Ray’s Thought for the Day - Living with Imperialism

Imperialism is when a big country, like US, takes over a little country like miserable Iraq. Big countries take over little countries to assure low prices paid out for commodities and labor emanating from the little countries. So now it would appear that segments of both our US political parties, probably the only segments that matter, politically, are for an imperial presence in miserable Iraq. Yepper. Mrs. Clinton says she’s in favor of keeping the miserable Iraqi colony forever, or until the oil plays out, whichever. Yep. Mrs. Clinton has finally got those bosoms of hers past the narrow space where she has been stuck in Mammon’s sphincter. Yepper. She has gone on up.

Some of US are embarrassed that the US, that we think of, or once thought of, as a great experiment in democracy, is now become an imperialist state. Too bad. Well, you can only have so much economic inequality in a democracy. Something had to go. And democracy went. Interestingly, though great growing disparities of income exist right here among US, those disparities are as nothing compared to the plight of the miserable downtrodden in the colonies. Goodness, millions of them, maybe a billion environmental refugees are on the move, desperate environmental refugees, trudging along in the desert, or chained to benches, or lined up outside a migration office. Mercy! Where shall they go to get some economic quality?

Ah, but here arrives my bosom companion at the venue.

Why so sad Ray?

I am living with imperialism, Crumby. Plus, the sphingids evaded me. Plus, when Rayetta went out to take pictures of those sphingids, there were no sphingids. Cheer me up, my bosom companion.

All righty then. Here's what I espied at work today. It's a pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) pollinating on a pipevine.

Then I also espied this piece of quartz with moss around it so that it looks like a cracked egg.

Er. Did you enumerate any birds, Crumby?

Noper.