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"All warfare is based on deception."

~Sun Tzu

Well, this can't be good. I have my doubts about that post attributed to Marjorie Taylor Greene, but it's being covered by several respected news outlets, but the New York Times was not one of them. We live in an age when miscalculations could suddenly thrust us into all out war, nuclear or otherwise. On the other hand, if MTG knows something, and speaking up can save an entire world, then you go girl! At the end of the day, we also live in a world where Facebook and X is where people go for their news. I didn't hear word one about this on MS NOW, which is my main source for news, but there's always tomorrow. Who the fuck knows? But it wouldn't surprise me.

This doesn't help much either.

 

Okay, So, The Apocalypse Again In Two Weeks?

 

25th Amendment NOW!

Needless to say, having the President threatening genocide has left me a bit distraught. Tonight, in his ignorance, he may kill up to 90 million people, start WWIII and leave the world subject to nuclear attracts... bio-weapons... and then... the end. There are so man world wide tragedies that could happen. One virus, that makes Captain Trips look like a simple head cold, is not hard to imagine.

 

I'm praying for the people Of Iran, my fellow Americans, and the 25th Amendment!

I will update, some time after 8:00 pm Eastern Time... I hope.

99 Red Balloons Go By

 

"It's interesting how every politician starts every conversation with talk of peace, then immediately shifts to investing in more fighter jets, tanks, Rifles and warheads!"

~Abhijit Naskar

Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

It's 85 Seconds Until Midnight

Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists

Congratulations, MAGA, the man you voted for, the man who said no more wars, is now a full on warmonger! Your tax dollars well spent. Killing people, you don't know in the name of peace, and Trump's next justification for perhaps winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Are enjoying this time with Trump, an obviously psychotic tinpot dictator? 

One day, when the missiles are about to hit America, remember, YOU made it all happen, because he couldn't have got us all killed without you!

Enjoy

Arlo

 

"Don't you imagine the leaves dream now

how comfortable it will be to touch

the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless

freshets of wind? And don't you think the trees, especially those with mossy hollows, are beginning to look for the birds that will come...

six, a dozen... to sleep inside their bodies?

And don't you hear the goldenrod whispering goodbye,

the everlasting being crowned with the first tuffets of snow?

 

The pond stiffens and the white field over which

the fox runs so quickly brings out

it's long blue shadows. The wind wags

its many tails. And in the evening

the piled firewood shifts a little

longing to be on its way." 

 

~Mary Oliver

Song For Autumn

 

Covid-19 Update 

Every single prediction came true, just as I believed it would from the beginning. And I believe predictive models will too. That means it will be perhaps another 200,000 dead by March 1st, and if that does happen, I am not sure if I will be here to see another autumn. And worse, will I lose my darling? I love him. Very much. I'm not going there. It's unimaginable. All I know is, things in the world better change! I hate it, but beginning tomorrow new restrictive measures will be implemented in California, and while I hate that it's necessary at this point, I applaud the move by the governor. Governor Newsom is even considering imposing curfews. Not sure how that will work, but I will be taking my last holiday grocery trip this week, and will be back home, well before dark. Holidays. The word almost sounds obscene. I better do plenty of photographs while I shop, because who knows when I will be able to venture into another store. What is so fucking hard about wearing a mask? How can there not be laws preventing what Donald Trump has done? And is doing? And I haven't even mentioned he sought what his options were for launching a war with Iran! Oops. I just did! Will he plunge the United States into war, just to fuck with Joe Biden? Nah... that doesn't sound like him at all! I wonder if he realizes that once he leaves office, he no longer has access to the bunker?

On the other hand, isn't Arlo adorable? If you're wondering, I turn to poetry and comforting stuff when I am sad and frightened. I still have a small stuffed cat I bought at the San Jose Manetta Airport, when Alan and I flew back east in 1992. Lordy I hate flying in the big planes. So, sometimes I cling to a stuffed animal. Who doesn't? Is there a poem or stuffed bear big enough to handle what's coming? I don't know, but I know Arlo helps me. How do you not smile, when you see that silly face, and his sweater, which doesn't quite fit?

John Hopkins

~Carly

November 17th 2020

Stockton, California

 

It's 3 Minutes Till Midnight... For Now

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the mount."

~General Omar Nelson Bradley

According To The Doomsday Clock

 it is 3 Minutes To Midnight

It's Trump's America. He was sworn in just five days ago, and he has lied, pouted, stood in front of a wall of stars that represented the fallen CIA agents that given their lives for America to remain a free country, only to whine and complain about how shitty his life is. How he would have won the popular vote, had their not been wide spread voter fraud. A lie. How when he took the oath of office their must have been 1.5 million people on the national mall observing his historical moment. Also a lie. Actual estimates put it at somewhere around 250,000. 

We have been lied to about this trivial event, and told that Trump believes in his own "alternate facts." All because he felt threated by the amazing turnout the Women's March had, which was estimated at 3 million world wide. He has shut down the phone number at the White House where you can call to voice your opinions and complaints about the nation you live in. He has suspended the Twitter accounts of the National Park service, because the have tweeted out accurate estimates of the effects of climate change. 

Trump is sick, and he is getting sicker every single day.

He seems to see people who aren't there.

And he carries with him, as all presidents do, the nuclear codes.

What happens when he begins to hear voices that aren't there?

He needs no authorization.

He just needs the right slight and he will press the button.

And the world will end.

I don't really sleep anymore...

UPDATE: 

As of January 27th, 2017, the Doomsday Clock is 2 minutes and 30 seconds till midnight! 

 

Mood: Scared

~Me