Amongst all the noise; global warming still has consequences

Maine had its first deadly shark attack, killing a woman swimmer.   A tooth left in the body was identified as a great white.   Great white sharks are known to migrate as far north as the Bay of Fundy; seal populations off the coast of Canada have been known to draw them in to feed.   But, the cold waters off the coast of Maine have kept sightings low.  

 

Maine waters are now warming and lobster men are worried about the lobster populations migrating farther north.  The warmer waters are also attracting larger predators and other invasive species not common to our coastal environment.   

 

The environment is changing.  Global warming results are visible. 

 

Sensible people would like to see the world move toward a greener energy policy.  

 

However, the elephant in the room is always ignored: Global warming and most other environmental dangers are the results of human over population; which continues at an unsustainable rate.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

Shark attack

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the Ol'Buzzard

CASSANDRA’S WARNING

 

Donald Trump has committed so many outrageous improprieties as President, any one of which would bring an end to a normal administration, that the public is in overload.   Before you have become incensed about one outrage, he has moved on to another and another.  

 

When we look through the blizzard of his atrocities, one main theme stands out: he will go to any extreme to secure his reelection to avoid the legal ramifications waiting him after his term of office. 

 

Trump’s latest malfeasance is, what seems to be, his bungling of the pandemic response, and his intention to deploy his own secret police force throughout the United States.  

 

We should not get distracted by focusing on each event unconnectedly.   His final goal is, has always been, to remain in office.   

 

Trump knows that if the election were held today, he would lose decidedly.    His only hope of remaining in office is to disrupt the electoral process in November.   

 

After months of no federal response to control the COVID-19 pandemic, we can expect the infection rate and the death toll to skyrocket in a Fall resurgence.  

 

I believe that prior to the November election Donald Trump will institute marshal law and issue a stay-at-home proclamation in light of the out of control Coronavirus, and his deployed secrete police in every state will enforce the order, effectively cancelling the 2020 election.

 

We should be afraid; be very afraid, of a tyrant in the Office of the Presidency. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard

TRUMP SUPPORTERS SHOULD QUIT WAVING THE FLAG.

 

If you have a Trump bumper sticker and a MIA/POW sticker on your ride, you need to remove one or the other because they are not compatible. 

 

Trump was a spoiled rich kid, son of a millionaire property developer in New York.   He received four deferments from military service during the Vietnam era while in college, where he played football, squash, tennis and golf.  Immediately after leaving college his father had a doctor write him a medical deferment from the draft, claiming bone spurs in a foot. 

 

In an interview with Howard Stern Trump laughed about it, saying he had his own Vietnam era trauma; that he had been ‘a brave soldier’ by avoiding venereal disease during that time.

 

This draft dodger had the gall to later attack John McCain; saying the John McCain was not a hero just because he was captured.  Saying, “I like men who weren’t captured.” 

 

He liked men who weren’t captured:  Who the hell is he to look down on MIA/POW’s.  

 

Now we find that Russia placed a bounty on the heads of American Soldiers in Afghanistan, and Trump says nothing; afraid to upset he hero Vladimir Putin.  

 

the Ol’Buzzard, USN Ret.

 

 

 

THE TRUMP VIRUS

I stole this from Jackiesue's blog.  

I agree.  From now on we should all refer to the COVID-19  as the

THE TRUMP VIRUS.   

Every blogger, face book and twitter writer should, from now on, make this pandemic belong to Trump.

Lets get this wave going.  It is no longer the coronavirus; but 

The Trump Virus.

the Ol'Buzzard

FOOD SAFETY DURING PANDEMIC

 

The Covid-19 virus has run like wild fire through the Midwest meat packing industry. 

 

That means that a lot of the meat processed by theses plants were processed by people who were hosting the virus, but had not tested positive.   People who were capable of transmitting the virus were packing our meats.

 

What does this mean for the safety of the meat at our local markets?  Is it possible that some of these products are contaminated by the virus?

 

I don’t know?  

 

Not looking to start a conspiracy theory; but it is a legitimate question.

 

I would be interested in the opinion of PipeTobacco, The Thoughts of a Frumpy Professor  -   a university biologist.   I think a post from him on the science of the pandemic would be interesting. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ARROGANCE

We often try to place human attributes, human traits and expectations to animals.

 

People are capable of loving and forming attachments to other animal species.   We make a mistake when we expect the same emotion and reactions from the animals we live around.      

 

Each animal species has its own nature that has allowed it to adapt over the centuries.  As humans we have the ability to understand animal nature to the point of being able to adapt some of them to human service and emotional needs.    The cruelty of our species often reveals Itself when we see people forcing animals to their will through abuse and violence. 

 

My wife and I love our cats and our cats have adjusted to a symbiotic relationship with us.  They sleep on our bed, they nap in our laps, they seek attention, pets and combing; and they depend on us for food and their needs.   But, were we to die unnoticed in our house, our cats would eat us. 

 

People who take animals for granted, expecting them to behave to human understanding, often pay a price.    The so-called Bear Whisperer in Alaska, after thirteen summers intruding on the feeding bears, was, along with his girlfriend, killed and eaten by a bear.     The natives that live in the villages weren’t surprised, but wondered why it hadn’t happened sooner.

 

The Darwin Awards are full of people who infringed on animals expecting them to behave in a specific way.

 

Advice from the Ol’Buzzard

This is the summer; a time for camping, hiking and fishing.   Love your animal friends at home, but stay the fuck away from wildlife.  You don’t understand them, and they don’t understand you.

O’B