Just a typical week in the Apocalypse

Its a snow day here after yesterday's 7.2 mag earthquake in Baja. Not being an Ologist of one or the other, I'm not sure if there is a relationship in what I just said or if there is a relationship to what the Fireteacher grumbled when he saw the quake graph on IRIS, which was " Hmmmm, gettin' closer to the San Andreas Fault ..." (I thought the same). Meanwhile, we ponder the relationship of the current external public nastiness with the shift in the Tectonic Plates, as if Mother has had quite enough and those priests should all be doing time, etc. The fact they are not in the clinker (still abusing) means Nature will do as Nature must, text Luca Brazzi aka Mister Karma to clean up the joint. There is enough happening on the ground to upset the balance, flying in the face of every human life, every innocent species just being alive, but in process of being extincted though our overpopulation-consumerism-corruption crisis. Such a crisis, no matter how you look at it, is unfolding as genocide planet wide benefiting no one, with the exception of Nature. As I said before, when its gone, there is nothing left for exploitation by corporations in their daily business of exploitation, war and addiction. Yesterday, they rubbed their hands together in glee, tomorrow those hands will be grasping the edge of the cliff. Warning, don't look down, you will find there is no soft landing or even any landing at all. Infinity is a long way down. In our slow collapse, it might just take as long to fall as it took to achieve superpower stardom if it were not for the arrival of Peak Everything like a smothering black veil creeping over the Earth. Every day it is darker out there.


Being a snow day (holiday), there won't be any painting, everyone is home, big dog indoors doing figure 8's around the sofa, Fireteacher posting on the blogs alternating with some fix-its and the light is weak. I came across a few sites I'd like you to see if you have not already. Begin with Charles's The U.S. Status Quo: Unsustainable, Doomed and Danced Out:

...it is certainly striking that the two products chosen more or less at random were both complete wastes of money and time.

Added together with millions of similarly defective/low-quality/useless goods, this is malinvestment on a vast scale.

Add in the granite countertops in millions of falling-apart McMansions, empty malls, vacant highrises, hundreds of needless "profit center" MRI machines, etc. and we have a nation which has misinvested trillions of dollars which are now lost to productive investment elsewhere.

No economy can recover from this scale of malinvestment ...

... I am reminded of the Beatles' song I, Me, Mine. Perhaps that will be the anthem of the next decade as everyone scrambles to protect their swag and perquisites at the expense of some other less politically adept group of citizens, until the entire system freezes up and the dancers suddenly notice the music stopped playing a long time ago.

From there, you'll be of a mind to check out Justin Raimondo's Rachel Maddow, McCarthyite, the FBI, the left and the war on "extremism:

...there is a sinister aspect to all this violence-baiting, as well as a comic one. For the central point of all the pro-FBI, pro-government, anti-"extremist" propaganda blaring from MSNBC and other news outlets is to convince us that speech leads to violence – and that, indeed, certain forms of political speech – "antigovernment" in nature – are inherently violent.

The irony of this is that these people are cheerleaders for the biggest most powerful purveyor of violence on earth, the US federal government. All states are founded on violence, of course, and maintained in power by the continual threat of it, and yet the US government enjoys a special status in this regard, with more firepower at its command – and the inclination to use it – than any previous empire in human history. We are talking about a government currently waging two open wars and one "secret" one, abroad – systematically murdering many thousands – and actively threatening yet another.

The tiny and powerless Hutaree "militia" has about as much chance of overthrowing this Leviathan as a flea. Yet they are charged with "sedition." This would be a joke if it weren’t such a danger to what’s left of our civil liberties. ...

Next, it seems to me that long essays on this blog are supreme time swallowers and am going to be testing out a less consuming approach of brief mentions, more frequently. This would be a mirror to Ran's style, but when there is a need, I claim the right to revert. Likely, we'll end up with both. Today is a good example of what to expect.

Next, but on topic: How will all those people who built homes since NAFTA went into effect in 1992 know where their drywall was created? The Feds say if you have a home with Chinese drywall, it has to be gutted. And who pays for that?

Lastly, in reflection on the Easter weekend busy news, let me close with a mention there really is such a person as a Papal Preacher. A Papal Preacher (loose cannon) that thinks the public response to the (pure evil) sexual molestation scandal is anti-semitism. The Pope's personal Papal Preacher was made to apologize after the outrage hit the airwaves, but who really knows what goes on deep inside someone's secret mind or inside the Holy See?

Since all of us are subjected to the passage of time in years designated A.D. and B.C., you'll begin to get an idea of how powerful is organized religion by thinking a bit on that. How different it would all be if that power never got its grip so long ago.

Awful layout problems persist for some unknown reason. Will continue to work on it.