It’s Halloween and a scary day. Not because the kids are
made up as ghosts and goblins but because the scary world of real time issues
is slam blast in our faces. It is not pleasant. The world is on edge. North
Korea might easily set the eastern nations on fire, a nuclear fire. The Middle
East is a tinder box ready to explode; friends are fighting friends there; oil
markets are contending with one another; individual sects of Islam are dueling
each other. The struggles are real. And they are ugly.
At any time, hot wars could erupt. Killing thousands of
people, mostly innocents, but most likely accelerating to ending the lives of
100’s of thousands of people. Yes. Scary indeed.
As I write this it is 6:30 am Chicago time on Monday, October
30th. Today indictments will be handed down in Washington, DC.
Robert Mueller, special prosecutor, will finally uncover his prime suspects in
the 2016 Presidential Election shenanigans related to Russia. Or may a few will be named as prelude to an expanding list of indictments? Who will be
named? How are they connected to one another? Who is a king pin in the case,
and who is a supporting actor who, without his/her actions, the whole collusion
thing couldn’t have worked? And most importantly: who sponsored this travesty
of American political life? Who benefited and who masterminded it all?
At this moment, I do not have any of that information. That
will probably be tomorrow once I’ve digested the quality news reports (not the
sleazy tabloids). So give me time to do my thing and then I’ll post my point of
view.
Without the drama unfolding in Washington DC, however, we
have much to be wary of. The international hot spots are concern enough. But we
have our own hot spots here in the USA, too. These include a stock market so
overheated that it is certain to collapse and take financial stability away
from a lot of families. The national debt is roaring ahead at full speed while
stock markets prices are doing the same. Retailers are in a tail spin due to
goods selling like hot cakes over the internet. Store personnel know their jobs
are in peril for certain despite the approaching holiday season.
Military personnel and their families are on edge because
they know action is imminent. Their lives will change enormously and forever in
far too many cases.
Meantime virulent weather patterns upset old patterns and
wreak horrendous damage on communities rural and urban. Just ask Houston, New
Orleans, Miami and much of Florida. Think about the toll in Puerto Rico, too;
there it is too awful to write about or understand the full extent of the misery.
The forest fires in the West are horrific. California will
take years to rebuild the communities they lost. And the industries located there as
well. Floods will surely follow this winter and spring as snow packs melt upon
deforested areas turning once beautiful mountain-scapes into rivers and oceans
of mud.
Mother Nature will have her way and we will adjust to her.
All at the same time we adjust and survive other issues man made.
Boo! Indeed!
October 31, 2017
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