Month: November 2018

If I were a practising Christian (thankfully, I’m not), I’d be inclined to believe that we are actually living in the last days – as written in Revelation.

I currently live in Northern California which once again, is suffering badly with horrendous fires.  Southern California is also experiencing pretty horrible fires and showing that Mother Nature doesn’t discriminate when she gets angry;  some very famous people have lost their homes.  (Mind you, most of them are lucky enough to have other residences elsewhere)..

Across the nation, parts of the States are expecting relatively early and heavy snowfalls and some of the east coast states are still reeling from the aftermath of this season’s hurricanes.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world – hasn’t gone unscathed either.  Flooding in France, a heat-wave in the UK, earthquakes et al in the Far East..

So – what is going on?

Climate change or just Planet Earth’s usual weather patterns being exacerbated because of mankind’s polluting interference with the atmosphere.  And too many people overall?  Squished into spaces that cannot sustain them – while there are still great swathes of the planet with no people and scant wild-life;  sadly, these are largely uninhabitable.

Having said this, I honestly believe that there is no reason for anyone ever to go hungry;  just consider the amount of food that is wasted and thrown away every day in the Western World.

Disgusting.  (A topic to be expanded upon another time).

Currently, I give thanks every morning that I am able to wake up in my bed – although I have got my emergency rucksack by the front door (+ cat carrier), essential documentation in another bag and a suitcase for my laptop.   Where I’d be able to charge it up if required is another matter..

Not to mention that, with a disability (bloody hip) and no car, actually getting away might just be a tad tricky…   To be burned to death must be one of the most horrible ways to go..

As for that fucking arse-hole tweeting away about how it’s California’s fault – when it is Federal funding (lack thereof and / or mismanagement of monies) that is some of the issue.  Still, the California authorities have most definitely been complacent in a lot of areas;  too many bloody jobs-worthies around and not enough proper civic engagement and accountability..

Why, oh why – and how – is Donald Trump still in power?

And, as for that disaster across the pond; why hasn’t she gone yet? Blew a perfectly good majority by calling an unnecessary election and now making a real pig’s ear about Brexit.

Overall, many countries nowadays are being governed (I use the term loosely) by incompetent idiots at best and deranged , corrupt lunatics at the other end of the spectrum.

I wonder when / where things will end..??

PS. The Democrats took the House; however, some misguided voters ensured that the Republicans still hold sway in the Senate..

So…

Two days to go to what might be an even more important election than when Barak Obama went up against George Bush in 2008.

Since his election, the WH fat fart has presided over an ever-growing rift amongst many sectors of the American people;  in fact he has actually encouraged this division.  To be fair, this rift has probably always been there; just that the veneer of ‘civilisation’ and an increasing awareness of human rights has sort of papered over the cracks for many years.

Nowadays though, this rift is turning into a very nasty crevasse.

The events of the past few weeks have shocked a lot of people across America (and the rest of the world) as well as stoking the grievances of those Americans who feel that they are hard done by.

And their Illustrious Leader (I jest, of course), continues to make a bad situation worse.

The Republican Party (under which aegis the caricature operates – even though he is actually only out for the party of Donald Trump) ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for allowing the situation to have got this far.  However, because so many of them hated Obama and because so many of them are also the worst kind of capitalist, they have gone along with his juvenile behaviour and utterances to serve their own nefarious purposes.

Not that the Democrats are really in a position of moral superiority either.

Between their sometimes ill-thought out policies (I use the latter word advisedly), and the backing from the unions (who can be just as money-grabbing as the worst Republicans – except that they usually take from the very people they’re supposed to help), the American people are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

And, talking of the Devil, I can’t even begin to understand the motives of that bunch of sanctimonious, bloody hypocrites known as evangelical Christians.  They make me want to throw up.

Ergo, come Tuesday, will the battle lines be drawn? Or, will a miracle happen and common sense and a desire for peace prevail?