President Harry Truman often gets credit for the phrase, “the buck stops here”. He likely did not coin the adage but he made it a watchword. Accepting responsibility for your actions should not be optional. The sign was actually given to him by a friend, Fred Canfil, a U S Marshall in Missouri. Canfil likely saw it earlier in his career on the desk of Colonel A. B. Warfield, a supply officer in the U. S. Army. Truman made one of the most difficult decisions in world history. It was deemed necessary to save the huge loss of life a military invasion of Japan was assured to cause. A decision made with the best interests of our country and our allies in full consideration.
The Department of Justice just indicted for the second time a twice impeached former President who only makes decisions to benefit himself. May the scales of justice work as designed for those who threaten our democracy. The truth will not set him free!!
Our 45th President did not believe in climate science. He also did not believe in Health science; that politically motivated decision likely cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. Fair to ask if bleach and unmasking were good advice.
But I digress. Climate change created by man is a reality. Water temperatures in the Florida keys above 100 degrees, world ocean temperatures near 70 degrees, ice shelf melting, record winter temperatures in South America, Phoenix with 31 straight days over 110 plus degrees. It is so hot in Arizona the famous Saguaro cactus are losing limbs and falling over. People are dying from the catastrophic storms, fires, and unprecedented heat domes. The United States must seriously accelerate our reduction of green house and methane gas and do this in conjunction with the major polluting nations.
I used to jokingly say that someone was a half a bubble off plumb; behaving in an unusual way. Water is king in the West. As our rivers, like the Colorado experienced significant reduced flows we have utilized groundwater extraction. Over the decade ended in 2010 it is estimated humans took 2,150 gigatons of groundwater, according to the study in the journal of Geophysical Research, moving all of that water has shifted the Earths tiilt by 31.5 inches eastward. No one knows the long term impact of this change.
Try to find some balance this week end. Mike