“Now What”?
After the annoying noise and the Presidents face with the back drop of the nations flags in the Oval office was shown; I figured "Now What?" Potus was going to inform the nation of what America's response would be to all the happenings in Israel and the threat of Nuclear weapons by Russia plus the obvious threats by China/North Korea.
Besides the stern looks and the serious tone of the broadcast it really was much to do about nothing as far as our Nation's response. With all the talk about newly implied sanctions (that were in the works) I had to judge the whole speech was more about calming the population and informing the populace that even though Turkey was part of NATO they too were acting the aggressors in this instance and NATO had no intention or obligation to come to their defense if Israel fought back .
Thank goodness for that little tidbit ! Sanity in an insane world !
I did not have the time to sit and listen to the rehash of all the worldly events so I left for the club to have some breakfast, coffee, and be ready for my 9am tee off time.
As I drove the short distance to the club the radio was full of more talking heads telling everyone how mean and evil Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Assad's Syrian Army and even Turkey was. How we should stand tall and take on this axis of evil and even destroy our enemies once and for all; letting the chips fall where they may.
What a waste of words and crock of stupid hawkish mutterings in my opinion. I personally would not sacrifice one small city in America or Europe for the religious factions of Sunni, or the Shia idiots in the Mideast, much less start an assured extinction event with an all out nuclear war..
I had just pulled into the parking lot of the club house when the radio announced that due to several protest and uncertainties of the world events the government is asking all citizens to remain inside their homes and only those in critical positions for the nation should report for work. All banks would be closed today.
My Tuesday Golf game is critical as far as I am concerned and judging by the parking lot it was also critical to just about half my usual golfing friends !
I ate and listened to my fellow golfers discussing the news events of the day; the general consensuses was, “Netanyahu for President”! hahaha
In our golf game we were playing for a pot of money we had all put $100 dollars into. If only one skin was won that would pay $3000 in a group of 30 guys.
All my Tuesday golfers with their individual handicaps were very competitive so with all 18 holes played there might only be 3 skins paid because of all the tying scores. Even with 3 skins (lowest score on a hole out of 30 players) paying one thousand dollars usually got most people's attention.
I had Eagled the last par 5 with a lucky 8 iron shot that had hit the green and bounced once before trickling into the cup which gave me a score of 3; pretty much assuring me of at least one skin.
Needless to say I was feeling fairly satisfied as I approached the 18th tee box. As I stood there lining my tee shot up I had a momentary thought of all the young soldiers who this very day had lost their lives and left children and wives with nothing but collapsed societies and burned out cities. The people in the destroyed cities had never thought this would be their last day alive; what a waste, no?
As I started my back swing for some reason I thought of how I too had marched off to my own patriotic war once upon a time when I was younger. I am just glad I am old now, for I am never doing that again unless I feel like it. My drive was straight as an arrow and far because I was pissed at mankind's stupidity.
All Dead
After the annoying noise and the Presidents face with the back drop of the nations flags in the Oval office was shown; I figured "Now What?" Potus was going to inform the nation of what America's response would be to all the happenings in Israel and the threat of Nuclear weapons by Russia plus the obvious threats by China/North Korea.
Besides the stern looks and the serious tone of the broadcast it really was much to do about nothing as far as our Nation's response. With all the talk about newly implied sanctions (that were in the works) I had to judge the whole speech was more about calming the population and informing the populace that even though Turkey was part of NATO they too were acting the aggressors in this instance and NATO had no intention or obligation to come to their defense if Israel fought back .
Thank goodness for that little tidbit ! Sanity in an insane world !
I did not have the time to sit and listen to the rehash of all the worldly events so I left for the club to have some breakfast, coffee, and be ready for my 9am tee off time.
As I drove the short distance to the club the radio was full of more talking heads telling everyone how mean and evil Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Assad's Syrian Army and even Turkey was. How we should stand tall and take on this axis of evil and even destroy our enemies once and for all; letting the chips fall where they may.
What a waste of words and crock of stupid hawkish mutterings in my opinion. I personally would not sacrifice one small city in America or Europe for the religious factions of Sunni, or the Shia idiots in the Mideast, much less start an assured extinction event with an all out nuclear war..
I had just pulled into the parking lot of the club house when the radio announced that due to several protest and uncertainties of the world events the government is asking all citizens to remain inside their homes and only those in critical positions for the nation should report for work. All banks would be closed today.
My Tuesday Golf game is critical as far as I am concerned and judging by the parking lot it was also critical to just about half my usual golfing friends !
I ate and listened to my fellow golfers discussing the news events of the day; the general consensuses was, “Netanyahu for President”! hahaha
In our golf game we were playing for a pot of money we had all put $100 dollars into. If only one skin was won that would pay $3000 in a group of 30 guys.
All my Tuesday golfers with their individual handicaps were very competitive so with all 18 holes played there might only be 3 skins paid because of all the tying scores. Even with 3 skins (lowest score on a hole out of 30 players) paying one thousand dollars usually got most people's attention.
I had Eagled the last par 5 with a lucky 8 iron shot that had hit the green and bounced once before trickling into the cup which gave me a score of 3; pretty much assuring me of at least one skin.
Needless to say I was feeling fairly satisfied as I approached the 18th tee box. As I stood there lining my tee shot up I had a momentary thought of all the young soldiers who this very day had lost their lives and left children and wives with nothing but collapsed societies and burned out cities. The people in the destroyed cities had never thought this would be their last day alive; what a waste, no?
As I started my back swing for some reason I thought of how I too had marched off to my own patriotic war once upon a time when I was younger. I am just glad I am old now, for I am never doing that again unless I feel like it. My drive was straight as an arrow and far because I was pissed at mankind's stupidity.
All Dead
