An Accidental Virus Release Here, an Accidental Dam Failure There, Pretty Soon You’re Inside an Accidental World War
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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2001-2022
After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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And let us not forget the PLA ramming small fishing vessels of their neighbors who dispute the 9 dash line claim to the South China Sea, the persecution of all religions under the rule of Emperor Xi, the organ harvesting of dissidents, the threat to take Taiwan by force, the imposition of the new “security law” in H.K. and so much more.
The U.S. and China have clearly entered the Cold War stage. It will only take one small incident in the Formosa Straights or South China Sea and everything goes hot.
No big deal, there would only be about 400 million people dead, injured or their livelihood seriously destroyed. This reminds me, for some reason, of the famous quote, “Oh the humanity”. It’s hard to believe that a SNAFU of this magnitude is even conceivable. Yet, the CCP could very well finally accomplish the hellish opposite of their “Peoples Paradise”. Even so the rioting idiots in Seattle would probably still try to impose their disgusting Marxist will on decent people claiming “The Chinese didn’t do it as well as we could”.
Denny-
The subtle racism of assuming roundeye could do communism better than slanteye…
the bright side being all those drowned will never again be subjected to that ***t background music…
Denny sed: “Oh, the huge manatee!”
Drunk already today, ghost?
& then I read the article about the baboons in the safari park armed with knives and chain saws.
Right you are Mr. ONeil, I should not have replied, our entire world is really about the enemy within a man’s heart.
Do they have nuclear power plants?