Yes, This Fun Place

Well. As you can see, the world is not a fun place everywhere right now.

We are a fun place here. 

And one of the fun things to think about is why isn't gold flying when there is so much war conflict all over the place?

It isn't flying.

Custom-designed Oriental 
'Mid-Autumn' lanterns.

It's meant to be the 'talisman of fear' (by which it used to be intended that the fear was specifically to do with major war).

Ex-US House Speaker McCarthy was just interviewed about the wars all over the place and he repeated the nostrum about 'appeasement never works.'

And that's fine if you have a war machine in place which can overpower some contender or enemy. That is no longer the case with the US and general 'Allied' military. Iran and Russia have hyper-sonic technologies so far in advance of anything the US currently has that is actually deployable, that other than 'appeasement' any prospect of real hot war would lead to complete disaster and ruination.

It is by no means certain at all that this necessarily means the 'other side' would win anything. It just means that you will cop a hiding that you never previously envisaged even vaguely possible.

Would Iran want to do such a thing to the US or to Israel?

The whole thing would be a complete disaster visited on the world and it would really mean TEOTWAWKI.

But McCarthy opines that one reasonable stance is 'not to engage in appeasement.'

Well then what then?

I mean at this point it is in any case impossible to 'appease' Russia.

Bohemians minding their own 
business while the world
goes to Hell - again.

Iran is a nut-job place led by fools and knaves with knives and guns and - er, hyper-sonic missiles and nuclear weapons! That is certainly not a place you would be able to appease anyway, even if you tried.

So where do we go from here?

Me, right now I am going to visit some women doing what, um a 'Community Conversations' group meeting where they are going to be 'ReStorying Life.'

Bit late as far as I'm concerned but never mind. We'll see what they have to say and what possibly, they are thinking.

Anyway I am not personally trying to 'ReStory' my life. My life's story is perfectly fine.

I think a lot of people are going to die soon in outrageously horrible circumstances. That they already have been here and there across the globe is one thing - but none of it was in what you could call a 'signal event.'

Oh there will be one of those however. 

God what a fun place this turned out to be!

Actually let me take us back to a better frame of mind.

I think we need to buy one of
these, Bill Smith.
What do you think?
Buy it?
We can drive away from trouble
really fast.

Can we - you and I - have a stunningly interesting and cool and even a great, if very private life and lifestyle, in the midst of so much absolute utter disaster and political and government lunacy everywhere?

Yep. Sure can.

Stay here. Stay on these pages.

We know stuff no one else on the planet knows. At least not that many do, anyway.

The upcoming free-to-read piece about wines (it's just about wines, right...) is 'educational;' it's going to be an education but only for the already reasonably wise. LOL

Hopefully it will go up tonight. And then you can get better 'informed.' And no one else will see or know anything.