Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Climate change Elitism - 1500 private jets

It doesn't get any more in-our-faces than this: 3,000 attendees to the World Economic Forum go to Davos Switzerland in 1,500 private jets. Most of the jets have luxury seats for 8 to 12 in them. Two elites per airplane this time and they are already trying to get us out of our fuel powered cars. No, not just your Earth-Thumper SUVs, now it's all fuel-driven cars, even your 57 mpg Prius'. 

I don't give a flying eff what they discussed there, for me, this is elitism at it's worst.

Beto gets the Bum's Rush

Beto the Burglar, perennial unsuccessful candidate for TX Governor, crashed TX Gov. Abbott's presser on the Uvalde mass murder, and got the heave-ho. Good!

"Seven Spanish Angels"

The song's provenance.

That one song that gets me right in the gut? It plays, I have to stop and overcome the tidal wave of emotion: "Seven Spanish Angels"

 

Refrain: "There were seven spanish angels at the altar of the sun...they were praying for the lovers in the Valley of the Gun."

 

Of course, the ballad is a story of violent death.

 

Of course, since the age of 25, I've been trained to deal with violent death, so why does THIS account of it affect me so?

 

"She reached down and picked the gun up,

that lay smoking in his hand,

she said, "Father please forgive me,

I can't make it without my man',

and she knew the gun was empty,

and she knew she couldn't win, but

her final prayer was answered

When their rifles fired again."

 

That's known as Suicide by Cop.

 

I was a cop for 25 years. MY gun could have dealt Death like that, on any duty-day of those 25 years.

For 25 years, I dreaded that it would.

I have not gotten OVER that dread. Put it in a box, but never got OVER it.

 

And then I hear "Seven Spanish Angels" again....

...and your Rivrdog wakes up the blog again. The "social" media I've been using these past 7 years has gone Full Commie, so I am weaning myself off of it and returning to blogging where Riverdog sets the "community standards".