear and sorrow.
There's a hole in the world tonight.
Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow.
From https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eagles/hole-in-the-world:
Don Henley started writing this song on one of the darkest days in American history: September 11, 2001. He wrote in the liner notes for The Very Best Of The Eagles compilation: "I sat down at the piano in my home studio and started putting some chords with the phrase 'hole in the world.' Months went by, but I didn't show it to anybody. Then, other things started happening that gave additional meanings to 'Hole in the World,' particularly after the [Iraq] war started. The fighting was supposedly over in May, and yet one or two or three of our boys were - and still are - getting killed every day, which means somebody's daddy is not coming home. So that's another 'hole' - a huge hole in somebody's life - a child, a wife, a mother, a father, a brother, a sister.”
The Eagles website doesn't mention the song or the reason for the song. It should. It is a timeless song.
The Holes in the World
The above hole is or was a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia – according to the link that I won't site. (You can search “hole in the word” on “Gaggle,” to find the image.)
On this Sunday afternoon (8/29/2021), about 3:30 PM, as I type this sentence, I HAVE ABOUT HAD IT – HAVEN'T YOU? The hole in the world is too large. I am despondent. I am pensive as I write this article.
I had planned this article to be on “poly-tics” (poly or “many” from Greek + ticks or blood suckers). I will not write on the topic, except briefly (below). A deeper article on “poly-tics” would leave me more despondent and pensive than I am already.
Let's start counting the holes in the world. I wish that I didn't have to write this. This is not a complete list. I wouldn't have stopped writing, if I had written a complete list! Here we go!
(1) Afghanistan. 9/11/2001 started it. They hit us first. The USA hit back -- weakly, over almost 20 years. The first president of the USSA plans to get the USSA out on 8/31/2021 – two short days from today. He has no clue. The folks that pull his puppet strings have no clue. The USA, from 9/11/2001 to now, has been losing an almost 20-year war against an enemy who uses pitch forks for weapons. The “war against terror” could have been won in a year or two. The USA and allies won World War II in about four years or less.
In its mindless rush to get out of its 20-year lost war in Afghanistan, the USSA is leaving behind countless millions of monopoly money dollars worth of military equipment and supplies. Who cares? The USSA doesn't.
On 8/26/2021, Thursday, an enemy suicide killed 13 USA (as I must respect them, so not USSA) soldiers. One soldier who died was a 2016 graduate of Gibbs High school. The high school is about a two-mile drive north of our “40 acres” – very close to home. Local media has articles about it.
Afghanistan is a hole that hit close to home, on 8/26/2021. The hole will widen. The deaths will multiply. I am despondent.
(2) Illegal alien invasion. The USSA southern border remains wide open! All the desperate, poor, hunger, evil and good, adults and children, and the COVID-19 infected or not folks can come on into the USSA. The USSA will give them transportation to their favorite USSA location, a house, a car, food, and spending money – even if the local yokels in the area object or don't even know! It's only fair! The equal distribution of wealth needs to happen – to make everyone poor and dependent on the USSA. The USSA needs more illegals to come in, to ensure the Socialist Utopians get enough votes, to keep them in power – until voting won't be legal anymore!
Aren't y'all tired of it? I am. I am despondent.
(3) Monopoly money. The USSA will keep printing the monopoly money to support the USSA Socialist Utopian dream! “It's all good,” as it is said! The USSA needs to fund “infrastructure” improvements and other pipe dreams! No worries! Enough RINO Republicans joined the Democrat Socialist Utopians to get the bill passed. The first USSA president (a puppet) was glad to sign the bill into law (after the ones who pull his puppet strings had loaded him up on whatever medications he needed, to be somewhat coherent in his speech, so he could sign the bill).
I had a working document on the details. I'm glad that I deleted it. I am despondent.
(4) Corona Myopia Psychosis. The various “variants” are hitting the USSA in spades! I wrote about my “Corony Epsilon” case. I'm fine now. It was a minor cold virus. I didn't miss work. It didn't matter.
Yes, I know that medical providers are feeling the burn of the new cold virus. I know that folks are either getting sick and recovering or dying from it. I know all the websites. I deleted my working document that had various details.
Folks are dying every day – from old age, cancer, heart trouble, strokes, vehicle accidents, and many other maladies. I had details in my deleted working document. It would have wasted my time to have published the details.
The Corona Myopia Psychosis is a tool that the USSA Socialist Utopians are using to keep the fearful afraid. I am not one of the fearful. I am despondent.
(5) Race war. My deleted working document had included: “Juneteenth, on the 19th day of June, annually, will be a day off work!” I referenced a Congress.gov website that you can check, if you are bored. The Critical Race Theory (CRT) ideology is making the rounds on the various media.
I thought that the content of character mattered – not the skin color. Well, that's what Martin Luther King Jr. said, as he reflected the moral code of the Good Lord. I am despondent.
(6) PGI/PGO. Apparently, the Commission for LGBT People has no clue that God created us male and female. Some fools think that there are either 12 or 58 different genders. You can click the links, if you are bored. I deleted my working document on this, which had several details, about which I no longer care.
Some of my readers have been wondering what “PGI/PGO” means. PGI is “person of genitalia innie.” PGO is “person of genitalia outie.” If anyone questions his or her gender (as there are only two options), then I suggest strongly: drop your drawers in private (please). Look between your legs. Do you have a genitalia innie or outie? If you have an innie, you are a female. If you have an outie, you are a male.
PGI/PGO folks should use the proper restrooms and play sports on the correct teams. Are you not tired of this silliness? I am. I am despondent.
The Whole in the World
The Oak Ridge Boys gave a great rendition of “Jesus Is Coming Soon!” I hope that you click the link and enjoy their version of the song (after you skip the advertisement)!
The hole in the world is a bunch of gnats. The gnats get in the way of looking toward the whole in the world. I have wiped the gnats away from my eyes, finally, by this 240th article! I hope that this article helps you do the same.
Keep replaying the Oak Ridge Boys singing “Jesus is Coming Soon!” It helps. Hey! I have this article published well before supper – for a change!
BY the way, “Jesus is coming soon” means that “a year is as but a day.” Soon, to Jesus' perspective, may take several more decades or centuries. I hope not! Come, dear Lord! Come NOW! Well, he didn't yet. I AM STILL WAITING – as PATIENTLY as an Irishman can!