{"id":25911,"date":"2023-10-11T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:03:23","slug":"and-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/and-then-what\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world continues its descent into madness.\u00a0 Ukraine, Gaza, West Africa, Taiwan, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexican Drug Cartels, American urban violence, and on and on and on.\u00a0 Yesterday I bemoaned it.\u00a0 Now what?<\/p>\n

Now nothing.\u00a0 What can you do?\u00a0 Nothing I can do will bring back the murdered Israeli women and children.\u00a0 Nothing I can do will drive Joe Biden from the White House a single day before his expiration date.\u00a0 Nothing I say will stop the mayor and the district attorney in Chicago from releasing murderers onto the streets of that city.\u00a0 These are the result of massive forces shaping the world around us.\u00a0 Millions of people and billions of dollars are at work behind these events.\u00a0 Putting my shoulder to that wheel is absurd.\u00a0 I might as well try to fill in the Grand Canyon with a teaspoon.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 And our micro-scale problems often are tinged with the same poisons that infect the macro-scale crises.\u00a0 We deal with runaway inflation and scarcity of replacement parts for everything from dish washers to automobiles.\u00a0 And we struggle to find competent repairmen and tradesmen.\u00a0 We all had to struggle through the COVID nightmare\/farce.\u00a0 We all have to keep aware of where we are with respect to dangerous environments, unreliable businesses and strangers. \u00a0And like everyone else that\u2019s what we do.<\/p>\n

We attend to our own business but we also affect those in our circle.\u00a0 We talk and we persuade those that we know and meet.\u00a0 We tell our truths and listen to other people\u2019s truths.\u00a0 This website is my small megaphone that I use to talk and listen to a larger circle of people than my neighborhood.\u00a0 The hope is that talking to our circles creates ripples in this ocean of people.\u00a0 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\u2019 fortress.<\/p>\n

Now that was a lot of mixed metaphors indeed!<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019ll continue to rail against the plethora of problems caused by all of the Left\u2019s programs.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll categorize them by their hallmarks; evil, stupidity, dysfunctionality, insanity, depravity, cruelty, dishonesty, deviancy and ugliness.\u00a0 I\u2019ll call out all the lies that the left-controlled institutions quote in their echo chambers.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll try to do it with logic and maybe even a little humor.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what I can think of saying when the world blows up on a particular day and it\u2019s just impossible to put a smiley face on for the world.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just the way it is.\u00a0 I\u2019ll call the killers monsters and I\u2019ll call Harvard a pack of gutless cowards.\u00a0 But then we have to move on.\u00a0 After all there\u2019ll be new gutless cowards tomorrow and the show must go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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