{"id":14691,"date":"2021-05-29T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:27:08","slug":"29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/","title":{"rendered":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our fake President is a leering, gibbering, creepy mental patient<\/a> and the \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies have perfected their imitation of the KGB and the leaders of all the richest companies have decided to replace us with illiterate third world peons and our children believe that men in sundresses are women.<\/p>\n

Well, dammit, it sounds like it\u2019s time for Memorial Day Weekend Barbecue.<\/p>\n

Good morning folks.\u00a0 It\u2019s forty degrees and raining and windy but for whatever reason I\u2019m in a great mood.\u00a0 Tomorrow\u2019s the family barbecue and granted we\u2019ll be moving the meal inside and the pool won\u2019t be needed, but we\u2019ll have a great time.<\/p>\n

So, we\u2019re in a bad place and it may get a lot worse but you know what?\u00a0 It\u2019s still pretty great to be alive.\u00a0 Your lungs are giving you air and your blood is racing through your body and the dimwits around here have even admitted that the cops can\u2019t beat me into submission for walking into a grocery store without a towel wrapped around my face.\u00a0 Despite the cold snap the grass is growing and the birds are singing and other than cleaning the grill and buying some propane I don\u2019t have to do anything but enjoy the day.\u00a0 I put my country music thumb drive in the music system and let it play and I\u2019ll write some more of my new story and I\u2019ll look around at what\u2019s going on in this sad world and maybe I\u2019ll figure out why the Briggs and Stratton engine on my push mower died last week.\u00a0 I took apart the carburetor and it looked clean as a whistle.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get a spark plug wrench today and take a look at that.\u00a0 If that doesn\u2019t work, I\u2019ll probably buy a manual mower and start getting exercise that way.\u00a0 Cutting the grass is an amazing ritual.\u00a0 Sure, if you\u2019re too busy it\u2019s an impossible time sink to cut your lawn without an engine but it\u2019s a pretty zen way of communing with the summer world.\u00a0 Ray Bradbury has a chapter in his book \u201cDandelion Wine\u201d that extols the virtues of a weekly jaunt around the yard behind a reel mower.\u00a0 Of course he was living in LA at the time and there probably wasn\u2019t any grass in his life at that point but he was hearkening back to his life as a kid in Waukegan, Illinois.\u00a0 Anyway I\u2019ve spent the last week cutting down thorn shrubs and weed trees like Russian Olive and Ailanthus and digging up their roots.\u00a0 I finish up drenched in sweat and weary with aching muscles and covered in cuts and scrapes and I\u2019ve been sleeping like a log and wake up hungry and with a clear head.<\/p>\n

Sure it\u2019s still a cesspool out in our culture and we are being led down the path to serfdom by evil men and our women and children are deluded but it\u2019s not over yet.\u00a0 Sanity has a way of breaking through once insanity is allowed to run amok for too long.\u00a0 And when it does we need to seize our chance and look out for ourselves.\u00a0 No more alliances with the middle, no more seeing their side of the argument.\u00a0 Look for good people and form your own community and support each other.\u00a0 The rest can and will go to hell.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n

But have a good holiday and enjoy your own damn life.\u00a0 That\u2019s what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our fake President is a leering, gibbering, creepy mental patient and the \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies have perfected their imitation of the KGB and the leaders of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,818],"tags":[2706,2496],"class_list":["post-14691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ocf","tag-enjoy-your-life","tag-memorial-day"],"yoast_head":"\n29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our fake President is a leering, gibbering, creepy mental patient and the \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies have perfected their imitation of the KGB and the leaders of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion's Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago!\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\"},\"wordCount\":608,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Enjoy Your Life\",\"Memorial Day\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Current Events\",\"OCF\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\",\"name\":\"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\",\"name\":\"Orion's Cold Fire\",\"description\":\"All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Orion's Cold Fire\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg\",\"width\":4022,\"height\":1419,\"caption\":\"Orion's Cold Fire\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orionscoldfire\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\",\"name\":\"photog\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg\",\"caption\":\"photog\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/author\/photog\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire","og_description":"Our fake President is a leering, gibbering, creepy mental patient and the \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies have perfected their imitation of the KGB and the leaders of","og_url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/","og_site_name":"Orion's Cold Fire","article_published_time":"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00","author":"photog","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@orionscoldfire","twitter_site":"@orionscoldfire","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"photog","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/"},"author":{"name":"photog","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3"},"headline":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago!","datePublished":"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/"},"wordCount":608,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Enjoy Your Life","Memorial Day"],"articleSection":["Current Events","OCF"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/","name":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago! - Orion's Cold Fire","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-05-29T15:48:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-29T16:27:08+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/29may2021-good-morning-gulag-archipelago\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"29MAY2021 \u2013 Good Morning Gulag Archipelago!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/","name":"Orion's Cold Fire","description":"All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization","name":"Orion's Cold Fire","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC06141.jpg","width":4022,"height":1419,"caption":"Orion's Cold Fire"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/orionscoldfire"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3","name":"photog","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/photog-image.jpg","caption":"photog"},"url":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/author\/photog\/"}]}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14693,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions\/14693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}