The world continues its descent into madness. Ukraine, Gaza, West Africa, Taiwan, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexican Drug Cartels, American urban violence, and on and on and on. Yesterday I bemoaned it. Now what?
Now nothing. What can you do? Nothing I can do will bring back the murdered Israeli women and children. Nothing I can do will drive Joe Biden from the White House a single day before his expiration date. Nothing I say will stop the mayor and the district attorney in Chicago from releasing murderers onto the streets of that city. These are the result of massive forces shaping the world around us. Millions of people and billions of dollars are at work behind these events. Putting my shoulder to that wheel is absurd. I might as well try to fill in the Grand Canyon with a teaspoon.
All I can do is use my teaspoon to eat a bowl of ice cream with Camera Girl and talk about the world we live in and attack our tiny priorities one crisis at a time. And our micro-scale problems often are tinged with the same poisons that infect the macro-scale crises. We deal with runaway inflation and scarcity of replacement parts for everything from dish washers to automobiles. And we struggle to find competent repairmen and tradesmen. We all had to struggle through the COVID nightmare/farce. We all have to keep aware of where we are with respect to dangerous environments, unreliable businesses and strangers. And like everyone else that’s what we do.
We attend to our own business but we also affect those in our circle. We talk and we persuade those that we know and meet. We tell our truths and listen to other people’s truths. This website is my small megaphone that I use to talk and listen to a larger circle of people than my neighborhood. The hope is that talking to our circles creates ripples in this ocean of people. Maybe like the famous butterfly effect all those ripples might reinforce each other and one day form an enormous tidal wave that will wash away our enemies’ fortress.
Now that was a lot of mixed metaphors indeed!
So, I’ll continue to rail against the plethora of problems caused by all of the Left’s programs. And I’ll categorize them by their hallmarks; evil, stupidity, dysfunctionality, insanity, depravity, cruelty, dishonesty, deviancy and ugliness. I’ll call out all the lies that the left-controlled institutions quote in their echo chambers. And I’ll try to do it with logic and maybe even a little humor.
So that’s what I can think of saying when the world blows up on a particular day and it’s just impossible to put a smiley face on for the world. Monsters will murder innocents and Harvard University will side with the monsters and blame the innocents for getting in the way of all those bullets and knives. And that’s just the way it is. I’ll call the killers monsters and I’ll call Harvard a pack of gutless cowards. But then we have to move on. After all there’ll be new gutless cowards tomorrow and the show must go on.
Filling the Grand Canyon with a teaspoon requires only perseverance. It would help if there were a million people with teaspoons, but it can be filled as it was made. Slowly. Old and beat up as I am, I still do that which I can, even if it is an arthritic shoulder I have to assist Sisyphus. I provide a bit of information here, a small reminder there. I am no longer fit to take rifle and bayonet in hand, so I use guile, experience and wisdom. As you age, guile is quite handy. The wisdom was purchased at a… Read more »
When I think about the viciousness of the murders committed by Hamas recently the only event equally heinous that I can remember is the Hutu massacre of the Tutsi. This level of hatred is so extreme that I have to assume that these people are literally insane and need to be, at best, incarcerated permanently. The Israelis need to decide what the permanent borders of Israel are to be and then send the Palestinians to the other side of that border. They cannot live together. They hate each other too deeply.
What’s inexcusable is that congress, both houses and both parties, are investing in defense related stocks. They were doing so during Ukraine, but they have jumped considerably since the Hamas attacks. They are also buying energy stocks as any war in the Levant and Middle East in general, drives oil up in the long run.
I find it amazing that sports players are forbidden from gambling on sports they play, and yet politicians can buy and sell and use insider information to invest in industries which they regulate and/or control.
You’re completely correct. It’s an enormous scam they play.