Meanderings…

Keystone Pipeline Court Decision: About time a federal court stepped in and halted the Keystone pipeline project. First, it isn’t needed. Second, it crosses sacred Native American lands the tribes do not wish violated by the pipeline. Third, it is an ecological disaster in waiting. Fourth, the hubris of the oil industry has proven it’s outsized proportions. The court decision should rein in this project and kill it once and for all.


COVID-19 in Southern States: I guess warmer temperatures didn’t do as the president thought. Wipe out the virus once and for all? Didn’t happen. How about Arizona’s 111 to 117 degree heat? Should have been enough, right? Wrong! The southern states and southwestern regions are spiking COVID-19 infections. They didn’t do what was needed at the beginning so now they are reaping the results. For California, they were prepared early for what they thought was a virus coming straight from China. That was incorrect; the real epidemic came from the eastern United States as Europe’s bug spread to New York and New England. That was a different strain of the disease. So California needs to battle the pandemic anew.


Electoral College Court Decision: The Electoral College was a compromise in the 1787 Constitution. It was needed to balance the power of populated and underpopulated territories at the time. It was also a political fop to wealthy landowners at the expense of everyone else. It became outdated long ago but has remained an oddity of American election apparatus ever since. It should have been ditched long ago. Let’s do it now by court decree. That is cheaper and faster than a constitutional amendment.


Israeli Annexation: Israel is at it again. Will annex land ‘won’ in war and make it permanent. It will also build permanent settlements in disputed territory. This has long been a point of argument among Middle Eastern powers. Israel knows this and continues to pull that power level from time to time to keep the pressure on. Netanyahu is a devil with this ploy. It’s time to end this childish game and work towards lasting peace in the Middle East. Israel can make this happen. They just have to be willing to make it work.


Enough for now. Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 should be enough for us at the moment. These other issues are only loading it on!


July 9, 2020