VAMPIRES VOTE DEMOCRATIC

TRUE BLOOD WINDS DOWN.

But with a great political statement.

the Ol'Buzzard

WHAT THE FUCK?

My reading list is gone?

From now on when something is really fucked up I am going to say "It's Google."

the Ol'Buzzard

FROM THE BRAIN OF SARAH TO YOUR COMPUTER

Have you missed Sarah?   Well now you can have her in your home on a regular schedule.  You can find out about her take on Russia; on ObamaCare; on Benghazi; her home life; and even on “all” the stuff she reads.    

Yes, for only $99.95 a year you can subscribe to Sarah Palin’s new on-line “NEWS CHANNEL”   SarahPalinChannel.com can bring you the latest Tea Bag brew. 

So, If you haven’t had your fill of all the latest Republican talking points from the brains of the lunatic fringe – this is your chance.

the Ol'Buzzard

ANOTHER APOCALYPSE

BEND OVER AND KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE

We live under the threat of total devastation and the apocalypse purveyors are quick to describe how we all will demise – except themselves, who are constantly preparing for the great survival.

We have the nuclear apocalypse; the asteroid apocalypse; the global warming apocalypse; the pandemic apocalypse; the zombie apocalypse; and of course the God apocalypse (God so loves the world the He kills everybody – except the chosen few.)

Now, according to MotherJones we need to worry about the Jellyfish Apocalypse.   It seems that ocean warming along with overfishing (decreasing the natural predators of jellyfish) has caused a jellyfish population explosion and an expansion of jellyfish range and habitation. 

This increase has been startlingly visible throughout the Mediterranean and around Australia and the southern Pacific region. In Sweden jellyfish blocked the cooling ducts of a nuclear plant caused a shut down and in Israel jellyfish caused a problem at a coal fired plant; and even more appalling jellyfish have caused the closure of beaches throughout the Mediterranean resulting in loss of tourist revenue. 

It is estimated that world wide there are 150 million people stung by jellyfish each year: 500,000 in the Chesapeake Bay area and over 200,000 off the coast of Florida.   

There are very few fatalities from jellyfish stings though an encounter can be painful.   The box jellyfish found around Australia and the Philippians is considered deadly and a sting usually results in death within a few minutes. 

Jellyfish population encroachment has not posed a problem in North America at this time, but as ocean waters warm …

The solution seems pretty obvious to me: increase predation.   Perhaps peanut butter and jelly fish sandwiches.

You have been warned!

the Ol’Buzzard

ZEN OF APATHY

A passenger aircraft shot down in the Ukraine.

There is nothing I can do about it.

800 dead in the 18 day conflict between Israel and Hamas.

There is nothing I can do about it.

Fighting continues in Iraq and Pakistan.

There is nothing I can do about it.

Fighting in Syria, atrocities in Africa.

There is nothing I can do about it.

Russia, Cuba, China;

I am powerless.

A dysfunctional U.S. Congress

Prisoners inhumanely put to death in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona.

Obama Care is being challenged in court.

Bigotry, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia…

I vote but my vote is canceled by the Tea Party.

Beyond  my control.

In my mid-seventies, my days are limited, the grim reaper rides bitch on my bike.

It is what it is.

Today I am going to prepare the west side of my house for painting.    I painted the front (south side) first of the week.   I have one more cord of wood to order and stack for winter fuel; and I plan to replace the front storm door before winter sets in.   I haven’t meditated in a long time.   I need to take a few minutes this morning for Zen time.  It is suppose to be a beautiful day today – sunny with temps in the low seventies. 

Change what you can and accept what you can’t change: live in the moment: appreciate this day.

The Ol’Buzzard

TRAVELING SOUTH

Yesterday we traveled down to Portland for my wife’s doctor appointment.   I know that the traffic on the highways in Maine is nothing compared to the highways around Boston, New Your, Minneapolis… but every time I have to drive south from our rural western mountains I am appalled by the insanity of the people driving the freeways. 

I was doing seventy in the right lane and groups of cars were passing me in the left lane traveling at least eighty - bumper to bumper – only a car length between them.   It would only requires one driver to hit the brake to avoid a dog or deer, or drop his cell phone and the cars would pile up like falling dominoes.  

Why in the hell do drivers feel they have to ride the bumper of the car in front of them – especially at high speeds on the freeways?  

And then there was the car that drifted into my lane causing me to swerve almost to the rumble strip and blow my horn to avoid collision.   She pulled back into her lane, passed and then a few car lengths ahead of me swerved back in and then out of the right lane… obviously reading text on her phone instead of focusing on her driving. 

I sometimes wish I had a Mad Max vehicle with a plow on the front and could just run these people off the road.

Oh well, back home again and all is well

The Ol’Buzzard

POLITICAL ROYALTIES CORRODE DEMOCRACY

In this age of information you have to choose to be ignorant.   It is obvious to anyone except the blatantly ignorant that man has and is effecting the world climate by unchecked population growth, unchecked pollution and unregulated consumption of natural resources.

 Not only is mankind decimating the environment, but through continual war and genocide with more and more advanced weaponry in the hands of religious and political extremist we are approaching an apocalyptic destruction of societies. 

Meanwhile governments stand by fiddling while the world burns. 

Initially some governments were founded with good intentions.   But actually, governments never end up about the good of the people.   Governments become a product of men that wish to mold societies to their own ideals – ideals that best benefit themselves.  

Politicians that have the ability and charisma to influence others eventually set themselves up as a ruling class – a political royalty.  

Politicians always sell the goods that they are primarily concerned with the welfare of the people; but in the end the people exist for the good of the government – and the government is always about the politicians at the top and the wealthy that can influence them.   Even in the great socialism experiments the people in charge always decided for ‘the grater good’ – themselves being included at the top tier of ‘the grater good.’

Term limits are the only means of breaking up the ruling class and reestablishing a democratic government.

In America presidents come and go; but the real political royalty exist in the Senate and the House.  You might say that the Presidency is our House of Commons and the Congress is the House of Lords.

the Ol'Buzzard