The economy, like the weather, is influenced by a multitude of factors. Experts in both fields expend a lot of energy trying to predict them, and they're only right about half the time. Well, some of them are right more often than that, but others are right less often than that, so it averages out, but none of them are right all the time. I have read some about the Theory of Chaos, which I believe was founded by an ex weatherman, but I don't claim to be an expert on the subject. As I understand it, it basically says that everything effects everything else. There is something about a butterfly in South America that flaps its wings to get everything started, and it just spirals out of control after that.
I seem to remember that President Obama sent a small number of troops to some African country a few years ago. They were only supposed to serve as advisors to the local military but, of course, that's how the American involvement in Vietnam got started. The president doesn't need congressional approval for such small military actions, but he is supposed to inform congress when he does something like that.
The tobacco ritual requires that you use fresh tobacco, throwing spent cigarette butts on the ground certainly does not count. The tobacco should be sprinkled slowly and reverently. If you are in too much of a hurry to do it properly, then you shouldn't do it at all. Sometimes, if I'm tempted to rush it, I conclude that I'm not in the right frame of mind, so I wait and do it later. Tobacco is sacred to the Native Americans, but so is everything else. Their religious traditions make no distinction between the sacred and the secular. The whole world and everything in it was created by the Great Spirit for our use so, in a manner of speaking, we should always act like we are in church.
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