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Believe it or not: Cactus Ed Abbey will be 85 years old

September 25, 20120

By James Bishop, Jr.September 25, 2012 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell—Edward Abbey…

Letter to the Editor: Medians along 89A in West Sedona

September 18, 20128

By Henry TwomblySedona AZ (September 18, 2012) I disagree with Jim Eaton’s advocacy for medians along 89A in West…

The death of a poet

September 5, 20121

By James Bishop, Jr.Sedona AZ (September 5, 2012) Weary of dreary jobs and basement beds from Texas to Chicago,…

Letter to the Editor: Redesignating 4.6 acres on Airport Mesa

August 29, 20124

By Henry Twombly Sedona AZ (August 28, 2012) I hope you, my fellow citizens, have also received the Public Notice…

Meditation Practice Yields Gold!

August 26, 20123

By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org Late one rainy afternoon in the parking lot of my bank I dropped a gold nugget. It…

Knowing the End from the Beginning

August 20, 20123

By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org This title could refer to a bad novel – one that plays on plot lines stolen from…

Online Education: Is the bloom already off the rose?

August 16, 20121

By James Bishop, Jr. Technology will tie a tiny fine wire around your soul–Adlai Stevenson From coast to coast, and…

Welcome to the Other Sedona

August 7, 20120

By James Bishop, Jr. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat—Cicero Sedona AZ (August 7, 2012) – Observing…

Letter to the Editor: Sedona Fire District

July 22, 20127

By Wendy V. Tanzer Sedona AZ (July 22, 2012) – Dear Editor, During the June SFD Governing Board meeting, two members…

EnlightenGate – Like Watergate but more Sex!

July 18, 20128

By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org Sedona AZ (July 18, 2012) – A friend wrote this week, remarking on a topic that just…

Teachers: What Have They Done Wrong

June 27, 20120

Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself— Chinese Proverb “I am glad I retired when it did. Whew!”— Noted…

Stillpower, Not Willpower

June 6, 20120

By Dr. Marta Adelsman Sedona AZ (June 6, 2012) – When I started writing this article, each attempt to put…

Letter to the Editor

June 2, 201213

By Henry Twombly Sedona AZ (June 2, 2012) – The community plan has been, is, and will be a pro-business,…

Letter to The Editor: What is the Forest Service thinking??

May 26, 20121

Sedona AZ (May 26, 2012) – As destructive and health-impairing wildfires rage in Arizona, the Forest Service has issued fire…

Riding the Rails No More

May 21, 20120

By James Bishop Jr. The world can always wait when one is young.— L. Eiseley Sedona AZ (May 21, 2012)…

A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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