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Heaven and hell are eternal places because they are always present at the extremes of human existence, for better or for worse. People are constantly choosing between them, although they are generally not conscious of that in an articulated manner.
A change of pace, something we all could dearly use. Animal SPEAK [Link] [Link]
After the Iranians yesterday, now even the Yemen. What an embarrassment to the US government: [Link] The Houthis invited students expelled due to...
"It would be the greatest danger for Ukrainians for many years or up to a hundred years if cluster bombs are used in Russian-occupied areas in the...
They may have dodged the draft... but can they dodge a wrench!
"Doesn't sound like Ukrainians are all that eager to die for Zelensky, the oligarchs, NATO or Joe Bribem." Not much different than Vietnam.
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Hippos, Jabberwocks & Penance. Hmm..
What pends? What rends? We'll see, I guess; we will see. (It sure feels ever closer.)
These events seem akin to animals' undeniable pre earthquake/disaster sense, which even 'official science' is now forced to recognize.*
Two hippo bites in a week? [I once read that no one had ever survived a Hippo Bite? or Hippo attack? Do we here have a first?] What do they- critters- know that we don't?** (I guess that it's not long until, here in Florida, we suffer our first Manatee attack - as far as I'm aware.)
And then, who knows what transdimensional critters we'll find ourselves up against? Perhaps even, Dare I say it? The Terror of the Jabberwock?
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son;
The jaws that bite; the claws that catch.
Beware the Jub Jub bird and shun,
The frumious bandersnatch!"
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
I claim that it's painfully obvious that it makes more sense to prepare for such Jabberwock attacks than to spend YOUR tax dollars on
(1) wars against poor folks who happen to sit over oil, or other commodities. (E.g., Middle East, Iran, Africa.)
(As Joseph Conrad - who was, like Twain, FAR ahead of his time - stated:
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness,)
or,
(2) wars against drugs, terror, and even poverty***, as each are impossible per their own definition, and ALWAYS end up with more government (particularly executive branch power), and ALWAYS end up with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in the name of some supposed higher ideal.
R.C.
* As I recall reading, regarding the Boxing? Day Tsunami (12/24/04?), that despite the very, very many elelphants thereabouts (Asian, presumably), not a single one died. They had the good sense to head for the high hills.
** A hell of a lot, I dare say.
*** Just as it's clear the "War on Drugs" was started as a distraction from Watergate - and its LBJ/Nixon/Bush connections to Kennedy 11/22/63, I ask was LBJ's "War on Poverty" a similar distraction? Or some self-fooling attempt at penance?
RC