"Under capitalism..."

 at least this swift fox survived the summer in the desert

after a summer in the ponderosa pine forest at 7 thousand feet i was knocked down by the 98 degree temps back in the desert...but waking a couple of hours before sun-up was a real uplifting experience...this fox was not very enthusiastic about banana peels and shriveled lettuce leaves...but i think the water was ok...even though there were pools of water in the road...not a lot of good news on the radio...but where i have been there were no hurricanes, tornados, floods...although more people die from heat related causes than all those other calamities combined....i knew if the temperature was above 100 degrees for two days in a row i would have problems...like i would become dead...two days ago the high temp was 83 degrees but then it was back up to the low 90s...today was 91 degrees....when i left the ponderosa pine forests a week ago the high temp was 65 degrees....i was too cold....my old bones were chilly so i headed south....

unfortunately, the madness in europe has left a lot of people without a way to keep warm...why don't we sent them some warm coats. and sweaters and long underwear...every  thrift store i shop at...and i shop at a lot...has a 50cent or dollar rack...i would think that there must be some folks who can organize a clothing drive for the freezing Ukrainians...

it occurs to me that the so called leadership in russia has failed to make decisions that will benefit the citizens of that country...as their current leader has pointed out there are eleven time zones in russia...there is plenty of land and no need to take someone else's land...same with chinese so called leadership...if they would let Taiwan exist they could save themselves and a lot of other people a lot of grief...their leader extols the need to be "uniform"...what a joke...they have inbred the pandas that they rent to the worlds zoo...they don't tell people that all the pandas that they breed in captivity are brother/sister matings...if they don't allow for diversity in their county they will have inbred people too...diversity is strength... 

 history has shown that militaries usually eliminate people but not really problems...i was reading in my book of ideas the definition of communism and socialism and Marxism...russia and china have way too many billionaires to qualify for being anything but autocracies with greedy leaders....i was thinking that a coalition of humans who have no political affiliations should begin organizing EARTHLINGS FOR EARTH...or  the EFE...and by whatever means necessary eliminate all leaders who are bad for the planet...this is it...this planet is where we humans have to live as well as all the other earthlings...i heard where vertebrate populations are reduced by 70%...of course that does not include humans...most of whom have backbones....

big news over in california...L.A. to be specific..."THE MONKEYBOY"...scandals...having worked with several species of primates i can say that there are prosimians, monkeys, baboons, great apes and probably some i have forgotten....so did this child look like a red faced Ukari...that would be...shall we say...worthy of comment...did this child look like a celebes crested macaque...the Celebes think they are direct descendants of these primates...anyhow feelings were hurt and power structures changed and life goes on in LaLa land....

i am glad to live in a capitalist country and still think yard sales, thrift stores, pawn shops and flea markets are a great way shop without too much guilt...

"Under Capitalism man exploits man. Under Communism the situation is reversed." ANON