October happenings.

Recently, Life has been good overall. Last week, I ended up accepting a position at a new company and I start on the 28th. Additionally, last Friday was our second anniversary. This coming Thursday and Friday we are heading up to MA for a couple of days to enjoy ourselves for a few days. Our cat's are doing well and the apartment is in order. The news on TV though, that leaves much to be desired. It seems like the sum of all fears is on our doorstep and any day now the air raid sirens are going to be blaring in the streets. The US and NATO fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine, and Israel starting their own war on terror... between the two I'm surprised that we aren't having major issues here in the US. Protests on college campuses have died down dramatically, however i did hear that there was a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange today to protest the war in Gaza. Really the US has it's hands full. And the best thing that America could do right now is not engage. I know it sounds stupid, but if we get tied up in Middle East Politics to the same extent as we were 20 years ago... then the country is going to go to shit. What Israel is doing is nothing different than when the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan back in the early 2000's after 9/11. We basically went in... killed massive amounts of civilians... and leveled most of their cities in the interest of "Ending Terror" and "Promoting Freedom."

I understand the notion of no negotiations with terrorists (Something we ended up doing to end the Afghanistan occupation), and that all hostages should be returned... But.... at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, It's intentionally inciting violence for the sake of violence. Yes... the October 7th, 2023 Attacks were Violent and extreme. Yes, the terrorists responsible for it should be punished... But much like Seal Team 6 taking out the head of al-Qaida in a covert night operation, that's what Israel should have done to rescue the hostages and kill the people who plotted the attack. Waging all out warfare to find a needle in the haystack without caring about the collateral damage would not look good in the judgement of the God that granted them the land in the first place. (Or at least it wouldn't if they followed their holy books in the first place). What's worse... is by intercepting the supply chain of another terrorist organization that is at odds with them and turning the pagers and walkie talkies into literal bombs, it means that they not only know their every move by now, but they also through cold calculation, attempted to wipe out the entire terrorist organization in a two day sweep without regard for how many innocent lives were lost by being in the same bus or store as the terrorist. Whether or not Iran is going to send a hyper sonic Nuke at Israel is the next question on my mind. 

I'm not normally political... but I've caught the news recently and i feel if things don't change soon... then the health and strength of our global society may not stay stable... Earth is only 8.4 Billion years old... And humans may have been around for possibly the last 3 Million... Cars the last 120 years... Cell Phones for the last 30.... I really hope I don't spend my life stressing about a weapon that was built in the 1940's for the rest of my life. And when you think of 10 Trillion years from now... the wars of today will be but a blink in existence.