another week in the coastal range
getting drier and drier
going to be a big fire season
listening to the radio regularly
got to believe not many problems solved by guns
el grand teatro del mundi
never ends
i grew up in the southern part of the usa
don't see much use in flying a flag of the side that lost
used to live on a gravel road that had wagon parts
buried in the dirt from the civil war
knew a lot of guys that were living in the sixties
the eighteen sixties
kind of in a rut if you ask me
a wagon rut
my concern now is whether the earth beneath my
feet
where ever i might be standing
is going to be able to support the critters
that have lived there since way before
hominids came into existence
the president calmly spoke
as a thoughtful and intelligent leader
about the need to be concerned about more than
a word said in dis-respect
were are going to miss his honesty in years to come
some of the candidates are yelping about
taking this country back
back from where
they sound like the german guy back in the 1930"s
it has become a tournament of absurdities
and nonsense on stilts
"All zeal for a reform that gives offence to
peace and charity is mere pretense." Hazlitt
i just finished reading a book on junk
recycling around the globe
one company in china pays 150 women
one hundred dollars a month and room and board
to sort metal
in America the same metal is sorted by a giant
series of machines run by one man
i saw today a new Holland machine picking up
bales of hay from a field
i used to do that work
now a machine can do it faster and better
and without the work of half a dozen men
does it ever occur to any politician to say
hey we have modernized our society and so
there are not as many people needed and
therefore there are fewer jobs and so we need
to help the citizens with their essentials
"The necessaries of life for a man in this climate
may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads
of, Food, Shelter, Clothing, and fuel; for not till we have
secured these are we prepared to entertain the true
problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success."
Thoreau "Walden"
but hey that sounds just like socialism to me
and that gets us on the slippery slope to communism
yada yada yada
well maybe we can call it something more appealing
lets call it Christian charity
or Buddhist charity
or hindo charity
or maybe being responsible to our fellow humans
who cares
but it is obvious that we have less jobs
and more people
do the math
i heard a woman keep talking about I.D.P.
internally displaced people
that is pretty scary
they need to be called
fellow human beings
and not some initial
50 million displaced human beings
who in the hell keeps selling all these guns
and tanks and rockets anyhow
i know usa is good for 40% of the arms sells
we need to look at what is happening around the
world with all those weapons
sometimes it just seems hopeless
oh yeah i almost forgot
that image at the top of the page
that is a spot where i recorded 20 minutes
of frog choruses a couple of months ago
it got around that the frogs were there
and someone moved two boulders
of several tons each
and drove a
super cooterbutt vehicle up there and
drove around in that little habitat
just to be a psychopath i suppose
"We need to be in hopeless places to be a witness." Vaclav Havel
got to go
to be a witness
mr cayetano
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