The financial news from Europe is worse every day. Now (11/23/11) the most stable country in Euro-Land..., Germany, has no buyers for its bonds. Maybe the Federal Reserve will save the world (again) and Bail Out Germany and the rest of the world’s banks and bond holders..., like they clandestinely did in 2008. The Fed doesn’t have to buy American T-bonds with QE-2 anymore..., everyone is buying them up now. Lots of money left to buy Euro-Bonds. QE-3..., if they don’t get caught.
I know one guy who hopes they don’t get away with it..., or hopes it fails..., if they do. He hopes the whole shebang comes falling down like the famous bridge in the children’s rhyme. He hopes..., or knows..., that the whole industrial economy of this fragile planet needs to come to a screeching halt in short order. The sooner the better for this Spaceship Earth that we call “ours”. It’s our only hope. He says that if we keep burning the fossil fuels that sustain our industrial economy at the present rate..., let alone at the rate at which it would take to “grow” the current economy enough too “rescue” us from fiscal and monetary collapse..., it would fuel world climate change and global warming to the extent of total extinction of most living species...., including our own.
Some nut-case doomer..., this guy..., you ask? No..., this guy..., is Guy R. McPherson.
or at least that is the intention. We got two inches of rain yesterday..., so I spent a lot of time at the computer. I finally mastered..., OK..., figured out..., how to insert hyperlinks into the body of a story..., sometimes. Lots of frustration at times..., but I think it really is an enhancement. For those of you..., like my brother Larry..., who is a heck of an equipment operator..., but not so much of a computer operator..., a hyperlink takes you to another web site that relates to the statement highlighted. Like the phase "my brother Larry" is highlighted and if you hover the mouse over it and click on it..., it takes you to a picture of Larry on my Facebook site. Hit the "back" button and it takes you back to the blog. Anyway..., I have updated several of the stories I've posted with these hyperlinks..., like links to pictures of the people I profiled in The April Birthday's Party story. Let me know if you like it or not. I primarily wanted to link to the Clearwater Log Drive story by Charlie and Sandra McCollister that I mentioned in Shipping Our Jobs Overseas story..., and the idea sort of took over !!!!
My dear, sweet Aunt Ethel sent me some old family photographs recently. Of primary interest to me were the ones of my Granddad and his team of logging horses. The photos date from some time in the 1930’s and they are a reminder of an era long gone. There are few…, if any…, occupations in life that I could imagine as being more satisfying than working beside and behind horses all day and attending to their care and feeding in the evening after a hard and productive day’s work. But I will never know that satisfaction…, because, “those jobs have been shipped overseas”. Whoops…, excuse me…, it seems that I have read and heard that phrase so many times that it just pops out on its own. And the image of Granddad sending his horses over to China so some low wage coolies could cut the timber and drive the team and save him a little money compared to a high paid American worker and lower his tax base as well, that is precisely the image a lot of folks want you to believe in.
