Monthly Archives: February 2023

Israel to Upset Peace

08 Wednesday Feb 2023

Posted by in Israel

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        Israel’s new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had to make many bargains with the Ultra nationist Far Right religious parties to get their votes. Israel has a parliamentary system which means the people don’t vote directly for the prime minister but the majority of the Knesset members do. The majority of the people don’t like Netanyahu and he has legal problems with bribery. With all of that baggage, Netanyahu had to make bargains with parties that have been kept on the fringes of the Knesset. The leaders of some have or had their own legal problems.

            These parties believe Palestinians have no right to any of the land the Palestinians are on or any of the land Israel currently sits on. The goals of these parties are kill or push all the Palestinians out of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. They hope to do this by creating incidents causing a military response to ultimately eliminate them.

            Their plan has already started by provoking a response after they stated they were going to kick a few thousand West Bank Palestinians out of their homes and off their land. This is the same land Israel had stated in many legal documents is to be Palestinian. The plan will cause an escalation of incidents until another major military response causes a war with Hamas and some Arab countries.

            These Ultra nationalists are trying to con Americans into funding their destructive activities. Don’t do it! 

Food for Serious Thought

08 Wednesday Feb 2023

Posted by in Climate Change

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        The modern hypothesis is based on life destroying itself by its own actions. Over two billion years ago the second great extinction of life occurred. Before that time life was bacteria eating and giving off gases that would be poisonous to most life today. Along came bacteria that changed its exhaust gases from the toxins to oxygen. As oxygen levels increased 99 per cent of life died. That oxygen allowed for multi-celled life to evolve. Several extinctions afterward nearly wiped out life but the Great Oxidation Event was the first where life nearly made the Earth barren of life again.

            If one species was able to wipe out 99 percent of life two billion years ago is our heating up the Earth going to do the same thing? We know Venus didn’t always have the lead melting high temperature cloud blanket it has today. We are about to have a runaway climate change here that humans are causing. Could it be that we will continue to cause hundreds of species to go extinct each year until almost all are gone?

            Is each of us participating in making that extinction event possible? That possibility should be lots of food for thought.

What If…

03 Friday Feb 2023

Posted by in Ukraine

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        I don’t know how old I was when I first heard someone ask why didn’t France or England stop Hitler when his little army marched into the Sudetenland or when a little bigger army marched into Bohemia and Moravia then pieces of Czechoslovakia. Why did they talk and talk to him instead of stopping him? When he invaded Poland and war was declared he only had a few units west of Berlin. They could have ended it in a day or two. Look what happened because of talking and inaction.

            Today we have watched Russia destroy Chechnya’s cities and towns. Vladimir Putin has chopped off a piece of Georgia, stationed troops on part of Moldavia, put “volunteers” into two Eastern Provinces of Ukraine, and annexed the Crimea. Putin has been threatening the Baltic States and Finland before attacking Ukraine. Look at all he did before the major fighting in Ukraine. Why didn’t Western NATO start sanctions years ago? Why didn’t we put equipment into Ukraine when Putin first started to threatened it? Why are we and NATO piecemealing supplies and equipment to Ukraine?

            We must swamp the Ukraine with everything they want before the spring offensives. If Putin isn’t stopped here this year, where will he go next? If he is defeated will he be purged from power by those people he has befriended by making them and himself rich and all-powerful?

Commonsense Gun Laws

03 Friday Feb 2023

Posted by in Gun Control

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        Many states are looking for a way and reason to ban many weapons which are used primarily to kill people. I would suggest they first limit hunting with a rifle to a .22 and for small animals only. Continuing the three-shot magazine and barrel length of shotguns is necessary to lessen its use to kill humans.

            All firearms magazines should be limited to nine bullets and only loose shells may be carried on the person over the nine in the magazine. Bullet kinds would to be limited to standard hunting types.

            No 3-D ghost gun can be manufactured or owned by anyone. No parts can be added to a weapon to make it shoot faster than originally designed. No gun can be allowed to shoot without a finger pulling the trigger for each shot. Fines and imprisonment would be imposed for violations.

            To prohibit unauthorized use of a gun, every gun must be kept in a secured location or in a secured bag. In both locations a keyed gun trigger must be used. No gun that violates these rules may be kept outside a licensed facility for recreational use.

            Purchase, sale, or transfer of any guy shall be registered by the state. Failure to do so shall be a second degree misdemeanor punishable by a fine and confinement for six months in a low security facility. Allowing an unregistered person to use a gun outside of a recreational facility is subject to the above punishment. Checking time for legal registration shall be no less than one month.

            The Second Amendment does not prohibit the kind of gun or its size of magazine as the ban on Thompson Sub-machine was allowed. The safety of its citizens must be the highest priority and not the finances of the gun industry or the campaign funds of our elected officials.