Voters with blood on their hands

 poor georgie’s almanack: 

People who vote for candidates promoting hateful racial, religious, and nationalist conspiracy theories have as much blood on their hands as the candidates themselves. 

This applies from the very top to the bottom of the ballots.

The voter and the walker

poor georgie’s almanack:

It is the first day of early balloting. 

Two hours after the local polling place opened there were 120 people voting or in-line. 

I saw exactly 12 who might not be on Medicare ... and everyone looked healthy, including the lady using a walker.  

Organic fertilizer

poor georgie’s almanack: 

Mini-molecules, soaring Sequoias, hurtling hurricanes, and swarming starlings all make brain-like decisions. 

We don’t understand our own brains, much less those that influence us. 

What if animals including humans are being farmed to feed vegetation?

I don't understand, do you?

poor georgie’s almanack:

Can you help me?  

I understand this sign.  

What I don’t understand is how the system has divided America into three political tribes, each about the same size.  The one on the left seems to be pretty organized.  It only talks and listens to its shamans and fellow tribe members.  They shout at the tribe on the right.  

The same goes for that tribe on the right, only visa-versa.  Its members shout at the left.

Those of us who like to believe we are in the middle, feel we have no one to listen to, or talk to.  We have no shamans and, for the most part, shun shouting because it is so ugly and unproductive.  

Meanwhile, we are told that as a nation, the three political tribes are equally divided into two camps.  Huh?

I don’t believe the problem is the media, which simply reflect their audiences.  

Putting it another way, the media are vehicles for feeding something deeper in America and many other countries.  They are the vessels that deliver the life blood coming from the heart of the matter.

So, what is the matter with us?  

Can someone explain this to me?

Oh, Oh.

poor georgie's almanack:

I SAID I’LL DO IT WHEN I GET AROUND TO IT.

LOOK WHAT WAS ON THE TABLE THIS MORNING.

poor georgie's almanack: 
Happy Columbus Day, more or less. 

The arrival of Old Chris in the Caribbean Sea in 1492 began the Columbian Exchange. 

The New World "got" diseases that killed about 80% of the indigenous people, plus colonists and slaves. 

The exchange was America's silver and crops (especially corn and potatoes) that allowed Europeans and Asians to grow and prosper.

I wonder why we ...

poor georgie’s almanack: 

Some say humans are earth’s dominant  organisms. 

Others think plants farm us for nutrients. (Think about it.) 

Most don’t know about previous mass extinctions of life forms. That asteroid causing dinosaurs to die, opening a niche for humanoids was just one. 

I wonder why we, worms, water flowers, and warthogs have so much DNA in common. 

Thumbs and fingers

 poor georgie’s almanack:

Opposable thumbs bring us together not middle fingers.