I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO POST.

 

 

All the minutia that comes to mind seems so trivial compared to the reality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  

 

I can’t bring myself to post on DIY, gardening, recipes, or any of the other bullshit that occupies my thoughts at four-in-the-morning.

 

However, I will add one more blow to the dead horse – I have posted it time and time again.   It is my CASSANDRA WARNING.

 

 Sometimes it is the things you can not see that are the most dangerous: the crocodile in the water, the cobra in the grass, the lion in the bushes; the narcissistic, paranoid old man, experiencing senile dementia, with the sole authority and ability to execute world extinction with the turn of a key and push of a button.  

 

The two super powers, Russia and the United States, each have the nuclear capability of killing every living creature on the planet earth – many times over.   

 

The only safeguard has been the thought that the single person in charge of the nuclear capability of world destruction would be sane and responsible.

 

Look at the human race.   Consider Trump, Putin, religious extremist, or even some junior military computer nerd standing watch in a nuclear silo and realizing he can override the fail-safes

 

We have seen the result of two nuclear bombs, and the melt down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; now multiply those times a thousand.

 

It is not climate change, or plagues, or asteroids that will be the cause of the Sixth Extinction.   It is mankind and nuclear weaponry. 

 

Old man yells at clouds

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 

35% OF AMERICANS SIDE WITH RUSSIA

 92% of the Republican Party make the other 2% look bad.  

Cribbed from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – buzzard modified.

 

 

 

35% of the country that are Trump loyalist actually support Russia in the invasion of Ukraine   When we say 35% of the country, that translates to 70% of the Republican Party; and unfortunately, that majority holds sway over the rest of the party.  

 

When a person suffers from delusions it is called insanity.   When many people suffer from delusions, we can call it the Republican Party.

Again, cribbed from Zen and the Art….  O'B modified

 

I don’t understand this country we now live in.  The flag of the United States once stood for democracy and valor.   

Now it stands for anarchy, and is flown by traitors who attempted a coup against the nation the flag once stood for.

 

This is a proud flag and a proud people.   I salute this flag.  

 

the Ol'Buzzard

OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN

 

Friday night I held her in my arms as she took her last breath.  A terrible decision to have to make.   My wife and I  are devastated.   Our young cat is searching the house for her. 

 

She went from 14 pounds to 7 pounds in a matter of months; the cancer in her stomach and chest caused her to gasp for breath.  

We know it was the right thing to do, but it doesn't make it any easier.  

I can't list the number of ways we miss her.

the Ol'Buzzard

SUPPORTING UKRAINE WILL EFFECT EVERYONE

 

Twenty years of Iraq war and no one paid attention, except military families.      Civilians weren’t deploying and dying.  Some few protested, but no one really cared.   Life went on.   It didn’t affect us.  

 

World governments have rightly decided to support the fledgling democracy of Ukraine against an invasion from Russia.   Read the history of Russia: The Gulag, Chernobyl…  Deaths and destruction resulting from a Russian invasion

 

Employing sanctions against Russia will result in gas prices spiking upward, and as a result the price of consumer goods will rise. 

 

Now we can expect the population to pay attention – it affects us.

 

We will hear an outcry, not just from the right – whiney little subversive bastards they are - but also from people on the left who are not willing to actually sacrifice to support democracy when it becomes an inconvenience.

 

Because the majority is not willing to back a foreign country from invasion when it becomes personal, this action will more than likely put Republicans back in power in 24. 

Dominant world powers historically last for 250 years.   Have you taken a close look at who we are lately?  

 

Karma is not a bitch, it’s a mirror.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

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APOCALYPSE NOW

 

 

Man shall have dominion over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

 

Elizabeth Kolbert book, The 6^th Extinction tracks the catastrophic events that led to five extinction on planet Earth.    The 6^th extinction to be brought about by mankind, ‘who has led a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature’, and has drastically altered earth’s climate over a duration of one century.

  

Her new book, Under a White Sky reviews man’s technological research to deal with the results of the climate change we are presently witnessing.

 

There is no doubt that the world we live in will look dramatically different in one-hundred years; if we survive this era.   Mankind is only limited by the speed of his ability to compute and the volume of information he can retrieve; and with super computers mankind has conquered that deficiency.  There is some confidence in the scientific community (the brain trust of mankind) that we will be able to adjust to the changing climate.

 

CASSANDRA PROPHECY

 

Cassandra was priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology; cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed.

 

Though climate change is of major concern to the survival of the human race, it is not the elephant in the room, the most likely scenario to apocalyptic destruction of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

  

We are looking at the possibility of another massive war in Europe.  But this only highlights the concern.

 

Nuclear weapons have proliferated through the earth’s nations: Chins, North Korea, Pakistan, India, undoubtedly Israel, soon to be Iran; and of course, the United States and Russia.

 

The world has two nuclear super powers, each with the capability of destroying all life on earth many times over.   So far, we have had reasonable men holding the reins on the world nuclear arsenals; but that is not a guarantee.  

 

President Trump asked general Kelly why we have nuclear weapons and don’t use them?

 

In Ronald Regan’s last year in office, he suffered from dementia.   Donald Trump was called a moron by his Chief of Staff.  The world is full of despots, and then we have religious fanatical states each looking forward to an end of the world scenario.  It is not beyond belief today that Republicans could elect Marjory Taylor Green or that ilk to be in charge of our nuclear arsenal.

 

We should not believe that nuclear weapons will never be deployed against humanity.  It had been done before.    In 1945 two very primitive nuclear weapons destroyed two Japanese cities killing over three-hundred-and-fifty-thousand civilians.

 

This is a scenario waiting to happen.

 

Mankind still possesses a primitive strain in his DNA that effects the species beyond reason.

Have a nice day

the Ol’Buzzard

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