Making It Up As I Go Along #686

So if course, in less than nine months of presidency, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war on another nation.  Though news agencies won’t actually acknowledge that.  They keep repeating the terms Fire and Fury… as if they’re taking his threat to North Korea literally.  That Trump will go to North Korea himself, dressed up like Rambo with a flame thrower in hand.  Not once did I hear the people at CNN speak plainly on the fact that their president threatened to use nuclear weapons.

He’s an idiot with nuclear toys.  A bully aiming to come off as cool.  Fire and Fury… Locked and Loaded.  It’s just all too much.

And then, of course, you get the Trump supporters on CNN.  One guy quoting how Obama once told the North Koreans that “we could destroy you” and still, none of the liberal media took issue with that.  Frustratingly, nobody on that panel took issue with that guy either.  Because the Obama quote continued from the “destroy you” part.  In fact, he didn’t even say it in a manner of speaking directly to North Korea.  He said “we could destroy them”… talking to a reporter.  And knowing how huge the US military is, it’s hardly a shocking fact to hear.  But what the Trump supporter left out was that Obama then went on to say how doing such a thing is inhumane.  And would also put the allies in South Korea in danger… so a diplomatic solution needs to be worked on.

So, Trump shill, that is why the liberal media didn’t freak out.  Obama was saying America has the power to destroy a nation but can’t go down that path.  Donald Trump is picking a fight with a crazy man while trying to come up with “cool” sounding catch phrases of power.  He’s a spoiled, rich, thirteen year old bully in a 70 year old body… with toys powerful enough to end the world and enough ignorance to make the rest of us worry he may just do it.

Anyway, enough of World War III.  Thar be turtles within my pond!  Well… one turtle anyway… in the pond across the street from my house.  It’s the first time since I moved to Trailsedge that I’ve seen a turtle in any of the ponds here.

In four days, I saw him sunning on a rock three times.  Of course, the one day I went out with my camera was the one day he wasn’t there.  And the zoom on an iPhone just isn’t worth the time.  And any closer than twenty feet from him, and little Mr. Turtle simply stepped off the rock and slipped into the murky water.  He’s a cautious little fellow.

So in honour of the turtle…

Turtle
Steps
Into the murk
Out of fear
Of me

Smiles
Across my face
Summer Christmas
Seeing him

The pet
I never had
In childhood times
Steps away

Legs
Mosquito gorged
The price I pay
To catch a glimpse