BEYOND THE GATES...

Summer is…nearly kaput. I hope that is the right word.
Summer is about over.

The Northern Camp is shut up. Maybe one more trip to sort out a detail or two.

Splashes of color are abundant throughout the green foliage…and bright leaves litter the ground.

And it is cold at night, even tho warm during the day.

And the sun is sooo bright…and the blue sky so brilliant. Fresh, fresh air.

A squirrel ate a considerable portion of the British flag flying alongside the Stars and Stripes. We suppose he or she saw it as a warm liner against the coming elements.
The flag needed replacing anyway.

We have checked the wood pile and it stands ready.

Snow blower still needs work. And the koi need to be brought in.

And serious things are happening beyond the gates.

We non-economists here at The Study are watching the free falling stock markets.
We are watching the sober projections regarding the outcome of the looming election.

We see and hear about the doings of a group called acorn [small case deliberate].

We note the simultaneous registrations and voting going on in Ohio.

We hear of the transporting of bus and vanloads of folks from shelters and the like to registration centers and voting centers. We note the number of absentee voters…early voters sending in their ballots.

We are amazed that officials of one party should object to the showing of one’s ID to establish one’s identity. How un-American!!

Government is finding it necessary to dispense hundreds of Billions of dollars and still…the slide continues.
And now Government is talking of buying banks…and compelling the extensions of credit.

And on and on.

We are told that accounting rules are partly to blame; that mortgages were given to those without the ability to pay for them; that the ongoing difficulties are really at least partly to blame on political agendas.

We are witnesses to an economic epic…the outcome of which is not yet in sight.

As the mariner would say, beware the lee shore.

At stake in all this is more than our material comfort and economic well being. At stake here is the very national security of the United States and hence the security of law and order in the world.
For kid thyselves not: just as the mushroom people come out in the streets of a city suffering power outages and/or other catastrophic urban setbacks, believe us, the mushroom nations and tribes will emerge if the mighty power of the US and US allies is degraded.
In the city it is the thin blue line which stands between the good and the bad.

In the world, it is, in the last analysis, the power of the remaining hyper power which keeps the mushrooms at bay.

We watch and wait, and pray for the good guys to win, wherever and whenever they are engaged.