just a smidge to the left

JUST A SMIDGE TO THE LEFT

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I like to beat the heck out of dead horses. As one minion sarcastically puts it, rinse and repeat. My defense has always been that your demigod Rawles does the exact same thing, and gets paid a lot more for his troubles. Right now when I’m not on a economics kick, I’m screaming about the weather. I would scream about the approaching asteroid about to hit us, but if are reading this than it didn’t hit us ( remember, I post three days ahead of time. This is because I’m off grid on the weekend, and because it irritates you ). Over the weekend I read a few books as usual. Nova has a new one out Diary Of A Serial Killer: Poland. It was pretty darn good, but at the end it stops suddenly. I guess there are more volumes. I already reviewed “Catastrophe” which was a wonderful romp through space and time and the epitome of proof that Mother Nature is a syphilitic whore even worse than Hillary Clinton. Who, as I’m sure you are all aware, is an evil spawn from Hades almost as bad as my ex-wife ( they both talk happy trash to your face as they plot your death secretly ). And the third book, which I am not too darn happy about was “Climate Wars” by Gwynne Dyer. There were a few interesting tidbits, a few good guesses of what the future might bring, but about 90% of this offensive maggot crawling putrid turd was just the author droning on and on and on about how we all had to give our neighbors a sloppy kiss and all agree to immediately go to zero carbon emissions and we wouldn’t all die a horrid and foul death. Hey, at least when I drone on and on about the same crap like how my ex-wife in league with Lucifer is making all the Forever Oil disappear and you should buy my Amazon crap to save yourself ( It’s Your Only Hope!!! ) I attempt to make it interesting and humorous. I don’t try to insult your intelligence by offering impossible solutions. Now, in and of itself, his is the same sin most tree hugging writers spout off about, showing their red baboon asses. But he compounds the sin by his gross error in timing.

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This book was written a couple of years ago. And this year reprinted. So it isn’t all that old. He helpfully warns us about global food failure, but places them so far into the future your typical response is to ignore it. Well, guess what? His warning is already coming to life. But he is so focused on all this “join together and cut emissions to zero immediately or we are all going to die right friggin now” he gives little notice to current weather related food shortages. Okay, the hot air at the equator rises up and then falls in two bands in each hemisphere at thirty degrees. This is your deserts of the world. They are there because of this effect, not because that is where evil mankind decided to overgraze ( there were also thinly veiled pro-veganism in this swill ). He makes the interesting observation that immediately next to most of these deserts are the major global breadbaskets. If warming increases, and more hot air is moved to these bands, and if these bands expand, the increased desertification will be into these wheat growing areas. Does any of this sound familiar? Texas, Australian, Chinese, Argentinean droughts and crop failures? Hello? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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I can only guess that these kind of eco-propagandist authors are getting grants or publishing contracts from the money men, and the agenda is somehow making money off carbon use decrease and/or tax ( or, similarly, damping down panic so they can continue to fleece the flock of ignorant consumers ). Because this guy isn’t warning us about the current crop failures as much as using them as a scare tactic. Because if he told us they were happening now, we would know it is too late to cut emissions. Why bother, right? For his little handful of silver, this Judas is selling us out. Okay, to be fair, most likely he is an ignorant puke and actually believes in this cause and is being used without knowing it. His editor might have even “helpfully suggested” that he couldn’t be a doom and gloomer and had to tone down his warnings. Well, anyone can self-publish these days with absolutely positively zero money, so if he had to he could have warned us and bypassed the conventional publisher, so I’m still grading him as Sellout Sam. Sorry, Sam, you are now an establishment whore. And folks wonder why we are so cynical. You can’t get real news anymore, so you turn to blogs. But there are millions of them out there and you can’t possibly know who to believe ( how do you know I’m NOT a CIA plant? Yet if you knew I was a plant, you could believe the opposite of what I said. But…if I knew you knew and I made a claim that was the truth so you wouldn’t believe it, would you still only believe the opposite of what I said [ with full credit to “The Princess Bride” and the poison in the cup scene ]? )

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I maintain that we are already in a current crop drawdown globally. Weather related, plus oil decline related, with a bit of economic failure thrown in. Try getting that grain stockpiled in a year or two.

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To round out this article to the minimum word length, I’ll blather about the comments section. In the past I’ve been reading and approving/posting comments at 630 am, around 1 pm and at 4pm, Monday through Friday. I know this hacks most of you off, having to wait hours if not days as there is no spontaneous back and forth discussion. I can’t say I blame you, but there is little I can do to alleviate this. I must keep moderating comments, because the prohibited behavior is not self-regulated by the minority. Well, to rub a little salt into your wound, I’m now NOT moderating at 4pm anymore. I get so little Jim Time that I need to grab hold of all I can without losing sleep. This includes the fifteen minutes I was giving you at four. I apologize, but I can’t do it all. Of all the major survival bloggers, I’m the only one still working a day job, AND I turn out the best drivel. In exchange, my editing and administrative work sucks. No free lunch at this diner.

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