riddle of the week

Where does Donald Trump get his info?

Answer:

The Liebrary

Of course congress has its own branch

blowers in the wind revisited

When humans wish to demonstrate that their species alone can boast true intelligence, they must be very selective about the evidence they present. What works for me is the human capacity for operating a “blower” to clear leaves and dirt from pavement. Even more compelling is the human capacity to pay someone else to do it. Perhaps they never have heard about our friends “wind” and “rain” who humbly perform the task with neither clamor nor pollution. Maybe they are unfamiliar also with “brooms”.

With fallen leaves and bits of dirt Mother nature casually decorates the asphalt zones defending our feet against contact with earth. This is an offense. But instead of Varoom why not a broom?

The broom simply is not a stupid enough solution to their neurosis. One may ask why can't some transient dirt and leaves lay upon the paving? And why must the space support for all time no sign of the organic? Apparently it is in the human brain that nature once vanquished shall remain vanquished. She may mount no comeback however pitiful and ineffectual.

There you have it. At any time of the day you may hear a man with a blower moving leaves off pavement as wind blows them back. Just yesterday I witnessed a man blowing leaves off a public highway. No other animal is interested in this project.

Pee is for Public

 

I just ran into an old pal I haven't seen in awhile, turns out governor Baldo stuck him on the St. Johns River Water Mismanagement District board. Not a favorable reflection on him. He confirmed that there is a plan afoot to put treated sewage in Orlando taps. He also gave me a preview of the bullshit they'll try to justify it with: better for the aquifer, all that usual posturing as an environmentally friendly organization. That's what they'll be presenting to you. But, as I got him to admit, they're doing it only to justify more building, more destruction of what nature is still perilously hanging on, more money for the fatcats at the expense of us and Florida. 

The official mission statement of this government agency, after all, is to “find water for development.” The sewage we drink and bathe in will be just that - “found water.” Apparently they are being constrained from further abusing the aquifer so it's time to recycle so they can continue abusing Central Florida. Very simply, in order to get more people squeezed in here, we have to drink out of the toilet. I pointed out that it would be more respectful to leave our water alone and hook up the new lines with the treated sewage. 

At present they still are studying ways to do it and ways to present it in a favorable light to the public. If anybody cares, now would be a good time to start expressing dissent. Treated water in our houses doesn't mean saving the aquifer. It means more traffic, more pollution and overall degraded quality of life. You know. The usual goals of our representatives.

Once in a while my avoidance of all things called news fails and I become apprised of something more involved people have been living with for some time. The other day I saw and heard the video from the Castille horror and learned what we as a civilization have come to. Forget about the moon landing, hybrid cars and aspirations toward Mars. We've come down to a little girl trying to save her mommy from getting “shooted” by a cop. Can anyone say who has seen this video that his world has not been permanently darkened?

I don't see how we can get past this. I certainly think I can't. I can't think of anything I've seen that is harder to take. And yet where are the tears? If not for this, what are we saving them for? When we should be nationally heart broken, why do we view this as a damn shame, another damn shame on the pile of damn shames from the avalanche of horrible incidents we are suffocating under?

When John Kennedy was shot, people all across this nation wept. I think we're not capable of that anymore. That little girl deserves not the heartfelt regret but the tears of every one who heard her voice. And we as people, until we can give her that respect, will never be right with ourselves and we'll never progress beyond this point. Modern man lives with the suffering of millions and it has made him numb to all but his own.

confederacy of dunces

I feel compelled to comment that if our habitat is extinguished by global warming, we deserve it. Most people who are experts figure it's probably too late to fix the atmosphere but Norway bought a swath of South American rain forest anyway because in case there still is time, trees are our first line of defense. Meanwhile here in Florida, United States of Oblivion, we're still into destroying as many trees as “developers” want to. With this in mind I just drove by another giant parcel of land between Lake Mary and Sanford entirely cleared of life for a new and much needed subdivision so more people can live here and accelerate the death of the aquifer. This of course promoted and allowed by the shit-for-brains Seminole County commissioners. Also allowed to happen by all of us. Why should we do our bit to slow global warming when we can speed it up instead? If we have not yet reached the tipping point, at some point we will. Maybe this particular tree loss will be what pushes us over.

If sanity ruled, the populace would go to this wounded land, replant it and refuse to allow this sort of thing to happen anymore. We have the numbers to pull it off. We just lack the will. Insanity is king.