Cassi Creek: With the
return of spring, these mountains are greening up. The Japanese Knot Weed some idiot brought
onto our property is growing at a rate that can almost be tracked by
minutes. We’ve chopped, stomped, beaten,
burned, and poisoned various areas that are infested with it, all to no
avail. It might succumb to a herd of
goats. But we don’t need goats to tend
and to herd. With the number of dogs
running loose at all hours of the day in this valley, we’d wind up patrolling
and herding under arms. Not something
to endear us to valley residents and not something to provide a good sleep
pattern.
Also
increasing exponentially, conspiracy theories about the Boston Marathon
bombing. I did the morning Hike with
Mike this morning. He believes that the
identified bombers are part of a 12 person secret cell that has been in the
nation for at least a decade.
From MSN
Rumor: Boston bombing was 'false flag' government operation
Report claims anonymous
source says FBI searching for 'sleeper cell' linked to Tsarnaev brothers.
Consensus
opinion labeled missing Brown University student as a suspect in the Boston
Marathon bombing.
Conservative
sites have been abuzz over claims that the Saudi student is to be deported.
These are
only a few of the current crop of insanity accepted as true by people who look
as if they are mentally competent and able to discern outright lies from
truth. Reality is becoming more and more
what is scripted for television shows and what is intentionally distorted for
the backdoor purposes of political and corporate lobbyists. One might note that while thousands of people
accept the rumor that Obama ordered the Newtown murders to assure his
re-election, the NRA has done nothing to convince it’s most rabid members that
the rumor is frank bullshit. It does not
even point out that Newtown happened in December, after the 2012 presidential
election.
It is only
mid-April but these conspiracy theories and rumors are the noxious weeds in the
fields of truth, the kudzu poised to choke out reality. It is becoming more and more apparent that a
terrifyingly large segment of our population is now demonstrating its inability
to think logically. These are the target
demographic for the GOP and the tea party/evangelicals. These are the people who prove the old
advertisement line, “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Just how much we as a nation are wasting
would have been unimaginable only two generations ago.
Watching a
reality program last night, I saw 9 of 10 participants miss the question, “who
said,”Ich bin ein Berliner!” Missing
that would be the equivalent of my failing to know who said, “Speak softly and
carry a big stick.”
“Trouble,
right here in River City”
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