I wanted to write a couple of new articles on something worth knowing this week but the chances of that seem to be getting slimmer all the time. Between comments, emails, website administration and modifications, keeping up with the news, shopping for food, yard work, a garden that is out of control, all my high mileage vehicles needing repair, my wife going on a mission trip, a birthday, spraying the fruit trees, taking care of the animals, doing bills, a holiday coming up, sleeping , etc. I find that there just are not enough hours in the day to get everything done. I am tired.<\/p>\n
When I was working full time for the government it seems I had plenty of time to do all kinds of loafing around but now that I am loafing around on the internet reading material and writing blogs I am totally exhausted. I just looked at the ISP logs for the last few months and they say I have been averaging over 300 hours each month on the Internet and I am only logged on the Internet when I am actually working on it. That’s over 70 hours a week on the Internet and that does not count all the computer stuff that I do off-line.<\/p>\n
So I will just make a couple of brief observations about items in the news and then maybe I can have some time to stare in a campfire this week and just loaf around listening to night sounds.<\/p>\n
There are now three carrier groups in the Gulf area as well as Israeli war vessels. Anytime we have that much fire power in the Gulf area a message is being sent to someone, or\u00a0 an attack\u00a0 is imminent. I do not think the United States is planning an attack right now or we would probably have another carrier group on the way, but who knows with all the bases we have around the area we might not need another one. More likely, we just know that things are going to deteriorate in the Middle East and we want to have enough fire power in place to prevent an attack on our own interests. I think Israel will soon be put in a position where she will have to respond to Iran. So this is just a heads up saying that a Middle East war is very likely this summer or fall.<\/p>\n
Our CIA said that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for two nuclear bombs. They think it will take one year to actually create those bombs and another year to develop a weapons system to deliver them. Israel is not going to wait for that to happen. Israel probably already knows that that it will not take Iran an additional year to deliver the bombs but the delivery of the nukes is not their main concern anyway they do not Iran to have a bomb at all. By the time Iran might make the two bombs they will have enough additional enriched uranium to make two more bombs. That would be four bombs too many in just one year if Iran actually attempts to build them. And that’s only what we know about. I do not doubt that there is much that we do not know about. Meanwhile, Iran continues to harden its nuclear facilities and greatly expanding development\u00a0 of more nuclear sites. What it comes down to is this:<\/strong> Israel knows it is running out of time to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.<\/strong> So maybe Israel is just waiting for any good excuse to hit Iran. If one does not appear soon through the normal course of world events I am sure it will magically appear somehow.<\/p>\n Well, the well is still pumping in the gulf after 70 days<\/strong>. I read all kinds of crazy stuff about the Gulf blowing up and cities and all vegetation being destroyed for hundreds of miles inland. It has to make me wonder where all these people get all their education? Put one drop of oil in your in-ground swimming pool and you might have a comparable oil water ratio. As for a gas bubble blowing up under the ocean and creating a tidal wave that will wipe out coastal cities? Well that’s why people stay up all night listening to Coast-to Coast. The end of the world has been coming any day now in Dreamland for the last 15 years. The insomniacs and horror story fans just love the latest science fiction stories dreamed up by the usual unusual relentless tale spinners. Yeah, the gulf is a huge environmental mess and it will get worse but some dwelling in Dreamland need to get a grip, oil or no oil.<\/p>\n The economy is heading for a real live crises for sure. I think we will be back in recession (actually depression) by this fall. Just look at the real estate data, the falling liquidity and the stock markets. Obama and the G20 or G8 have totally opposite views on what should be done to save the world economy. Europe thinks they should cut spending and debt and Obama thinks everyone should be increasing spending and going further in debt. Here is reality of\u00a0 the world’s problem.\u00a0 If everyone cuts output like Europe wants the world will go into a great depression like the 1930’s with very high unemployment and falling prices. If everyone spends beyond their means like Obama wants we will soon default on our debts and make paper money worthless.<\/strong> There really is no solution because the people in the nations are not willing to cut their living standers in half to pay for decades of spending beyond their means.<\/p>\n Actually, there is a solution and that is for everyone in the world to default on their debts at the same time and for everyone to just start over without debt and then for all people to start living within their means. Of course that means almost everyone loses almost all of their investments and entitlements, but it is going to happen anyway.<\/p>\n That is my update of this tired world. It is now time for me to do some real serious loafing around. 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